Excerpt from Dante and Beatrice People filled her stage, and many lives far different from her own, and often in strange contrast, entered into her experience. Sincerity and an ideal, these these were the passports to her fellowship. Every meeting with a friend was an event laden with significance; every new acquaintance was an un charted land holding forth rich promise to the explorer. To her extraordinary directness of ap proach even strangers yielded, knowing instinc tively that behind her frank dealing lay no curios ity, no missionary attitude, no search for Copy, but simple friendliness. The Openness she sur prised in others, that she returned, often with a childlike simplicity, since, in her View, what one learned of life was too precious and too hard won to be kept to one's self. She startled the conven tional mind and left it wondering what manner of woman might this be, clearly sincere and earnest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.