Love Me Little, Love Me Long

sition compared with Talboys, who visited Lucy at pleasure, and could close the very street door against a rival, real or imaginary. But the street door is not the door of the hear

she said to herself: "Men always make such fools of themselves when they are jealous. No. David shan't even know he has got a rival; if he did he would be w

r putting David out of sight, this judicious rival could not let him fade out of mind too; he found means to stimulate the lady's memory, and, as far as in him lay, made the absent present. May all my foes unweave their webs as cleverly! David knew nothing of this. He saw himself shut out from Paradise, and he was sad. He felt the loss of Arthur too. The orphan had been medicine to him. When a man is absorbed in a hopeless passion, to be employed every day in a g

ster of the house. Well, he is the master; I shall not force my way wh

"It isn't him. There are

. I'll teach them to come across m

turned it off; "and don't be so down

, Eve. What h

st when everythin

w can yo

and, if you can't win her, say you don't deserve her, twiddle your thumb, and see a bolder lover carry her off. You foolish boy, she is only a wom

kept me backing and fil

the city that minute, woe be unto you. Come, cheer up! it is only for a few days, and then she goes where you will have her all to yourself; besides, you shall have one sw

nd prance-a trumpet, and pealed victory to come. David kissed

ment and take the gloss off David; but now the affair looked really desperate, so it would have been unkind not to sustain him with all her soul. The cause of her despondency and consequent cheerfulness shall now be briefly related. Scarce an hour ago she

rbid," was

n to a c

en to a

ay that the heart was not the only thing to be

n in society than deteriorate it. Eve met these pretty phrases with a look of contempt, as much as to say, "While you speak I am putting all that into plain vulgar English." The other did not seem to notice it. "To leave this interesting topic for a while," said she, languidly, "let me consult you, Miss Dodd. I have not, as you may have noticed, great abilities, but I have received an excellent education. To say nothing of those soi-disant accomplishments with which we a

u are,

d flirting in garrison towns, is frivolous and monotonous too. It isn't as if war was raging, trumpets ringing, and squadrons charging

cleverness, but the

hat is their grand requisite. I interr

? To preach, and visit the sick, and feel for them, and understand what

n at most times; and oh, the disco

ry passable barri

did

here are achieved by honeyed words, with a long word thrown in her

etter, parson, lawyer or doctor than nine out of ten, but they won't let us. They know we could beat them into

age and-water-colors. I think marriage the more honorable of the two; above all, it is the m

t you have been

," was the sly retort. "Let

could not eat a

only, and that new trait of hard satire, which she had so suddenly produced from her sec

sighed; and as she went home she said more than once to herself, "No more hear

ht had she to come here and