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Show NOT PAGE FROM A ROMANCE Conversat on, However, Reads a Whole Lot More Like a Scene in Real Life. "And so your father refuses to consent con-sent to our union?' "He does, Rodolphus." . The sad youth swallowed a sob. "Is there nothing left for us, then, but an elopement?" said he. "Nothing." "Do you think, Clementine, that you could abandon this luxurious home, forget all the enjoyments of great wealth, banish yourself forever from your devoted parents' hearts, and go west with a poor young man to enter a home of lifelong poverty and self-denial?" self-denial?" "I could, Rodolphus." The sad youth rose wearily and reached for his hat. "Then," said he, "you are far from being the practical girl I have all along taken you to be." And with one last look around on the sumptuousness that some day he had hoped to share; he sobbed and said farewell. Browning's Magazine. |