Show FIRST LOVI LOVE AFFAIR chete are arc very few men indeed who cannot hat bat it is to have fallen in love in the years gone by mith some girl PC perhaps twice their a age e it is an all ill or of eliat that catches mot moi t of them it is also one that leaves them heller better boys in ill nio hobt t cases than it found foutin them further it announces the develop development of taste in the youngster that hitherto has lain dormant he i is s attracted by an all intelligence in advance of his ON 1 an intelligence that appeals ti ta tint him I 1 by reason of its accomplish in ill some way lie he makes an all effort to lo rise to tile the situation lie thinks of liis his appearance ani and tries I 1 to improve it lie thinks thoughts aits that lie hopes ni may y be worthy wor tily of his divinity in a word vord I 1 lie is il helped a toil long t way toward ultimate manhood mant I 1 charles dickens in iii david describes his first fir t love affair as follows 1 I 1 ant am in love I 1 worship the alie eldest miss I larkins the eldest miss aliss larkins is not a little 11 girl slie she is a tall dark black ebed fill c figure of a woman the eldest miss larkins is not a chicken chichen the youngest voun gest mis larkins is not that 1 and tile the eldest I 1 anit he be three or four years older Perli aps the bellest miss larkins is about thirty an my passion for her is is beyond all 11 boull Ij ds 1 my MV passion takes away awa ili my appetite P etite and alid makes tile me wear my jn new f silk it kerchief continually I 1 have it no relief but in putting on it aliv my best clothes and bavin having g my illy boots cleaned over and over affa again iii I 1 seem then to be tile the worthier of the ald hiis Lar larkins lins everything that bedoll s to her or is connect connected eI with her ici is precious to tile me 1 I think continually about my illy a age c say I 1 am ain seventeen all and is young for tile the eldest miss aliss larkins what of that Besic besides les I 1 shall be one and twenty in ill no time tille almost sometimes bright 1 visions rise before tile me I 1 picture 11 itself taking courage to 1 nake make a declaration lo 10 miss liss lai larkins ans 1 I pic liu c miss larkins milking her head upon my iny shoulder and saying sayin oil mr ir copperfield can call I 1 bet believe in c my illy cars I 1 picture mr larkins wait ng tipon tile me next t morning and say ng g my dear copperfield ay my iy daughter daume ahter lias has told I 1 ue me all youth is no jobje objection acton here are twenty thou and pounds I 1 be c happy ei etc etc 11 |