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BEAUTIFUL BUT POOR. pn IBD cowards when-danger is around,’’ said Frank, in his important way. ‘““Allow me to differ with you, Mr. Legare, said Mr. W——, promptly. ‘‘I believe that the female sex, as a generality, have far more moral courage than men. And what is physical] courage but that of the brute? Nine times out of ten those who possess it hold it more an their ignorance of danger than anything else.’ ‘There, Mr. Frank Legare, you’re answered, and I hope you’ve got enough of it. Women cowards, indeed! That shows what you know about them.’’ “Oh, I might know that you’d side with him,”’ said Frank, petulantly. cage that don’t change my opinion a bit, Miss Lizzie.’ “Frank! Frank! I really thought you were more gallant!’’ said his father, laughing at the evident discomfiture of his son. “T might as well give it up since you’re an against me,’’ said Frank, in a sulk. “Oh, I’m not against you, Cousin Frank,’ cried Little Jessie, running up to him, “‘for I was the big- gest coward in the world to let that vile wretch, Miss Scrimp, beat me, as she often .did, when I might have turned on her and scratched her very eyes out.” | Frank laughed now. . He had one on his side, any way, and that put him in good humor again. All this time Mrs. Emory had been sitting sad and silent, listening to the storm which raged without. For well built though the house was, the fury of the gale dashing against the heavy plate-glass of the windows, gave a sign of what it must be out on the unsheltered sea. ‘Heaven be merciful!’’ she said, solemnly. PE) PL BRE SS Pa SS Py Oe ened eee OU, Ra Ste ky a ee ee Ee ee Se A an A yee MN Pak Te etry eta SM RGR” G Meat ee Melee rE Ie nN De PAN CE ee are = " 7 ak Urea og =, i! ’ YAS “4 f) Ant i, \ 7 ¢ y > ¢ 4 }! >| i me y é ' ier? vues “4 - . 7” ») €O mn comichbooks