The Magnolia gazette., 1883-03-29

unmitigated fool you can be when YOU
! get into one Of your incoming hts, as
/ you call them. But you have bothered
me gool deal lately, and this sels me
\ thinking.
''No hing very dreadful, / hope
still affecting to treat the matter
I lightly
~ don't know Some people NAV
think soitening of the brain Of no eonse-
quenae. a it is such a common malady
nowadays: bnt it's an awkward affair
ior professional man, i people happen
I to find il out
I III is not so bad as that yetr' ex-
claimed Maurice. with real laugh
I this time at Arkwood serious manner.
'Well, you have been forcibly re-
I IN nding me OF the days when YOU were
IN such an unreasonable state about the
z RI YOU met in your Camberwell lodg
ings In fact, you have been display
ing al the marked symptoms OF love-
sickness in an exaggerated degree-you
have a capacity for taking that thing
very bad ] wonder why there is no
! compulsory vac eination act for the
I troublesome disease
Because il IS unnecessary. l sup
pose. ! don believe even you escaped
ca.f-loyen
Possibly not; but you must have
done 50 and that accounts for the Sc
verify with which the cow-love alfacks
YOU Come, make a clean breast OF ii:
have you caught i AGAIN.
1" No, not exactly
:" That means desperately bad There
i 50 much Of the hcrmit-crab style Of
gymnastics in this love business that |
have no doubt Of Miss Smith having
jumped out Of the shell oi your heart,
and some one else having Jumped in
to il.
No, no other form has taken her
place. Maurice rose. walked 10 the
window, and looked through the dust
stained glass into the dun. gray court,
where the busy figures below seemed to
his dreamy cYes like ghosts in harrs.
What them You may as we
speak out, for | know that there K
something in the wind helped YOU
before. and may DO it aga with ms
sage counse' q aihng chat, as the
case MAJ demand "
II wish could tel you. Arlwood:
but ! cannot realize the thing m self
plainly 70 me. then, and may be in the
edort you vi &c at it lourself. | have
often known a man Who ala not UNDER
stand his case until he began to plead.
10 on"
After pause, and without looking
round, Maurice
/" You know Miss Cuthbert?A ?A
Perfectly that is to say, as perfect
II as any man can expect to know a
young lady Of our day. The study is
rarely an absiruse one Let me see. /
have taken her down 70 dinner several
mes, walked with her twice and
walt cd with her once-opportu ty
enough TO enable any man OF average
Intelligence 20 understand any woman
OF ord nary mold sum total She Is
very handsome, rather clever cursed
with vulgar hankering after people
with handles 10 their names. and de.
eidedly fast don think much Of her.
but If she is the new goddess well, she
y q good barga n, a. girls gon
on DO not understand her at all.
mnitered Maurice. with an impatient
twitch o! tile shoulders
"Anl Of course YOU do. That's d
comfort, and | should like to have
sketch Of her from your point Of view.
i she Is the cause Of Your present dis
tur ance
" There is no chance of my being able
TO tell you anything If YOU continue
this bant r And vet can scarcely ask
you 10 be serious, for ! know that the
affair 0 insane that were il told to
me about some one else, T. too should
chat, or beco lie alarmed for the health
Of my friend WI ts There! we had
better say nothing more about il. Pass
the claret. Are you engaged this even
ing?
" No, nor this afternoon; why?n
was going to propose that we
should go to the heater, orsomewhere y
" We can arrange abo ut that bv and
by, said Arkwood quietly, rolling his
cigar between his fingers. MEAN
while, we are to have tbs talk out, and
you are TO let me into the secret of your
lunacy You know that can be serious
when know that you are in earn est,
altho gh | may cols der your earnest
ness 80 much good nervous energ, ex-
pended in a wrong drecti
Upon my wOr believe it is, ex-
claimed Maurice, with the air and tone
OF man who is sorry for somebody he
despairs Of rescung from an impending
fate. But tho whoe thing is so real
to me, and yet so vague, that it utterly
bewilders me-.
" BE in at the beginning; imagine
yourself pleading for client, and, new
er fear You wi come out of i. G ear
enough.
:" Il begins with Miss Cuthbert, then.
What yon have said OF her is correct s.
far as regards one side of her character,
and il is the side which she appears TO
think the best TO show me. At times
she does saw and 90 things which |
should consider fast if they were not
said and done by her"
The eyes of lover, you know, are
fects"
" But there is the droll part of it-I
am not her lover
fon have been good deal at Hol-
LL L.