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136 A SOCIAL METEOR. She had warmed up to her subject, and was quite excited. Her eyes were moist, and the lace at her throat rose and fell with her quick, short breathing. “Horrors !” exclaimed Georgie, holding up her hands, ‘how you do talk.” “She speaks from her heart,” asserted Lee, quietly. “Yes,” said Ray, “I do speak from my heart. You see,” laughing a little, softly, “I am no advocate of ‘bread and cheese and kisses.’ ” “But you believe in love, do you not?” asked Georgie. “Love? Why certainly,” answered Ray, “but I should always find it quite as easy to interest myself in a person who could be with me when- ever I wished to see him, as in one who could devote to me only such meager half hours as he could spare from his ‘business.’ Life and love are both too short to be taken piecemeal.” | “You want all or none, then,” suggested Peter, dryly. “Yes, everything or nothing,” replied Ray, steadily. About ten o’clock, Ray said that on account of her indisposition of the morning she thought it "GOmiIGcbooks (E()