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all the new impressions and new philosophies I could for the time mentally digest, and felt great need of resting my mind for a s

ith exclaimed: "I have it! Ask no

ng the route she had taken, she touched

" should especially have been the motto of the American people, but it was the first time the note of haste had impressed my consciousness since I had been living twentiet

this?" I

ompanion. "I tried to get

ity. The environment was indeed in strong enough contrast with that of such buildings in my time, shut in as they generally were by a labyrinth of noisome alleys and dark, damp courtyards which were reeking reservoirs of foetid odors, kept in by lofty, light-excluding walls. This building stood by itself, in the midst of an open square, as if it had been a palace or other show place. But all the more, indeed, by this fine setting was th

ESERVED AS A MEMENTO TO COMING GE

nging back the old order of things by allowing any one on any plea to obtain an economic advantage over another. I think they had much bet

od before the building, and filed into the doorway and up the black and narrow sta

I was taken through this building as a child. It was long afterward before I quite recovered from the terrible impression I received. Really, I don't think it is a good idea to bring young children here, but it is a custom that becam

was. Tablets in the rooms describe how many human beings used to be crowded into them, and the horrible conditions of their lives. The worst about it is that the facts are all taken from historical records, and are absolutely true. There are some of these places in which the inhabitants of the buildings as they used to swarm in them are reproduced in wax or plast

ging you past here. When I undertook to show you something tha

at had not been changed--a mighty existence, to which a thousand years were as one day and one day as a thousand years. There could be no tonic for my case like the inspiration of this great presence, this unchanging witn

all of rock which shut off all sight or sound of the land behind. In my former life the spot had been a favorite resort when I visited the shore. Here in that life so long ago, and yet recalled as if of yesterday, I had been used from a lad to go to do my day dreaming. Every feature of the little nook was as familiar to me as my bedroom and all was quite unchanged. The sea in front, the sky above, the islands and the blue headlands of the distant coast--all, indeed, that filled the view was the same in every deta

e, the girl in this strange and graceful garb, standing by my side and smiling down at me. I had by some great hap brought her bac

king, he has sighed for and for days been followed by the haunting beauty of their half-remembered faces? I, more f

t the great pleasure resorts, where, no doubt, she would under the circumstances excite much curiosity and at the same time have an opportunity of studying what to her twentieth-century mind would seem even more astonishing types of humanity than she would seem to them--namely, people who, surrounded by a needy and anguished world, could get their own consent to be happy in a frivolous and w