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The Golden Fleece

CHAPTER III
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It is the memory of a dream, I suppose," she added, in another tone.
"Heredity is a queer thing.

You may be Aztecan over again, in mind and temperament; and every one knows how impressions are transmitted.
If features and traits of character, why not particular thoughts and feelings ?" "I think it is better not to try to explain these things," said she, with the unconscious haughtiness which maidens acquire who have not seen the world and are adored by their family.

"They are great mysteries,--or else nothing." She now removed from her head the curious cap or helmet, ornamented with gold and with the green feathers of the humming-bird, which her companion had crowned her with, and hung it on its nail in the cabinet.

"Perhaps the thoughts came with the cap," she remarked, smiling slightly.

"I don't feel that way any more.


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