OVER-CURIOUS.
“ I wish I was a star,” he said, smiling at his own poetic fancy. “ I would rather you were a comet,” she said, dreamily. His heart heat tumultuously. “And why ? ” he asked, tenderly, at the same time taking her unresisting little hand in his own; “ and wlxy P” he repeated, imperiously. “ Oh,” she said, with a brooding earnestness that fell freezingly upon his soul, “ because then you would come round only once every fifteen years !”
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 7, 13 May 1893, Page 10
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76OVER-CURIOUS. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 7, 13 May 1893, Page 10
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