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She did not wait for the answer of Ione, but, as she spoke, gently and slowly passed her hand over the bending and half-averted features of the Greek features which but one image in the world can yet depicture and recall that image is the mutilated, but all-wondrous, statue in her native city her own Neapolis that Parian face, before which all the beauty of the Florentine Venus is poor and earthly that aspect so full of harmony of youth of genius of the soul which modern critics have supposed the representation of Psyche.
Always it's there, across the seas, for some one maybe no longer you and me, exiles of the years in this far-away America but still for some one younger, some one for whom the loves and adventures and the hazards of life are still so all-wondrous, so all-worth-while, so almighty.
If there were nothing but the eagerness of the pursuit, and the gratification of successful vanity, fond as I am of shooting, I should, I believe, have long since wearied of it; but there are so many other things connected with it the wandering among the loveliest scenery the full enjoyment of the sweetest weather the learning the innumerable and all-wondrous attributes and instincts of animated nature all these are what make up to me the rapture I derive from woodcraft!
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