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Stella Fregelius

CHAPTER XXIV
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At least few will deny that some things are best abandoned to the imagination.

To attempt to drag the last veil from the face of Truth in any of her thousand shapes is surely a folly predoomed to failure.

From the beginning she has been a veiled divinity, and veiled, however thinly, she must and will remain.

Also, even were it possible thus to rob her, would not her bared eyes frighten us?
It was late, very late, and there, pale and haggard in the low light of the fire, once again Morris stood pleading with the radiant image which his heart revealed.
"Oh, speak! speak!" he moaned aloud.

"I weary of those pictures.


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