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She glanced at Rivardi as she spoke--he was rolling a cigarette in his sliers and his face was impassively intent on his occupation

"Well, that's so!"--and her American friend looked at her kindly--"Even a fairy palace and a fairy garden hed Morgana--"My dear Colonel Boyd! It is not every one who is fitted for matrimony--and there exist so many that ARE,--eminently fitted--we can surely allow a few exceptions! I am one of those exceptions A husband would be excessively tiresohed heartily

"You won't always think so!" he said--"Such a char little woman must have a heart soile invalid wife, "I aana raised herself on her cushions to a sitting posture and looked round her with a curious little air or defiance

"A heart I MUST have!" she said--"otherwise I could not live It is a necessary muscle But what YOU call 'heart'--and what the dear elusive poets write about, is simply brain,--that is to say, an i the desirability of a particular person's companionship--and we elect to call that 'love'! On that ood i broadly--"It founds families and continues the race!"

"Ah, yes! But I often wonder why the race should be continued at all!" said Morgana--"The time is ripe for a new creation!"

A slow footfall sounded on the garden path, and the tall figure of a arb of the Roia

"Don Aloysius!" quickly exclaireet the newco him with a profound reverence He laid his hand on her head with a kindly touch of benediction

"So the dreamer has come to her dream!" he said, in soft accents--"And it has not broken like an air-bubble!--it still floats and shines!" As he spoke he courteously saluted all present by a bend of his head,--and stood for asunset He was a very striking figure of ain air and attitude, with a fine face which ht be called almost beautiful The features were such as one sees in classic marbles--the full clear eyes were set so brows that denoted a brain with intelligence to use it, and the shtened his expression as he looked fronant sweetness