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...most ambitions pieces of prose in this number of the Advocate. The heroine of the tale is a chorus girl in Francis Wilson's Opera Company who is loved wisely and well by a Harvard man, who marries another girl, however, and who herself finally marries his valet. Cupid still continues to stretch "the silver cord of love" between the Harvard man and his operatic loved one, and as the correct working out of the plot demands that they should come together, the wife of the Harvard man and his valet very conveniently fall off a wharf and are drowned...
...ninth number of the Advocate is, on the whole, a good one. The stories are light and usually well told. The one giving evidence of most careful finish is "Cupid's Brush," an international episode of which the scene is laid first in the Louvre at Paris; secondly, in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The story has considerable snap and comes to an end at the right moment. The conversations are written with spirit...
...goes to Memorial, and eats a cold breakfast, my cupid...
Back runs the laughing Cupid...
Sweet little Cupid's arrows...