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A PAIR OF BLUE fectionate

letter

from

25

EYES.

Stephen Smith in

Bombay, which had been forwarded

But

from Endelstow. case referred to,

it

is

since this

is

to her

not the

not worth while to

pry farther into the contents of the

letter

than to discover that, with rash thouo^h

pardonable confidence in coming times, he addressed her in high spirits as his darling future wife.

Probably there cannot be instanced a

and surer rule-of-thumb

briefer

—sanguine

man's temperament than this the

in

She had taken room, read a

at

once.

resist the

so out

of

it,

her

own

then saved the

to-morrow, not wishing to be so

extravagant as to all

date

?

this epistle into

little

-

correspondmg with a

sweetheart he honestly loves

rest for

or cautious

did he or does he ante

word wife

of a

test

consume the pleasure

Nevertheless, she could not

wish to enjoy yet a

came the

letter again,

little

and

more,

in spite

of misgivings as to prodigality the whole