126 devoting his whole life to the benefit of others. A great many conjectures were made as to the probable cause of the strange life he led. Evidently something had diverted him from the ordinary path of life. It appears that in early life, Johnny, like the rest of us, had had a little romance of his own. On one occasion he was asked if he would not be a happier man, if he were settled in a home of his own, and had a family to love him. He opened his eyes very wide—they wer.e remarkably keen, penetrating grey eyes, almost black—and replied that all women were not what they professed to be ; that some of them were deceivers ; and a man might not marry the amiable woman he thought he was getting. after all. Then he said oue time he saw a poor, friendless little girl, who had no one to care for her, and sent her to school, and meant to bring her up to suit himself, and when she was old enough he intende’d to marry her. He clothed her and watched over her; but when she was fifteen years old, he called to see her once unexpectedly, and found her sitting beside a young man, with her hand in his, listening to his silly tw’addle. He grew.very angry while relating his story.
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