Interludes / being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses

quently obtained as to the fate of his characters. Porkington still holds an honoured position in the University, and still continues to take young men in the summer vacation to such places as Mrs.

e has become quite a rising barrister, popular in both branches of his profession, and has announced his fixed intention to remain happy and unmarried till his death. Looking into the future, however, with the eye of a prophet, the present writer thinks he can see Glenville walking arm in arm with a tall, graceful lady, attended by two little girls to whom he is laughingly talking-but the dream fades from me, and I wonder will it ever come true. Thornton, of course, married Miss Delamere (how could it be otherwise), but, alas! th

make use of signals which are unperceived by the outside world; and, after a year's skirmishing, a peace was finally concluded, and a happier couple than John

d the young artist, whose pictures of brown-sailed boats and fresh seas breaking in white foam against the dark rocks have become quite the

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something is

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glance at the

is Liberty

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come

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pologies to

st born, is gone, y

strong on his legs,

ore years, quite y

before, but must wa

written; she was a

ays drunk, which ma

g with Jenny when the

n the bush beside me ch

pped, and she knew t

der me. I knew, b

ing me, the impertine

e, as you know, my dear

t his text last week;

half a truth is ever

y good falsehood doesn

f a truth is worse tha

enny turned in th

ugh his tears, "Let yo

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Willie: thank God t

said I, and I thought

his grandmother, so ther

ed me in his arms, and

o, my darling, s

wedded, though clea

with a will, and Will

ever I bear was dea

ot weep, life is

boards, my Annie,

e boards, and Cha

boards of our bea

ly certain whethe

truth, there is none

t eighty, and Har

re years, aye! or more

able infant that die

my beauty, the eldes

t-"In a hundred years

be of a week," says do

ses, Annie, I'm than

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came sailing dow

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the leaders they

ar, oh, they tho

s get work a

' sons-in-law

Junior Bar

sat up in Cr

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solicitors

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tame in us wil

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