Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-19
you want to kiss me?''
He thought carefully.

| you Wdnt 10 KISS lllS
He thought carefully.
mot exactly, think" he said.
But NOW you want to- cried thu
Little Heiress. triumphantly. 'That''
something = that's something. Oh
my dear love-"
In spite of himself, the kiss thrilled
Proud Face to the heart.
And what" said the Little Heiress
lis all this talk of me giving you up
l won't"
TITS like robbing a cradle sait
Proud Face.
But the Little Heiress turned up he
face, which was SO like a pansy, t.
him, and there was an immense seri
BUSINESS in her eyes.
my Godi" began Proud Face, will
kind of sob in his voice, but HI
could not go on, and he said, IN,
Godr again
How are you going to help loving
me-" cried the Little Heiress, "wher
love you so. Tell me. Are yor
TRYING to help it?''
Proud Face thought for moment
and then he smiled.
perhaps I AM trying" he said.
but you mustn't try NOT" said
the Little Heiress. You must try
TO. Think how happy you will be
when you do"
II am not worthy" said PROUD
Face. ito kiss the dust on your lit
tie shoes. May II"
"If you do,''- said the Little Heiress
II will kiss the dust on yours"
IF / come to. see YOU" wrote
Proud Face to the Little Heiress,
'you will hypnotic me and I
won't be able to say what mean.
DO you think 1t is easy to write?
And to confess that am fool?
Sure anybody but fool would
love you. and most of the fools,
too, as / think. But this fool
doesn't. Hate me-hate mel Hate
mel"
And the Little Heiress wrote back:
81 draw the line at any further
humiliation. I give you up. Think
of me kindly If you can. We shall
not see each other any more ex-
cept by accident. I can't think of
any more to say. Good bye"
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iiohbn ihiS dlIoN tl WIS WHdt
Proud Face told himself he had hoped
for. it came to him as something of
a shock. There were not after all,
so many flowers in the garden of his
life that he cared to have the Little
Heiress lifted from ii, roots and all,
and set in some other garden be-
yond the wall, where he could not
even see her any more. All that day,
and for many days, he would have In
the midst of his work sudden sink
ing feeling. and would realize after
moment or two that he was think
| ing OF the Little Heiress and how
that she was gone out of his life for
ever. He was not the least little bit
angry with her for having first an
nounced the engagement, and then
the Encouragement. He met the looks
| of his friends with an unabashed
look, and nobody dared ask him ques-
tons. But in his heart he was
ashamed, Inundated and troubled;
and he did not do his work properly,
and he felt his ambitions slipping
away from him. He felt Obliged, too,
not to go any more into society for
fear that he would meet the Little
Heiress.
Meanwhile the shirtfronts gathered
once more about the Little Heiress
and beset her goings and her COM
lngs with attentions.
81 will make you love me-" one
would say
IF you only can she woulo an
swer earnestly. :.
III you'll only give me the cnanee'
Now is the chance
But the suddenness OF the oppor-
tunity always found the shirtlront
unprepared and left him suffering
Observation-Disclosures OF the Little
Heiress.
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