Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885

new and very becoming suit of clothes; his hair and beard had been trimmed by a fashionable barber, and his old-fashioned high "stock" exchang

nquiry for Miss Eldridge also, but he compounded with cons

nified professor was turned about, as if he had been a graven image

ge, she said, to fulfil her engagement and not to go away just as she was beginning to be really useful. And as for a house, would it not be pleasanter to live in lodgings and be free to come and go as they would

dress with its own color or a

younger than he had looked a year ago, brought to his

elightedly. "You shall have two kisses for them,

all of an old garden which I

ere? Is it near here

"some day; but it is not near here:

t. Now just see how nice you look! And the rest I will put in this glass, and then Miss Christina can enjoy them too; she's so kind, and I can't do anything for her. Oh, that makes me think! I have to go across the river this af

at home he will be only too glad to row you over for a few cents. It would not make your walk much longer to go roun

"Can't you come too? You can sit and talk wi

the college library at four, and-bless me! it only wants ten minutes o

s least wish which so often gave him a heartache. "You'll be in this ev

her hat and at her throat, walked toward the river-bank, whispering a gay little song to herself. It was such a brig