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Oh, it was wonderful-wonderful.

It's the first thing I ever saw that couldn't be improved upon by imagination.

It just satisfies me here"-she put one hand on her breast-"it made a queer funny ache and yet it was a pleasant ache.

Did you ever have an ache like that, Mr. Cuthbert?"

"Well now, I just can't recollect that I ever had."

"I have it lots of time-whenever I see anything royally beautiful.

But they shouldn't call that lovely place the Avenue.

There is no meaning in a name like that.

They should call it-let me see-the White Way of Delight.

Isn't that a nice imaginative name? When I don't like the name of a place or a person I always imagine a new one and always think of them so.

There was a girl at the asylum whose name was Hepzibah Jenkins, but I always imagined her as Rosalia DeVere.

Other people may call that place the Avenue, but I shall always call it the White Way of Delight.

Have we really only another mile to go before we get home? I'm glad and I'm sorry.

I'm sorry because this drive has been so pleasant and I'm always sorry when pleasant things end.

Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.

And it's so often the case that it isn't pleasanter.

That has been my experience anyhow.

But I'm glad to think of getting home.

You see, I've never had a real home since I can remember.

It gives me that pleasant ache again just to think of coming to a really truly home.

Oh, isn't that pretty!"

They had driven over the crest of a hill.

Below them was a pond, looking almost like a river so long and winding was it.

A bridge spanned it midway and from there to its lower end, where an amber-hued belt of sand-hills shut it in from the dark blue gulf beyond, the water was a glory of many shifting hues-the most spiritual shadings of crocus and rose and ethereal green, with other elusive tintings for which no name has ever been found.

Above the bridge the pond ran up into fringing groves of fir and maple and lay all darkly translucent in their wavering shadows.

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