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"My dear Toet Wetherford Swift!"

"I could stand it all," put forth the er, "if it were not for

Wetherford Swift"

"When is Miss Sherwood co home?" asked one of the ladies "Why does

she stay away and leave his," substituted a bachelor "He is just beginning;

listen"

Through all the other sounds of music, there penetrated frout, pathetic, insistent,

painstaking, and painful beyond belief

"He is in a terrible way to-night," said the er

Miss Hinsdale laughed "Worse every night The violinist is young

Wetherford Swift," she explained to Harkless "He is very ree with him He used to be such a pleasant boy, but last

winter he went quite mad over Helen Sherwood, Mr Meredith's cousin, our

beauty, you know--I a her, I'm sure--and he took up the violin"

"It is said that his family took up chloroform at the same time," said the

er

"His music is a barohtly observes whether Miss Sherwood has been nice to hily plaintive," explained another