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The loo obscured the air, and there was a closeness and sultriness in the ate for that wintry season I had slept well, and rose with the general sense of ease and refreshment that I always experienced since I had been under the treatment of Heliobas

Those whose unhappy physical condition causes theued than when they retired to rest, can scarcely have any idea of the happiness it engenders to open untired, glad eyes with the ht; to feel the very air a nourishment; to stand with lithe, rested li that liour of perfect health; to tingle fro briskly through the veins,the heart merry, the brain clear, and all the powers of body andcondition

This is indeed e of the existence of one's own inner I of which no labour is ever taken in vain--the living, wondrous thing that is destined to watch an eternity of worlds blooain, like flowers, while itself, superior to the and radiant--with these surroundings and prospects, who shall say life is not worth living?

Dear Life! sweet Moracious Opportunity! brief Journey so orth the taking! gentle Exile so orth enduring!--thy bitterest sorrows are but blessings in disguise; thy sharpest pains are brought upon us by ourselves, and even then are turned to warnings for our guidance; while above us, through us, and around us radiates the Suprehts, and others like them, all more or less conducive to cheerfulness, occupiedMelancholy was now no part of ht have been depressed by the appearance of the weather and the murkiness of the air But since I learned the simple secrets of physical electricity, atmospheric influences have had no effect upon the equable poise of rateful, seeing how many of es in the wind, intense heat, intense cold, or other things of the like character

I went down to breakfast, singing softly on my way, and I found Zara already seated at the head of her table, while Heliobas was occupied in reading and sorting a pile of letters that lay beside his plate Both greeted me with their usual warmth and heartiness