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Title: Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 Runkle, Lucia Isabella (Gilbert), 1844-
Subjects: Literature Literature
Publisher: New York : J.A. Hill & Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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**0 saw ve not fair lues ^ JUAN VALERA 15231 my situation comes upon me, and I form the best of resolutions— but only to break them again forthwith. I promise myself to invent a pretext of sickness, or to seeksome other subterfuge, no matter what, in order not to go toPepitas house on the succeeding night; and yet I go, just as ifno such resolution had been taken. . . . Not alone to my sight is she so delectable, so grateful, buther voice also sounds in my ears like the celestial music of thespheres, revealing to me all the harmonies of the universe. Ieven go to the point of imagining that there emanates from herform a subtile aroma of delicious fragrance, more delicate thanthat of mint by the brook-sides, or than wild thyme on themountain slopes. THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE INTERESTS OF HEAVEN AND EARTH From DON Luis was of a stubbornly persistent, obstinate nature; hehad what, when well directed, makes that desirable qualitycalled firmness of character. Nothi

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