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_ '' And lower down on the same page , indicated with the like emphasis : '' _ By sitting in this temple each day and meditating herein I have ministered to my sacred moods , and I have kept pure the essence of the ages , which I am to revive for the modern world . _ '' Morgan remembered only too well by whom and on what occasion such words had been addressed to him . He put back the volume and shut the book-case . At the one o'clock dinner they all came together again . There was the same profuse solidity of fare as on the previous day , and the same insistence that Morgan must do justice to it . The girls seemed in high spirits , mysterious signs and words passing between them , accompanied by much laughter , of which Morgan dimly suspected he was the cause . When the clerk at the post-office , looking through a little heap of letters , picked out one and put it aside , Morgan could scarcely restrain his emotion .