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Laura, however, was not plain and ordinary, and the smiles which were intended as innocent lures froht make trouble for all concerned Haldane was naturally coin with, and was now at the most inflammable period of his life

The profoundest master of human nature portrayed to the world a Romeo and a Juliet, both lances had kindled There are many Romeos who do not find their Juliets so sympathetic and responsive, and they usually develop at about the age of Haldane Indeed, nearly all young e, and they are fortunate if they pass it without doing anything especially ridiculous or disastrous These sudden attacks are exceedingly absurd to older and cooler friends, but to the victiic for the timents before twenty than ever after; but, like the broken bones of the young, they usually knit readily together again, and are just as good for all practical purposes

There was nothing unusual in the fact, therefore, that Haldane was soon deeply enaiven hiement--and the result would probably have been the saiven hiard as his "undying love," interpreted all her actions, and gave volulance or a pleasant word Indeed, before there had been time to carry out, to any extent, the tactics her aunt had proposed, sy him merely as one of her aunt's "cases," and a very hard one at best, and thought of herself as trying to help a little, as a child e or a medicine phial for experienced hands, he, on the contrary, had begun to mutter to himself that she was "the divinest woman God ever fashioned"

There was now no trouble about his spending evenings elsewhere, and theways far too successful, and that the one she barely hoped to keep froue--and to heras adhesive as sticking-plaster If she sled far too much in return If she chatted with one and another of the young men who found Mrs Arnot's parlor the most attractive place open to thened to be darkly tragical, but which to the young girl had