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Show Accustomed to Kissing-. w Thoy wero in a magnificently docoratod rcom In tho West ond of London. Tliey approached each other from opposlto di-roctions. di-roctions. Ono of them was as polo as a ghost, the other blushing red as a cherry. Presently they met, and. careless of the fact that dozens of eyes wero wutchlng them, thoy kissed each other. Tho meeting seemed to bring them por-frct por-frct peace; but alaH, alack! Thoy had scarcely boon aldo by side nbovo twenty seconds when a man approached with tho llro of battlo in his eye. With cool insolence inso-lence he raised tho stick he carried, nnd then oh. horror! ho struck a sharp, quick blow, and the pale ono was sent nplnnlng eovoral feet away. Tho other neither Bcreamod nor fainted. Thero was no heart-breaking, no ronont-lncnl, ronont-lncnl, not oven n murmur. Billiard ballH aro used to that sort of thlng!-Tlt-Blta. |