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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance, by Paul Elmer More and Corra Harris This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Author: Paul Elmer More Corra Harris Release Date: September 4, 2008 [EBook #26523] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JESSICA LETTERS *** Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net The Jessica Letters An Editor's Romance G. P. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1904 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright, 1904 by G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS Published, April, 1904 The Knickerbocker Press, New York ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _Dear Jessica_: _For a little while like shadows we have played our parts on a shadowy stage, aping the passions and follies of actual life. And now, as the kind authors who gave us being withdraw their support and leave us to fade away into nothingness, the doubt arises whether our little comedy was not all in vain. I do not know. A wise poet of the real world once said that man's life was merely_ the dream of a shadow, _yet somehow men persuade themselves that their own pursuits are greatly serious. Was our life any less than that, and were not our hopes and sorrows and tremulous joy as full of meaning to us as theirs to the creatures who strut upon the stage of the world? Again I say, I do not know: Only I am troubled that so fair an image as yours should prove after all a dream, a shadow's dream, and melt so swiftly away_:-- In what strange lines of beauty should I draw thee? In what sad purple dreamshine paint thee true? How should I make them see who never saw thee? How should I make them know who never knew? _And my last word is a message. He who created me would convey in this, my farewell letter, his thanks to the creator of Jessica. He himself has found in our correspondence only pleasure, and, as he turns from this romance to other and different work of the pen, he hopes
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