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A Service Of Love
by
“I didn’t,” said Joe, “until to-night. And I wouldn’t have then, only I sent up this cotton waste and oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron. I’ve been firing the engine in that laundry for the last two weeks.”
“And then you didn’t–“
“My purchaser from Peoria,” said Joe, “and Gen. Pinkney are both creations of the same art–but you wouldn’t call it either painting or music.
And then they both laughed, and Joe began:
“When one loves one’s Art no service seems–“
But Delia stopped him with her hand on his lips. “No,” she said– “just ‘When one loves.'”