Part 43 (1/2)

There is pleasure into confer a favor

--_La Bruyere_

586

FAVORITISM

A little figure glided through the hall

”Is that you, Pet?” the words came tenderly

A sob--suppressed to let the answer fall,-- ”It isn't Pet, mama, it's only me”

The quivering baby-lips! They had not , But to thatwent; She heard, and stood like a convicted thing

One instant, and a happy little face Thrilled 'neath unwonted kisses rained above; And from that moment ”Only Me” had place And part with Pet in tender mother-love

587

We like better to see those on e confer benefits, than those, alas! from e receive them

588

It is not the quantity of the uests, which makes the feast

--_Lord Clarendon_

589

Feast to-day with many makes fast to-morrow

--_Plautus_

590

FEASTING AND FASTING

Accustoo on your lut your appetite; But check it always, and give o'er With a desire of eating more; For where one dies by inanition, A thousand perish by repletion: To ood,-- It ventilates and cools the blood

--_Raynard_

591

Every young man has a fine season in his life when he will accept no office, and every young woman has the same in hers, when she will accept no husband; by and by they both change, and often take one another into the bargain