Listen now, and don't put yourself under any constraint.

I will laugh with you." He opened the folio, and after a short search began to read.

It was the romance of his early life, written in the form of a diary, simply told at some length.

Quite an ordinary story of an acquaintanceship made with a pretty girl, the daughter of a bookseller, who sat next to him in a theater.

Meetings out of doors, then the introduction to her parents' house, and then the betrothal.