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an awful radical or red republican who would kill his 

 man ! as he would a fly, etc., etc. any qualification 

 of that sort. 



My second look at her, always through the glazed 

 sashes, brought to my mind that rule of Latin and 

 French grammar : " Gallus escam quaerens, margaritam 

 reperit," anglice, "A cock searching for food, found a 

 pearl ! " That which I translated off-hand in my mind, 

 u Gallina, a hen, searching for flowers, found " an 

 admirer, a lover, or a husband ! You see that I did 

 not lack presumption. I confess it now, but I would 

 not have done it then, though, shortly after, two or 

 three days later, when we came in contact, I felt the 

 same sensation, ambition to possess her, but I did not 

 express it ; although I have always been somewhat apt 

 to blunder I did not in that instance. I kept my dig- 

 nity though, according to the friendly reports at 

 that time, I could or would 'kill a man, but at the 

 same time I would not have slighted a woman. In 

 that first encounter, we had very nearly collided. 

 She was turning round a building to see me, and I was 

 coming in the opposite direction, walking fast, when 

 we almost fell in each other's arms, or at least face to 

 face. Was not that a strange coincidence ? We both 

 looked at each other, as you may fancy, with surprise ! 

 for neither of us were prepared to such a sudden en- 



