d but reboant and soaring above the verbal to harmonic truths
of abstract or transcendental, to be hummed subsequently by privileged
female audience of one bent on a hook-or-crook plucking out of pith
for salvation.

She caught tablets pendent at her girdle. "_How long_," queried her
stilus, "_has our sex had humour? Jael hammered._"

She might have hitched speculation further. But Mother Earth,
white-mantled, called to her.

Casting eye of caution at recumbence, she paddled across the carpet
and anon swam out over the snow.

Pagan young womanhood, six foot of it, spanned eight miles before
luncheon.

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