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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Love Of Boy. I held you only for a little space, because I knew not life or men, or how to keep what I had won. The Lovee [gazing at the apparition and speaking softly]. Dear, tender little love! The fragrance of that pure affection stayed with me through the years, and kept within my soul a vision, clean and true, of all that Woman and that Love were meant to be. The Living [speaking as the vision of Love Of Boy fades slowly back into the shadow of the tree from whence it came, and on which the light continues to shine. Tell me, beloved, what was added then unto your store of garnered memories of Love? [As she is speaking, a misty spot of light has appeared upon the trunk of another tree to left. From its shadows has glided out a figure draped in deep rose tint, with ferns and roses in her gold- brown hair. [It is Passion Of Youth. She is beautiful and young, but of a more mature youh than Love Of Boy. She stands near the fountain, and as the man becomes conscious of her, he gazes at her in the same surprised absorption as before.] Passion Of Youth [her voice deep and vi chapter{Section 4brant, but coming as from a distance]. It was from me you learned that Love in its completion is the immortal essence of what men call Human Passion, and that true Passion's crown is Love. The Lover [bending eagerly forward and speaking as if in a trance]. Ah, second mistress of my heart! I gave to you the tender reverence that is born of man's diviner part, warmed by that flame of Passion which is but desire purged of all gross, debasing things by Love's pure breath. The Living [bending towards him, with a note of pain in her voice] . Ah so, ? from her, your second love, you learned the mystery that blends the forces of the body and the soul, ? and thus to her you gave the b...