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Excerpt from The Strength to Yield: The Psychology of a Great Temptation
She dropped parasol and gloves and stretched a slender white arm toward the red-purple glow of the sunset and the delicate pinks and blues of the Cyclops, and cried, Descending fast the mountain shadows kiss Thy glorious gulf, unconquered Salamis.
Mrs. Van Lennep, you always have an apt quotation. I confess this time I know its author, and will gamble I even know the canto it appears ih, and the Honourable Roland Barker sat down on the lower step of the Par thenon in servile attitude, his eyes on the Vision in pink With its Rossetti head thrown back in a ?ute of the stately Doric column.
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