Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-04-07
A Dialogue.


'|"She mostly always is" said Jim.
||t's quite the commonest type of
IsDIind YOU, I'm not one to rave"
'.aHord went on. "Some lovers do,
|1ln ow, but / fatter myself I'm not
'|at kind Of man at all"
- es, YOU flatter yourself" NUT
red Jim.
I'll? Oh, 1 only wish you knew
srf'
II 81 know hundreds Of her"
Shes not like other girls"
"Of course she isn't"
On the first place, as l have told
'bu, she is perfect"
@And in addition to that?''
n Fob, you wouldn't understand.
I'M, if she refuses me, | shall die"
"Otherwise l suppose you have de-
rlnined to be immortal"
"Jim, advise me-. You're a man
4 the world"
"That is why I shall do nothing
the kind"
Fl wish you would. I assure you
be only too pleased to take your
vice if
Eff I advised you to do as you
ink best. And what would be the
q Of that? 1t would be like spur
BE- a boiling horse"
Flock herew said Stafford, with
air of inspiration. "I've a jolly
od mind to speak to her point
ank and be done with it. l can't
on like this. It's making an old
an of me. And at the worst she
b only condemn me to lifetime
misery"
''And what is lifetime of misery,
ter all?" asked Jim. "You can
Billy compress it into a few weeks.
bok at me, for instance"
''You?" Stafford looked slightly
credulous.
"When l was a mere boy-ah, it
ust be some six months ago now"
id Jim solemnly, 81, too, was in
ne. But she told me she would al
Tvs be my friend, and she hoped
at l should find some one more
Drthy of me-" He shook his head
purnfully. "Well," he continued
o cut a long story short, she was {
tier friend to me when she sale
at than she ever expected to be
nd as for the some one more
brthy,' their name is legion, but
me Of 'em are worthy enough"
81 hate that kind of cheap talk
m" said Stafford impatiently.
$50 do l." Jim replied. 'Bu
ey all say it. It's their way o
ting you down lightly"
Stafford looked at him reproach
lly. Jim rose and clapped him o.
e shoulder.
"My dear old chap" he said, eth
brld isn't going to stop laughln
cause a girl has curly hair and
an takes himself seriously abou
If you marry this girl, an
ually if YOU don't, you'll 500
I'm to laugh again yourself. You
We to-we all have to, to keep on
arts from breaking. l am not on
those who would see love slaugE
red to make an ally Sloper's Hal
bliday,' but all the same | am nc
ing to encourage you in the belle
at you are not more than slight
liculous. Here is a girl good an
arming and all that, I've no doub
ID here are you, such as you ar
city ordinary and right. YO
BE the girl and want to marry he
ell, tell her so. Take my wo1
it, she is very ready to be told
"Jim, old man." said Staffor
filing wanly, 81 feel that l can
k to you any more about this. 1t
} sacred. And you're so unsymp
etic. You mean well, but yc
mt understand. 1t isn't as if 81
re one of your frivolous socie
U.s."
''They are quite as much yours
me-" protested jim.
'She is an angel" said Staffor
th conviction.
mot yet"
FL could die for her"
''Why waste a charming widow
ri know you think I'm being
extravaganza" said Stafford, "b
lilly and soberly do believe the
something divine about that CIR
Its her expression" said j
lively.
How did you know that?" cri
lfIord.
tits either that or the way S
gs.'
Yes" Stafford responded Gag
"she does sing, you know, OF