Excerpt from The Coraddi, Vol. 33: May, 1929 This afternoon when we had just sold enough writing to relax a while, Jack and I were idly theorizing over our pipes in Jerry's Restan rant. Having nothing to do and' plenty of time to do it in, we noticed a young girl, Sitting before the front window. There was something naively appealing about her freshness; and, in the play of sunlight and shadows, She made a charming picture. Evidently the young man at the third table away thought so too. When he heard Jerry demand roughly why she seldom ordered anything, Barry's heart went out to her. There were tears in her eyes. He gives twice who gives quickly, but all he could give her was the flower he had just bought. He had not enough money to buy his own supper now, but he had hoped that the hyacinth would give him an idea for a Sketch. Some thing about the girl reminded him of the white hyacinth. A step away from her, he hesitated. If he were embarrassed now, it was the first time in his life. As She turned and looked quizzically up at him, he blushed impudently. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.