The Transcendental Murder (38 page)

But Jimmy was wrong about Mrs. Bewley. She didn't need the money either. She had gone back to a primordial system of exchange that predated all forms of currency, a system that had been invented long before gold standards and stock markets and chancellors of the exchequer. Mrs. Bewley's system was as old as trade and barter. Swap or swipe. She could get along very well without cold hard cash.

â	Was it all transcendentalism? Magic-lantern pictures on mist? As you will. Those, then, were just what we wanted.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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The Poems of Emily Dickinson
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The Letters of Emily Dickinson
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Bolts of Melody
by Emily Dickinson, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Millicent Todd Bingham, reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. Copyright 1945 by Millicent Todd Bingham.

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