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RECORDS A VISIT TO DIANA FROM ONE OF THE WORLD'S GOOD.
WOMEN Pure disengagement of contemplativeness had selected.

Percy Dacier as the model of her YOUNG MINISTER OF STATE, Diana supposed.

Could she otherwise have dared to sketch him?
She certainly would not have done it now.
That was a reflection similar to what is entertained by one who has dropped from a precipice to the midway ledge over the abyss, where caution of the whole sensitive being is required for simple self-preservation.

How could she have been induced to study and portray him! It seemed a form of dementia.
She thought this while imagining the world to be interrogating her.
When she interrogated herself, she flew to Lugano and her celestial Salvatore, that she might be defended from a charge of the dreadful weakness of her sex.