But you couldn't, forty-five years ago, though you tried, and though I was a year younger than you, and weighed five pounds less.

Come, now: you don't mean to say you've forgotten Susan Brown!" "Oh--ah--hah! Susan Brown! Well, I declare! And what brought her into your head, I should like to know ?" "Why, after breaking your heart first, and then mine, I lost sight of her, and I don't think I have seen her since.

But it appears she was married to a fellow named Parsloe." "Don't fancy that name!" observed the professor, wagging his head and frowning.

"Has a mean sound to it.

But what of it ?" "Well, she died,--rest her soul!--and Parsloe too.