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"And what is the latest one

He was standing by his wife's chair, and she leaned her head against

hi,

burnished fringe over his ar blood in his veins, could help stooping to kiss before

her lips had shaped a reply

"You wouldn't think it an appetizing morsel! But I listened with

interest to our unsophisticated Mabel's account of her Quixotic

expedition to ill, I foresee, be the haunted chaeneration Her penchant for adventure has, I

suspect, embellished her portrait of the hapless house-breaker"

"A co tra in physiognoenerally draws his last breath where he drew the first--in a

ditch or jail; and too seldom, for the peace and safety of society,

finds his noblest earthly elevation upon a gallows It is a

nuisance, though, having hi debt of

Nature--nobody but Nature would trust him--in my house Thereis an insufferable

bore Ritchie has given hi old Phillis

on the watch, with unliher than herself But I did notabout this dirty business It is not fit for 's ears Mabel showed even less than her usual discretion in

detailing the incidents of her adventure to you"

Flattery of his sister had never been a failing with hie, the occasions wereas to elicit a verbal expression of