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"Beware, lad, of women!" he importuned me

"Humph! You still despise the sex on account of

that affair with the colleen of the short upper lip"

"Verily And the eyes of that little lady, who guided

your grandfather back froly of her! Bah, these women!"

"Precious little you know about them!" I retorted

"The devil I don't!"

"No," said Stoddard, "invoke the angels, not the

devil!"

"Hear hie

of the world"

"Alas, h battle, entlemen!"

"We thank you, sir, for that last word," said Larry

ly "I am reminded of the late Lord Alfred: "I waited for the train at Coventry;

I hung with grooe,

To watch the three tall spires,-' "

he quoted, looking off through the twilight toward St

Agatha's "I can't see a bloo down upon us and we

clung to this lightbest understood in silence;

and these good friends, I knew, felt what I could not