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    The Crown of Wild Olive

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      NOTE TO SECOND EDITION.

      _Sentence_ out of letter from May (who is staying with Isabel just nowat Cassel), dated 15th June, 1877:--

      "I am reading the Ethics with a nice Irish girl who is staying here, andshe's just as puzzled as I've always been about the fire-flies, and weboth want to know so much.--Please be a very nice old Lecturer, and tellus, won't you?"

      Well, May, you never were a vain girl; so could scarcely guess that Imeant them for the light, unpursued vanities, which yet blind us,confused among the stars. One evening, as I came late into Siena, thefire-flies were flying high on a stormy sirocco wind,--the starsthemselves no brighter, and all their host seeming, at moments, to fadeas the insects faded.

     
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