NEWS OF SPRING 



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ALL along the valleys of the coast are 

 hundreds of these amphitheatres which 

 are as stages whereon, by moonlight or 

 amid the peace of the mornings and 

 afternoons, are afted the dumb fairy- 

 plays of the world's contentment. They 

 are all alike, and yet each of them 

 reveals a different happiness. Each of 

 them, as though they were the faces of 

 a bevy of equally happy and equally 

 beautiful sisters, wears its distinguish- 

 ing smile. A cluster of cypresses, with its 

 pure outline ; a mimosa that resembles 

 a bubbling spring of sulphur ; a grove of 

 orange-trees with dark and heavy tops 

 symmetrically charged with golden 

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