8/21 I'll find something that won't make a discord. But can you dictate to all your guests like this ?" "Alas, no! Would that I might! And now I must go. Alla will be wanting me." "What is he, anyway ?" said Patty, as after his adieux, the poet swung away, with his queer, loping gait. "He's the real thing in high-art souls,--if you get what I mean." "Oh, I don't know," demurred Patty; "I think he's sincere." "You do! Well, he may be, for all of me. But if he is, give me base deception, every time! Don't you fall in love with him, Patty, Van Reypen wouldn't stand for it." "I don't know what Mr.Van Reypen has to say about it," returned Patty, with a heightened colour. |