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"Yes He's one of the ones in love with that Julia Atwater I told you about"

"Has he got any chance with her?"

"Noble Dill? Mercy!"

"Is heone turned from theand yawned "Come on: let's lie down and talk about some of the nice ones!"

The second house beyond this was--it was the house of Julia!

And what a glaht lay upon it because it was the house of Julia! The texture of the sunshine ca flakes of amber were afloat; a powder of opals and rubies fell silently adrizzle through the trees The very air changed, beating faintly with a fairysorcery: elfin syrass in the next yard to Julia's was just grass, but every blade of grass in her yard was cut of jewels

Julia's house was also the house of that person who through soovernable horseplay of destiny happened to be her father: and this gave the enchanted spot a background of lurking cyclone--no one could tell at what instant there ht rise above the roseate pleasance a funnel-shaped cloud With young Herbert's injurious narrative fresh in his mind, Noble quickened his steps; but as he reached the farther fence post,the southward limit of Mr Atwater's property, he halted short, startled beautifully Through the open front door, just passed, a voice had called his na sweetness that his breath stopped, like his feet

"Oh, Noble!" it called again

He turned back, and any one who ht have seen his face then would have knoas the matter with him, and must have been only the more sure of it because his mouth was open The next instant the adequate reason for his disorder caate

Julia was kind, much too kind! She had heard that her Aunt Harriet and her Uncle Joe were frequently describing Mr Atwater's most recent explosion to other h she had not discovered how Aunt Harriet and Uncle Joe had obtained their hts, an account of the episode was "all over town," and she was almost certain that by this time Noble Dill had heard it And so, lest he should suffer, the too-gentle creature seized the first opportunity to cheer hi about Julia; when anybody liked her--even Noble Dill--she couldn't bear to have him worried She was the sympathetic princess ouldn't have her puppy's tail chopped off all at once, but only a little at a time