A Kentucky cardinal ; and, Aftermath . er tendencies; and shewill sometimes provide a girl with a great manyyoung men, at the start, in order that she maybe sure of one husband in the end. The pre-cautionary swarm in Sylvias case seems multi-tudinous enough to supply her with successivehusbands to the end of her days and in theteeth of all known estimates of masculine mor-tality. How unlike Georgiana! I think of Georgiana as the single peach ona tree in a season when they are rarest. Not avery large peach, and scarcely yet yielding ablush to the sun, although its long summer heatis on the wane
A Kentucky cardinal ; and, Aftermath . er tendencies; and shewill sometimes provide a girl with a great manyyoung men, at the start, in order that she maybe sure of one husband in the end. The pre-cautionary swarm in Sylvias case seems multi-tudinous enough to supply her with successivehusbands to the end of her days and in theteeth of all known estimates of masculine mor-tality. How unlike Georgiana! I think of Georgiana as the single peach ona tree in a season when they are rarest. Not avery large peach, and scarcely yet yielding ablush to the sun, although its long summer heatis on the wane; growing high in the air at theend of a bough and clustered about by its shin-ing leaves. But what beauty, purity, freshness !You must hunt to find it and climb to reach it;but when you get it, you get it all — there is nota trace left for another. But Sylvia! I amafraid Sylvia is like a big bunch of grapes thathangs low above a public pathway: each passerbyreaches up and takes a grape. I caught some one taking a grape the other160. 1 mmm
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