And when one day she opened them upon his true nature, it pained her to strike against the rock of bitter reality.

And for the third time, her trust in true manhood was cruelly betrayed...

So she cried out with the fullness of her rebellious womanhood:

I shall hate man — as father, as brother, and as beloved —

for man — in his everlasting smallness — is unworthy of the blessing of love.

As for his voice, it rang in her ears, violent and thundering:

Go your smooth way, strewn with roses, and let me go my barren way... whose thorns have filled it with blood.

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And so, after life had been for her a gush of the gushes of ardent passion and dewy hope,

she became, before she had passed fifteen, a heedless murmur among the murmurs of uneasy doubt.

And doubt, once it has soiled a clear soul, takes much from it

and leaves it floundering in piled-up darknesses from which there is no way out to the light.

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But the hidden powers of youth, which labor forever to disguise the facts, and to embroider events in enchanting colors,

began to work, behind her despon-dent spirit, to draw the curtains of forgetfulness between her and the past, near and far.

Perhaps she might find in her coming day something to make up for her dismal yesterday.

And life, for all that, is wide of horizon, far-flung of reaches.

So let her extreme idealism be content with whatever would bring

to her own soul: peace of mind,

and to this wide world, which she has never ceased to love: devotion and faithfulness.

And to the great world she opened her great heart — yes, she opened it, as in everything she does, impulsive, loving, loyal,

yet with no small share of the philosophy of suppressed pessimism and disappointed hope.

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