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Eugene Snow thought intently for a few moments. His vision centered on Katherine O'Donovan's face. "You're absolutely sure of this?" he said at last. "Jist as sure as the sun's sure, and the mountains, and the seasons come and go," said Katy with finality. "Watch him and you'll see it stickin' out all over him. I have picked him for me boss, and it's jist adorin' that man crature I am."

He offerin' to see her home after the illumination. I knowed he wuz to be trusted, and they went off, Blandina lookin' up happy and adorin', he happy, patronizin' and lookin' down. Both on 'em contented creeters. He leadin' her a willin' victim to where the biggest named articles wuz and explainin' 'em to her in words more'n two inches long, I'll bet, but if anybody is happy that's enough.

He doesn't look very contented! but men are men," said Mrs. Newbolt. "He ought to be contented," Eleanor said, passionately; "I adore him!" "You've got to interest him," her aunt said; "that's more important than adorin' him! A man can buy a certain kind of adoration, but he can't purchase interest." "I don't know what you're talking about," Eleanor said, trembling.

"What about Miss Linda?" inquired Snow. "Is she adoring him?" "She ain't nothing but a ganglin' school kid, adorin' the spade with which she can shoot around that Bear Cat of hers, and race the canyons, and the rely lovely things she can strike on paper with her pencil and light up with her joyous colors.

I've seen little Missie on a footstool before the fire an' the mother adorin' her." Lady O'Gara was overwhelmed. What had been happening during the days there were not twenty of them since she had first taken Stella to see Mrs. Wade. "When little Missie wasn't there Bridyeen would be huggin' the dog the same as if he was a babby. Some people make too much o' dogs.

It was just like tinder, as somebody has said I think it was Burns catched fire in an instant. I hadna the slightest personal acquaintance wi' her, nor ony access to her society; but this didna hinder me adorin her in my secret heart, nor prevent me puttin doon stockins to customers when they asked for nightcaps.

But tin to wan, if ye lie still under cover, she'll be sendin' out skirmishers to see where ye are an' what ye are doin'. Now, ye love the gyurl, I know, an' so do I, an' so does ivery man that ivver saw her, for she's the sort min can't help adorin'. But, mind me, kape away. Don't write to her. Don't make poetry about her God forbid! Don't do the act o' serrynadin' in anny way whativver.

But Karen worshipped Jabez, his highest mounts of future eminence seemed too low for his footstool in her adorin' eyes, somehow the very loftiness of his airs to her, his own mother who supported him and bought his clothes, seemed to render him more precious in her eyes. Wimmen are queer, queer as dogs.

I understood it then, the whole thing from the beginnin'; an' I felt dazed an' shocked, as if some one had struck me a blow in the face. I wan't brought up ter think lyin' an' deceivin' was right. "I got up by an' by an' left the house. I paid poor Jimmy's bill fer clothes the clothes that I knew he wore when he stood tall an' straight in the doorway ter meet his mother's adorin' eyes.