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Coming toward me was the Isonzo a bright blue stream the width of the Thames at New London which, happy at escaping from its gloomy mountain defile, went rioting over the plain in a great westward curve. Turning, I could catch a glimpse, through a notch in the hills, of the white towers and pink roofs of Monfalcone against the Adriatic's changeless blue.

This is, I believe, the view taken by most deep-thinking Italians. The Italianization of the Adriatic's eastern seaboard would result, moreover, in raising a barrier against the legitimate expansion of the Balkan Slavs and would end the Serbian dream of an outlet to the sea.

"The years are gone by as though they was nothing, and still I've had her image on my heart. I've seen her to-day." "Her gentleman's still alive, ain't he?" asked Mrs. Smiley. "And likely to live," said Mrs. Moulder. "I've seen her to-day," Kenneby continued; "and now the Adriatic's free to wed another."

"And you'd get your shapely boots most shockingly muddy," I thought, as the agent opened one of the front windows and invited us to enter. "French windows, too!" exclaimed Sophronia; "oh Pierre! And see that exquisite old mantel; it looks as if it had been carved from ebony upon the banks of one of the Queen of the Adriatic's noiseless by-ways. And these tiny rooms, how cozy how like fairy land!

"But what had I better do? call on Kilcullen for an explanation?" "That's the last thing to think of. No; but declare what he reports to be the truth; return Miss Wyndham the lock of hair you have in your desk, and next your heart, or wherever you keep it; write her a pretty note, and conclude by saying that the 'Adriatic's free to wed another'. That's what I should do."