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Show n it urn uui inspire. ' instead, nowever, of answering him the pretty girl covered her face with her hands and fled precipitately precip-itately into the villa. Of course this astounded the young lover; he could not understand it at all; should he interpret the maiden's conduct as a rejection? If so, it were better for him to leave Posillipo at once. But no, his Scotch instincts came to his rescue; he had done tho proper tiding properly he would bide his time. NoVt morning after breakfast, at which his idol did not appear, he sought the garden and meandered mean-dered gloomily therein, wondering what tactics he ought to pursue. Suddenly lie heard Miss Maud call to him, and turning he beheld that young girl advancing. She put both her hands in his and said, with charming frankness; "I would not answer an-swer you last night fearing you were under un-der the influence of the insidious summer evening and of the poetical and almost magical sceue, and that it was not your heart that spoke; so I would hear in the daytime if you love me, and, if this is so, I will tell you that I am willing to give you my life and my love." Now, isn't this bit of truth quite as pretty as anything that could be culled from fiction? Eugene Field's Ixmdon Letter in Chicago Nows. The daily rations of a pair of ostriches on a farm in San Diego county, Cal., are forty pounds of beets for breakfast and a half peck to a peck of grain for dinner. Better Than Romance. The story of the wooing of Mr. Henry Gladstone, son of the ex-premier, and Miss Maud Rendel, has just transpired. It seems that the two met in the summer of 1889 at Posillipo, tba young lady's father having at that picturesque little hamlet on the gulf of Naples a lovely villa. One beautiful evening the two were in the garden overlooking the water upon which the moonlight hung like a misty gauze; the scene was one of poetic loveliness young Gladstone felt that there never could be a fairer spot or a better moment for the confession of his love, so he declared himself to his inamorata inam-orata with a fervor which the pictur-ceaueness pictur-ceaueness of the surroundings enhanced. |