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In each of them was throned a flame that seemed the very fiery essence of vitality.
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Even now I can but guess — brain in part as we understand brain, certainly; but far, far more than that in its energies, its powers.
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The heart of the rose was a star of incandescent ruby.
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The floating figures had drawn close to that disk and had paused.
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