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micbeennt. 1 think now it is time T
re getting hack to my work before I
.eall know ledge ol law, ami 11 ml myself
..ulilcnly transformed into u lioy again."
nj he wont away, promising his IViumls
never. Hint he wouhl tako a run up
Mm (' in a low weeks ami make
:urm a short isit.
True to his word, we find the Judge at
Mr. Iiaynioiid's again before the ond of a
.imntli. 'Times are rather dull at'c ,"
li sahl, after he had been warmly greeted
torhh friends especially .Miss Itavinoml.
ami 1 thought I might count on you1'
lmliitnlity until after Christmas." We
luMen over events here, well knowing
Hint nur indulgent readers are anxious to
-hear Hie eonelusion of the whole mat
w." flirNtniiis was over and the Judge made
wly tn depart. Jle shook hands with
Mr Itavmmid and Aunt Jemima, but saw
"""ling in Miss Nellie. Mr. Jtaymond
njgesteii that Jiis daughter might lie in
'lie parlor. Thither went the Judge and
i"Miil her on a sola, apparently engaged
it nullniig else than winding n hit or
.reen rihhoii around her linirer. and then.
'"r a change of diversion, unwinding it
isiin.
Howard held out his I d. " Vou will
.vsooil hy, will you not?"
'Why. 1 did not think that you would
''H already! " said .Miss Nellie-
Howard did not seem to notice this re
m;"k. hut squeezing her hand a little
Miler said, "You remember, Nellie, the
"ltl "mini that you wrote on the llyJeaf
of ") Teranee Tcmpora mutaiitur, ct
'' Mut,ur in ?.' Can you not trust
me with this (mini we suspect he meant)
now ? "
Wv. Xcllie looked si might at a spot in
'J'f carpel as she suitl slmvlv '"Times
I np and we change Willi them,' if you
""'"'i ly the maxim that we ft row old as
'"'its change,' and T readily concede that
lm are in the right."
'I'sluuv, Nellie! wouhl mi insinuate
" mi and I are any older than we iced
" " ' As for me I feel quite as young as
l ever did. Hut you take a one-sided
view of the matter, when you think that
our bodies alone ehnnjrc with time. Do
not our minds and characters change as
welly
.Miss lhiyinond still kept her eyes lixeil
on tiic spot in the carpet. Judge iclvee,
orator as lie was, began to warm with his
subject, -and exclaimed, "Look at me,
Nellie! 1 am going away in a few min
utes! Will you he" here Miss Nellie
looked up suddenly, and with just a little
coquettish pucker of the red lips asked
him whether he would like to hear her
maxim before he went away.
"By all means," replied Howard.
"Here it N, then," said she, darting a
single quick glance at him from two
brown eyes that sparkled and glistened
like morning dew: 'Semper cincit qui so
riiwit' He always conquers who con
n tiers himself."
What Miss Nellie meant by this maxim
you, reader can probably surmise as well
as J. Women, you know, have a queer
way of hinting at a thing at long range.
It i probable that the Judge understood
it, or if lie did not pcihaps Miss Nellie
explained it, bill as to this l am not pre
pared to say positively, as I have now told
you all that I know of the "facts in the
ease," and of course I would not care to
make any statement that I could not sub
stantiate. Hut that you may the more
readily surmise the resu't of these recip.
located maxims, I will say that Dr. Ho.s
nell loh. his wife, and his wife told me,
(hat Ji.dge McICcc went home " unusually
iiood-natuird." .Mrs. Dr. Bosnell winked
roguishly, and laid special sliess on the
" iiiiimualli iood-naliircd," sj I think we
may as well take it for granted that mat
ters were arranged satisfactorily to Hit
Judge, and that the "conclusion of the
whole matter was," that the twain at last
got married. It is not my province lo
moralize, so whatever moral there may be
in this humble tale 1 will leave to suggest
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