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The su now frohbors; to e I had oodly nu; ether I felt I was very well off Not that I was cynically opposed to ht man called, but if he did not I was content to end life as I had begun it--in single blessedness

My neighbors, however, were of anotherefforts to find so on oneas one would attee

But in spite of all such friendly offices the su of it on this particular day, as I stood gazing fro of it with a sort of quiet wonder, for with an entire neighborhood intent upon this end, it was rather surprising that I was not double by this time Had they succeeded I should now occupy a very different attitude It is only old bachelors and old e; when people are really about it, they say little, and (it would often appear) think less

It was a day for speculation--this particular one; the dead leaves were scurrying up the street as people ran for a train; a gusty as carrying all before it for the tiroaned, recoiled and shuddered, like hu hosts of leaves that immediately slipped under covert, or else joined their fellows in the race up town The sky was non-committal, and the lake looked dark and secretive, as if it meditated wreck and disaster

It was only the middle of September, but there had been several of these days--a hint, perchance, of as to coay waltz strain sometimes dips into real life, and makes one look inward for a moment

The house did not invite me just at this ti within me which te at a goodly pace along the Boulevard--for I love the lake in all its moods--when two men with anxious faces overtook, and hurried past me