Show WHO CHANGED FIRST a every one told amy that dick was swish selfish her mother told her so sighing and ridding adding a kindly hope that this ibis might change tim her elder sister sifter who was married told her ber the same things thing adding that au all men were selfish so it make much dIf difference ferenee which ono one a woman married her brother told her hei so and even dicks mother said im afraid yorm find dick a bit captious dear I 1 suppose weve spoiled him a little buts but ot of course be only too glad to devote yourself to making him happy and amy smiled and sighed and blushed very prettily which was a way she had at 18 they had been engaged for about six months when dick felt that his native village tillage did not afford sufficient clent scope for his hi L talents he would go to now new york be announced make inake a great name and a large fortune for himself and return to bear amy to the metropolis later amy wept when he went away and sang her ballads with a sob in her throat for weeks afterward and worked diligently on her household linens and wrote dick long letters in reply to his brief ones in about a year dick wrote her that he be felt that their engagement had been EL a mistake insinuating that a larger life and more brilliant opportunities than she was fitted to io share sham awaited him then amy gave up her ballads entirely and put away the household linens and wept in the solitude e of her room every night she told him in the abandonment of her grief that she could never change and that if the time ever came when he howe wearied arted of the applause of the world and the glitter of life and thought longingly of her he might come back to her bar sure of finding her the same amys tears had bad blotted that testimony to barown her own constancy const aticy and for months her sobs would not let her sing any song with bome back in its reft refrain atiL even dick was W moved and put the letter away where he might inight refer to it whenever his self esteem needed bracing when miss annesley refused him he read it and thought of going back to amy at once ance but pride forbade besides he care enough for miss annesley to make her bar rejection a blow requiring immediate soothing when he was discharged from the monthly merrymaker he ha came very near returning to amy but a position on the magazine of culture restored his bis contentment somewhat so tor for two or three years he did not really need amy yet he was conscious when he met et with the snubs and failures he could not avoid in a great city that her sweet air of unswerving admiration would have been balm W to his wounds that he needed her ber belief in his powers to compensate for the utter indifference of the great world and when even the pursuit of pleasure palled upon him he be began to long for her bar to bring him comfort and happiness one obe night when the world bad been unusually heartless bea Aless when he had bad been ignored socially by some e one and snubbed professionally by some one else eke and when mi miss Anne deys successor had been as unkind as miss annesley herself ho he wan dered into a theater where a farce was playing one of the farces where the play is a peg upon which variety artists hang their specialties he yawned dawned through it for awhile then ft a woman came out and sg banga a ballad a ballad of amys a scotch song he had not heard board for six fix years he went home and read her letter again then the i abe he went back to the village he had n not 0 t visited for so many years yeam he was happy in the thought thou glit of the joy he was going to bring to amy he hummed the song bong joyously ye badts aad braes 0 bonny doam saw nw can art ye y bloom aa sae fresh and fair tart mw bow can ye yo ye little birda and I 1 me aa WL full me baa fall atu 0 6 cars carat he fairly whistled it as the train rushed along and be pictured amy sitting in the twilight singing to him again he found her sitting bitting in the firelight relight Il biLm bumming ming she was plump and placid and her girlish sentimentality had bad changed cg to matronly sweetness swee tums she was waiting ft for the minister whom she had married and who as she explained had bad consented oc ted to ui live in the old home because of mother 11 age she wanted dick t to 0 wait to meet the minister inister and sm see the alj baby by who waa wa taking is baw afternoon nap and she was honestly aesuk pian pained ed and surprised when dick dici raved at her bar treachery and stormed about beai her fickleness but 2 dick she protested yon changed forstl changeur Change dr cried mick dick if I 1 balk changed a ged would T I 1 be here ban always aiji afterward he attributed bill fall ZM and fallin ji to the tact fact that hla his life had blight by a acoman ay ty and be gained much sympathy from M crid credulous ulous young of off f his sad ballads became blore more tor jean im famous 45 beU frame sans ana and docka lewt bulli sad 1 bac 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