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signora was mistaken in the man, that he had never been under that window be fore in his life, had never seen the Signo from the monster Man as are the women. rina Juliet, daughter of Capulet the piz of a Turkish seraglio or the nuns of a zicarole who lived above, but that he was merely accompanying his friend Romeo, who loved Juliet the daughter of the dm c/zicre who lived a story below, and who was now wooing her softly two or three windows away. A shriek was his re sponse as the wrathful head disappear ed, while the lying Romeo laughed wick edly and the Leatherstonepaughs immod erately, in spite of themselves, to see Ju liet, daughter of the drochiere, electrically abstracted from /zer window as if by the sudden application of a four-hundred-em raged-mother-power to her lofty chignon ly and freely carried on than in the by streets of the Eternal City, where girls are thought to be as jealously secluded

from behind, while the three Romeos, evi

dently all strangers to each other, folded their tents like the Arab and silently stole away. The Leatherstonepaughs always sus

ROMEO.

European convent. These Romeos and Juliets usually seem quite indifferent to the number of unsympathetic eyes that watch their little drama, providing only Papa and Mamma Capulet are kept in the dark in the shop below. Even the observation of Signor and Signora Mon tague would disturb them little, for it is only Juliet who is guarded, and Romeo ' is evidently expected to get all the fun out of life he can. In their dingy vicolo the Leatherstonepaughs have seen three Romeos watching three windows at the same twilight moment. One ofthem stood under an open window in the third story, from whence a line was dropped down to receive the letter he held in his hand. Just as the letter-weighted line was drawn up a window immediately below Juliet's was thrown violently open, and an un romantic head appeared to empty vials JULIET. of wrath upon the spectacled Romeo be pected that no lordly race, from father's low for always hanging about the win dows of the silly pz'zzz'carole girls above father to son's son, had ever dwelt in their immense palace. They suspected rather and giving the house a ridiculous ap pearance in the eyes of the passers-by. that it was, like many another mighty Romeo answered audaciously that the Roman pile, reared by plebeian gains to