The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-27

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 q boGE1aEe or 2 boHseer, or WiaaesWSR it ia in athletic DaxIance He has been ii1rs lamb all afteFnoon. and he raa1ly can't get oyer the way you wfaacl<ed hirn f8a mum as could be about 1t. but 6hiu< he really felt relieved when told hiaa dow in my hazE. Yen see. if gave hdla e chance to explain how you got an ths whaGk, and have he&n ab1Sged to SNteu to intermittent lectures on the manly art of self defense all afternoon, AFBt Gepgn him. then from JapDy hays H hess4~ ache and no means 0H dsGepsa. He a4 xafts that he deserved it. but am B4E surprised. Celly ta a sporting ch@S- Ia haan't mean drop of blood zn his body. iYou have made . friend oG him. So paSEGs don't feel taaat I hold a gKs1dss s&aiRat Of it all is that uaanxna. auits agrees with him She Rays he deserved iti AAauEza Is wonderful. really. whsn it comes ta pinch. She has Ef@an UP All thouSs 82 .sps1ttlng a foot ontgzae the caskaa-s Can you hawe luncheon W1xh us &cEnax@O9gE Would 1t be too much &scHs1e n N1e FzRre 10 have iE in the iaEsaa9 am 3aHt u1ald to get out of doors & only for an hof1E or two fn that walled in igDot- 1Ex. EscQpan- dyke has been perfectly lovely. G4s SczEzas not saeaEed at a1l and there isaee iEilaa Ee= n0otest chance now that yd41 win 1slEE cold. It seems he was a&ratd you might. fion BraEton t0sd Blake faak usoe zsea would have died from saposNrs 3f thaw had been put in your place 4gM gsq
 P s-I may come aOwyn to ese you as evening.
 
 shall skip ever the rather laiaEteE- esting events of she next two or thrse days Nothing Of ce4saadaence happen ed unless you are wiling te consider important two perfectly blissfui nights of sleep on my part; also bad ths pleasure Of taking the countess sout ] waking in my courtyard, 10 use cO1Ioquialism, once in the warm, sweet sunshine, again meath the glow of radiant moon. She had not been out side the castle walls literally In more than five weeks. and the color leaped back into her cheeks with a rush that delighted me. may mention in pass ing that paid particular attention to her suggestion concerning my dizapi7 dated, gone to seed garden altl1oryh had been baRed Do extinction by Jgs- per junior when he undertook to en- tighten me hortic iculturaIIy. Ehe agreed to como forth every day and assist me In building the poor thing up. peuppsng if. so to speak
 As for Mrs. Titus. that really elaE- ing lady made life 60 easy for mo that wondered why had ever been apz l DLGAGLS1EGs when it came to pinch. an to understand good many thEnss about her, chfee amGng them hainse her unvoiced theories on matrimony while she did not actually commit hernslf E had no dikacuIty ia aacertaauiag thaG from her point of view, marx8ages are not made In heaven and f4zat q nroEer- Iy arranged divorce ia a great deal Aeas terrestrial than 1t Is commonly sup posed to be- She believed in mari mony as trial and. d8vorce as EG ward, CT something to that effect I My optnfon ssemeds3 sr- able weight gsknsh her. For a5aT OF ieVFo after our somewhat sanguinary en- counter she was prone to start even to jump slightl '. when addressed my self to her talsunant ntemionl dapct ness. She soon got over talats he7- ever.
 We were discu sing 1iaafB ,szz1seEczl- 1 nate venture into the state St E 1 mony. and I, feeling ten50Esrly au gust and supexior, naanaged9 to sSzaslo l wrong thing and in doing so put ulg self in a position from which eoul0 not recede without loss of dignity. 1e my memory serves me correctly re= marked with some asper1ty that mar 1 riares of that kind never tasG 0Wt well for any one except the bride groom.
 She looked at me coldly. am afraid, MT. Smart, that you have besn putting some very bad notions into my daughter head. she said.
 Bad nations2'' murmured.
 ssShe has developed certain pronounc l ed and rather extraordinary views con cerning the nobility as the result of l your-ah-argumen I may says
 I'm very sorry. ! know one or two exceedingly nice nohlemen, and I've no doubt there are great many more.
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