AN OLD-TIME NOTE 



blush when we think of our one and only meeting : it was 

 so inharmonious on our part. She began to argue and 

 instantly had us in a cleft stick : " Soul ? " she exclaimed, 

 fiercely interrupting an incautious remark. " Soul ? there is 

 no such thing. I deny it Prove/ 7 she cried, " prove I have 

 a soul!" 



Poor lady, how could we ? No the Villino is certainly 

 no place for the higher critic ,- for the lady of 'isms. We 

 are not rationalistic in our tastes / we love old and simple 

 things/ prefer to take much for granted in life and enjoy 

 the good peace that is vouchsafed. 



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