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For two days after I last wrote, I tried not to see Miss Sharp--I gave

short moments to my book--and she answered a number of business letters

She knows most of my affairs now,--Burton transmits all the bills and

papers to her--I can hear theh the thin door The

excitement of that time I was so rude seems to have used up my vitality,

an utter weariness is upon uardse Harcourt, came to lunch yesterday He was

as cynically whimsical as ever--He has a new love--an Italian--and until

now she has refused all his offers of presents, so he is taking a

tremendous interest in her--

"In what an incredible way the minds of women work, Nicholas!" he

said--"They have frequently a very definite airasshopper'--"

I looked puzzled I suppose--

"To 'grasshopper' is a new verb!" he announced--"Daisy Ryven coined

it--Itit,

you spring to another one--These lovely Arasshopper' continuously--It is ihed

"Yet they seeet pleasure out of

life"

"To 'grasshopper' does not prevent pleasure to the grasshopper--It is