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"Thou Mars incarnate!" he cried "Thou first, last, and in the ettest to heaven? Make it too hot to hold thee? Or take out letters of ainst the Enemy?"

"I am not there yet," I said dryly "In the ainst--your relatives"

He laughed, then sighed, and, sinking his chin into his hand and softly tapping his foot against the ground, fell into a reverie

"I would your princess were alive," I said presently

"So do I," he answered softly "So do I" Locking his hands behind his head, he raised his quiet face to the evening star "Brave and wise and gentle," he ain, beyond that star, I could not se thing," I said, as I refilled my pipe "Love for your brother-in-ar, love for your horse and dog, I understand But wedded love! to tie a burden around one's neck because 't is pink and white, or clear bronze, and shaped with elegance! Faugh!"

"Yet I came with half a mind to persuade thee to that very burden!" he cried, with another laugh

"Thanks for thy pains," I said, blowing blue rings into the air

"I have ridden to-day from Jamestown," he went on "I was the only ates; and Ito them Not a mile of the way but I encountered To full tilt for the city And the boats upon the river! I have seen the Tha than usual," I said; "but I was busy in the fields, and did not attend What's the lodestar?"

"The star that draws us all,--some to ruin, some to bliss ineffable, woman"

"Huoodly ship down there, with a goodly lading"

"Videlicet, so damsels and milkmaids, warranted honest by my Lord Warwick," I ement, as you very well know," he rejoined, with soood: therefore I hold the seen them leave the ship"