her living now � but she loves him and is as true to him as if he were still alive what do you say to that i say that the lady in question must be a charming person replied the perfectly charming i but of course she is deceiving herself and she takes pleasure in the self deception she knows that the man had deserted her and was quite unworthy of her devotion � but she to herself that she does not know and it it is charming of course but women will do that kind of thing it is extraordinary � but they will they all deceive themselves in matters of love even you deceive yourself started i she exclaimed yes � you � why not and the treated her to one of his particularly paternal smiles you are to � but no man ever had or ever could have all the virtues with which you this excellent he is a delightful creature � a good artist � unique in his own particular line � but you think him something much greater than even artist or man � a sort of god though the gods themselves were not only fit to be now i am not a in the gods � but of course it is delightful to me to meet those who are or needs neither praise nor defence said with a slight touch of all the world knows what he is yes precisely that is just it � all the world knows what he is � and the rubbed his forehead with an air of irritation and i am you by my a r ig i loo the master christian i can see well well � you must forgive my � i admit my faults � i am old � i am a � i talk too much � i have a bad opinion of man and an equally bad opinion of the forces that him by the way i met that terrible and at the the other day � the man who is making such a sensation in england with his addresses to the people he is quite an do you know he believes in everything and everybody � even in me i laughed and her laughter sweet and low thrilled the air with a sense of music that is wonderful she said gaily � even in you i and how does he manage to believe in you i do tell me i a little frown wrinkled the s brow well i in a strange way he responded you know he is a very strange man and believes in very strange things when i treat humanity as a jest � which is really how it should be treated � he looks at me with a grand air of oh you will progress he says you are passing through a phase my dear sir i assure him i have lived in this phase as you call it for forty years i used to pray to the angels and saints and to all the different little that live in different places till i was twenty then i dropped all the pretty at once � and since then i have believed in nothing � myself least of all now i am sixty � and yet you tell me i am only passing through a phase quite so he answered me with the utmost coolness your forty years � or your sixty years are a moment merely � the moment will pass � and you will find another moment coming which will explain the one which has just gone nothing is and when i ask him which will be the best moment � the one that goes or the one that comes � he says that i am making the coming moment for myself � which is so satisfactory he adds with that bright smile of his because of course you will make it pleasant pour de et inevitable i do not find the e � but this man me it is because i do not trouble to look for it what do you think about it the master christian loi s eyes were full of dreamy i think mr s ideas are beautiful she said slowly i have often heard him talk on the subject of religion � and of art and of work � and all he says seems to be die expression of a noble and sincere mind he is gifted yes � and he is becoming rather an alarming personage in england so i hear � returned the � he writes books that are distinctly dangerous because true he wants to upset like our writer you know will never be satisfied till like he has brought about another french revolution he is only a peasant they say but he writes with the pen of a prophet and this englishman is of the same � only his work is directed against religious more than social ones i that is why i always feel so uneasy in his presence i and laughed lightly for the rest he is a brilliant creature enough and thoroughly manly the other evening at the club that little de was chattering in his usual offensive manner about women and astonished by the way in hich he pulled him up there was almost a very pretty � but a stray man happened to mention casually that was considered one of the finest shots in england after that the dear vanished and did not return laughed poor de i i yes � i have heard that mr in ever that is distinctly english � riding shooting and all that kind of thing he is not few englishmen are said the � and yet to my mind there is something not altogether english in this man he has none of the heavy british mental and physical he is strong and muscular certainly � but also light 