But though she seemed to laugh, her heart was violently contracted and could not easily recover the quiet even action that was habitual to it.

And yet, as she saw in the eyes of Balthazar the rebirth of a love which was once her glory, the full return of a power she thought she had lost, she said to him with a smile:-- "Believe me, Balthazar, nature made us to feel; and though you may wish us to be mere electrical machines, yet your gases and your ethereal disengaged matters will never explain the gift we possess of looking into futurity." "Yes," he exclaimed, "by affinity.

The power of vision which makes the poet, the power of deduction which makes the man of science, are based on invisible affinities, intangible, imponderable, which vulgar minds class as moral phenomena, whereas they are physical effects.

The prophet sees and deduces.

Unfortunately, such affinities are too rare and too obscure to be subjected to analysis or observation." "Is this," she said, giving him a kiss to drive away the Chemistry she had so unfortunately reawakened, "what you call an affinity ?" "No; it is a compound; two substances that are equivalents are neutral, they produce no reaction--" "Oh! hush, hush," she cried, "you will make me die of grief.