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she puts on or off capriciously. But again its 

 loveliness is not the less when its uncertain, 

 fleeting character is revealed. It is one of the 

 desert's most charming features because of its 

 strange light and its softly glowing opaline color. 

 And there we have come back again to that 

 beauty in landscape which lies not in the lines 

 of mountain valley and plain, but in the almost 

 formless masses of color and light. 



Beauty of 

 mirage. 



