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I BIG MEN. And Alphonse's heait beat high "But where is Jeannie all t^iis time? AUH0N80 TAFT IN CONSTANTINOPLE. with expectation. The Sultan gave a A List of Giants Who Hare Lived um not come then, she might suppose he was dead «fr changed. Did vou conceal this strange story Advices from Constantinople are to gesture of command, and the eunuch Timet-. Oeruleau belle', who cannot gaze with rap “Poor little Mary! This was the from her?” tlie effect that Hou. Alphonso Taft, whipped the ve.l off the woman in a ture ever new, Samuel McDonald, a Scotch- "God forbid. I told it to her when Upon the Hiuiple beauty of your chalices < f time I first began to notice her. She our minister to Austria, ba» arrived I trice. Alphonso sprang to his feet. uicknamed “Big Sum, . ” r — “ G ft-pt * i. W38 blue? me ed about, heavy like, and grew i I first found what it meant to Io ean- Who d e< not love to wander off at random pale, and the smallest thing set her i other. Aud to-night she bade me in that city on a quiet li«tle toot all; He had seen that face and that snow inches in height. by biinseif, • nd ha» been formally white hair and those dreamy eyes be Prince of Woles. Died 1802 far and wide To pluck your azure blonaoma in the Bprinc to crying. She sometimes thought talk with you, thinking you might see presented to the Sultan. Alphonso fore, but where, oh, where ’ Alice Gordon, and summer tide? be had forgotten her: aud then came i it in a different light from what 1 : enjoys the reputation of being a dis • Is she not fairer tmm the skies of giantess, 7 feet. DieTlV"^ Where is the callous bosom that with glad- the fear that lie might be dead. Then I did” creet awl proper person, but those Cashmere’’ cried the enthusiastic Anne Hauen Swan of NovaS».. new never swells, “ No, Robert, no; do not hide your 1 who know the old man best tell wild When there floats around the frayraucc of when I l>egan to go with her wher ~ . 7 feet. ever she went—never talking about great fault from yourowneyes. Dare I stories of his doings when he gets Sultan. those beautiful blue bells? ••But she is no stranger to me—1 Ln Pierre, of Stratgard, in j* it- for somehow I did not, yet could to lo >k it in the face, and repent ■ away from home anti hasn't his wife certainly have seel, her ere this, said mark, was 7 feet 1 inch. Ah! how sweetly Memory pointeth to child not bear to 6ee anybody else near her, therefor. Mary was no wife of yours j with him. We are, therefore, not Alphonso, in a tone of mingled sur- hood’s happy day, Henry Blacker, 7 feet 4 inches »a in the sight of Gol, ami you should , and even was angry when Mary did When in search of early garlands we field ' xtrprised to learn that when Alphon- and doubt. most symmetrical Bern nt Cud ward loved to stray— not look to me for protection—then have yielded h r to the liver, the be , 1 so was presented to the Sultan yes nrise Hearing Alphouso ’ s voice, the field, in Sussex, in 1724. Genw.iL When wo gathered them by handfuls and Mary telil me of her absent lover. ' trothed lover, whom you defrauded terday, he gave that monarch’s hand wuman turned, scrutinized him close called the "British Giant" Wjj/ crowned each other’s brow With a wreath that fame or fortune cannot She was gentle and loving in her na by a miserable quibble—for days and a significant squeeze and follow» ! it ly, and then gave a little scream of hibited in London in 1751. ture, and had regarded me as her wie'tB are not to be named in the cal np with a lateral motion of his right bring unto us now! recognition. But then we meet them everywhere, in all : brother whom she might love and endar of woes between true-hearts.” I Edward Bamford, 7 feet 4 inch« arm, whereby his thumb caught the Alphonso was right He had seen Died 1768. Buried in St. Dtins;^ the groves and dells, . Robert bowed hie head in silence. trust, with no thought-«» to the fu- monarch between the seventh and Faintly echoing to tlie south winds—those t ire. At length he resumed, in atonctrem- eighth ribs, which performance was her before. She was the Albino who churchyard, London. beautiful blue bells. traveled with Barnum’s circus.— Louis Frenz, Frenchman, 7 fw( “Ma'am, I was nigh on’t wild when 1 l>lin<j from anxiety,— j accompanied by the sotto voice ex [Denver Tnbuue. ’Twore well, methinks, if life had more of ' I heard of this, and I made Mary inches. His left hand is presenJ i "Jeannie ie not in the least like recreative hours, clamation, "Oh, you sly old fox!" Or in the museum of the College of 8». Wherein our steps might wander ’mong the promise that if Dermont did not coiue poor Mary, and yet now when she is dinarilv this familiarity would have geons, London. wild haunts of the flowers; i within two weeks after the time ap moving in the very room where poor been immediately and vigorously re ESTHETIC DELUSIONS—THE FOLLY For there’s a spirit influence to Nature’s pointed, she would be my wife. You 4 Mary used to sit so quietly, and she Martin Salmeron, a Mexican, lu SMALL WAISTS. sented, but there was something jewels given 4 inches Thnt beckons at man’s heart-door and lures may think she was unhappy, ma'am* * is silently making this small work, I about AJpuouso’s general appearance Torus, an Indian King, who fomt No, she was like a sweet child, that have more than once shuddered to see The belief in the beauty of absolute him nearer heaven— A calmer feeling, holier thougnt, within the when she bhw all smiling aud happy ■ just such a look pass over her face as that pre dispos«! the pagan monarch smalluess in a woman’s waist is one against Alexander near the fin, in his favor. The Sultan instantane bosom dwells, As we look alone in silence on those beauti • about her. she couldn’t be miserable Mary had. I sometimes fear I am to ously made up his mind that his dis of the most vulgar of vulgar delusions. Hydasper, B. C. 327, was ¡.even aid herself, even though things were not i be punished in a still greater manner tinguished American visitor was a A well-proportioned waist is beatiti- a half feet high, with strength » ful blue bells, proportion. quite to her liking. But 1 remember I —that the four years of agony is not thoroughbred, anil he as instantane fnl.just as a well proportioned hand or Let the heathen or the sophist, the cynic or now, and. ma’um, I shall never forget Heinrich Oxen, born in Nctwa, atonement enough!'' foot is, but. a disproportionate small 1 he seer. ously determined to entertain him to And the tears gushed from the eyes the best of his royal ability. There ness in any of the three is a defect. seven feet six inches; weight jij From the city’s pavomennts turn when the how terrified her eyes looked some - summer’s sirs are here— times, and how she tried to smile | of the darkened man. and he grasped fore, dismissing the courtiers and in We compassionate the Chinese be pounds, or fifteen scores. Let him pluck a tiny blossom, nay, a little and it came faint like, and hei hands j the chair convulsively for support. Edward Melon, seven feet a bursting hud, terpreters, he matte Alphonso sit cause they carry the defect as far as Little can lie said upon subjects down on the throne beside him, ami misapplied iugenuity can do it. but indies. Born at Port Leicester, Is And the lesson that it teaches can’t be long grew icy cold, and her voice stopped | i its singing. But I wouldn’t regard like those. They are viewed Accord misunderstood: the Chinese school is wonderfully land, 1665, and died 1684. being om For disbelief must vanish at the still, small these things then; and, God forgive j ing to the enlightenment of seuti the two engaged in friendly conver strong among ourselves. 1 he real nineteen years of age. sation. voice which tells, James McDonald, seven feet st ’Twas something more than chance de me, often and often I wished Der tnent and conscience; and only to the "They tell me,” said Alphonso, beauty of a hand or foot is in i*s mont would never come—for I was I Great Comforter can the weary heart after signed those beautiful blue bells! shape and proportion to the rest of inches. Native of Cork, lreiati the conversation had naturally — ¡William (•'togheyan. selfish, and full of a blind love for carry its burden. led up to the subject, “they tell me. , | I the body, aud the shape is very diffi died 1760. the meek, innocent creature. Robert’s presentiments of evil, sire, that you have an institution on ii I . cult to improve by artificial means. Robert Hale. 7 feet 6 inches. lin "Well, the time came, but no lover however* were unredizel. Jeannie the premises which is called a harem.” j In attempting to reduce the size, the at Somerton, England, in 1820. THE GAKDEMEES STORY. came with it; the two weeks were as blooming and more cheerful That pleasurable glow in his maj shape is usually destroyed. Nothing often called tho “Norfolk Giant' •‘And so you have had two wives, over, and the bridal made ready. We is than ever; for a house is ever pros Robert, they inform me, and you are hail a few of our own people, and the perous where love presides at the al esty’s eyes was as affirmative an an- is more charming than a . well-shaped Died 1862. Frauds Sheridan, an Irishman.! swer as Alphonso could have ex- hand, and an«l a well-fitting glove. glove, a very young man still.” priest made Mary mine; and she tar; and the smiles of infancy will of Op such a hand isoae is one of the most im- Dp un- feet 8 inches. Weight, 22 ston« This was said, by way of parenthe seemed quite gentle and content, themselves chase away all the spirits pected. “It has been the bright «iream of i Dortant portant items of a woman’s dress. dree«, Gir.h of chest. 58 inches. DiedlSI sis, to Robert Kennie, the gardeper, and I thought more beautiful and of evil. Bradley, 7 feet 8 inches at death. my life,” continued Alphonso, "to I But nothing is uglier than a aan«f who had, about a year before, mar lovable than ever. 1 don't know why see a harem—a real, live flesh and crammed into a glove which it y,us Born at Market Wheaton, in Yori- A LAKESIDE MUSING. ried a seamstress, very much U> hit it is, ma'am, that a sorrowful face never meant to wear, a glove which shire,' England. His right kadi blood harem.” own happiness. should go so nigh to the heart, but "Give me the bandoline.” "By tho tail of the prophet's war crowds the palm into a shapeless heap ( r- serve«! in tho museum of the Cd "Two wives, did you say, ma’am?’’ so it is. The soft, mellow tinkle of bells horse!” exclaimed the Sultan, "your and cramps the fingers into useless lege of Surgeons. 1798 1820. ■‘Yes, Robert;" and the last parcel "We were to have a fine treat; and, came floating over the hills and dales ] wish shall bo gratified; but, mind ness. The original defects of the Joseph Brice, seven feet eigit wsh thrust into the basket in the same while the woman prepared that in I to the Lady Cecil Mulcahev that I you, O Christian dog, no foolishness hand are not remedied in the least; inches. At the age of twenty si breath with the response. one room, the younger folks were, June evening as sbe stood before the they ar» only dwarfed for the moment years he was exhibited in Lon'dei Strange enough, Robert set the making merry in the other. We| glass in her boudoir, beautiful arti j with the girls!” Alphonso protested most solemnly 'by artificial "ones. The same remarks 1862 5. His hand could span fiftwj basket upon the floor, and the smile heard a knock at the door, and then I cles of virtu, choice bits of fancy of honest pride and pleasure at' the some one spoke. Mary sprang for work, and all the new com rem«lies that his intentions were honorable; apply to the foot and the waist. A ' and a half inches. Born at Bamoi interest we all took in the affairs of the door and I, ma’am—yes, I—held I that were scattered around in grace and the Sultan, reposing the utmost waist out of proportion to the rest of champ, in the Vosges, France. 18i little Jennie passed from liis face, the poor child back with a grasp that i ful confusion giving to the room an confidence in his quest’s integrity, the body is ugly, whether it err by Was sometimes called Anak. Cornelius Magrath, seven feet eigk and he replied, in a thoughtful, mu left the mark upon her arm. I held I air of refined lx<auty that one so summoned Osman Ulift, chief of the being too large or too small. If it is maturally too large, there is nothing inches. He was an orphan ani eunuchs, and bade him lead them sing manner: that child from the heart that—” I seldom sees outside the precincts of i unto the presence of the peris. Pass for it but to make the beet of the bus reared by Bishop Berkley, Engiati "I am not sure about that same Robert’s eyes were distended as if Naples or Kokomo ma’am. ’Twould bo a great easing with horror at the recollection, and I “Yoe, Madame,” replied Nannette ing out of the palace, the trio crossed iness by dressing so as to reduce its I Di«l at the age of twenty vran to my mind, ma’am, if yon would ex then suddenly drawing in bis breath, | Stiggins, the French femme <le ch tim a beautiful garden and entered a apparent size. Women usually try 174CH176O. «John Bushby. of Darfield, seta \ long, low row of buildings, which to reduce the aetual size, and then plain things a bit to me.” he sank like a stricken child ujxm I bre, handing her mistress the re “Certainly, Robert, I will aid you hie knees, and, scarcely above a quired article. "And does Madame | seemed to be constructed of red mor- dress as if the reduced size were the feet nine inches. His brother w tar. The .interijr consisted of a natiu'al one. They do not deceive a about the same height. in any way that I can, to the best of whisper, uttered,— wish her vinaigret?” Joachum Eleozegue. «Spanish giant hall, on one side of which practiced eye, and the deception they my ability; but will not Jennie be "No,” replies Lady Cecil, a cold, spacious “ Toll me truly, ma ’ am, was it not were the small apartments in which achieve is dearly iionght by loss of seven feet ten inches Exhibitwii expecting yon home?” my duty then at that moment to have cynical smile passing over her fea the women of the harem slept. The health and irremediable collapse of 1 London. "No; Kate Randell is with her. given her to her lover ?” tures <ts she speaks. “Lord Reginald floor of the large hall was . of . cheap the figure at a later period. • If they Captain Bates of Kentucky, so» and I think I might be made a hap- “Most assuredly, Robert, Go<l de Courcev Short will yet rue the marble, indifferently polished, and only sought to reach the normal pro feet eleven and one half indies. Ei 0'er man by tolling a bit uliout poor forgive you that you did not.” day oil which he laugh«! my apple quantities of straw was scattered portion, the matter would be trifling. hibited in London, 1871. ary." “1 did not. and she so beautiful, so pie to scorn,” she continued, speak here and there, while greasy guitars, But no woman who begins the pro Harold Hardrada. Norwegiu He had taken a small rake una lovable, and the priest had bound ing softly to herself, "and told me, wares, it would seem, into the room, her to me. Sho was mine. I could with a cruel sneer on his lips, that he cracked coffee-cups and rank looking cess ever stops at that jx int sc long giant, nearly eight feet. Gilly, a Swede, eight feet Exhit, and now, having taken the chair I not, would not resign her to another. would, ere the ruddy glow of autumn opium pipes were strewn carelessly as she . has a friend with a waist pointed out, he leaned his two hands The very peril of losing her made faded into tho snowy whiteness of around, giving the place an ill kept, smaller than her own. Absolute i ited as a show early in the nineteentl smallness becomes the dominant slovenly appearance. . upon the handle of the implement, me more fiend than human.” winter, wed simple Ruth Redingote, I "This, then, is the harem?” asked idea, and in pursuit of it she sacrifices ■ century. William Evans, eight feet at death. find, to my astonishment., I beheld " What did Mary say, Robert?” tho humble cotter’s daughter. He Alphonso. proportion, health, beauty, and her Porter to Charles I. Died 1632 arge teal’s dropping from bis eyes "Poor girl! she only looked into may think that I have forgotten his "By the prophet's beard it is,” re chance of living to be a well-pre Charlemange, nearly eight feet upon the floor. my face, so still, so sorrowful, her words, that I have choked away the "I think, ma'am, I committed a blue eyes without a tear, anil her dear grim wolf of despair that has been plied the Sultan, sitting down cross served woman. Mothers often be . He could squeeze together thru gin the mischief. When girls are at j horse shoes at once in his hands great wrong in the matter of jx>or cheek white, and the light girls all gnawing at my heart, bnt time shall legged on a pile of straw. “And where are the girls?” inquired the stage which in men as calied J. Toller, of Nova Scotia, eight Mary, and my mind is never quite away from one side of her face, just teach him better; shall bring home hobbledehoy, their waists often look feet. Died 1819. easy abont it. I didn’t- think so as they had fallen when I trust her I to him with terrible, crushing force.' Alphonso. Maximilian Christopher Millet much about it till the day she died, back. I thought she had stopped the truth that hell hath no fury like ! “Summon the peris," said the Sul- big aDd clumsy. The reason is obvi His hand tnoasnni poor thing. I’m thinking, ma'am, breathing. Then the door opened a woman’s corns—like a woman . tan in a commanding tone to Osman ous enough. The waist has reached eight feet. that, some women folks are just like and closed softly, and tho room was i scorned, I mean”—and with a twirl I Ulift The hideous eunuch drew a its fullest development, while the twelve inches and his forefingerw whistle from his bosom and bust has not; but the first care of the nine inches long. Called the "S um these flower». They must have just hushed as if for the dead. of her taper fingers she chucked the j 1 silver blew thrice upon it The doors on anxious parentis to crush it into pro the right kind of soil, and the right "My mother wliisjx'red how Der powder-puff deftly into its box and the side of the dingy hall opened, and portion with the undeveloped bust, if Giant." Died in London. 1674 1734. light, and the right beat, and every mont was there, and how she told i began a long, weary search for the through each came a female clad in not into something even less sub Chang Woo-Goo, of Tychon, Ch thing suited to their natures, or else him all; aud that he was sitting by hair brush robes of fanciful hue, and wearing stantial. The standard of size, once nese giant, eight feet two inch» ♦ » * » » « they will die.” the door with no power to move. And veils abont their faces. fixed, is adhered to, and the develop Exhibit«! in London 186566. » Summer in Chicago. Up from the thick "Why, Robert, you are certainly in then she turned to Mary, and said,— “Behold,” cried his majesty, "the ment of the figure, if not checked by again in 1880. dulging a sickly fancy in talking in " He only asks one kiss of ye, Mary, i pebbly beach that is kissed by the ! most beautiful of women.” the treatment, soon renders the waist J. H. Reichart of Friedberg, Sn this wise of Mary; and as to any self and then ho will never trouble ye ■ laughing waters of the great lake The women formed a line and ridiculous. If the development is den, 8 feet 3 inches, His fatin': - come the sensnous zephyrs of a per reproach, it ought to be out of the again.’ walked before the Sultan, and squat checked the woman never attains were giants. question, for I am sure you have too “‘One, Robert, only one,’ sai«l poor . feet June night The merry shouts ted down in a semi-circle around womanly proportions at all, but goes mother Charles O'Brien, or Byrne, Irei good a heart to neglect, any one. And Marv, rising to go. j of the children as they start out, him. to swell the crowd of ill made-up mil giant, 8 feet •I inches. His skelfM then, too, Robert, I shall speak frank “ ‘Ye are my wife, Mary, and James II skates in hand, for an evening of "For holy Moses’ sake, Sulty," de liner’s dolls that may lie seen any day is preserved in the museum of à ly, for I have heard that Mary was a Dermont shall never, never kiss your .1 riotons fun. mingle with the low, sad manded "bid them lay in our streets. College of surgeons. 1761-178 sickly, complaining, melancholy cheek;’ and 1 held her with a strong . | sough of the wind as it sighs among | aside their Alphonso. veils that my enraptured Of course, in theory, the doctors Patrick, his brother, was 8 f«t creature, like to make lx>th herself hand. Mary neither spoke ncr . I the deserted ice wagons, and over all eyes may feast upon their transcen should warn people of the mischief inches. ■ there is a brooding silence that some dent charms " and you miserable. Now, Jeannie—” moved.” they are doing. They should point Loushkin, Russian _______ giant, 8 1*1 times awes oven the lightest hearted | “(Jrod bless her,” interrupted the "Robert, Robert, you may “Beware. O profane stranger,” out that the young lady’s little ail inches; drum major of the Imp«11 of the merry crowd that throngs the ‘ cried gardener, rising to an attitude of re pray God to forgive you—" the Snltan in a warning tone, ments are aggravated, if not caused, Guards. spectful earnestness; ‘but, indeed, I stayed my speech, for the man streets. "lest the sigh of these lovely ladies Maximinus, 8 feet 6 inches. U ma'am, that is why I wish to tell of was crusbeil at his own recollections. Rnth Redingote and Reginald awaken unholy ambitions in your by the liberties she is taking with her anatomy. They should warn her and Roman Emperor, 235-238. Mary, liecaUBe she was blamed when Short are walking arm in arm down soul. Remember, they are my royal "Mary never utter«! his name from the principal thoroughfare, and as her parents that they are destroying A human skeleton 8 feet 6 inch I was the one to bear the blame. G«xl and are dedicated wholly to the power of the muscles intended by is preserved in the museum, Tnnit forbid that. 1 should ever have neg that time forth. She strove to smile; the gaslight falls with fitful flicker property, my kingly self. ” nature to brace and support the fig College, Dublin.—[London Tit B11* lected Mary. No, no. I cared for she was gentle ami good; and, oh, so upon the pure young face of the girl Alphonso hastened to assure his ure, and preparing for a collapse in her night and day, but it wasn’t the quiet that I would have given worlds her companion looks down to her with majesty ----------- -------------— that he wits proof against later life that will defy disguise. right kind of care, nor from the right to have met an angry glance. I ! a smile. She has come in from her fascination of the opposite sex. But doctors, like other people, are A writer in the London ChenM one. ami she grew sickly, pined and would have given worlds to have her j happy country home in St. Louis, and every and the guileless monarch bade the very much what the public makes Veirs thinks he has solved theqo* died. She didn’t love me, ma'am, as reproach me. But night and day I sees for the first time the strange, squatting remove their veils. them. They have their money to tion of the origin and formation! a woman should love to Ix'conm a watched over her. I was doomed to now sights of a great city. Reginald They did so, jxiris but instead of disclosing make and their practice to extend, the diamond—it being due. heargm early lose the being I had wronged, j thinks, as he gazes fondly upon her, wife. whose patient misery was a con i that there is none so fair as this beauteous or even comely features, and they are not going to injure to the fact that the carbonaces "You see, when I first came to this and tinual reproach to me. I neglect«! i woman, none that could so securely they revealed the most repulsive faces their prospects Ivy becoming John matter of fossils, such as plant»» country, ma’am, I was employed by everything to meet her slightest bind his heart in the silken fetters the venerable, but none the less colt Baptist’s crying in the wilderness. animal remains, has been vliseoi’* old Mr. Brewster upon his grounds, wishes; while she. as she never re of a pure, holy affection. He feels ish, Alphonso bad ever gazed upon. They will give general warnings by highly heated water, aided? and Mary was a bit of a lass, doing proach«! me, so did she forl>ear to | that without the sunshine of her love The peris were coarse, black skinned, about the evils of tight lacing, but if great pressure existing in the era »mall work for the ladies of the fam call upon me for the slightest atten 1 life would be an evil waste whereon flat nosed, thick lipped, flabby creat their parents do not choose to make of the earth. The fact is well kno’ ily. At first she was always smiling tion. She ha«l a forlorn aspect, as a would lie the whited skeletons of ures, whose breaths were redolent the application for themselves the that highly heated water, aide«! • like, and singing. Then she began plant will have that has b«>n left to Hope and Ambition. And so, feeling with the odor of leeks and garlic, and doctors cannot afford to make inquisi pressure, can dissolve silica, as io9 grow pale and mute, and I — I, a fol whose manners were loose and vulgar, the mercy of a storm. ” d of a boy, mnst needs think she thus, itfeeems to him that he cannot and disgusting. They rolled their tion which is pretty certain to lie as geysers of Iceland, etc., where “ Did she live long, Robert ? ” do too much for her, cannot make his hidenos, sensual eyes aronnd on sented, and issue orders which will formed aronnd the mouth of the veS was pining for me. Then I began to The poor man start«! with a sharp yielding think how wondrous lovely and meek expression to her every wish too plain. Alphonso, and ogled him till the old call forth sulkiness to please men and there are also the ex penmen3 of pain. and good she was. One day I did And so. landing over her, his bright gentleman fairly quailed with terror. that women indulge in these antics, researches of De Senarmont » "One day my mother came in am! young face aglow with the kindly and the true remedy therefore lies in others, on the artificial production something tender like to her, and she “Are they not, O hoary pated burst out crying as if her little heart told us that Dermont was dea«i. It light of a deep affection, he asks her infidel, more beautiful than the stars educating the masculine mind If crystallized minerals, as qnartz. it? would break. I put her head on my was not a year from that fatal night if there is anything she would like— of the morning?” inquired the men would learn to take their ideas of pickle, corundum, heavy-spar. female beauty from Greek statues or by the prolonged action of water I •boulder, and she seemed like a dear The tliiril day Mary was in her grave. any delicacy in the brilliantly-lighted Snltan. healthy country girls, if any remain high temperature|arid pressures- 1 child to nia You must know that A blossom of beanty, and a bud windows that environ them on everv Bnt Alphonso could not reply. He who have not learned to ape the fol Mary talked the whole matter over never unfold«! to the light. My ' side. bail a pardonable hesitation abont lies of their betters, they would these grounds, therefore, it is before she died, and also seemed more mother—for women feel differently that no reason exists why higm “ Yes," answers Rnth, a pleas«! offending his royal host, for he had like the Holy Virgin in spirit than alxint |such things from what we do j 1 look in her deep, luminous eyes, “I heard about a Turkish habit of sew probably bring about a salutary heated water, or water gas, shod — my mother bade me bury Mary which doctors might attempt not have the power of dissolving“ anything else. , would like something.” ing people np in gunny-bags gunny bags and change in vain. But so long as the prepos carbonaceous matter of ^issclr5 “What is it, darling’’’ and as he throwing them into the “I never talk«! love to that child, beside of Dermont, and lobeyed." :he Bosphorus. terous figures of the fashion platee— ‘Robert’’ I said, “you are ill. speaks the last word a bright crimson ma’am, never; and yet I began to “I have now, O pagan dog,” con figures usually seven feet high, with the carbonaceous matter of fossmW and animals, and then- talk abont going to the priest's. This is so unlike you, that I cannot blush suffuses the girl's cheeks. tinned the Sultan, pleasantly, "a rare waists that would suit a woman of ous ■ plants . ... the cooling, depositing the carbonm carbon in ■ 9 She hesitates an instant and then, treat in store for you—a boon never Mary was fearful in her nature, and believe it to be a real truth you have she did not tell me all abont herself. told me.” in clear, ringing tones, come forth before accorded a" benighted heathen four feet six—are accept«! as models crystallized condition, forming * the fair sex will no doubt go on he "Ay, ma'am, it seems like a terrible the words: She was an orphan, with neither kith of your race, Ulift. lead out the roically torturing itself into the fan gem known as the diamond. "Lemon pie!" nor kin, and, like one of these plants, dream to me. I have tri«l to think oueen of the harem—the do«-eyed tastic ugliness now so common. A low. fiendish laugh breaks upon daughter of the moon.” When is a skein of thread lik* 9 made to cliDg to something else, or it over. I have tried to find an ex —------ **♦«»— ------ • Bnt pe poor dead i the night air. Reginal«' they cannot grow. She had a lover, cuse for my cruelty. But id turn» hastily. root of an oak? When it is ™ The hideons eunuch then disap to whom she had been attracted like Mary—it is too, , too true. It was not and there liefore him, more beautiful pear«! through a door and spe«!ily Don t you want a phonograph ?” knots. ever since they wore children. She love that I bore her—it was the love than ever, stands the Lady Mnlcahey. return«!, leading a female whoee veil ’A Wh»kt T P^onograpk One of Merit ie often an obstacle to *ncc»w. _ did not tell me this until I had be of power—the tenderness of a broth "Lemon pie!” she hisses fiercely. I only partially cover«! her wealth of thoee things that talks back at von." reason that ¡1 ever produces two bed and fear. AJ gan to regard her so mnch mine that er; bnt I could never bear opposition. “And this ie your chosen bride—you white frizzly hair. Oh. no I hare had one of those envy True courage iw »hown by doini.with*1«1 __ _______ refined. it would have been terrible to part I could not sacrifice my own will for who are so cultured and “It is a Georgian woman." said things that talks back at me for the newes. that which a man is capable of with her. He was to come ont at a the happiness of any creature till. My vengeance is satisfied.” an«l with Alphonso to himself, “one of the last fifteen years, and one s enough before the world. .. — certain period« and she was to keep this great grief changed my whole another mocking langb she flee» away beautiful captive» I have heard so for any well regulated family." ¿¿it A man who is always well satisfied into the darkness. •elf is seldom en with other», and oth* ’ I her faitn till that time. If he did nature.” ninth about . 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