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ting, he on the backward roll, she on the forward, with hands crossed and locked;--such contacts are permitted in skating, as in dancing. "Your hero and my heroine have dropped into an intimacy." "None but the Plucky deserve the Pretty," says Peter. "But he seems to be such a fine fellow,--suppose she shouldn't"---- The pretty face looked anxious. "Suppose _he_ shouldn't," Peter on the masculine behalf returned. "He cannot help it: Mary is so noble,--and so charming, when she does not disdain to be." "I do not believe _she_ can help it. She cannot disdain Wade. He carries too many guns for that. He is just as fine as she is. He was a hero when I first knew him. His face does not show an atom of change; and you know what Mr. Churm told us of his chivalric deeds elsewhere, and how he tamed and reformed Dunderbunk. He is crystal grit, as crystalline and gritty as he can be." "Grit seems to be your symbol of the highest qualities. It certainly is a better thing in man than in ice-cream. But, Peter, suppose this should be a true love and should not run smooth?" "What consequence is the smooth running, so long as there is strong running and a final getting in neck and neck at the winning-post?" "But," still pleaded the anxious soul,--having no anxieties of her own, she was always suffering for others,--"he seems to be such a fine fellow! and she is so hard to win!" "Am I a fine fellow?" "No,--horrid!" "The truth,--or I let you tumble." "Well, upon compulsion, I admit that you are." "Then being a fine fellow does not diminish the said fellow's chances of being blessed with a wife quite superfine." "If I thought you were personal, Peter, I should object to the mercantile adjective. 'Superfine,' indeed!" "I am personal. I withdraw the obnoxious phrase, and substitute transcendent. No, Fanny dear, I read Wade's experience in my own. I do not feel very much concerned about him. He is big enough to take care of himself. A man who is sincere, self-possessed, and steady does not get into miseries with beautiful Amazons like our friend. He knows too much to try to make his love run up hill; but let it once get started, rough running gives it _vim_. Wade will love like a deluge, when he sees that he may, and I'd advise obstacles to stand off." "It was pretty, Peter, to see cold Mary Damer so gentle and almost tender." "I always have loved to see the first beginnings of what looks like love, sin
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