After all, next to the bride and bridegroom they are perhaps the most
important feature.
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"Field Glasses, powerful magnification; sacrifice, 37/6; cost L175."--_New
Zealand Paper_.
We don't know about the magnification, but the diminution is most
remarkable.
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THE EVERLASTING ROMANCE.
The other day I did a perfectly dreadful thing: I intruded, all
unconsciously but in the most blundering way, on a love scene. It was in
the National Gallery, long famous as the meeting-place of affinities, in
the big room where the pictures lent by the Duke of WESTMINSTER and the
Duke of BUCCLEUCH are now hanging, and before I knew it I found myself
standing between two young people whose eyes were fixed on each other.
Naturally I moved away at once, but later I returned and made so bold as to
study them a little, for it was clearly, if not yet a passion, a mutual
interest of such tender depths that no outsider could affect it.
The boy--for he was no more--was one of the most beautiful that I have ever
seen.
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