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 "Forsooth, children are always cruel.

"But while Delilah's ambition was always the same, those of Lilith and Le Page covered an exceeding wide range. Some evenings Lilith would draw a glowing picture of herself as a lecturer of renown with a wonderful personal magnetism and a telling style—she would move the multitudes and draw tears from stony eyes by lifting up her voice. Whereupon Le Page, when he had recovered his breath, would portray himself as a celebrated scientist delving in marvelous chemical mysteries and discovering things of untold benefit to the race. He also would move the multitudes and draw tears from stony eyes.

"And Delilah would wonder what were lecturers and scientists, and how they could do these things.

"And when Lilith would announce her intention of becoming a famous sculptor whose work in the passionate would be