ENCOURAGING!
Carefully had he chosen the time, the place, and the occasionbut all to no purpose Percival had been rejected. Slowly he rose from his knees and gazed wistfully at Miss Clementina Goldeyes as she sat fanning herself, seemingly unaffected by his emotion. . * “Then this, I take it, is final?” he said at last. “Very well, Miss Goldeyes I Maybe you have spurned me. But, though disappointment gnaws at my heart, I will not die. No; I will go out into the great world. I will fight—win! My name shall be on every man’s lips. My riches ” Miss Clementina raised her eyes and silenced the young man’s eloquence. “I am sorry to interrupt,” she said, “but when you’ve done all those things, I don’t see why you shouldn’t try again.” And Percival walked —rejected, dejected. ■ AAAAAAAAAA
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New Zealand Tablet, 19 January 1922, Page 46
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136ENCOURAGING! New Zealand Tablet, 19 January 1922, Page 46
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