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Show Maud Consented. An absent-minded clergyman tolls how once he wns imconnclously responsible re-sponsible for helping a bashful lover. 'His mind was filled with a subtlo theological problem when a neighbor's daughter passed In company with a diffident youth. His thoughts wero Interrupted In-terrupted as she called out to him: "Oh, doctor, wo aro Just going for a rnmblo. Won't you Join us?" "With pleasure. Do you want tho ceremony In a church?" Tho bashf'- lover was suddenly fired with an ithitslasm that four years of gna-vlug at his heartstrings had failed to arouse, nnd ho fairly shouted: "Yes, yes, and If Maud consents, tho sooner the bettor." |