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phetic vision you had that evening of the charity concert?'

"'What! Adrian mourning over dead Antinöus?'

"'Yes.'

"'A fancy bred in my over-heated brain by the conflicting qualities of your Hungarian music, so stirringly sensuous and at the same time so gorgeously mournful.'

"He shook his head sadly.

"'No, it was something more than idle fancy.'

"'A change has been taking place in you, Teleny. Perhaps it is the religious or spiritual element of your nature that is predominating just now over the sensual, but you are not what you were.'

"'I feel that I have been too happy, but that our happiness is built on sand—a bond like ours——'

"'Not blessed by the Church, repugnant to the nice feelings of most men.'

"'Well—yes, in such a love there is always