When London Sleeps — page 24: what you’re looking at

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+ ae ey ace vat AY. rd ei eel Shane in n Tove. ces SS wes «On! Gaitte Carrie) Never shalt t forget how oy ce Bares the first sight of you as you bounded into the ting, ae 4 _my heart leaped up into my mouth. I swallowed my ¢ ve heart again, but I had no right to, for it was no Be: longer mine. And then, as I saw you bowndine: over | Be ~ banners and jumping through paper hoops, I could x o contain myself no longer, and I cried out: ‘I lovee = o: her! Ilove her!" She must and shall be mine!) - a Then everybody called out ‘Rats!’ and I got chucked e a | SA nd served you right for making such an “idiot Be a of yourself,’’ was Carrie’s unfeeling response. a a However, his treatment at the circus, when his Pe lings gvot:so much the better of him, did nok - dampen the love-lorn Sammy’s ardor. The next day | the wrote to Signor Jonesio, asking for an engage ment, and inclosing a photograph, which, by some ae a 3 Be acy, happened to be that of Sandow. ae Pa Roy, _Jonesio granted him an interview, and it is easier oe stb imagine than describe the disappointment and dis- — as ae Bock of that worthy impressario when he saw the | = Rah - undersized and by no means muscular Mr. Samuel we _ Blythe. : | eo Shee 2 te might have fared badly with the adventurous : E _ pth had not Carrie happened to be present, and _ moved by pity, had pleaded with her father to kate : a ot im at trial. ‘She bad or course > been a ae of t Ce ae Sy an dp