Life — October 10, 1901 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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“Lavra, ts your heart free?" The young man Who spoke these words saton the ex- treme edge of a cusbloned chair in an elegant apartment of & Mayfair mansion, and leaned forward in uncontrollable agi- tation. The handkerchief, with which tn excess of emotion he wiped his nose ever aud anon, trembled visibly, and bis volce bad that dreamy, touching Intonation that marks a sen- sitive, bigh-souled man in the last stage of Influenza and unrequited affection, “Why, Mr. Hankinson,” replied the lovely girl, with downcast eyes, but with a kind of don't-come-any-nearer expression on her face, “your question takes me by surprise, and I hardiy—* * Laura!” burst forth the young man, mpetuousls, as he glanced In a laboriously careless way atu stall ivory tablet concealed in his left hand, ‘It 1s hardly possible for you to realize the difficulties that beset—that are pecultar to the crisis which at this hour Iface. You would be disposed to langh, perbaps, if I could tell you what a trife clogs the free cry of ® heart filled with a devo—with excess of love yet which asec — which love will be heard, despite the barriers that adverse fate appears to have erected Just at this period. Hear the feeble yet eager cry ofa heart, Laura, that— “Mr. Hankinson,” interrupted the young lady, with a puzzled alr, * you speak most singularly. Whatts the matter with your” The youth wiped his nose again with nervous haste, threw the Ivory tablet frantically across the room, aed once more began : “The Latter with he, Bits Laura, t# @ sold id by head—a beasly, horrid ldfluedza, Id by igaoradce add tdexperiedce Thad fadcied 1 could tell you of by affecticd ; that 1 could bake byself udderstood without usigg ady words that would codvey to you ady {dea of the real tdfirmity udder which Tab eufferigg, I shal! dever agald,” continued the youth, bitterly, “try to bake a codfess'od of love by boycottigg ths letters ebbadd ed. You abile, Bits Laurat You le You bock at by bisery! Good evedigg, Bifs Kajod~ Waving his bandkercblef wildly fortunate young man blew ® nasal Viast that shook ‘use, grabbed bts hat, and rushed out Info the chill night a.c.—Ezchange. Lewice Tuknieex once worked off a litte practical Joke atthe expense of a play In whtch the Pelion of misery was heaped upon the Ossa of despair, Together with twenty friends be secured a prominent seat in the gallery, When the pathetic moment arrived, Therieux pulled out a handkerchtef and burst into tears, The effect was electrical, The man hext to him also feil to weeping, and also took hold of the handkerchief, The epidemic of tears thereupon extended all along the line of the faithful twenty, and, as each man suc- cumbed to his emotion, he took hold of the end of the handkerchief, until at last all the confederates were weeping In tt. The handkerchlef was twenty yards lovg, and bad been specially prepared for the occasion, The low comedian struggled gamely with this exhibition of woe, but bis witt!- clans were of no avat!, for the fannler be became the more frequent were the sobs of the sorrowing twenty. — Chamber's Journal. Ir bas remained for # little girl to nearly, f not quite, equal a famous witticism of Leigh fMunt. Of course, she spoke In childish Innocence, where the English essayist and wit used his ripened intellect. Hunt, tn describing an exceedingly warm day, It will be Temembered, spoke of it as one which tempted him *to strip off bis Mesh and sit in his bones.” ‘The Mittle girl hac been romping and running ail day. Towards nightfa!’ ser rather met her. “ Are you not very tired, ttle one? he asked. “Oh, not so very tMred, papa,"’ she replied. Theo. tu a burst of coutideuce, she whispered: ‘Only I do though I'd like to take my legs off and carry them awh. 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