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Now August ca in trailing greeneries, and the day is like so beard rosy in a wine bowl of fat vine leaves Yet, in this languorous tiht, cool and lively as an intrusive boy--a night ht put it as desirable that all the world should be twenty-two years old and in love, like Noble Dill

Upon the white bed in his room, as he dressed, lay the flat black silhouettes of his short evening coat and trousers, side by side, tri; and whenever he looked at theuished, and draends are irls are the only people subject to before-the-party exhilaration At such tiirl is often in the anxious yet determined mood of a runner before a foot race, or she rilorious or uneasy, is busy in their eyes as they pin and pat before their ht-headed, turn to the humbler sort of man-creature under twenty-three Alone in his roorace and allantry, rehearsals as unconscious as the curtsies of field daisies in a breeze He has neither doubt nor certainty of his charm; he has no arithmetic at all, and is often so free of calculation that he does not even pull down the shades at his s

Unfortunately for the neighbours, and even for passers-by, since Noble's room had avisible from the street, his prophetic an to dress Thus she deprived honest folk of what surelya very youngfrom his head a Panama hat, new that day, in a series of courteous salutations At tiht have had evenon his socks Noble "one-stepped" for severalupon his head the new hat This was a hat of double value to him; not only was it pleasant to behold in histhe arrangeiddy, for the dance was Julia's Mr Atwater had been summoned to New York on a blessed business that would keep hihter, alert to the first flash of opportunity, had almost instantly summoned musicians, florists, a caterer, and set plans before them Coincidentally, Noble had chanced to see Mr Atwater driving down Julia's Street thataside for the day all business cares, hurried to the traveller's house Thus he forestalled, for the ti for Julia so continuous a strain upon whatever organ is the seat of the anxieties Kind Julia, busy as she was, agreed to dance the first dance with hinificance that he would be entitled to the perquisites of a special cavalier; for instance, a seat beside her during the serving of the custoh fortune, no wonder he was a little giddy as he dressed!