of thoughts which the observations of life had gradually stored up in her. She used it to depict various phases of woman's life and destiny in the present day. Irene dies, it is true, but not of a "Phantom of the Mind." She has been induced by Florestan to enter the world which she has never known, and where she is speedily desillusionée. Her lover deserts her and she goes through stages of anguish, which terminate in a resolution to rise above the sense of her own personal wrongs and devote herself to the betterment of the human social sphere she has entered, and in whose real and deep interest she seems to have found a substitute for the imaginary world of her girlhood. But all that is left us of this second more human part of the story consists in fragments, which we give as we find them. The first of these is apparently a conversation of Irene and a friend, probably one of the spirit-world who looks coldly yet with prescience on the passions and griefs of the humankind.
Once for a short time of a human world,
Warm with the glow of a fond human love.
I know not if I missed of my true self
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