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#rHE SKJUTS-BOY. 241
you have heretofore shown yourself. Pray for me, that I may
fmd a girl te whom I may say, ’ l#esemble ber whom I adore,
and you shall be my idol !’"
"Dear l#ir. de Goesse, rest assured that L e l#rayers ever avail,
thL# will be ray most fervent one. You know if is said, ’ Seek
and thou shalt find.’ But new allow me te remind you, that if
I shall be obliged te bake cakes, broil cutlets, and prepare wine
for you, and you will bave te pack, se we musb separate; there-
fore I ara obliged te leave you."
#Vith a friendly courtesy, Amelia lef# him. As soon as she
had gone, De Goesse exclaimed, extending his hands toward
heaven,
"If is all over. I bave lest ber ! but I ara a Goesse. Only
the dark shadows of the night shall be the witnesses of my grief,
and conceal if with their gloomy rail of woe I"
As we new part with our charming chamberla# for ever, we
deem if our duty te add that he kept his word faithfully, and did
net even communicate te his confidential friend, the lieutenant,
how the affair really ended.
"I)o net ask me," he would say, when questioned; "I ara a
man, and men de net tell their secrets, like boys–I know how
te bear my çate !"
Six months afterwards, if was reported that he said te a
maiden, who was as handsome, but net se intelligent as &mel#a
" l#esemble ber whom I adored, and you will be my idol !"
The girl promised te de ber best; and if is said that the
chamberla# had se much reason te be satisfied with ber, that
he never repented of his second choice.
Ai Tunefors everything was new dreary. After the cham-
berlain had departed, the baron seemed te care for nothing else
than te hasten Ms own del#ar#ure–a#g his best, by-the-by,
that he v¢as of the opinion that the lieutenant-colonel was right,
that he se soon put an end te the chamberlain’s suit; for if
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