HER OPINION.

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HER OPINION.

Mr. Sidener had made his first public speech.. His- subject was good—the iniquities of industrial economy—and he hoped his treatment had been adequate. He was riot sure. He waited for his wife’s verdict, but she was strangely silent. She had listened to him from the gallery of the town hall, and he had half expected her to meet him at the door afterwards, and to say as soon as they; were out of “ Oh, it was simply great, Eddy !” But they were half-way home and she had said nothing of the kind. “ Well,” he began awkwardly, wbrn he could hear it no longer, “ wh.it did you think of my speech ?” “ What you said was all rlg’-;t,” she answered with guarded cuth-is-iasm, “but it seemed to as tb-nt you didn’t make‘ the most of yo-r opportunities." ; “ Opportunities ?” repeated Mr. | Sidener. “ What do; you mean, Bffle?” “ Why,” Mrs. Sidener replied. “y*ju had over bo many »Kiumck.- to sit down before you did." I