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together where you are sitting now, and

we want to tell you what they said to
each other.’

1 Do you think I ought to hear it ? -
asked Fairbrass*

‘ Yes,’ was the reply; ( it was all good

and noble, and to their credit. It would
do the whole world good to hear it.’

And then, gently rustling their leaves,
and gracefully bending to the breezes

according to their wont, the Poplars told
their little tale. They told how the lovers

had met there by chance. She had come

to see the garden in which she had spent
so many happy hours ; he had come to sigh

over the spot where he had first told her of
his love. 1 When they saw each other,* said

the Poplars, who seemed quite to have got
over the first shock of seeing a young lady

kissed by a young gentleman, * they seemed

instinctively to feel that, their engagement
being at an end, they had no right to speak
to each other; but, yielding to a sudden

impulse, they were quickly in each other's