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A SOCIAL METEOR. 47 not hesitate to embellish the story. Still, I'll tell you; you may make your mind easy on /¢hat score. Cette affatre est finte, and she is perfectly heart whole once more.” “And yet a woman with a past ” began Lee, musingly. “Oh, so you are thinking seriously of her, are you ?” interrupted Ray, mischievously, with a side - glance at him. “Well, actually, I’m delighted; I mean to turn match-maker; it will be lots of fun for me, and give me an object in life. Something I haven’t had, by the way, for an age.” “I was merely going to say,” resumed Lee, “that a woman with a past seldom makes a desir- able wife.” “Au contratre, mon cher, replied Ray, quickly. “She makes the very best; she knows how to treat you better than an zzgenue would, and she is not half so apt to be fickle. Oh, I know you will suit each other admirably, and how I shall scheme and work to throw you together! Dear me, it’s time you were married, anyway, Lee, you must be nearly thirty-five, and the first thing we know you will be snatched up bodily by some de- signing widow or old maid, and society will be left to mourn its loss. So Iam going to take you GEomichbooks (E(o)