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io6 ALL L\ A GARDEN FAIR.
things conduce to make a man uniformly
cheerful more than a good opinion of himself.
Wives should remember this fact and foster
such an opinion, especially on days when con-
tentment is wanted for cold mutton and herbs
therewith. Upon his cards was written his
really magnificent name, Mr. Olinthus Galla-
way ; but to his friends and all who love him
he will ever remain plain Tommy.
Hector no longer treated them as boys
they were young men with whom he could
converse as equals. They were men—he could
reveal himself in his true light. He could
even confess his sentiments on tlie nature of his
occupation.
' To-morrow,' he said sorrowfully, one day
towards the end of January, ' to-morrow I re-
turn to my classes. You think, then, perhaps,
that I love them—my classes—//rm? Listen!
I will tell you a tiling. I ablior them.' lie
spread out both his hands in tlie attitude of
detestation. 'I shrink ironi thum. If it were
not for Claire, I would jump out of this frying-