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The Harvest of the Heart
.PER
Wt• • at Itenenth the apple h00,1e3,
Upon that wel I ren.rollseled day,
A,W. ph mule,: el the •tantner
The ripened , Wlllll, 1/001 e u, lay.
01. joyful 1.:41e1 Ol
Yon. 1111
IMES
S.a in
my own—lii, 4.111.1 om•
Could irptieli It. Out li iq. m till !ad
WO W:110, d th^ 1n00Y•I. n, iln•y
Anent their 1ou•
And saw 1111. ',tinned ph J.x f ill
Before their clw dy. mveupi,,z blow 4.
And earth and sky %vete full of love;
It breathed from every balmy le,f,
And ~.mne 11.1” 0-. tho goalra fic:d
Front entry golden•m+•eled -hear.
The leaned to hear the -mix
The lively brook sang running by;
Tbe old oak moved his gram head
In joy, appruvingly on high.
The wild bar droned upon lua way,
To Fro an will' the dainty ro-e;
And far nway I!'c Lan' hills
%Vern wrapand in tbealny •oa ose
The robin rocked upon the -pray,
Anti poured 1111011 'he fungi:Alit alt
A flood of unittuAllt melody
That woke the woo Hand everywhere
Oh. height:)• shone the lilt,: then!
r.w. et tea- the •o.tg the runnel -a ng,
And dear the tn.•rry f 111111 1 7• peps
That round ti- clearly, lithely rang.
Andy nu tVIIO sat. with bleshotig eh« t ki
Aud dowheugt eye-, vie,: di city
Long elle the leave- their puree .tom
Bad ptomt-ett ‘vou.i.l he my
liarve-: of) ha- come and goat
Cterc we two 5..11 Lrue.nh ihe :Ice
And) et it li.en Gum tut Mrlll,
L • crn 11.11/gill b it to MC
A time of all the
That loci can to u• impuz'i
The gortieling of earile-t love--
The fi of the heart
A Little While
Beyond the sirtling and the weeping,
I -11,411 lie soon;
13,.. ) ,:‘,1 ow 3.1 a 6 Mg .11,1 the •leepteg,
.13e3 °eel the .otrwg and the fenpmg.
I .11:11i I -onn
Love. on -t and lAntue.
I=
I.nrd, lorry 1101 but come
131) and tinr blooming anti the fading,
• I -ball be coon;
13eyoaLl the , Imane nu,l ille
it,)01,,1, the awl lime tire: Wing,
I , ball
Love, ie.n. utid hrmrh
Swoet home!
Lor.i. LJII ry not, but come
Ileyond :he rigior ilhtl I lie setting,
,h.itt be -non;
Beyond ihe ealfziwg and the netting.
Be) end remethhe,m4 ~nd [oQ:clung,
I shall
Love, .e.t, wid home
Swet 11.1tc!
Lord, t.n nut. Inn enne
113eY011(1 tire feiralez and the ntcettng•
•unit;
Beyond for limn ell nil On. g - reli:•g r
113:: mot for l e v e r
.nn
lESTI
tt cl llntnt
Sweri home:
1... rd. t. not. but 00,71
Deyoncl the tin and the fever,
I .1.1111 t.t,-ortn;
IR nu'
'he 10 , 1%-IVII-le Qllll the river,
lie) and the ever ood the never ?
I Ithe'l 100 -non
Love. req. am! home!
S sect
=IIIMI
getirtiiaits.
Carlyon's Vacation
DONT UR TROLLED ron JACK. AND COT DOCKED
DP CUPID
[coNT]:quED.]
CIIAPTER 111
ristrlxc FOR A HEART
The next morning, as soon as breakfast
%vas over, C.Lrlyun prepared to start for his
seventh heaven, fur though very unlike old
Izaak: Walton in temperament, he resembled
him epeedingly in the ardor of his piscatory
passion.
"Your paradise, Lion, trill be full of chalk
streams to a deed certainty. I believe, on
my soul, you'd prefer a 31b. trout to a blacl.•-
eyed houri," said Da Plat, as Philip un
packed his tackle and flies with all a lover's
girder.
"3.luch safer game k this world, at any
rate, and much less expensive,"? said Car
lyon. "Your rod will never deceive you,
never alter, and never pall; you•can't say as
much for houris. old fellow. Won't , you
come and try the charmers hid in the waters
of the Alder?" • .
" nit. I. I'm ding 1.0 the ACIIOOI-1 . 00111 to
h..ar Smllls %ay their catechism. You know
my right feelings on such subjects, and I've
an idea I'm gnlfather to one of them."
Carlson looked scorn unutterable. "I
don't doubt you'll show, tote-a-tcte with your
Andalusian beauty, that you consider your
duty to your neighbor is to love her as your
self."
EEEI
“Well! I may as well set my affections
on a live governess as a dead pike any day.
I bet you toy sport in the school-room will
be as good as yours in the Alder.” And
Du Plat sprang up the stairs, three at a time,
to the school-room, where he obtained the
young Chips an immediate holiday, and
sang duets with the governess all the morn-
Mg. Carlyon went forth to his loves—jack.
porch, trout and notch—beauties, to watch,
ever ',ince lie fi-died for sticklebacks with a
phial, lie had always been addicted.
Day after day he spent crouching down
in the sloppy grass, it shower wettin g , bite
to the skin, waiting for the fl-h to nibble.
or standing in the full blaze of an August
in ton, c , tacelaral nig all hie energies an trot
ling f a • jack. W.iling home through dank
fern a ad 1.1.11,11 , X,, d in a thungerstorm—got
ting up before dawn to walk ten tttiL•s, only
to find the , tee ins It i l been whippet bof ire
into fttntlessly, hour :trier hour.
while the rain drippot off hie wid,•.aw.ike
in miniature Niagoras—getting benighted.
and following a J.tek-o'•latiteru straignt
away into a hog—or finding himself strand
ed on a c. !ninon, the night too dark to de
cipher the sign-post—all this was the sotire.,
of purest delight to Pit, lip, becau s e-0
initiated!—it was ristitsul The Egyptian
canaille might as well have sought to pene
trate the mysteries of Isis, or neophytes as
pired to propound the learning of the school.-
as ignorant tyros to understand the mysteri
ous joy locked up in that one word for all
brethren of the gentle craft. Of course, if
this toil and tr 7 avail had been his trade, nev
er, he would have vowed, was there so ill
used a man, but being sport, the knowledze
that he was fishing made Carlyon, wet.
weary, foot-core, with every limb aching.
and every thread dripping, experience a deep
strong sensation of delight, which the \win
itiated need never strive to explain or com
prehend, and which lie himself, I dare say,
if put to it, would have been puzzled to an
alyse, philosopher thou 4.11 he was.
ENE
131111119
Ou the banks of the Alder, Corlyon forgo;
hi+ care., his profession, his fl inceo—every
thlng di-agreeable; and came home to din
ner in -rch charming, spirits that every one
at Monkstone Court voted him the be-t con
versationalist in the world. And so he wa-:
his sweet voice, his fascinating way., told
his brilliant chat were not loot on sinehoil‘
to whom he specially addressed them. I
can't say whether he was aware of it or not.
(we'll hope not, and that he didn't honk
hearts with as little remorse as trout.) but
certain it was that Philip conquered as mnan,
fair ladies as he cured. As Lady Chip
averred, he was a "dangerous doctor," and
Leila Wyndham began to grudge the, jock
so munch of his company, and think thm+
handsome, graceful, winning angler umigni
just as well talk with her, and ride with her
as a hip the Alder all day long. Before
very long Ca rlyon began to share her opin
ion, and robbed the jack of several hour+ t o
spend them in the Monk,tone drowing-roion
or in riding and driving, with the little heir
esv. Every evening Carlyon took ow:sc.:ion
of the els-a-vii n 'EL and talked hi. way 'ha,
the young lady's heart as he had talked it int m
a good for when Cam lyon chim.e to go
tr.dhrip: with the bait of his fa..eination., woe
he to any trout that came nigh, ha hookel
it was, ?Wens micas. Leila soon beg tn
believe that nob was ever so kind or sim
perfect as Mr. Carly and when he at ye
a small Chip frown a grave in tin. Alder.
thought lino thd noblest paladin that ever
breatiied.
Ile tra`i Standing, on the river bank one
day with her and Jlrd. E heltill, when
Feream , at the top of a shritl, terrified
interrupted thein in the middle of a di:+sei
tation on PendenniA.
"Gond G• 011 the b.ty'll be c•trrietl into the
sluice," cried Philip, taking ..lf
he beheld, IL nnl litany yard.; dktant, a tab
floating fast towards a water mill and de
struction, and Chip's &111 and heir within it.
Carlyon was into the water in a sez, nd.
and swimming like another Leander, while
' Leila stood on the banks, looking, Mrs.
Edgehill told her afterwards, desperately
imdined to throw herself in after him.—
Philip, who wits as plucky as he was strong,
swam steadily after the brat, caught hold of
the tub close to a sluice, through which the
water rushed to fill the mill-pond, and land
ed it in safety. Mrs. Edgehill overwhelmed
him with praises, but he only shook himself
like a Newfoundland; took out his watch to
see if the works were wet, threw back his
head, laughed, and told her it was only a
little agreeable exertion of his muscles.—
Leila tcok both his bands in hers, nod
looked at him, the tears falling down her
checks, with an expression which flattered
him more than the capture of a salmon in
the Tweed when he was seventeen, or the
compliments the examiners paid him when
he passed at College. Lady Chip, you are
sure worshipped him from that hour; and
when Leila heard him protesting that it was
all nonsense to thank him—what had he
done—nothing but what a Yarmouth boat
man or a water-dog would have done every
atom as well—that there was no danger in
the sluice, and, if there bad been, his life
wasn't so delightful to him that he'd shown
"NO ENTERTAINMENTIS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
much mi , glaniinity in risking it--she
t hou.tht, "What a warm, geler.ms h-art this
Min has under all his assumed coldness and
philosophy!" IVheroon modest iiselle looked
at C,Li•lyon's pale, handsome face, and slid
into ditiigeroui speculations.
"1 sappase endangerinA your life to-day
was pure selfiihtiess, wits:n't it?" she whis
pered as she pits+cd
C.trlyon looked at her with a merry smile.
"Entirely; becau-e, don't you see if there
'la 1 bean a death in the family my visit
r aid have beet cut short?"
"C un nc vou4 taptillez!" aria I Leila
toicing her hoial. lilting her eyebrowc, and
(Itching away front him in in.liguation. "Su
you are g eiug fishing again," said she, next
in truing at brea'tflit. "I think if I wore a
in tn. 1 wool l 11.11 come better ainits.hu cot
for lily lordly intellect than hooking a few
poor &h."
"But if your for Hy intellect had been
wearing it'elf to Isiah in L 'radon streets.
operati mj an I leerure., you would be very
glad to rest it fir a little while. and have a
Tiiet (lay under tho C1T0.4, with no greater
trouble than hew to [III your basket," laughed
Carlson.
"Tuere, then, by your own admission, it
is only an excuse for tile dote!, a cover to
y or i your eigar-u ise, and your
flask:" taid the little heiress, handing pion
him coffee.
"A, quiet day under the tree' I e.iuld per
fectly uuderstand your enjoying. my dear
fellow, hat a ut)rmy night spent in (landing
after a IVill-o'-the-wisp, with your thing
dripping like a S.tye ter a bath, .t•t 101 l
halt way up to your ituce., I malt sty i.v ne
yund ine," ob+ervel Du P.U.
"I never knew ono or y .ur _nett anX,e.r.i
bring home enough fur dinner fur the cat,"
Wight:4 Lldy Chip,
"Fishing is neitner ni telly nor cm thing
and it'e very lazy an I crust," ere I b tilt
"Dear me, our por-mits are zigieere I at.
hy they're ialustry la't! I t
knocking some ivory b.tlli •it) our, or
small shot into unii tii2y bir li, or sitaiitz
round .1 card table witu a fe.v pieces ill p vitt:-
board, or any other ainiise.u.mt or y
lords of creation. fi to: I.ty .11 tie alt
day, ur whi7pei the water with .1 mire '-
brown or a c tperer, wh ic lecture we iv oil I
get on Waste of tin •, .v 'az .nasrs at w
•ii's petite 'eel., what sc"..ri at feat de frivoli
ties?"
"Q•tite right, Leila," chimed in Mrs. E Igo
hill. "Fishing's not a goal ter so u4ef.ll a
cr•whet or navel reading."
"Or sc.tuJal. .1)3.1't forget ladiei' pet
pastim•:," smiled Carlyon. "I've known
some r isehu I lips torture morn with their
word.) than I ever. io with ;ay h • )':, al I
slay in ne r.iput.ttioas taaa I twee take perch
or r.i.teit."
Oa! pu're a h mri , l in,ln," said Mrs.
•'I believe the file, words you tic-
Lorna as a b Lby were a sarcasm against we-
til 0 I."
Or a petition for a 11,11ing-ra.l," udJed
Leila.
Corlyou lau•?,hed, and thought, "Li that
littlu thing vote! 1 luove her tlLr the j Lek?"
Ile went and spent the (toy Willi the jack,
nevertheless; e.,.j.yel Ittntse.t t LiLuen-rely,
uni.l hreugut It nue s , pole tilt r io g eve.
Lilly Chili Alowel, "f.r the eat."
tit diunor Luly Gin? a-cc. 1 will to d, he
a eit favor—t, g ~t ,l vi.it some po.n•
%count,' in tue been given
up by the p ,ctsir+,+u,l dcci le/ E., h.
in c
Carly In Elm 'Alit of 11ii fi4hing:. Th" vi•-
1t would take .1 1.4.1011 c.poUpi ut 1
but—acquie4ced.
luuke.l at him with a ertha
-17.iu 1141 better nut gut have
„taineit lee, and the fee, you km a', is sill
ine..lical uteri came for. They never du any
thing, except to till their parses."
"Ou! we like to see interesting case.,"
il“wered ha , carelelsly; "and don't like to
di.o'i'ige my
-Anil we don't like to du st kindness, do
Eli
"It is not a kintlnes.; I may gain some
knowle lge cut of this case. Tilat is why
"You provoking mate cried Leila, giving
him a blow with her bouquet. —l've known
plenty of people try to make one think well
of them, hut I never knew anybody so ob
stinate in depreciating himself as you are.
However, it is nu use with me. I have
the lorgon de Balzac, and I can see your
heart beneath your words, and I know
your actions give the lie to your pretence of
philosophic egotism. But I will adopt your
phraseology, if you like it, and call giving
up a morning of your darling sport to visit
a poor woman, 'selfishness' instead of kind-
ness.' "
Carlyon laughed heartily. "Well, if you
invest every ordinary action with a chivel•
roes aroma, I can't help it. You'll tall me
next that I passed at St. George's solely to
benefit mankind. Miss Wyndham, I want
to convert you—to make you a disciple of
Izaak NValton. Come with me tomorrow.
I promise you a luxurious scat under the
willows, and you shall see the trout lying
behind their stones, and tell me if the pise.t
tory art you. despise does not make an
August day pass pleasantly." So spe.ke
Carlyon, leaning over the piano one Pvening.
Leila looked enraptured. "Yes. I will
come; but. as to being converted, none cerrond
I shall fancy myself an Undine —an Uodine
for your Alder, Sir Go Ifrey—in a black
and high-heeled boots. Won't that be novel
and poetic?"
COLUMBIA, P.E.N.NSYLVA.NIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 18, 1862.
"And an 'awakener' in a shooting coat,
ribbon-tie, and wide-awoke; don't forget that,
Leila," said Mrs. Edgehill, maliciously. -
Carlson put up his head in the air, and
looked haughtiness unutterable. Leila culured
and began to play the "Express" at a mad
gallop, whereon Du Plat and the governess,
aurally and Mrs. Edgehill, whirled them
selves down the drawing rooms; and llonoria
Cosmetique came over Philip's mind with a
chill which made him shudder. Do Plat
had become seriously involved with the
handsome governess, with a complete renun
ciation it his former estimation of govern
e-ses, and oblation of how he had sworn at
his friends for keeping such temptations
when they were pretty; and such nuisance,
when they were ugly, running tame about
their houses. Du Plat dashed into love
/ouch as he gave a Star and Garter il jeoner,
or sent a bracelet to an actress, without
thinking what price he might have to pay
for it s lie had shot in arid out of love as
last its nn aphrodite changes its and
whispered more vows in deux temp, ice
• pie -nits, nod moonlight balconies,
than fickle Ring Solomon hi:aself in his sm.-
:14AM. And in lore he went headlong; and
the governess, proud and stately though she
was, accepted it, nay. encouraged it; which
was very utiprincipled in a penniless orphan.
severe young ladies will soy, who have never
been similarly tempted; for we all know how
amusing it is to be rigid, and crushing,
and vim/Mai—on other people. Whether
it is so mousing on one's own sins is another
'natter. Pharisees say. Yes; publicans, N.
go with the, political!3 myself—don't you?
Si, belle lectriee, though it is easy no. you
to say she should have repulsed Du Plat,
with his bawl-mint fate and sparkling talents,
an I a Ito alma ao l one attractions, I doubt
it is at ,t quite so easy fir poor Inez to do so.
especially as she it a. governess, and unused
to t hat sort Of thing, urcourse.
Anal as for Carlyon a: d Leila—dear me
a couple of -.cults had brought them quite
-friendship." She was a new species
to P ulip.,la is I, sceptical man of the world
th at be was: and such a telling e intros! to
the stool:broker's daughter! The little heirs
es•*s Itvely, winning, girlish nays were at
-twat relief to Miss Cosinctique's dignified
nothings and chill majesty ail demeanor,
aod, hal Carlyou la , ‘en less of a practical
philosiipacr, might have proved somewhat
daugerous. Poor little Leila was not
• philo-apher. Unhappily, as Ilecven
bath been pleased to create younA• men
and mi.idens, Carlyon's society, his soft
voice, his fascinating smiles, his brilliant,
witty chat, all the weapons with which he
caused more heart•aithes than all his mar-
Maim could soothe, or skill cure, were not
without their effect on her; but then Carlyon
rid nut think of that. We never do, you
know, when we're amusing ourselves; what
are the agonies of the little trout on the
hook to as, so that we've the fun of catching
him? Si Philip, in his bullet-proff arrnoor
of philosophy, told himself no possible harm
could come of it, and was exceedingly satiri
cal and contemptuous on Du Plat for pay
ing such compromising attentions. "I sup
pose, Dupe, you mean to marry on the sale
of Lllumettes made out of your dunning let
ters, or keep your governess in Ben's place
to rue fur the beer, and say' Not at home' to
sharks, eh?" said lie, standing ou the hall
steps, waiting for Leila.
"Don't be a fool," rejoined Leicester, with
courtesy. ' When a man's up a tree, it
isn't Mee to kick him."
"Yes it is, if one kicks him down. You're
getting caught in the hri.tiches, my boy, and
I want to poll you to earth before you aro
mail of any reach."
"Much obliged to you. but you may keep
your civilities to yourself, as the woodcock
said to the small shot.;
"Talk common sense, then. What do
you marry In?"
"What do you marry Unnotia for?"
"Money," said Carlyon, his mouth stern.
"For %%bat else do you imagine I take that
cold, art ificial . —" Ile broke off with a
-hurt laugh. 'Came, my motive, at the
le4t, is prawical. You Can't say as much
f.r p.m,. Tell me, Dupe, ((leaven knows
you deiervo the avw) do you dream of
marrying this governess?"
Du Plat made a very wry face. "Marry
I don't like that word; it sounds ugly; has a
detestable odor of family boots, screaming
children, legs of mutton, and the semination
of ono'' will oats. But I'm quite sure that
if I don's hare that girl I
. shall shoot
myself."
"Do, my dear fellow. It will be far the
lesser evil of the two," said Carylon, shrug
ging his shoulders. "It's all up with you if
you're gone so far as that."
"It's all up with you, or will be before
long, so don't talk," said Du Plat, as Leila
came across the hall in the identical black
hat and high heels. She ran up to Carlyon.
"Oh, I have just thought of it—how dread
ful it will be! I shall have to hold my
tongue, shan't I?"
Ile smiled nt her "very kindly," as Leila
called it. "Certainly, or we shall catch no
fish; and fancy silence is about the sever
est deprivation you could have, mademoi
selle."
"That it is. I woulri rather sow for an
hoar, or learn a sera) by heart, than out
talk f•r irholo fire Mittive4. You must
fist.n tnv lip 4 op. Mr. Carlyon?"
Phillip 1...ke 1 nt the Srli I laughing lips,
and thought of a in.rh: of silencing them to
which be should by no menus object.
However, when they were under the wil
lows, and he lay on the soft grans, initiating
her into the mysteries of dead and live bait,
spinng and trolling, minnows and gudgeons,
and the more recent "spoon," and looking
up into the bright eyes, beaming at him un
der the black lace, Canyon, devoted angler
though he was, found the lively talk and
joyous voice more beguiling than all the
jack, to.tch or trout in the Alder. indeed.
his line fay idle on the sin face, and an epi
cure trout came out of his hole, and carried
off fly, hook and all, in his pretty pink
stomach, without eliciting more comment
from Carlyon than a surprised Jove!"
To such a pass will the wisct come.
They discoursed on Hallam and Macau
lay, Goethe and Lamartine, Hyperion and
Jocelyn, till they glided on to a dangeron.
topic, which, if peorle talk of, ten to one
they fall into.
"I don't like to hear you Fay you do not
Believe in love, Mr. Carlyon," said Leila.
meditatively. "It hems a , : if you had met
with neither truth nor sincerity in the wend].
Had you no mother, whose life showed you
love?"
'My mother sent ate to school at four
years old, kissed me once in the hol,days,
liked me about n third us well as her lap
dogs, and writes to toe now once a quarter.
Nut much remarkable affection there, mad
emoiselle?"
"Nn, indeed. What a wicked woman:"
cried Leila, heartily.
— Not at all," said Carlson, laughing.—
"People can't help it if their hearts are not
patent Vestas, warranted to ignite at the
touch. When I was twenty I was as ready
to believe in affection, and to respond to it,
as you are; but a few year's experience soon
showed me my fully, and the world's cold
water soon put out my r,mance."
The little heiress looked earnestly at him.
"I do not believe it is pot out; hidden fire
may smoulder a long time, you know.—
You will never dissuade me that you have
nut warm and deep feelings, though you like
to bide them under simulated sarcasm and
coldness."
"Perhaps I hare," said Philip, with
romething very like a si,x,h, "but I do not
spread them out fur the world, like a pedlar
showing his wares."
"But if you have theta, you might give
others credit for them."
"To what avail? Love is contraband to
me. I can never enjoy it., therefore I will
never think of it. 1. , ,ve is a pawsvere chi
mera at the best, and I choose the wiser
course—l neither look for it nor believe in
lie could not see her face, for she dropped
the black lace over it, but both of them were
silent, and Car!you, I dare say, gave him
self great credit for the masterly manner
and great self-sacrifice in which, by this
enigmatical speech, he had showed the girl
it was no use to fall in love with him.—
Whether it would not have been a better
and quicker way never to hay begun his at
tentions, "kind" smiles, fasciniating chat,
&c., is another matter; but I suppose
Carlyon knew best what suited him.
As the little heiress sat with the lace
down and her merry tongue quiet, and
Philip lay on the grass, his rod flung aside,
his basket empty, and the trout rising under
his very eyes; while he gathered with one
hand the heaths and foxgloves and orchises
round him for Leila, lazily enjo3ing the sal.
try August air and the hum of the gnats
and bees—a chill, dignified, deep voice fell
on his ear from the other bank of the Alder.
"Good morning, Philip. You have good
sport, I trust?"
Leila started, tossed up her lace, and col
ored. Carlyon sprang to his feet with an
imprecation, tt hich happily did not reach
across the Alder.
Fur once in his life, haughty, nonchalant,
self-possessed Carlyun was nonplused and
confused. Ile spoke, lie wasn't quite sure
what. "Ilunerial you here—how unespect
ed
"Very unexpected, since I wrote you word
I should be at Muddybrook yesterday," ob
served Miss Cosniet ique, with cutting satire,
standing and contemplating him with an air
of dignified displeasure.
"To be sure, I remember now; how for
getful I am," said Carlyon, hastily. "I
ought to have come to meet you, but—"
"Fishing is very absorbing I have heard,"
answered his fiancee, dryly, not tnkiag her
eyes from Leila Wyndham.
"I cannot come to you," said Carlyon,
recovering himself, with a laugh. "There
is no bridge within a mile; and we are as
far separated as if the Atlantic were be
tweeen us. You are out for an early walk,
I suppose?"
"Which I will now continue. Do not let
mp interrupt your—fishing. Farewell:"
And Miss Cosmetique bowed majestically
any floated on.
Canyon lifted his hat with a rather dis
tant "Good-by. for nn hour—l will come
down to Muddybrook this afternoon," and
began to take his rod to pieces with many
anathemas on the luckless wood and brass.
"Is that your sister?" asked Leiln. quickly.
"No. The deuce take this thing, how
tight it fits!"
"Your cousin, then?"
"No."
"But she called you 'Philip?' "
Carlyon'e pale check flushed. He could
not tell this frank, generous, warm hearted
little thing that he, Philip Carlyon, with
all hie pride nod chivalric honor, had OW
himself to a woman whom ho could nut lore
—for money.
$1,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT IN ADVANCE
"You told me the other day you liked wild
flowers. See. can anything be lovelier than
that little pink heath? Conversatories can
not bear it, he said, giving her his bouquet
wound together with some bindweed. She
thanked him, Lilt absently, and their walk
home through the park was rather silent
and distrait. As they crossed the lawn
they fund Da Plat sitting under the cedars
with Inez Windham, and two small Chips
shooting at a target, and Leicester's raillery
on the trout less basket was more piquant
than pleasant to Philip.
"Can you tell me if Miss Wyndham ever
stayed nt Dawtree?" asked Du Plat, as
Carlyon and,his companion went into the
house.
Inez It esltated and colored. "Hawtree?
Yes. I believe the heiresl stayed there be
fore coming here; and I think I hare heard
that she met a Mr. Da Plat, a charming
old gentleman. Could he be any relation of
yours?"
"My governor! Cant:till:emus old fellow.
I asked you about her, because he met an
heiress at Hawtree, with whom, or ratbdr
with whoQe tin mines, acres, and ecmsols he
fell in love, and wanted me to du the same."
The governess blushed vividly, and player
with her parasol.
Do Pint saw the blush, end bent eagerly
forward. "But I swear I'll never marry an
heiress to save myself from beggary. I
wouldn't be indebted to any woman living
for her tin. I'd sooner pass the rest of my
data in the Queen's Bench. I would, upon
my honor. I loathe the present fashion of
weighing a wife by her sheer value in specie.
What is true and noble, worth winning and
worth wearing, is ton high to be put in the
balance with pound., shillings and pence."
In (V. ii,ked pleased and vexed, happy
and anxious, at the same time. She poked
up the turf with her parasol, and her voice
shook as she said: "Your generous thoughts
will change like all the world's. The time
will soon come a hen you will recant them
es v isionary and Quixotic."
"I'll be shot if et er I do," swore Leices
ter; "and I'll prove it. Inez, the only thing
I care for on earth is—"
"Lethter, my awow's up the twee," cried
Beale, running up to them.
Du Plat could have kicked him without
the smallest hesitation. `•Detil take that
little wretch; he's always in the way. What
It misery it is. That comes of loving a gov
erness," thought the unhappy Templar.
CHAPTER IV
TTIE ITORTICULTUR it, TETC
There was an horticultural fete in Monk
stone Park the day after Carlyon's inoppor
tune rencontre with his fiancee, and thither
came Miss Cosmetique with her Muddy
brook friends, parvenus tolerated in the
county for the sake of their tin, stud, din
ners, cook, and wine. The stockbroker's
daughter was grand to sight, in her Paris
ian chaussure, extensive toilette, and fiteen
I guinea bonnet. But Carlyon thought the
little heiress, in her white muslin and blue
ribbons, ten thousand times fresher and
fairer, and compared them in h s own mind
to a vain, stiff, gorgeous dahlia, and a soft,
sweet, little Ruse d'Amour. But the dah
lia, not the rose, was for his conservatory;
and the philosopher preached sharp practi
cal lessons to himself on the folly of such
regrets and comparisons.
llonoria kept him well up to hand, and
would'nt let him leave her for five minutes.
She questioned him about Leila; but few
people were able to get much out of him,
unless he chose to be questioned, so Hono
ria, not being able to find ground fur quar
rel, contented herself with being cold, dig
nignified, and excessively vigilant, for she
was proud of Carlyon—of Ids talents, his
courtly manners, and his gentleman's name,
and didn't want to lose him, Carlyon
strolled about'with her, sat with her by the
band, introduced her to Lady Chip; and
through it, all was haunted by a pair of blue
eyes following him with wonder and re
proach. The eyes worried him dreadfully,
and made him answer to a tort el a tracers
to his betrothed, that she stared at him in
haughty surprise. "flood Heavens, Philip?"
she said at last, "has your fishing turned
your head? You are strangely altered since
you were in town."
Philip made peace with her somehow, told
her he bad a headache, which was true
enough, managed to leave her with a guards
man fur ten minutes, and went after some
white muslin and blue ribbon he saw afar
off. He, fullowed Leila into a rose slice,
where she was walking with two cornets,
young rector, and a couple of other girls;
he stepped quietly in between her and the
rector, and strolled along in the tent. He
and Leila waited behind the others, by some I
of the Chippeham fuschias and verbenas. I
"Who is that lady you have been with all
day?" she whispered, with an anxious, eager
look.
Philip's mouth shut tight, his eyebrows
contracted, and his face grew stern. as he
answered briefly, "Miss Cosmetique."
"Is she Puch a great friend of yours?"
asked the little heiress, tremulously.
"Friend? No. Heaven knows: But she
will be, some day, my wife."
lle did not look at her as he spoke, but
bent over the fl.rwers, his lip.; as white as
hers, and the veins swelling on hie forehead.
She did not answer. but he: little hands
clenched on her parasol handle till the ivory
snapped, and the mute misery he SSW on
her face male him feel that in fishing fur
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' hearts with the live bait of love, tlmugh
trolling is very good fun to the angler, dying
I only to fill the basket of renriuests is net
quite such fun to the Victim. The cornet
and girls came up; Leila hurricaly pleaded
• the heat of the tent, and went into the house
alone. She did not conic down to dinner.
and over the fish and soup Lady Chip said
she Wll9 so sorry poor little Leila was quite
unwell; had caught a chill, she feared, on
the grass; what a pity it was girls would
wear such thin boots; did not Carlyon
think so? This speech stabbed uncorr
f..rtably into Philip's heart: be felt gull
ty. The spinning had been very
sant, certainly, but the death-ngonies of the
poor flits worried him. The warm sprirzi
that lay bidden under the conventional ic"i
in Carlyon's heart were stirred, and as 111
stood in his bedroom window smoking Lia
Cavendish gloomily, ho swore heartily at
himself. called himself very hard names,
wished llonoria Costuctique at the bottom
of the Red Sea; and when, at last, ho turned
in and fell asleep, as the sun streamed
through his room, philosophical Philip saw
nothing in his (Imams but the pale face of
his poor Rose d'Arnour, asking hint why,
for her sake and his own, he had ever come
out fishing in August?
'.C.one here, you star of St. Cle-rge'e,"
said La ly Chip, smiling, "and tell me what
is the matter with Leila IVynanin. She
tells me site is nut ill, but I fear very much
she is."
She led the way to the library, and Car-
Igen followed her, looking all the more
stern sod stoical because he was feeling un
comfortably remorseful and unhappy.
• Leila was sitting in rt. window, and did
not look un, as she assured him she was
quite well—neVer better, &e., &c. Carlyon
.at down by her, felt her pulse, and asked a
few quiet questions, to which he obtained
very unintelligible answers; and, soon after,
Lady Chip was called out of the room.—
There was a dead silence. Leila played
with Pluck's ears, who (more faithful to her
than his master) lay nt her feet. Carlyon
got up, sat down again, opened a window,
shut it, played with his whiskers, then sud
denly spoke:
' You asked me, yesterday, who Miss Cos.
inetique was. I wish to tell you more fully
how I.—l first came to form an engagement
with her. Heaven knows I bear her little
love, and wish I had never known and never
met her. I acted wrongly at the first, and
now I bear the punishment. I engaged my.
Nell' fur money; men told me, and it is so far
true, that in our profession more than any,
money is wanted. If I can giro good par
ties, keep my carriageand my footman, and
make some show, people will say, Carlyon
must have a good practice, he lives in such
style; and patients will come to me. If
not, they say, Carlyon is going to the dogs,
and patients will fail. I knew this, lam
not rich. I met Miss Cosmetiquc, who is;
.lie sought me, I may say without vanity.-
1 did not then believe in love, and I thought
I had done with romance. This is my ex
cuse for my engagement to her. I have
none for my fault of coming here as a free
man. Judge me gently, Leila; you cannot
blame ate more than I blame myself. I
could not resist the temptations of your so
ciety; you were so fresh, so charming, so
novel a study to ins, who disbelieved in n:l
truth and innocence. Forgive me! Great
as has been my fault, I suffer, Heaven
knows, enough for ill" llis voice loot its
forced calmness, his face was white as
death, and his lips worked convulsively, in
the double effort of conquering his pride
and combating his love. Leila flung her
self down, her face buried in the sofa cush
ions, and sobbed passionately.; deep, heart--
breaking sobs, which nearly drove poor
Philip mad. "I never dreamt of this—l
never thought that you would care thus for
me," lie murmured, half distineted. "My
God! to see this, and be compelled to re
nounce it. Oh, Leila! never shall I forgive
myself. But tell me, for pity's sake, that
you forgive me, my poor darling!"
lie drew away her hands as tic spoke, and
the little heiress lifted her face to his, also
unutterable in the once bright eyes. "For
give you? Yes, what would I not forgive
you? But—but—"
Sobs choked her voice, and s he sank
down in an abandon of grief. Carlyon bent
over her, his warm, passionate nature break
ing away from the ice of yenre.
"Leila, my dearest, I shall go mad: Bet
! ter had I gone down to the grave unloving
and unloved, than brought the misery of
my fate on your young head. Tell ins—tell
me once more you do not hate me, cruel and
selfish as I have been?'
"Hate you?" murmured the girl. "Nev
er—tuner! God bless you always, Philip:"
As she whispered his name, Carlyon,
haughty Carlyon's tears dropped on her
brow; and ho kissed her passionately again
and again.
Uneven knows what he might not have
sworn if Lady Chip bad not at that moment
turned the handle of the door. Leila sprang
up nad, rushed away through n side-door.—
Carlyon, with his head high in the air, fur
fear Lady Chip should detect the unusual
moisture in his dark ryes. began to talk
rather hurriedly of headache, remittent
fever, cold caught on the lawn. chlorin, ether.
and quinine, telling as many medical false
hoods as ever a professional man did on
occasion, till Lady Chip, reminded thereby,
gave him a telegraphic dispatch, just come
far him. It summoned him to one of his
patients in town. Carlyon was glad of it.--
It gave him time for thought, and obviated
the irksome duty of attendance on Ilonoria,
and in half an hour he want in the train and
off. It was a dangerous ease: be was kept
there three weeks; and as he sat night after
night in his own lintpue, smoking in his soli
tude, the generosity, and passionate feeling,
and depth of affection that lay perdue in his
inner nature rose un. grew and strengthened.
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