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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 145 June to November 1922
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: various
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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tinc-tions of such refinement were of nointerest, ignored him and permittedhim to revel in his agony at a near-bycafe table. You come to my house to-night,he said to Mr. Spokesly. I got oneor two little things to fix. Mr. Spokesly, driving along the Quaitoward the White Tower, would havebeen the last to deny what CaptainRanney called a common elementaryright. He was invoking it himself.What he was trying to do all this whilewas to achieve an outlet for his ownpersonality. This was really behindeven his intrigue with the LondonSchool of Mnemonics. He was con-vinced he had something in him whichthe pressures and conventions of theworld had never permitted to emerge.Merely becoming engaged had been anadvance for Mr. Spokesly, because menlike him can move neither upward nordownward without the aid of women.Once removed from the influence ofAda by a series of events which he couldnot control, he was the predestined preyof the next woman ahead. Those whoview this career with contempt should
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208 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE reflect upon the happiness and longev-ity of many who pursue it. Mr.Spokesly was no sensualist, in the strictmeaning of the word. He simply ex-perienced a difficulty in having anyspiritual life apart from women. Hecould do with a minimum of inspira-tion, but such as he needed had to comefrom them. All his thoughts clusteredabout them. Just as he experienced afeeling of exaltation when he foundhimself in their company, so he couldnever see another man similarly en-gaged without regarding him as a beingof singular fortune. Always, moreover,he conceived the woman he did notknow as a creature of extraordinarygifts. Evanthia Solaris seemed to haveeluded classification because, withoutpossessing any gifts at all beyond acertain magnetism bewilderingly com-posed of feminine timidity and tigerishcourage, she had inspired in him astrange belief that she would bring himgood fortune. This was the kind ofwoman she was. She went much fartherback into the history of the

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