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look at hiently Then her eyes traveled over

his big fraht fell on them; they were

dusty; he drew them under the bench with a shudder) to his broad shoulders

(he shook the stoop out of them) She stretched her small hands toward hihter in the world

At this sound he knew the watch on his lips orthless It was a

question of minutes till he should present himself to her eyes as a

sentimental and susceptible imbecile He knew it He was in wild spirits

"Could you realize that one of your dangers ?" she

cried "Is your seriousness a lost art?" Her laughter ceased suddenly

"Ah, no I understand Thiers said the French laugh always, in order not

to weep I haven't lived here five years I should laugh too, if I were

you"

"Look at the moon," he responded "We Plattvillains own that with the best

of metropolitans, and, for my part, I see e landscapes in the heart of the city, and

what other capital possesses advantages like that? Next winter the railway

station is to have a new stove for the waiting-room Heaven itself is one

of our suburbs--it is so close that all one has to do is to die You

insist uponFrench, you see, and I know you are fond of nonsense

How did you happen to put 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' at the bottoe of Fisbee's notes?"