The Irish standard., 1898-12-10

beautiful thought you were this aft
ernoon-beautifu enough to kiss
and he said that if attempted such
thing he'd punch my head"
''Ai! said he that, the violent mani
Ricardito-I like. better that than
your 1ngles Dix But why not should
he like to have you me kiss?"
"Oh, I don't know; he's q peculiar
man. Possibly he'd rather do it him.
self"
Cal, but never would the man dare.
He so quieet is-such a But we must
talk of him not. I shall be afraid. We
have the dresses about to decide. I
will another one wear at the dinner,
and tomorrow another; then shall we
see if for la senorita they will do.'
IF they will do! You mean if others
like them will do?"
"Not so, senior; why should la pobre
senorita whole three months wait
for her dresses? She shall three of
mine have. We directly home do go,
on ell vapor Isla de Panay from Manila,
and not shall need them; plenty of
others have"
"And you will sell me your own
dresses for her, senorita! You are
even more generous than hoped"
II nothing said of selling them,
senior. Can you not me allow the pleas
ure of giving, as yourself?"
"But, senorital where do the cap
tain and I come in? We can't allow
you to make such an expensive pres
emf inst RI D1ease usin
"The expense nothing is; many plan
tations papa has. You and Ell captain
have yourselves shown los generosos.
1t will pleasure be for me to do what
you would have done; if your friend
ship I may count upon. am the gain
er. Every girl 1T is not with friends
that SO kind would be to an entire
stranger"
She looked so cool and pretty, in the
shade under the awning, that I took
her little hand in mine and bent over
1t for moment. Then hurried to the
upper deck with my bundle, and told
Dick he had better take my place be-
fore she went below. He relished the
suggestion so much that I had con-
siderable difficulty in first getting him
into white duck suit; being power
fully built fellow, white and gold were
exceedingly becoming to Halstead.
After he left, stretched myself in
one of the hanimocks we had slung
'thwactships, and felt rather Jealous
for a few moments. There is charm
about the Spanish temperament which
exerts a strong fascination over men
Of colder nationalities; and the Senor-
tia Palacios, without necessarily be.
ing overload of either Halstead or
myself, had a frank and cousinly
friendliness of manner that banished
all suggestion of ceremoniousness at
the outset and led us into saying
things which one usually says to &C.
quaintances of many years. standing
only. There is also a popularity of
tropic life at sea which has often inn
pressed me. Wether it is the result
Of forced inaction, or the relaxing in.
fluence Of the climate, is immaterial;
but under such conditions the formal
ity which Gust ON has made inviolate
IN temperate countries is simply out of
the question-as much SO as tight or
cumbersome clothing.
My day with the senorita had been
such a pleasant one that it was diff
cult to fix my mind upon other mat
ters, but I finally settled down to
careful examination Of the charts
which Halstesd had left upon the
table. Those dollars and doubloons
beneath the heuving bosom Of the Pa
ciflo were after all chief rnistreaaea
of our affections. at that time.