A Daughter of Delilah — page 54: what you’re looking at

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“LOVE THAT HATH US IN THE NET!” 45 good heart somewhere, though it is devilish weak in some things. Why will you drink so much of this stuff? You are killing yourself!’ ‘““We never did agree on that point, Hawley,’’ Alston said, sulkily, ‘‘but a fellow must enjoy himself, you know. I shall have to settle down some day. Do you know that I sometimes wish I were one of those poor devils who drive apen ten hours a day for a weekly stipend of as many dollars? My life out West has done meno good. I con- tracted all my bad habits out there. ‘The old boy sent me away on account of that little girl who was cashier in Milligan’s buffet. You remember?’’ | ‘‘“Yes, ITremember. She married one of the waiters a month afterward,’’ smiled Hawley. An oath escaped Alston’s lips; then he went on with some improbable stories of his adventures out West, which Edward had heard at least a hundred times before with variations. | ‘‘T may be a bad lot—an out and out loafer,’’ concluded Edgar, ‘‘but I have not had the guidance of a mother, ana my father looks upon me merely as a stepping-stone to some future social triumph. I have had no anchor chain about me to restrain all that is reckless and foolish in my nature.”’ | “How can you seriously say that?’ his companion asked, a little reproachfully. “‘No man ever had a better sister than you have.”’ Alston glanced at him sharply, saying : ‘‘Poor Minnie! Yes, I know that she loves me; buta sister is not everything, and she is very much in the same Eomicboo cS (G(0)