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A CONCENSUS OF THE COMPETENT.

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dearest m an!
diyinest

E t h e l,— Vou remember, girls, we promised to tell each otlier
everything— even this, Kate, dear, you begin. Tell every single
thing, m ind!
K a te (beginning bravely).— There isn't much to tel!, after all. He
goes in awfully for athletics, too. We had been playing tennis
together for a whose week, and I had just won a hard game. He
came fight up, elII red and hot, with his blazer half off one shoulder,
mid just said, brusquely: "Mias Kate, let’s play together through
ife [ Is it a go ?" Three days afterward he was called West by
A telegram, but he writes me every" Sunday— joliy, bluff. hearty letters,
like himself. Oli, girls, lie is just the nicest fellow !
Gladys.— Now, Ethelt it’s your turn.
E x h fx {blushing very much).— 1 met him at one of our Swinburne
evenings. Fie is frightfully reserved and cynical, and doesn’t believe
in anything hardly— especially women; but “ some way,1’ he said, " I
was different,1' I had known him only three days; we were strolling
down the sand at sunset, and he was looking1 very bored and handsome.
I sat down on a rock, and he walked away to the sea. Then suddenly
lie came up to me, with the saddest look, and told me that since he
had seen me life had taken on a sombre brightness that he had never
expected to know again ; that my fresh enthusiasms and beliefs were
like flowers, and he begged me to consent to "lift the heavy shadow
fro til a darkened heart." He left the next day. very reluctantly, but
he writes me twice every week— such sadly-sweet despairing thing's 1
Oh, girls, he is the dearest fellow!

K a t e.— N ow , Gladys.
Gladys (with solemnity!).— 1-1 e is just perfectly rom antic! W e had
only been introduced early that evening, but he asked me to go out