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The Secret Power by Marie Corelli
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development of radio activity." Such a description seemed altogether
absurd, applied to a little fair creature with beseeching blue eyes
and gold hair! They had left the laboratory together, walking some
way in company and charmed with each other's conversation, then,
when closer acquaintance followed, and he had learned her true
position in social circles and the power she wielded owing to her
vast wealth, he at once withdrew from her as much as was civilly
possible, disliking the suggestion of any sordid motive for his
friendship. But she had so sweetly reproached him for this, and had
enticed him on--yes!--he swore it within himself,--she had enticed
him on in a thousand ways,--most especially by the amazing "grip"
she had of scientific problems in which he was interested and which
puzzled him, but which she seemed to unravel as easily as she might
unravel a skein of wool. Her clear brightness of brain and logical
precision of argument first surprised him into unqualified
admiration, calling to his mind the assertion of a renowned
physiologist that "From the beginning woman had lived in another
world than man. Formed of finer vibrations and consequently finer
chemical atoms she is in touch with more subtle planes of existence
and of sensation and ideation. She holds unchallenged the code of
Life." Then admiration yielded to the usual under-sense of masculine
resentment against feminine intellectuality, and a kind of
smouldering wrath and opposition took the place of his former
chivalry and the almost tender pleasure he had previously felt in
her exceptional genius and ability. And there came an evening--why
did he think of it now, he wondered?--when, after a brilliant summer
ball given at the beautiful residence of a noted society woman on
Long Island, he had taken Morgana out into their hostess's garden
which sloped to the sea, and they had strolled together almost
unknowingly down to the shore where, under the light of the moon,
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