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Alice Ilgenfritz Jones. Unveiling a Parallel
Unveiling a Parallel
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. A REMARKABLE ACQUAINTANCE
Chapter 2. A WOMAN
Chapter 3. THE AURORAS’ ANNUAL
Chapter 4. ELODIA
Chapter 5. THE VAPORIZER
Chapter 6. CUPID’S GARDENS
Chapter 7. NEW FRIENDS
Chapter 8. A TALK WITH ELODIA
Chapter 9. JOURNEYING UPWARD
Chapter 10. THE MASTER
Chapter 11. A COMPARISON
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Alice Ilgenfritz Jones, Ella Merchant
A Romance
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Stimulated by the hope of some day being able to talk with her, and of convincing her that I was a person not altogether beneath her intelligence, I devoted myself, mind and soul, to the Paleverian language. In six weeks I could read and write it fairly well.
Severnius was untiring in his teaching; and every day strengthened my regard for him as a man. He was an accomplished scholar, and he was as clean-souled as a child,—but not weakly or ignorantly so. He knew evil as well as good; but he renounced the one and accepted the other. He was a man “appointed by Almighty God to stand for a fact.” And I never knew him to weaken his position by defending it. Often we spent hours in the observatory together. It was a glorious thing to me to watch the splendid fleet of asteroids sailing between Jupiter and Mars, and to single out the variously colored moons of Jupiter, and to distinguish with extraordinary clearness a thousand other wonders but dimly seen from the Earth.
