I Forbid the Banns! — page 79: what you’re looking at

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ON LEADING A HORSE TO THE WATER. 69 had been due only to a certain jealousy—healthy jealousy, she had even called it, as she lay awake thinking over it. Oh, fool ! And what had she done the previous evening? She had actually, in a light-hearted way, made a jest about his pilgrimage to that hill. She had actually assured him that she knew what vision it was that had come before his eyes at the summit of Ladder Hill. She had drawn a picture of a beautiful girl out of her own imag- ination, declaring, with a laugh, that such a girl had come toward him on the hilltop—such a girl! She looked at Bertha, and, she knew that the girl she had pictured was not nearly so beautiful as the real girl who had walked _ toward Charlton. Now she knew what he had meant by his strange words —they had seemed mysterious to her the previous even- ing—there was not much of mystery about them now. What was left for her to do? she asked herself, as she stood alone in the middle of her cabin, whither she had retired to get her novel after breakfast. What was left for her to do? She heard the joyous laughter of Bertha as Charlton made some remark to her in a low tone as they went toward the companion together. What was left for her to do? It has always been a difficult problem. What should a young woman do when her lover becomes somebody else’s lover? | Much sound advice has been given to the young woman who has been left alone. She has been assured that the proper thing for her to do is to rejoice greatly, inasmuch as the lover who allows'himself to be tempted away, is no true lover, but just the opposite. A lover who gives prom- ise of a plentiful harvest of inconstancy should be got rid of—so much is certain, CONMNIELIOOKS (C()