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in them as almost moved one to shriek.
“Then you may,” she gasped gravely and
gratefully, and clasping our hero around the
neck wilii overfl
I’ll kiss you, toi
. „ —■ound tin
ving emotion, added, “And
I p to this time there had been no thought
fo ,| alousy between the brothers. Now th. v
ere no longer satisfied .
together, or with walking
and both
It 1
THE BACHELOR’S DECREE.
iu: siioi
“Will you gi
private
The young man asking
troubled with shortness of i
disease, the peeul.ur, harm]
ill shortly appeal
ant n
* /.• “i t" \
“Certainly, Mr. Forbes, if it is important
eonard, you may leave tin* cuuutitig-roon
ou ar
clerk yed, and, closing the door be
hind him, left Jude Marabout, Esc. bache
lor. and young Earnest Forbes i.y tliem-
selvi
bn
The latter cleared his throat tin
■vera word followed: while his aspect was
vi'h whom ne hall proresseu
said, with characteristic
inner:
nallv the per:
to have busi
promptness o
“Well, sir . ,,, ,
••vie Marabout,’ symptoms of aiiothc.
' i i am deeph interested in your
Crd Li ward -Mi s A,:..
W •••atlev. I beg leave to address her
“V,- sir U ell. sir. \ our request is not
bv auy’means so rare and extraordinary as
f” 1,.,‘ve startled me. nor need you have so
disconcerted yo urself about it. \ on are in
fact, o; lv one of a class, a class 1 am Ret* to
s*i\ alrcaily l::rge enough, liowevei. The
bachelor' e. n-id'7-ied a moment, while the
vouth si.Kid gasping before him like an un
iuckv trout heposit-d on the. shore of its na
tive brook “1 have good reasons for doubt
L', :- Mr Marabout said, “whether Miss All
com wants a lover. She is accustomed o n
frankly to make known her wisl
1 really have revel understood her as lilt
mating that a lover was among the thing
essential to her happiness.
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’j S' i V.. - "W
.?■/> t L,- VC —
Nsa ' ' bf/-. vr ■ ,-Y. ; a _> •••/ '*£ ’ . *
Xs ;'n-; • N'f-V/:v V •, VV?T '• t
' .'-TP- ■ . 1 -c*,. - -
“t111, sir
v. r in 1<
‘•Which
you are too -
ve, 1 suppose,
is but anotlu l
i>r broken any
broken my b
judg,
'lute
1 ha
foi
woman
rt for any woman.
..hat view I take of marring
.f that, marrying and givin
will
It i
i oil >1 ii
for the
Perhaj*
not bins
- emit iime to the end of
• e each generation makes
( iilrations that are to come after
bv wa** of discipline toan individual
could be better than marriage. In
v. it i
our own ea:
and
He thinks i
said the youi
thank you:’’
very good.”
"No doubt.
will P
1)11!
lie
man, 1 svi ipathize
•ove that I <lo.”
needy of discipline, ’
t aside. "Thank you—
•laimed. “Sir, you are
Fi irl ii
call
ni i.avi
ed the'
■ou and
ng; there is no
my permission
ppiy
cratefi
II 1 ref
1 fo
ittor may have r<
a your part: oil
• thing more.’’
.durably set abaft
nine
•d 1
Well,
both
r haste; but y<
j and w in her, i
“Thanks,” reiterat
“Believe me, sir, 1
your ci ndi sc. n s n,
mg toward the door.
“Stop. sir. This m:
a satisfactory issue o
however, tin re is som
The applicant, eons
slowly forward again.
“1 beg vour pardon, sir. I It
encroaching too much mi your time ’
“Vonr father,’’ pursued Mr Marabout,
without noticing the ap 'logy, .
We wen classmates and fronds: we stmted
business in partner-hip. It might have lieen
letter for me had the partnersmp continued:
f..r v-mir father, though dying when he had
hardly arrived at middle life, amassed, so 1
have been informed, a very handsome ior-
’ U “To which 1 am sole heir. Yes. sir, if this
were not the case-if 1 had not the means to
support a wife, 1 assure you. sir, l should
,f any impin t.inee without
ibai i m. W In'll she g“ts a
ne ever comes—my author
, . No sooner. And l can safely
you that should you live to commit
i-’s foil, ill!nigh it Were on tile very
; of yoiK imirnige day, y«*u wu.i.'l
; Alieine forever.**
ill the woi id is lie going to know i.
..nicely questioned tin young man w.tl.m
h ms If. “Has he as many eyes as A g i- . I"
it likely Miss Alieine w ni.d tell aim '‘ei~-ii ■
“The vomig lady,’’said her unel. Ernest
started at the directness with wloea lie r> -
-ponded to his thought—“mu-t know liotn
s„LT at all -f the matter. 1
Iiliieli
rnest
m this j.oiiit as on the other,
y, u are satisfied, well. S . am 1.
all" , ...
The youth, in a rather da/, d state.
Ik* Imagined, repeated his aeki.owded;
for the last tiny, nod si wi tin lieu. •
j,,iis had lie been for the result ot h's
tiini, that to have insured its su 1
would jovially have submitted to an
lions involving less than the mpi;
ri'dit hand or plucking out a l 'gin **.
ter the interview lie was too mue.i <•
..jv,. a thought to the slight I*-rn-r.
rarv withal, between himself and
feiicity. Tin’ same evening Ii" wei
upon the lady who liad eaptiiateu hi-
sc.nl and spirit : and there Ins troiil
If
I m-
, is nidi-
ig oil' a
e. Af-
ated to
tempo
gated “Wl
l bus rut hie- ■
“He Sl.di
wita Miss W
A inu-ieal coime o
deeisiiill, but Krn* T
m*>re a enlpi it. 1'
I ke a ship in a stoi
rotiseie"iv seemed
pineushei he reach
; of Alieine, who sb
blushing and non i“ ist.ant.
s'.iut was thill : s. t f 1 before a famishing
man and tell him i' :s poisoned. Temp: th ■
h imesiek voyager I" lake pass ig*' t-«r u s in
tile land ill a sent! i"d and silking shut, let
i.k tli'-v knew wi n heard tie-judgment light
ly, the bic long eousei|ii 'lice*. it involved.
Wliat eoiii 1 Ernest Fori.es do that wool I no:
be done a! pel’ll almost ot his life!
••Co i.a and win,’’saidthe lover’s tyilgenius
in bis »ar. “Never mind the promise to the
ol i f 11 ;\v. r.v.s ail a tar.-e— he wants osee
hou “•re.at a ninny you would consent to be
d>il lit ion at
• been very
.an, as it proved eon
• anxious t,> <-ut i -tl
trawise. The lover
,t,l of thankfulness
ift.-ner at the time in
giardian an old
nillsbme around
fifty fat'iioms of
o time tile old
= friend a deli-
ad undertaken
ilure; so
.1 to le i that his
1, was no j .ke,
i late hours; so
lgly as usual. In
at w liat her guar
in 111 i.iee over
suftiei-
Her lips were raised to his, he bending over
her, clasping her as a treasure reclaimed.
What were an old bachelor’s wliimsie.
that he should lie expected to remember
them there.' Swept away like a spider’s wel
forgotten utterly as they deserved
the kiss was exchanged—so very, verv
it, the recording angel, if he puts such fra
grant things among the leaves of his book,
need scarce have waited the fuller consum
illation. But such record would need
have been blotted out with a tear not of pity garded
but penitence, as being all untrue.
There was still a hair breadth by exact
measurement between the two pairs of lips.
Ail object passed swiftly before Hu* young
man’s vision, he felt his moustache brushed
not lightly by a pair of knuckles. His own
hands relaxed their clasp, and cowering like
a schoolboy under the master’s rod. seemed
to say with him—“Twasn’t me, sir—l haven’t
done nothing.”
“Naughty child!” said the vi.ii Mr
Marabout, “so you are determined not to let
ti e day end wi limit a traced\ !” and easting
on Ernes' tie- ln.*l; of . tb-ndt-i Joy . he bore
his niece down the rocks to a safer footing.
M hetlier she had detected his ni\e terious h
ire, or from whatever onus.*, Alieine, with m
s« miming eyes, murmured: m
“till, uncle, do be grateful to Ernest; I
iholild surely have fal'eu and been drowned
Now th
ith their evenings
. or with riding, or
. "" mg m joint companionship, but each cov
e ed her society all to himself. These feeling
grew as the years went by, until at length
then mutual affection was diminished and
they felt themselves to be rivals. Celia, said
my uncle, liked them both
Almost liibited any 1.referee.
hop,
nor had ever
- -aeh cherished his
inning her finally, and neither dur-t
venture on hastening her decision
si ; e Df.mi* at last, ln*r school days
,’ w f ,'.. * ,u1, there was no inon.* happv chiM
n'Rnl for any o( them. The young men n
h other with feelings of hatred,
- Acre a> glad as they once were
rv that their n lationsliip was not closer
t. haiipeiied not ;,,ng alter Celia’s return,
that I aul was sudilenlv
iness to be al sei
mined before tin
■ailed a wa v on 1 m
t a week, and Jude dete
linn* expired to make m
a other a formal off,
for his success led in
piestion ns long as pi.ssibh
It in her undivided
uted with
of his hand.
Him.
it t.<
w ere, a] wa\
alwa\ - ubs
It
Haul
I*ri
the after:
A i
■ver, to defer tie
'• ‘ s " happy had
society, he could
matters as they
brother would be
S|l
et
.•{ii i ■
■d ba<
•d fo
' !•
If the ,1a
Ji
on
can
vliii
i .to ii
but for him.”
’ Fiddlestiel
this
folio
>g I*
gain.
You romantic y
pie are forever getting yotir.-e
situations that you may begotten .
if he had not mounted up there after vom
little silly self, you would have had no nee.
aved. You are a pair i f tomtits
no more. There, Allie, darling,'
• guardian, tones and words c, n
rangelv v\ ith the utterances e!ia:
1 just passed his lips, “be good after this
lout make us fret any more.’’ And
eming loth, he released her from his arms.
Hi the flight of time, that day brs ily lie d
: p ol the present, was numbered
past. Young Forbes had been out
of town a week, and ou the i
after his return, hastened to tlu*
betrothed. By rare good fortune
Alieine alone. Neither Mi
of being
and kno
added ii
trusting
and
rith tin
down tli
walk of theiis
as a fa v. •ruble 1
ed. A1,,ng the ...
st rip of Woods. As he c
glmipses of the object o:
tn-> rivr. leaning alist
>ree, her hat d, pen,ling 1
her arm like a hanging
with \\ il . vim s to ttie ; r,
stretching over tli sides
i’ll is is just mi Ullele’s ....
flier" .-onsiderable r,,in i.
i 1?
“A? the same mom mt .
in e ,light sight of
ug the shallow river
ectiy opposite when
lave b
■Celia. She had
iih. which was a tav
b* said to himself tie, -
■ginning, and instan' 1.
river i, ink was a thin
e entered it be raugl :
of ills search close o.
dly against a
Strings from
t. and drape.;
with tl..wei-s
•k aft, r then:
i II—and isii ;
■ .a: him aft, ■
his b
•n stepping
elia.
in
M:
tl.
■•bout.
Ilivls.-V,.
at. any timi
the cushion of
fear of him co
a* iug as a res
that gentlema
“i think 3
-*, h-
iGU w.
- terrib!e Ki tj:iv
;iiaet extern, ■ :
tart out of the wail "t
f his arm-eiiai*’. He
Oiistailtlv before lii.s e.'
eraintonly second ill
actual presence.
Marabout could
vening
home of his
found
hem
they
lid not
almost
• pns '
d 1:
rt in the in.
•k eg another ivay
er one another til!
There could
bet We,
l.e
■ via-
his
, fr,,n
al tl.
it u iv,
visitor
red bv
known of my return.’’ remarked the
with a shrug too slight to be obse
eves so unsiispeeting. ■
‘ ,y-„ jnd. ,*il.” was A lie! lie’s innocent ’reply.
.‘ or he would have been here to welcome you.
Dear Guardian! wliat ail interest lie takes m
our till’uirs, and he an old bachelor, you
know.”
“And how is M ss Eva. -
■•| declare. I've not seen her this wholi
(lav. 1 have not been out. for th-reason
that 1 felt, every moment that ymi. Ernest
would tie here. 'I sent word by Evas 1, til,
brother as he passed Horn school, tout slit
must he niire end , .,uie to see me t,> night
but he said he heard her tel! t loir mother sin
was going to the San toy Fair. I
yesterd-ii I nele Jude I do not
• l.e 1-:
sine:
elill
know
s would
1 1 must
tine voice tremulous
• long years I have
stoo 1 too much in awe of you to kiss yon. 1
have kissed you—have I oifended you Celia :
“She dropped her eyes, blushing, and mill
replied by a gentle inquiry after his welfare.
U 'ul.ile s my father f**lt that that moment
w 1 l the eri.-is of his fat ■: and he sail’, red it
not to pass without fully declaring his low
oid winning a promts" l liat she would be his
Pride. And concealed 11’, oil ilit ir view, yet
, near as to watch ov> ry lo,*k and hear ev
•rv word, was tie- other, my uncle, who ha ;
loied her no less. < >11 th * spot he made a
vow that he would in-ver kiss any woin ii.
And isn't it strange, Ernest, though he pets
ale so, lie never kis-a s me, never. 1 am gi ; 1
j the oath did nor forbid any ail to ki-y
b in: for 1 could never sle, p uyain unles, i
regularly k.ssed him go ,1 night -dear soul
At this stage of her narrative. Ahe in-
|o Ued so entirely bewitching, that her Love*'
! who had listened to the last few selltewe-
with deeper interest than she could kuoii.
was never nearer pressing ins lips t lire's,
i ut at that moment her poodle started out ■
d< ar, i
her fat
' ilillis.
idillgenti
el*, urg
He’ll
ever ku
mid
id if he should, what
make of your kissing the girl
• in. and ca:i get out only ill
ike vourself ndi.
H irnest
that,
niirj t
this eoiiipany—the young lady i 1-mg
/:li lliiiik you ai
nlinglv
a fool and ilespis
hei
ijil ion
But mu
brie
A lovely gir
but between t!
e ted, aeeomp
w i and just s
and
ill have
tongue
•uiioth. It said tins in a space ol lime
wa-ui*.,ble to tho'-e around. M* hat was
p, happen next, did not happen.
; well j th
id of
insis
irth.
er blondi
in Figure
sparkling
nor
[i ri
• l :-
:id.
nr
at all hazards,
guardian, .1 m
•limax for him.
“< if course—of course. Young people are
proverbially thoughtful and eonseientious m
these matters, Ml allusion to vour tathei
was simply in explanation of the readmess
with which I have entertained your proposal
—having denied a score like it I have a
condition to impose, my friend: if you accept
it our business is really settled. . ,,
“1 am su-e you have but to name it, sir.
“Hum I " ill pro. to do that. It is,
that first or 1 .st, you shall never during your
eourt-liip, k iss my niece. "
sir'" protested the young man, blush
inf to the eyes, “1 should not think of pre-
sun -indeed, V.y no means.”
verv well. 1 am glad you find the
comfit ■ so entirely adapted to your style.
K.ssipg is a bad business ; it belongs to our
fallen te We have no account of kissing
previous to the sin of our first parents an 1
their eonsequent expulsion from 1 il ™’!'” c ’
No. But with that winch brought death in
the world and all our v,«e as Milton has it,
esme this nmie than doubtful I F
Whether lie go back to Bible times «*rstaiah
w itl.ii. the limits of our own ol'seriat.on «e
hnd plenty of camples.;hi^tS^
most'awful sufferings which man can mfhet
or endure. Beyond question, f .f
ponsible for one half at least, of the wrong
■e 11. \Yer-* her i ,ver. m
. utli bound to follow Cu
gilt be well" O addbv way
tii it she was all !.**ife-s
I t w as very probably for the best interest
of his suit, though lie l.y no means com i s • ■
it in :h it light, that Ericst found mm-eii
obliged *.« forego i he delivery of so ne liu-
Net speeches ivoie’u lie 11 1 pivp ip d b*r •b-
oeeasioii; Miss Alieine was already entert ain
ing eo.n’panv. A yomig couple aequ-.m
tanees ot his', full of pleasant chat. th. y made
room for him cordially, nor suspect-,1 mw
Uif r pivs-nce though i*hillmgat In ^ - '[ lA
lv ‘relieved him of all natural ‘■mbarra^
meats inei.lent to the Ume an P 1 u ;. - 1 ™ 1
., deluded improvement on what he hu<
Mb's Wheatley, too. had received him w ith
a ‘smile sweeter than the
^“.m'eh^dtrdniw b in like a magnet.
He had not tarried many minute^ when,
without any preconcert, the > ^
r ° VpE*I,,'rui \e'seemed to have registered
null spn its, fot tuue _ A little music,
them for a me O eienm„; be - found to
oftyr'vanl ciu hi c, ui • . . trenius
fit the iK-easion imt mip^ the r ^
“f the party miwiu e«l aj than when
not less amusing, I J j( an ,i com ted
our Krandinotiierb wtie A f .
SS h aT b to n wardersUip 1,e of a circulating
iiiis«fi
youth
part ■
■oil.
OUl tin- st
Sis IIIite
■eet, sinmltan-
f alarm from
1 in
■U li.-P. f it is.
M . - - Wh.-alle
.■aeli IllUil
■•Who of
nir store”’exclaimed a clerk
,'s drawing' room, breaking ; wm
■ j■ 1 e and rushing to a w in- ! p rpi
ns came away las*. I won- 1 fals ■
All
erii i a
slipp-,
“lip
her h
■aught the commi tion—the
as past. A ml In! as Alieine
- free and her spell bound
, . ,-ds of space intervene be-
tiveLi hir 'iieaiitiful lips and his own, trem
I * 1 i 11 • < with desire, there sat Jude
Mara.bout, E.-q , Guardian, coolly aojusUng
i is we dass tor communion witn the evening
paper. ° llow long he had been ill the room
none knew.
1 if cmirse their childish revelry was over;
although the master of the house, rising to
shake bauds all around, expressed the hope
that “they wouldn’t let his being there in
terrupt the ren joy luent in t he least. Ernest,
Oil his part, would gladly have jumped out
of the window, and took occasion to walk
out at the door us soon as he could do so with
propriety; at a safe distance down the street
lie felt between his paper collar and the
crown of his hat, and was unspeakably re
lieved to find his head there still.
Time passed, and Ernest was A1 cine’s
. shook his li-t
lmieioth beck, niut-
sn’t to last forever,
forth. Intolerant!
ys calling him the
• his half brother.
... ej es -hoiiid not be sufficient
r..n r il'd to bring iu an un
iat. Eva I : lemi had always
mo-t in- ii.iak' friend a fact
(.;• interested him before, but
,-r i! time.-. 1 ecu heard to ask,
t , “iMiu - ol'teiii-r, come every
.lid not like being alone.”
'orbes would not now see to
t. > r-date. the liacheh.r, begin-
■i:l. d crus'y abroad, who had
1 soei“tv as evil, grew suddenly
it, ami wht rev. r they went lie
• ■d on Alicin -'s friend making
He should not stay long, he
id Alieine w ould want her com
bo should come home early—so
lit. When sum-
lie four"pent a day at the beach,
t -1 p i: lor t i see and be seen, but
n.i usiii—lt-ss expanse of the blue
ilasl ed by the surf, or climbing
•,vi,i '!i A ieine performed feats
: i.ae-.o’s, !:■ cping her friends in a
x ibnurn*, lest she should by a
das led t* i pieces.
i louche 1 on cake and fruit with
llmg Ueiieucv taat unexiieetedly
l unpacking the basket; Eva had
n . self i i gather up the fragments
though Mr. Maraimt, ill nibbling at the
inexlia i-te.l supply, suggestial the propriety
of waiting tii 1 tlie multitude wet e all tilled.
Alieine hud escaped -perhaps was playing
chamois again, and at this thought her lover
silently withdrew to seek her.
He found her [torched on a pinaele of rock,
against whose base the billows rolled their
deep, organ tones, i.tenth gazing out to sea.
so still that but for the soft fluttering of her
drapeiy one might have lakeii her for a
statue chiselled from the same material as
the pedes'd on which she stood.
"Allie! love!”
She turned anil looked down, dropping a
wreath of smiles while her eyes still beamed
with the grandeur and glory they had gath
ered from afar.
‘•Come down, or—I’ll kiss you.
You daresn’t,” she cried with bewitching
Ollld
I>m O' I*
lie alw,
iner cu
Not in
under
firm-in
ml
mai
a] p
■e\ me
take him ■ - .
makem\sell as happy as l oi.rsl.
he t hought I was to be alone.
■Oh, I must ti ll you -uncle has admitted
me int o such a secret—tlu* secret of Jus hie.
I know now why he m ver married
“Faint heart." suggested Eru. -t, laughing.
“You liavc I'uess'il it. But. oh. Ernest, it
is not a bit funny -the story its i-ad. It
seems he 1 .ved mv mother once, anil it din s
not seem that she did not love him. His
mother, when hi- father marrie 1 iu r, was a
widow with ole' little si n, 1‘aul, mv lather.
When Haul was four pars old, Jude was
r ri;r chiMr n t*»n«liy uttarn©*! t*>
niie another, mv unel- savs. anil were halt
grown men bef.’.re they ev. r suspected they
w.-re not own brothers. And when one do\
an officii ms neighbor t< .Id tin m, and I he\ l an
[.,.mi* and inquired of their moth, r and huiuu
il, was SO. gnat boys as they were, they
t lirew their ai ms arimild one another s neck,
and cried bitterly. .
“Ab- ut that tune, mv mother, a little gut
near the age of Hitch* Jude, was adopted into
I the family. Her mother had died, and her
l]o was an arti>l , wont to re.Mm* nt
[’nele savs she was very beauliful
s wi-et-1e i* * [ it - red. mid soon
of the lions.hold. 1 h- t.oys were
xcessively fond of her. and vied with each
,1|,,-r in dancing attendance u[.oi, her juveti
!e lady ship, till it seemed only natural that
Vila should b.-trav symptoms of coquetry
j before she could talk plainly. But the lact
a ,,.„, ;ir s to be that she tried t . divide her
! smiles fairlv between her youth!ill admirers,
I anil found i' a hard matter to do without m-
‘curringthe imputati partiality. > ti..
the boys continued to be good fra uds. I er
haps they were a little vex-d il ore mtriided
him ui the pleasures ol the other, bu. ■ l > “Uis. ,
neither of them knew at that age. w hat leal
[ove was and their little flashes of unbrutli-
orlv ftoimg were gen,rally repented ot
the" next moment. For instance, when ncu
si umber on the rug
door, baik.ng very
it Ernest, winked t
ut him, as much
sir,—look out!" A
ed did look ..ut, am
through his frame,
ere.i t.
uali, and looking back
■ .ugh !ii- hite bris!les
! sav —“He’s coming.
;ee youth thus reuiind-
.vliile a slight shiver ran
t [i: m lently upright be
fat her
lb mie.
and ver
the idol
. i.le his ladv love. Mr. Marabout-, however,
dill not make his app. arane,* just then.
“That evening," Alieine resume,!, “my
uncle met my mother ill the garden. She
was looking pale and unusually iliseotnpos >d.
He began to bid her farewell, for he had de
termined to go away the next morning, when
she burst info tears, saying:
“1 ste you know all. I must have been be
side myself to day. J was surprised and be
wililereil and knew not w hat 1 did.
“Thinking then, my uncle says, that his
luippin, ss and hers were one. he endeavored
in the most persuasive terms, to induce her
to change her decision in favor of my fathei .
but she only answered that she should not
break her engagement. She was firm, and
tie* hope which had tl.tshed on my uncle s
heart for a moment, as speedily perished.
They parted there, never to meet again in
tliis'world. My unel,-sailed immediately f
Euro|ie, ami w as absent about two year-
“At the end of that tiiim I was born, iw -
days afterward my lather w..s thrown tro.m
the carriage and killed on the spot. Mj
mother 11,Ter n- . ver. d irum the shock hi-
il.aih occasiontii. When my uncle ar:i\ i.
for hi had hasten,si home as soon as lie 1: ird
the tidings, si.e was dead. lie received :
I message, which was that she had. alwu>
: loved him with more than sisterly alb-etion,
and dying, comni'ii led her daughter t" h -
te, after
yes, “ho
had be,
cure.
••My poor uncle!' added Alien
pause and wiping her tearful e
lit!le 1 thought such an experience
his.”
Her lover was siieiit, for his vows werestnl
upon him; hut he went away with ten.D r
• »!ings toward tin* bachelor guanlian, an 1
the next moment. tunnsiiaii<T t _«m.. y .y- o-t-.m- ...7 .
jtii k the pretty minx to rifle upon the more respect for his peculiai itics.
, 1 ~ 1 t .. 1 f*,.. 1 msf l’ii’lif fin., tii'.ii.itnr tlu'Y fi 111 *n< let I a 1
1 hue passed. «inu iyiik-sl >\*is ai v n»«- . , , , ., z
aeknoNvledgeil lover. He yvas the happiest of saneness, twirling her hat by the length ot
1 a 1 < 1.1,. tirnne Wa its strillC-’.
men, and the most miserable at times. He
could not stay apart from the beloved, and
in her presence the tear ot transgressing hei
uncle’s edict clung to him always, till he
seemed to himself the pony in the ring ridden
by a bear, only that the pony in the ring has
a cushion to save Ids llesh from the sharp
clayvs, and he had none.
Mr. Marabout—whom"Alicine’s lips were
ever opened to praise, though Ernest confess
ed to himself his inability to see the point—
orgot h " 1 ^ e J ) f a ta!s t ingi I of t a r 'delicious obtruded us much of his presence as possible,
its string-'.
Thus challenged her lover darted up the
cliff, seating the lofty parapet which she had
gained, none can tell how. In playful heed
lessness she took a step aside to elude him—a
single step, there yvas not another between
her and eternity. An instant her balance
seemed lost; h strong hand yvas just in time
to save. Ernest drew her to him in dumb
consternation. Her mvn mood had changed.
Every petal of the twin roses had fallen from
her cheeks; her eyes hud such a wild terror
, he considered that he had the best light
to her for the time being, atul wanted hei ml
to himself. He had procured tor her an odd
little hand-sled—a regular Russian concern,
with a high back and cu-liioiie.l seat-to be
[lushed instead of drawn: anil when Lelia
I instead 01 di.iwn, t.im. <r . M
ateil like a diminutive queen in tins, wunt to procure 101 Lei a gia
. . , 1.1 1 uni! .. I'roHiiitlv r»*t.nniimr. l
One evening they attended a party. Mr
Marabout, though he did not (lance, of eour--
appeared to enjoy the occasion no less than
his younger friends. Ernest and Alieine had
just <’>included a set; he led her «ut and seat
•tl her in a 1100k ot tlie conservatory while lie
»of cool lemon
Presently' returning, he bent over hir
fondly, while the deep shadows of ti group of
eamelias fell U[ion the fleecy yyliiteness of
her robe; she s.ppeil the refreshing beverage,
bv-and-liv asking in a whisper :
‘ Hid Allie ever knoyv of our attending the
was sealeo hm- r .
with the warm robes tucked around her, and
her little lap dog crouched down m tiont, he
would [uisli her swiftly about u[iun the ice.
“But us a general thing, on such occasions
my father yvas on the ice also. He was a
born skater and loved the sport, and w hile
Jude misheil the sled he yvould skate along , fair together , . , ..... .
beside it bending gracefully down to look in \\ hat ;’ he inquired, at no little loss as to
Celia’s face y' bile talking to her—sometimes i her meaning—thinking, perhaps, he had i.ot
iriviiur her a hit of eundv or a hot house rose I understood. . , . . , ,
to nudv ■ her bright eves'kindle w ith delight. I At the sound of his voice she started and
Perhaps at such times Jude yvould look at questioned, laughing as though at a foolish
Paul ae if he had three minds to pummel his | fear.
head; but that has nothing to do with the “It is you, Jude, isn t it .
story. A year or tyvo passed and t eha was j “Allie ! he articulated,
sent awav to school and for weeks they were “No—it is your Eva.
quite wretched without her. She and the At that instant Mr. Marabout came up, his
two lioys met only at vacation which she | (Concluded on Sth page.)
always spent at home.