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A CHILD OF SORROW

sentimental and literary outbursts. One day he took him aside and jokingly said:

"So, my dear old boy-you found your damsel, eh?"

"When there is nothing harmful about it!"

"Harmful? But, ay, from a tiny acorn grows up a giant oak."

"Then," replied Lucio, "watch the outcome."

They laughed and forgot about it. But that night Lucio dreamed of another being and his heart throbbed the faster and with stranger emotions.

Camilo, the good friend, followed Lucio's trend of thought, for he divined it all but kept silent.

Lucio's interest in his studies was flagging and fading almost abruptly until he left it altogether. His manners became calm and pensive, and we found this passage entered in his diary:

"Met a young girl, scarcely a flower-born-called Rosa Garcia. She is as fair as the April morn-fresh as the morning dew-lovely as the June flower-not like her name's flower. But her mild look into my eyes burned into love and kindled the ambers of passion; sweet and disturbing, but soothing, wild and penetrating, but exhilarating. I do not contain myself. Let me think I am lost-lost-lost in love.... Love! How sweet, how mysterious!..."

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