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He glanced up quickly. “Yes,” heanswered;" but Florence, do try to speak clearly-not haltingly,'
A hasty reply sprang to the girls lips, but died without ut- terance at the sightof her mother's pleading face. She went to the piano and took down her violin. As she fondled it she forgot her father's words, forgot everything but the desire for his deep love, that alas she had to take for granted.
She lifted the violin till it rested beneath her rounded chin.
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Then she begin to play the MILKMAID
music rose low and sweet; then ewelled as the girl's imaginative nature was given full away. She thought of little children, of flowers and of her mother's eyes; and the music poured littingly and unwaveringly. There was no aa- derourrent of mystery, no ques-
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Then, not looking at the drawn face before her, she crept away to her little chamber to fling herself a heap of throbbing misery on the bed, trembling with fear of what she had done and believing her self to be a veritable outcast.
Mr. Stetson went to the window and gazed into the night. Ho heard his wife's sort footsteps and know that she was coming to him. Ile turned and looked into her grieved, pitying face. He held up his hand as she was about to speak.
tioning of life's meaning; the soul went on, in a colourless little that directed the bow knew noth-voice; and nothing that I have ing of this, only a pleading, & done has ever pleased you. I'm longing for something that she sorry-except for Mother-that I craved.
was ever born." The man listening, put his hand norose his eyes. He, him self had once played and thrilled with the joy of creation. He peered through his fingers at his wife and saw her face again in the dim twilight of years gone by; and he remembered that in One of those twilights she had put her hand in bis and promised to follow wherever he might lead. Florence weakened by the ef- fort that she had put forth, drew out the last note in a long ecb. Her eyes soft and appealing sought her father. She had played to him; she wanted to hear him say that she had done well; to see his eyes_light_with pride; to feel perhaps hie arma about her and his kisses on "her cheek.
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"Don't, he said softly; don't say anything." She turned away, her heart torn; then she heard Little Sis- ter cry, and with a last look at her husband's tall figure, she left him.
always believe him to be harsh and bitter?
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"Father," she criod; "Father have I made you cry--for me?"
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"I love you," she whispered and I'm glad that I came to you,
you glad, too, father?" For answer he held her closer, and did not even glance up when the mother entered the room, and left them again together. ing. The enraptured expression window alone. And through Ladies Home Journal. faded from his face, and when he all his thoughts there swept spoke his voice had its usual crisp the bitter knowledge that his
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Mutton, Sang Yeung Yau unfailing love for her. His mind WEDDING OF MR. TANG. Veal,-Ngan Chai Yuk ... "You did well. Florence," he reverted to the toddling babe bie
Sausages, Ngau Chai Chaung said" but you must learn control; first little daughter. As she grew many of your notes were weak, older, he remembered, she had
POULTRY, showing lack of force in your followed him wherever he went, handling."
in the garden, upstairs, and at For a moment the girl stood be-times trotted after him down the fore him frozen. The silent vio-street. lin hung from her hand; then
And once, when she was just over her rushed such a passionate foar, and he had been ill, she had feeling of injustice, such an over-climbed upon his bad and put whelming hatred of everything, his sweet baby face down close to that with all her strength, she his and whispered in broken sen- 'Hang the violin from her, not tences her love for him. even awakening when she heard it crash to the ground..
Her father started forward.
And now she believed that he did not love her. He turned from the window and sank into a chair. "Because I do not praise you He looked ap and saw again the must you exhibit such temper ?"
elim figure with poised violin. he oried angrily. "No leave her He saw again the radiant eyes to me!" he commanded his fright and the trembling lips. And she ened wife. "What spirit is this?" had played to him. he continued.
He knew that all his life he had But he stopped at the sight of been sternly critical. He had the girl's blazing eyes.
spared not even himself, and he "Oh!" she cried; "I don't care had believed this policy to be a for anything now. I'll never good one. study again! I'll never try to be anybody! And I'll go on lying to you and deceiving you !"','
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The man stood, gazing at hia child as though she had lost her mind.
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A mcat interesting wedding, Chicken,- Kai Chai carried through on the new Chi-Capons, Large, Small,Sin Kai nese scheme, was solemnized in Ducks,-Ap Shanghai last Sunday, when one Daves, Pan Kau of the best known of China's Eggs. Hen-Kai Tan statemen, Mr. Tang Shao-yi, was Fowls, Canton, Kai married to Miss Wa Wei-chao, Hainan, Hoi Nam Kai daughter of Mr. Wu, compradore Geese,-Ngoi
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He forced back the tears as a pregnant thought came to him.
What would not love have done
A friend of Barbel,-Ka Yu "What do you mean.?" be stam- for this impressionable child of
his, a spoken lovo, an unhidden the bride, Mr Wang Man-nam Bream,-Bin Yn mered finally,
love? She would have thrived undertook the duties of best man, Canton Fresh Water Fish-Hoi Sin Yu "I mean," she said distinctly, and blossomed into a perfect wo formal witnesses to the wed Catfish, Ohik Ya...
also giving Miss Wa away. The Carp-Li Yu... "that I am wicked right through. man. Now, by her own words, I've tried to satisfy you since I she had been turned into the ding wore Mr. Chung Mun- Codfish, Man Ya... was a little tot, but you never paths of dishonesty,
yow, managing
director of Crabe,-Hai the Shanghai-Nanking Railway Cattle Fish, Muk Yo would be satisfied; you've never in all your life said I did any father i As he saw the wonderful the best known of the local inter- Dace, Wong Hei Lan...
The love of a daughter for a and Mr. Ou Yang-kong, one of Dab,Sa Mang Ya thing well. I've had to go to mother always but I wanted to possibilities of it the tears rose
Dog Fish-Tit Tu Sa In the course of the tarvice the Eels, Congor, Hoi Man please you, ah, I wanted to please beyond his control and fell upon you!-and when I saw the truth his strong, fine hands. And he Wedding Maroh was played, and Fresh water,Tam Sin Yu..
had thrust this gift from him by it was noticeable that the bride Eels, Yellow, Wong Sin would not do, I began to lie.
The man's face was filled with within her.
this means to develop the best wore the orthodox veil. Mr and Frogs, Tien Kai...
Mra Tang Shao-yi are staying at Garoupa, Sek Fon... horror; he felt all the ground
He lowered his head until it the Kalee Hotel-"North China Gudgeon-Pak Kup Yu crumbling beneath his feet, He could but stare at the white child-rested on the wide arm of his Daily News,"
Herrings, Tao Pak... ish face before him, so distorted chair.
Halibut,Cheung Kwan Kup with passion.
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Labrus, Wong Fa Ya...... "I've lain awake at night," the reproach of his wife; of her eyes,
Lobeters-Lung Ba girl continued recklessly, "and saddened he knew now, by the
lack of loving words and spoken at Southport under the Sunday Mackerel,-Chi Yu...
Observance Act of Charles 11. Monk Fish,Mong Yu... hated myself because I was 80 bad. But I'd rather be bad than appreciation.
He heard a little rustle as the (1660-1685), developed rently Mallet,--Chai Ya hear your cold voice always blam- ing me, always enying I never door opened, but he did not look in a comedy, both the corpora- Oysters, Sang Hoo did just right. And so and so up. Then he felt the pressure of ton and a farther batch of 28 Parrotfish-Kai Kung Ta
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daughter, I told horrible stories."
and the traders for opening their Her anger was dying, and only "Father,
"she began "Mother shops. The magistrates decided Pomfret, Black-Hak Chong the great uncontrollable yearning sent me to say that I am sorry" that a technical breach had besa Pomfret, White-Pak Chong
Prawns, Ming Ha... ... ****** His heart contracted. “Mother committed, but dismissed all the
Ray Pai Pa Ba All the girls' fathers thought sent me. Would she never learn cases, expressing the hope that the they were just about right," she to love him again? Would the prosecutions will cease.
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