It was because you were to me a dream realized.

So it came about that I heard your true history.

Now will you be my friend ?" "If you still wish it, Lord Arleigh, yes; but, if you repent of having asked me, and should ever feel ashamed of our friendship, remember that I shall not reproach you for giving me up." "Giving you up ?" cried Lord Arleigh.

"Ah, Madaline--let me call you Madaline, the name is so sweet--I shall never give you up! When a man has been for many years looking for some one to fill his highest and brightest dreams, he knows how to appreciate that some one when found." "It seems all so strange," she said, musingly.
"Nay, why strange?
You have read that sweetest and saddest of all love stories--'Romeo and Juliet ?' Did _Juliet_ think it strange that, so soon after seeing her, _Romeo_ should be willing to give his life for her ?" "No, it did not seem strange to them," she replied, with a smile; "but it is different with us.

This is the nineteenth century, and there are no _Juliets_." "There are plenty of _Romeos_, though," he remarked, laughingly.