I wouldn’t have a milk-and-water chap.

The man has not a single spark or ‘go.’

He’s not worth loving.”—“Yet I love him so.”

V. Her own.

“And were he everything to which I’ve listened;

Though he were ugly, awkward (and he isn’t),

Poor, lowly-born, and destitute of ‘go,’

He is worth loving, for I love him so.”

Chambers’ Journal.