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Book Description
This book on which it has pleased you to bestow your especial affection I dedicate to you with my love. It is a memory of many happy hours and many dreams that we have shared. t You remember how it was begim, one spring morning two years ago, with the opening scene of the first chapter gay before my eyes as I wrote. You remember the excitement of ending it before the Christmas of 1913, so that we ...
MoreThis book on which it has pleased you to bestow your especial affection I dedicate to you with my love. It is a memory of many happy hours and many dreams that we have shared. t You remember how it was begim, one spring morning two years ago, with the opening scene of the first chapter gay before my eyes as I wrote. You remember the excitement of ending it before the Christmas of 1913, so that we could start with free consciences, early in the New Year, on our Egyptian journey. Cest hien loin, tout cela! War overtook it in it3 serial course; and now, in book form, it must go out to the world as an expression of the moods and fancies almost of a past incarnation. These dream figures with whom we delighted, like children, to people our home, are now replaced by other guests tragically real, as big-hearted as those most loved of our shadow-folk. Yet sometimes they seem still to live. ..
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