VOLUME XIX

THE BASHFUL LOVER

PRINTED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH

GEORGE BARRIE’S SONS

THE JEFFERSON PRESS

BOSTON NEW YORK

_Copyrighted, 1903-1904, by G. B. & Sons._

THE BASHFUL LOVER

Shyness is a failing for which it is dangerous to reprove those whom we wish to correct of it.

_Maxims_ of LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.