From the first flowery lips that open to them.”

XX.

“Nay,” answer’d I, “I like him not for that,—

Because a man!”

“What?—not for that?” she said:

“Aha, have shrewder plans?—I know, I know

It would be well if you, or I, could feel

That all were settled for our wedded life;

So many ifs and ifs, it vexes one;