Excerpt from The Romances of the Lily: The Maidens of the Rocks

Did I in truth know them in the intimate tedious ness of every day life, or were they instead the crea tions of my desire and my perplexity? I ask myself the question so often, and always the answer rises, They were the creatures both of your incertitude and your desire, they were the tried friends of daily fellowship, and that passage of my life's woof that they unconsciously spun, has such an inestimable worth for me that I would impregnate it with an aroma most acutely preserving, to keep aloof the paling, destructive touch of Time.

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