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"Oh, if you resort to epigrams, I can see that it's all over"

"All over I' alone that I shouldn't knohat to do

with a wife" He puffed seriously

Ah! the futility of our desires, of our castles, of our drea in e deeirl friend of reat refor for

the pulpit She is now the mother of several children, the most

peaceful and unorative wo

over various side-tracks, thinking them to be the main line, till fate

puts its peculiar but happy hand to the switch Scharfenstein had been

plugging away over rusty rails and grass-grown ties--till he cas of the heart," said I, when I thought the pause had

grown long enough "You still hope?"

"In a way If I recollect, you had an affair once,"--shrewdly

I smoked on I wasn't quite ready to speak

"You were always on the hunt for ideals, too, as I remember; hope

you'll find her"

"Max, my boy, I am solemnly convinced that I have"

"Good Lord, you don't mean to tell me that you are _hooked_?" he cried

"I see no reason why you should use that particular tone," I answered

stiffly