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At thaton the

gulf of Mexico Mardi Gras had taken him to New Orleans, and there he had

hired the boat, and was leisurely sailing froulf town to another

The skipper was his only co, full of the afternoon's lazy content The scent of orange

blossoms was blown from the shore, the blue waters dimpled in the

sunshine, and the flop of their ripple in the clincher-landings was an old

and pleasant ie

called me Three times over she calledthat ere he are he had answered the call

He could dreaer His nobler part was on the alert He was not,

however, unhappy The i, rather than of distress His eyes brightened, his face flushed,

he walked rapidly about, like a man under a keener sense of life Lovers

seeextraordinary

that Maggie's soul should speak to his soul And why should we doubt the

greeting? Do we any of us knohat subtle lines are between spirit and

spirit? A few years since, who dreah the

air? Is it not more incredible that flesh and blood in New York should

speak with flesh and blood in Washington, than that spirits, rare, rapid