His Love Story by Marie Van Vorst

In the month of May, when the chestnuts bloom in the green dells, / where the delicate young foliage holds the light as in golden cups, a / young man walked through one of the small _allées_ of the Bois at the / fashionable noon hour, a little reddish dog trotting at his heels. / The young man walked with an imperceptible limp. He was thin as men / are thin who have lived hard and who have overcome tremendous / obstacles. He was tanned as men are browned who have come from / eastern and extreme southern countries.

The little dog had also an imperceptible limp occasioned by a bicycle / running over him when he was a puppy.