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62 Boast not myself of to-morrow, for I "knoweth not" what a noon may bring forth.

This, too, is Emily to the core:

Cherish power dear; remember that it stands in the Bible between the kingdom and the glory because it is wilder than either.

The instances cited are characteristic of varying moods. Her passion for brevity always deducted relentlessly. She refuses an invitation thus:

After some flashing pleasure given her she replies:

Tasting the honey and the sting should have ceased with Eden. Pang is the past of peace.

"To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea," defines her constancy.