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was not this old Bohemia that centred in the Square, but a new Bohemia, woman's Bohemia in a Puritan city.

In certain aspects the old land and the new are alike. This too is a country without geography, a kingdom of the air. It has no continuous history. All is shifting, changing, kaleidoscopic. Here the very furniture has an air of alertness, as if about to depart. The inhabitants, driven like sand across the desert, stop only for

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