One incident of it do I remember most distinctly,that having, with consummate generalship, cornered Mistress Dorothy under a sprig of mistletoe, I suddenly found myself utterly bereft of the courage to carry the matter to a conclusion, and allowed her to escape unkissed, for which she laughed at me most unmercifully once the danger was passed, though she had feigned the utmost indignation while the assault threatened.

The pagan's heart asunder with cunning skill he cleft; Down upon the grass he fell, of life bereft.

quoth he, breathing short and loud, "an evil day for a fat man who hath been most basely bereft of a goodly ass holy Saint Dunstan, how I gasp!"

From the tip of her pert little hat to the toes of her ultra-fashionable shoes she was expressive of the independent rising generationa generation wiser in the ways of the world than that from which it was sprunga generation strangely bereft of genuine youth, yet charming in an entirely modern and unique manner.