In Sight of St. Paul's — page 43: what you’re looking at

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38 LOVE MAKING UNDER DIFFICULTIES. What chances he was always giving her to torment him ! ‘“‘T don’t know another,’’ she answered, looking up’ at him in the most innocent mannerin the world. ‘*Where is he?”? Gillie struck an attitude which he thought. most effective, but which filled his companion with amuse- ment, an amusement she made no effort to conceal. “Straight in front of you,’’ he declared. ‘‘I’m the fellow, and I want to be cured.”’ ‘““Why!’’ cried Gracie, stifling her laughter and forcing herself to seem surprised. ‘‘What’s the mat- ter with you ?”’ Gillie sighed, and then said, as sentimentally as he knew how, for, except so far as Gracie was con- cerned, he was really the most matter-of-fact young fellow in the world: ‘Well, you see, I’ve an attack of the same com- plaint as ‘dear Tom.’ ”’ ‘‘Poor fellow!’’ with dancing eyes, but in a tone of the utmost commiseration. | ‘“Yes, we’re poor fellow-sufferers! I "2 But Gracie, growing suddenly alarmed at what he might say next, thought it best to change the sub ject. . ‘Don’t you think this roof garden a capital idea of papa’s?’’ she interrupted. Gillie made a grimace of disgusted disappointment, gS) (E(0) mn comichboo