I Forbid the Banns! — page 41: what you’re looking at

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ON AN OCEAN ISLAND. 3! were a connoisseur of air, pronouncing an opinion upon a special breeze that had been recommended to her for purity and body combined with bouquet. ‘Do you not think that it was worth coming for?” she inquired of her companion. He turned from looking into the fresh breeze and looked into her fresh face, “Yes,” he replied. ‘I certainly do think that it was worth coming for.”’ “But there is nothing to see here,” she cried. ‘ They told us there was a splendid view from the summit. But there really is nothing to see here.”’ ‘“Not out at sea, at any rate,” said he. “And certainly not in the scenery of these cliffs,” she added. ‘‘ There is not much here beyond what we call scrub in Australia.” “You have come from Australia, then,” said he in a tone of inquiry. “ IT was born there and I have never been away from it until now. There is nothing to be ashamed of in that; so far as I have seen of the world, we in Australia are quite in the front rank of civilization. My father was a convict.” She made the latter statement as if it were actually the strongest piece of evidence that could be brought forward in proof of the advanced position of civilization in Aus- tralia. Then she paused, apparently for him to make some reply. He had noreply ready. Young men do not asa rule go about the world with an answer in readiness for such young ladies as announce that their fathers were convicts. He did not even say “ Indeed !” or “ Poor old chap!” At the same time he refrained from giving any start, or from manifesting any surprise, and in the exercise of such self-control he considered that he had done pretty well. It was some time before it occurred to him that it would, CORNICLOOKS (€()