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The Visioning

CHAPTER XVIII
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I've wanted several things rather badly in my life, but I doubt if I've ever wanted anything much worse than to know what you were saying.

And then with my own two eyes I saw the miracle: Saw her--the girl who had just had all the concentrated passion of the Her of the world--turn and follow you into the house.

It was a blow to me! Oh 'twas an awful blow." "Why a blow ?" "In the first place that you should want to, and then that you should be able to.

My philosophy gives you of the sunny paths no such desire nor power." "Showing," she deduced quickly and firmly, "that your philosophy is all wrong." "Oh no; showing that the much toasted Miss Katherine Jones is too big for mere sunny paths.

Showing that she has a latent ambition to climb a mountain in a storm." Fleetingly she wondered how he should know her for the much toasted Miss Katherine Jones, but in the center of her consciousness rose that alluring picture of climbing a mountain in a storm.
"Tell me how you did it." "Why--I don't know.


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