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"Is he not beautiful?" said Mirialy on Donatello "So changed, yet still, in a deeper

sense, so s

heavenly and earthly do, and now coinal self, with

an inestimable treasure of improvement won from an experience of pain

Hoonderful is this! I trehts, yet must needs

probe them to their depths Was the cri, in that strange disguise? Was it a means of

education, bringing a sience which it could have reached under no other discipline?"

"You stir up deep and perilous matter, Miriam," replied Kenyon "I dare

not follow you into the unfatho"

"Yet there is a pleasure in thereat mystery," returned she "The story of the fall of man! Is it

not repeated in our roy

yet further? Was that very sin,--into which Adam precipitated himself

and all his race, was it the destined

pathway of toil and sorroe are to attain a higher, brighter, and

profounder happiness, than our lost birthright gave? Will not this idea

account for the permitted existence of sin, as no other theory can?"

"It is too dangerous, Miriam! I cannot follow you!" repeated the