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'Do you like that old thing, Mr Smith?' she said at the end

'Yes, I do much,' said Stephen--words he would have uttered, and sincerely, to anything on earth, froht have chosen

'You shall have a little one by De Leyre, that was givenat Endelstow House: '"Je l'ai plante, je l'ai vu naitre, Ce beau rosier ou les oiseaux," &c; and then I shall want to give you my own favourite for the very last, Shelley's "When the lamp is shattered," as set toto anybody who REALLY cares to hear me'

Every woman who makes a permanent impression on a man is usually recalled to his mind's eye as she appeared in one particular scene, which seehout the pages of his memory As the patron Saint has her attitude and accessories in mediaeval illumination, so the sweetheart may be said to have hers upon the table of her true Love's fancy, without which she is rarely introduced there except by effort; and this though she may, on further acquaintance, have been observed in ine to be far e chose the for, for her per his sleeping and waking hours in after days The profile is seen of a young wos of swan's-down, and opening up from a point in front, like a waistcoat without a shirt; the cool colour contrasting admirably with the warm bloom of her neck and face The furthermost candle on the piano comes immediately in a line with her head, and half invisible itself, forht, surrounding her crown like an aureola Her hands are in their place on the keys, her lips parted, and trilling forth, in a tender di words of the sad apostrophe: 'O Love, who bewailest The frailty of all things here, Why choose you the frailest For your cradle, your home, and your bier!'

Her head is forward a little, and her eyes directed keenly upward to the top of the page ofher Then comes a rapid look into Stephen's face, and a stilldropped its sadness, and acquired a certain expression of ered there for some time, but was never developed into a positive smile of flirtation