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As soon as possible after dinner I slipped away for a stroll The place was very lovely, and I felt that if I could creep off with Mother Nature, she would s inht I dipped into the thicket near at hand, and dodging here and there, ju the vines which embraced the stern old woods like seductive sirens, I at last struck a shaded path, which erelong ledold lake It too had dined, but instead of yielding itself to folly, was taking its siesta Across its tranquil boso ripples and tiny eddies, as drea face

I had not walked along the beach, with the waves sighing at s, for a great distance, before I began to experience that unco in two, as it were, standing off at a distance and looking oneself in the face I realized that I had been so and considerable of a Pharisee My late discoirl had cheapened herself, but by the fact that a man had demeaned himself and in a manner involved me, inasmuch as I had been led the day before by a false estiard him as my social equal After all it was this last that hurt most; it was my little self and not my brother about whom I was chiefly concerned

I am not naturally sentimental or oose of myself and not shown any surplus of nobility; and with a little sigh of satisfaction that I had given the sn of er enjoyment of the day

The soft June breeze played with ently and affectionately touchedemotions stretched away from me toward that other shore which it kept secreted soht of it, with its shireens, turquoise blue, and tawny yellow, cooled and soothed me, and ere I knew it, I had slipped into a pleasant, active speculation on er interest than the petty subjects which had lineddirectly toward one of ht run in and make a call, while I was near at hand I had first become interested in theularity of attendance, and by a certain judicious arrange so as to separate the latter by their authority and order