In Sight of St. Paul's — page 47: what you’re looking at

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42 LOVE MAKING UNDER DIFFICULTIES. tle too encouragingly as well, for, as she spoke, she made a surreptitious sign to the footman who was standing in the door-way of the pagoda. Gillie gave a start, and, looking at her smiling face, determined to accept the challenge as he under- stood it, and take the plunge at once. “Tt all depends on how I land,’’ he exclaimed, eagerly, his honest face flushing with hope. ‘'Now, if there was some one—some one I could depend upon,’’—the way he spoke these words left no room for doubt as to who the some one was he had in his mind—‘‘some one, you know, there to catch me.”’ Catch you!’’ repeated Gracie, as, overcome with his emotion, he faltered and stopped. ‘Ves,’ went on Gillie, excitedly, ‘‘some one who would hold out her arms, so that I could fall into them, some one who would exclaim, as she caught me to her heart——’’ ‘‘Champagne, sir!’’? suggested a voice at his elbow. It was the footman, obeying, as he supposed, his young mistress’ order. Gillie turned with a start, and his face grew black —that is, figuratively speaking, for his coloring was too light ever to take on a really dusky shade. ‘“The devil!’’ he ejaculated, angrily. ‘Oh!’ cried Gracie, rising in pretended dismay. And then she hurried away toward the staircase, stifling her laughter, and yet feeling a little—just a €Comicboo cS (E(0)