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women believe in the man they love ? They 

 invest him with the most wondrous powers, 

 with indomitable courage, with chivalry and 

 heroism unequalled ; and what humbugs a lot 

 of us are too, when all is said and done. Un- 

 fortunately, after matrimony, many a time and 

 oft, comes the rude awakening, and they find 

 out that we are not only mortal, but very 

 mortal at that, and poorish things after all. 



As is always the case on these occasions, a 

 policeman was quickly on the spot, accom- 

 panied by three or four other foot passengers, 

 and after giving the policeman his card, and 

 telling the cabman to come and see him the 

 following morning, Reginald popped Lina's arm 

 into his, and walked to a cabstand a hundred 

 yards the other side of the bridge. 



