Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various
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Then with sudden boyish candor and a happy smile on his animated countenance "I thought you might have observed that I come here so often because I like to talk with Miss St. Clair. But you never can know how dearly I love her." "I am sorry." "Why?" with a naïve surprise. "She is older than you." "How old is she?" "She will be twenty in May." "And I am nineteen this very week. What is one poor little year?--not a year," gleefully. "But the difference in religion?" "An obstacle, I grant, but not an insuperable one. My uncle married an English lady, a Protestant, and they have been very happy together." "But I think there is another man," I stammered, surprised at finding my outposts carried so easily. "You do not mean to say that she is compromised with any man?" almost fiercely. |
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