Life — July 6, 1893 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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ot oo 13 George gravely, “I hope you don’t intend to indulge in any of the silly watering-place flirtations that so tend to lower a woman in the eyes of her friends?” “ Now, whatever you do, don’t get jealous!” cried Esther, decidedly. “ You know | hate a jealous man, George. Of course I expect to meet her men this summer, but I hope I know how to treat them properly.” “T have no objection tq your meeting other men if you think you can be true to me;" said George. Don't be a goose! I never meet a man, and get to know him real well, but what it seems to me that he is you. That is, if he is very nice.” “You think he is /?” asked George, somewhat puzzled. “ Yes, especially if he has bright blue eyes, and a cute little brown moustache, and curly hair, and talks very interestingly ; then it almost seems as if you were with me, you know. “Y-e-s," assented George. “And, if I should meet some fellow like that, and I should go riding and driving with him, and rowing, it would be al! right, wouldn't it, so long as I felt as if he were you all the time?” “Perhaps so,” replied George. “And if I should get to know him better and he should want to hold my hand, or put his arm around my w or— or even kiss me, just once or twice you know ; it would be all right, wouldn't it, for ¢4en I am sure I should think he was you; especially if it was on the piazza after dark.” “Tt might be all right for you, Esther ;” said George with a conscientious struggle for exact truth. “It might be all right for you, but I don’t see that it would do me much good!" Harry Romaine. SS KS 2) eS 2 = GENERAL PUTNAM’S RIDE. FROM A VERY OLD PRINT. comicbooks.com