three dinner invitations in favour of this feast; but though he turned the pages with the sensuous joy of the book-lover, he did not know what he was reading, and one book after another dropped from his hand. Suddenly, among them, he lit on a small volume of verse which he had ordered because the name had attracted him: \"The House of Life.\" He took it up, and found himself plunged in an atmosphere unlike any he had ever breathed in books; so warm,
three dinner invitations in favour of this feast; but though he turned the pages with the sensuous joy of the book-lover, he did not know what he was reading, and one book after another dropped from his hand. Suddenly, among them, he lit on a small volume of verse which he had ordered because the name had attracted him: \"The House of Life.\" He took it up, and found himself plunged in an atmosphere unlike any he had ever breathed in books; so warm,
