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!! t,•lattle wlth us, for It In tt t uurds rrettlttg; and the
day htt fat; arta." ' •
Tarry with me, 0! Illy Savinuri
Fur the is passing ;
Eou tI u
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And tiro in drawing 1110 I
Tarry with mo! tarry with 1111.
• Rea mu riot lit1)101 , tp !zit 1... y •
Many fri,nde wone Otherr . d round mo
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In In iOn dlll o of LLo punt ;
lVul the graro buzz el wed 81000 tln•w,
Sod {dingle here the Inq.
.1 am lonely; tarry with me
'flit thin dreary night is past.
, Dimmed Mr and Is earthly beauty,
Yet th•t hr 1111.; days or the past
Shill I seek, dear herd. Jo vain!
U'aery south me, eh: my ttito haw I
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tittlitaimight of de.ttlioelVtil
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tutu4o,ll on thrt.:
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Till Ow ii:ort:lng—tll.•;: 0widd.,..0.
I,tratiiit Lord to datill
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. /71111 . 1111111/Igl, If/ gfkl here?' 81/0
csoluiwcd 11111 111'1V/11///I'Vdl I en . ul,ol ko
i t nut . 11, 1 , „r fie t/1•1•Y/IIII, KIW you
'pass the
link
{Va . % }I 011)tit, '
- OW: hey had, they,
oculd uuLllive Liit,ee here.'
lie su himself iH A ' friar's
griiy the capuchin - or Lund,
as it—over his ns to
coneloil his Inc'e elfectunily• liken !sir dome
dues, When 8110 goes out of hesieil at
Hight
\lid your hat?
•1 clt' folio. I got Pni too- Atoiroty.R:lend
- lhiu to itte,yeter,i ' co-..titioe-Ctotiling
Itiooti If rotund 111 I I ..... f. , r ill•
eprclloa. 11C I'. 11.14,1 to il,ll . 11 it
unpetiOtoii 1 1% , )- ',1./ up. our
Il p •Ihi.:. Lam file 1100
the vtliffichiii ol the
bet vahls 6ovst tor t•;,;:11Z111,2, life.
they would mire 1101,a ❑%la . ) nehred. thiolting
the tat it.there, 4 fiiriiiinlrfie the picture, 'vat+
, abroad to-night.:
.11e lirew elf 111. c cloak no he spolte, and Al
ice went to the' window4riiii peeped-out.
.Caution, Alice. When the moon is bright,
facds can be discerned here front the house.
' Dad she not been -under th'e dark clouds last
night, you might Intro fleell mine ' .'.
.1 thought it utterly impOssible that you
4\
could get here ; I thought you must have made
some great err r. How did you got the keyst'
Rupert stole as lips to her ear. 'Filched
them. Stepped aside to Jerome's closet-sanc
tum. and tilche , themY.
" 'Filched them P echoed Mrs. Pommeroy.;
.'Jerome kespS it locked'
'Not alWays; itud luck favo'red me; it often
does. 1 have
f lodaos ession of them from
'last night ro tine ' ' '
Site thought his !winner strange; lighter
than,customary when with her. - It u appeared
to speak in a laughing, insincere sort of way;
',years and years afterward she remembered it.
'How very imprudent! if Jerome had mix=
sed them to day, the whole abbey might hare
been roused.'
'No - fear,' laughed Rupert. again ; • Jerome
would not miss them.'
• Rupert !' she audd exelainied, a light
breaking in upon her, •Jert e has aided you
to 'come here.'
'No; he'has not. Not asoul has aided me,'
save Father Andrew, in
,t i he loan of his cap
uchin; little guessofiterhat. it was. to steel is
_Visit to the lady of Ponuneroy. Jerome has
aided the in another way, thofigh; you do not
ask aliuut the keep."
'I have been puttingit off. Itfrightens me.'
•We have had n spy upon us, Alice. is sure
de that we are here. Whether' the lord •hes
foxed out -anything with- his own scent, or
whether he has been pia up 104 it, I can't say;
I think theliiiter, for if he.,,had 'watched you
to the keep, he would most' certainly have
pounced in uponson. Yesterday old Jeronie
made his appearance at Gaunt's to see ate.--:
'Mr. Rupert,' beganlie, in a whisper, though
there was not a soul in Om place., for Gaunt
—.was in the grounds, 'and his housekeeper in
Gie village,•• do you go in at all to the keep?'
'Why ?' said I. ' • But do you. sir'?' 'I have
'been in there once or twice, Jerome. Why ?
I ask.' • Al, I was mire of it! I wish you'd
be away from the village, sir; for, over since
that quarrel - the other light.between you tout
the lord, I have.a feeling en me that worse
would come.. This Mbriting the lord came to
ma: 'To whom have yOu entrusted the lice of
the keep? he asked hut l'shw, by his eye
something was wrong: has.not gone - out
of my 'bandit minim the old lord died,' 1 an
swered. ,•You• lio, Joroine.' .Se cried, you
have lent it to Rupert PutnitteroY.' Wo had
gone on to the key closet, Mr Rupert,' added
Jerome, 'but in my hurry I looked in the
wrong niche for the key, Sod I did not nee it.
Tke lord stood by with folded arms. .1 tbo't
you were 110 81141; and itt made my
old eyes water,- for faithful -1 ate,. and have
everbeendo the lords of Pommeroy—and not
.less so io you, Mr. Rupert, for, you are a
brother and a son. The lord saw my distress.
'Some one was in there yesterday, Jerome,'
, ,said,-in a kinder tune; tried the spring
of he private door, and could not get in.'—
"Heres•the key, lord of Potinercije,',l said,
'showing into him . in my haste I looked in
the wrong place; I have not given it to Mr.
Rupert...
Mrs. pommeroy had, gasped Itupert's snit
in terror at 'the recital, in terror of what .
might have come of- hod not. the door Imen
fastened.' The wore .the lord would hose
seen would Luse been Rupert lodged on his
high shelf, and Alice swaying herself on the
stool, 'diming •Itimsell confidentially; quite
enough to 0.11110 to stiodtmis the lord of l'ona
mercy. Rupert re-tissured her pre!unt fears
—hod they not escaped the danger?
'Jerome added that the lord . took possession
of dm key, and •ho.. tearing Oleic might be
quarreling, cr something :worse if the- lord
found me in the keep, come, tO . worn tie not
to go to R. again.. 'Jerornit, little thinkS who
oleo might: have !men found. with Me, 'Rupert.
Bo 1 knew that this keep, 80 far it y,iiu went,
was tlonclo'r;,Aliou,'„iind. I Witoto 4 wOrd,,and
11,10 C00114 ; t0 the Ithberwith it:When I met
Bridget. was determined:to see yoit tot•
fariwell, arid, could thitric,'of
than
• .110 you really go to-morrow?' •
'1 g o; to morrow. ./ Ahould have gone to
'by lied you come last:night.' ~. ' . • • .
8110 wile weeping silently.. Rupert was very
Clear to her, and she, was about to lose.sight
of him, perhaps forever; but she, as silently.
wiped away the tears, so that he should see
them not.' . . •
. .
There is an expre - ssivM Italian proverb—l
forget precisely Ivy it runs, but the MAO is.
that for the &hair and the stolen thterview
time flies on wings, On wings, most. certain.
Iy. - it appeared to Ily for those in the haunted
room. ` Airs. Pommeroy may have, been 1111-
eitsctous.qf its flitting—let her answer it
Ina when the ,court-yard clock rang out ten,.
She was-still there ' . .
With a faint cry of dismay, rho moved t 0...
the window. WM; it ten, or nine? She sfrain
ed-Jier eyes on the clock, but, strain them as
slicivould...elict,coultimot-make-out-itsliands - ,-
• for the dial was too far pit. Rupert followed
her, though little cared' ho what the hour
might be. -
--As-she - turued - rfrom - the -- window - , - her - sight: -
accustomed moor the faint light of the room,
distinguished it tall, dark figure standing up,
i ight against the pietnre.
.Pascin rued and
ferrer-stricken, not wi th ghostly terror, but
with a terror. far more ominous and real—for
too well.did She discern the outlines of that
form —She caught hold, of her companion;
) shrieking out in her- agony of shame—. Oh,
Rupert! Rupert !'' • , -
The lord of Pommeroy strode forward, Lis"
eye glaring, and Iris whole features awfully
li , id in, the moonlight • How long Mid lie
been there ? ? - .
Hurling his wife out of reach of harm. ands
spurning Iter"with his'foot, he: drew a donhle•
bareled pistol upon his brot her. The ball'
missed him. entering the dark mainecuting;
and yet the:lord of Pomnieroy had a sure hand'
in general. r-Erelle could draw - again; Rupert
closed with Lim,' and they grappled for the •
Weapon. Mr . & p o ut tn eroy hetird the deadly .
scuttle, and she sped; gasping and moaning,
from the chamber, through the - rooms to Mut
top of the - Aairs. In her haste anti terror, •
she tell down them, her tread striking, but trot
I violently, notiet the floor ; she thought she
ifeardlliM noise-of the second barrel, but was -
-not sure. .
Up again in ti.tuoinent. 'She seized the key
which Itup -- elt And-left in the door, but whe•
liter she turtied.it, or Whether it was previous
ly'
unlocked,•. glie never.. knew. Probably. t he . '
lord had left it unlocked: though !tow had be.
contrived to enter it himself,.with the door •
fastened on the - inside, and the Iterdn it? It .
.-;\ 138 EY
was a mylitery.
._:.:A.aoor4opening-into-ther . plazpn at the
the court, wes ajar, arid Mrs. Portion:l.°y •
'flew out at it, sink down on the green bench,'
claspedit arm tightly, end,idd her face on
it—like we clasp ilte nearest support, as , if for
protection; on awaking from ,a terrilde dream.
Site moaned under fier breath, not loud, - lent
the house should hear; she stilled her; sobs' of
remorse and agony, and thenshe cast-steal
thy glances up to the window of the hpunted
room„ • _
Trembling, mooning, cowering, feeling:that
to die would be a mercy, Even the wainscot, •
which lied received the ball she could covet:"
Alice"ntlill the clock went the quarter-past
ten. She lind drown to (ICS deer behithl tot,
bat not I.celied if. fort her ear not on the
stretch,—to listen fur her fool suipk
et their lint distant eelto.,elie
would Imve crept. like it worm, 'nutlet nealli
the hunch, in lien guilty shame. If Ite, saw
hen there, would he Mee out. cud kick her to
dent ?. •
• •
, .
. • Gar I go into the lady's room yet ?' ylte
,Iletird one of the .ervatits say, who•appeared
to imeet another ht the passage, • Going on
for' eleven; and it's not put to rights yet, for
the•night2 ..
•No,' replied the voice of her own maid.—
'The lady said Bilo should try to sleep her
headache off, and !was not to go to her room,
on any account, unless she rang. • Thu door's
fast.'
Nies. Pomtneroy shuddered, and held , the
' bench convulsively.. -
The. minules rolled •by.•tilmost killing her
with their slaw protraction, and the, clocks
' chimed The half hour. In that one half hour
sheseented to have lived the agony era whole
lifo i tluie Neither of them had come down ;
of that she - lobs 'certain, for her ears were
strong to a strange fineness then. SheTtl7ed
! tip to the whole*, an unbroken gaze non , —
Mina was taking place there Were these
; two mon, mated in height andstrength, per•
Imps in ferocity, struggling 4.m , with each
• other..until one ox the other Would be over
!come by death! Which should conquer? But
bear it bite must, and did, till the clock struck.
eleven. A whole hour, and neither had come'
Idown ! were both dead ?Iler heart and throat
were working. her ears singing.
She could not bear it. Slow and cantiettsly,
in step lit a time, she stolh into the corridor
again, to the.mtaircase door, and put her head
up and,listened There Watt riot the slightest
Omi. Up.siill, It stair 14 n tune, and now
another, and again she stopped to listen
Nothing nothing. And so on. through the
-rooms, the last chamber.. She paused at
the door of the haunted one little thought
she of supernatural. visitants bow , the bodily
ones'wero tilling every crevice of her.imagi.
nation. The door was not closet!, only pushed
to, and silenim reigned within —a - silence that
was every moment becoming tnore awful. ,She
would have given half her life to hear one of
Guy's oaths or Rupert's sarcasms,' Dead -7
were they ? and for her
She pushed the door open, mid then sh rink
book and drew up against the wall; lest the
movement Aould .have caused :dumb (*het
neither alarm nor anything else issued forth;
so; pulling back the drapery; she stepped up
the steps and pushed het head in. She had
come out Of the light yard, and her eyes could
see, as yet. nothing in the rosin but darkness:
and the moon, at. thitt moment, was under a •
cloud: still there was no movement, no sound,
and she - Went into the room. She was Meal
ing towards the Windowni'vague intention of
standing there until she - should become more'
accustomed to the darkness floating through .
her scarcely sane brain, when she fell over -
something, and her hand touched—either a :
hand or a face, and it was cold.
• Her nerves could bear no more ; this was
the climax. Uttering shtick upon shriek, and
tearing along as if the dead men were behind
her, doWn she tlew again, in all the terror of
superstition. The noise penetrated to the
abbey. The servants came fprth bearing
lights; the guests emerged, alarmed, from the
salootte—all to meet Mrs. Pernmeroy In the
passage, herface white, het'. eyes starting.--
The servants caught her, and shii-lay•convuls
ed, in . their 1111110. •
They crowded round her. c She wan in a
violent lit of emotion and fear, attendetr.with
hyocrieta &deka.
,Speak she could not, but.
she altudderingly pointed, now to the Hairs
of the north tower; now to the windows of the
haunted room iu thowc,4 one. What she could .
menu by indicatiog Ihe, 1101111 • tower, nobody
could utoter;tand; for, that is should be open,
won suspected by none; buithii 'other move
. .
1111•111. WI Inure readily undernt out]; Sind die
:,et 'Vents called coot niiintlttineounly, • She lute
neinn the ghost .
'G., go,' cite
, gtevii .. tikieranee to at length,
•therei:
,poiking io th.q,,Filitniteil room'. • 'Some,
One in lying dealt
Plot her. words' nbituld be looked• upon' as
the 111Villg3 Or IniWittettlwain, was natural:
nevertheless,: old Jet.ttalr, erupt
,itway; to his •
key •eliiet, and then tW the north tower. Ilad
lie discovered that his keys'weVo t ininsing ?
lie came back front the staircase with tt thee
fIS appt.eheitsitto..ns his
•Wlio will go with me he said, looking nl
the gentlenien and 'the nien•servants.,.:lf they.
we at walleye, one niter will . he po.Weilese to
tart the'rn.' • • •
AP - S%* roa TFas PANELT
' All were ready to go; none comprehending'
,what they wore to go .for, or what•lhey wore
to do:• amithey went in n body up the stairs,
bearing; scixprid lights. One of tho gentlemen
seiied Jerome's arm.
• .What do you suspect?' ho asked.
snspeet--1 suspect' there' may, be n dis
pute!' he slowly wild. •
'Betwe'en whom V
'Nay, but 1 know nothing. Don't detain
tie '
. Jertime. as he spoke,. took a light from the
hands of one of The servants, walked quickly
forward, and turned round at the door of the
Initiated room. .1 Must go in first alone,"
said he, {Sin the oldest retainer-in the fam
ily, in'the'contidenee of man lords of Pontine-
AT, - and I demand it,'
lie passed in, and-let falltho hangings, but
in, less than a minute he held . them up. Walk
-
holding their breaths, the crowd pressed in,
one upon another. Woe! woe! as Jerome
had said—for there lay the lord of Rommeroy
lteatelt - to - delith.
Rupert had.. mastered ! had obtained
possession of Cho pistol, and shot his unfortu
nate Mother: for the bullet Was subsequently
found in the held. Not cohientt with (Ii t,
he had afterwards bettered him as he lay,
probably with the bott-ond of the same wea
potk,"itutil scareely - a, trace 'of at human fuck
could be discerned.
•
It most ho remembered that those now g:17..-
in`k.on hint had as clue to the murderer.,ll:l-
Horror-stricken
doubtless suspected, bat he kept mil Ont
Horror-stricken and sick. whdn they Ii ad
gazed their till, they began to look around the
room for a solution of the tnys(6y-,-,_ — • who had
done it ? and how? Nothing was to he seen
slave the ordinary . 'and dilapidated fdrniture,
and the dust on'the floor, disturbed as. by a
.scanic.
one of the guest;,
snatching irp a dark gray cloak tint( exhibit
ing' it to their view. :This was net the lord's.
Ah, ha! this will lead to a discovery.'
'I know that;',.interrupted'a 'servant. 'lt
is Father Andrew's capuchin; be cornea in it
to tie abbey sometimes on a •winter's
'Father Andrew!' • echoed the shockedratia
scandalized _assemblage
‘1 could, si'vear to it,' doggedlyrneated the
speaker; 'I know it:by those two ren-is at the
,toil of the skirt The father got it caught iu
a gate 0110 windy evening. he said,'
- Father-Andrew, a holy priest, and an un-,
offending rnto attack The-FoT4I - 193 - e. thing
was ittexptio.ll.---derotne, who hay}-sot
on the edge of the velvet settee, lifted his face
of misery, and slightly shook-his-hea- That
The motive ••Infil nothing t0..d0 . with robbery
was nppoienr thit•lord;ti signet-ring wan on
his-finger; end It in valuable gold watch and
chain had not been-touched his
coI acme to - be — graTiti z ad afterwards, -- their
contents Were found safe; keys, pocket-bunk,
puree and hand-terchief, with the great crest
and supporters. only used by_the lords of
PoinmerOy—the younger eons used the more
siffnplo 011 CA.. The clothes were much torn,
keying how severe litul ben the:sculffa. 13nt
Father 4ndiew! they looked in each other's
eyes ( - anti where . had-he - got Co?
The last-question was scion decided, for
whir hhould walk into the room-but the rev-
ereld father himself; a stout 'tart with a mar
ry face, finite - tintoppoillo.to-All tba..popultml
oitaiorer. The terrifi
ed woolen below 111 , 1 soot for hint io ha te.
•IVltat's to do?' cried lu, 011 the broad grin.
•Satnelio ly seem 'the ,
made cup for him, and throw tho
on the floor. Volley 'Andrew's countenance
eliangrd, and ho stepped back, ltwo-struck.
Who is it?'
?' whis .o Ihe .Ilow was it
et .
.
• It's tho lord: and he has boon murdered
Do you know this?' ndded • the speaker, pick
hug up tic& cloak. •
•'that's nano!' cried the priest.
'How esmo'it here, 'father?'
A light n's of horror 9011110 I I o break in up
on him.
'I lent that to—to—a friend,' he whispered.
..To whom?' •
•Itupert Ponitneroy, tin came to too yes
terday, and borrowed it.' •
, There V 1.1,5 la panic Ur Itlialy. - -11111 then the
cry arose: , Ild cannot have escaped! .he niust
-Etrgi'li the rooms.'
Up Illeyl,/it! lelrelled, but nn limpoit
Pot meroy W.L4 tliore
And t h oughhu the country %v.v.; scoured and
tracked tor. several days, no Rupert Potnine
roy was found, or hear j d of. how he had
to tnaged to ese.ipi, either from the abbey or
the neighborhoo I, WAS a ofystery. Perhaps
time would solve it. ' Cute ill-fated lord of
Pornateroy lay in state: his unsightly face,
what remained. of it, coicred up from view:
and then he was buried with all the pomp nod
11011.1 VS cpitornal7 at the hiterineut of the
chief of the Pommerepi.
Verily, flte prediction had, Bo far, been
strangely worked out.
CILIPTER X
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CIIA Nti ES
It was the height of the London Henson. and
h e night skyabove was . sthttled with its Stars,
as the starry beanie. , of this lower hemisphere
.were pressing into ono .of-- the greatest no d
most exclusive houses of the day—great it) its
reference to t hat. iron god, fashion: not greater
in its Size un many tthotherone.
1
It was the town-house of the Duchess of St
•Ivet . a oTealthy, , widow, only two•aml-forty
yet, and beautiful still. ' She had ruled. the
'• world long on her own account, 10111 now she
was ruling it to rigid of her son. It was the
first. season he had Spilt in Londotr`sinch
coming of ag o. and the world was going mad
after lain ,\loiliern court ell him openly
danglitero covertly—a lino thing it would be
to be buchets of St. Ives.
A well-appointed carriage dashed Intl, the
ruck, and struggled its way.to the door atuidA,
• the root The Countess of Essington descend
ed from it with daughters three. Three!—
Yes, the majestic countess. as important in
her own eyes, and daring in her own nations,
'as the Duchesoof St..lves in hers, had brought
(Item all,- the ladies Mabel, Geraldine, and
Anna Haley. Mabel and. Geraldine .Were
like their mother, commanding. stately girls.
with clearly.uut features, beautiful, but cold
as thougli they had been carved from Parian
marble. • Anna was. different —she ,had,noth,
iug•ormajesty or of marble About her; a fair,'
graceful girl, with largo, shy, merry blue
eyes, that drooped beneath their long Wiles
whet' gazed in ; a Hushed, dimpled, lovely
face, and a pretty mouth; too Much given - to
laughiug, and to display. unconsciously Ito set
of • whit'it pearls ..
A moment's respite after the reception:and
' the countess and her daughters were •but so
many of the brilliant crOivtd,that,thronged the
rooms. - Lady Anna foiled herself seated next
to a young lady with whom they- were on
. • .••
'terms of ohm intimacy. _
• II:IVO/10n ctime tothig,ltt, Anna? • Throe of
you! What an Weer •,'''
•There, was no help for it.` laughed Anna.
..This is the ball.of balls. PIO know. and Ma-,
tel 'Opt 'llet.altine—would not give tip their.'
privilege of - eld.ro;' did •manium did net wish
Old to rOIII3III away, iratiSO—beo,tuso—....•
• 1 . 1101 . 0: go 011 10,111 e •rest. ' ; 1 undtirstand:''
, • •What can be dear?! ,quash -Mamma. to us
thisiniirnitig at breakbist; .Go'raliline; 1 wish
you•would, for onto, give up to Anna.' •011
dear no,' retrrtied Geraldine. it's not t0.3),i3
thought of.! ...Ilion 1-Ohall take, you all,' said ,
Mamma. ''. That's not-,to be •thought: of,; put I
in Monet:, 'there never as such a thing heard
of,' .1 may do What others wonanot dare,'
uoncludoUrnamma,in her lofty, way:" , • , ,
'And 'that is how yon urn hero ~• : '
don't• know whether alto would have
brought• mo in spite of Mabel', who Id very
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CARLISLE, PA., WEDNE'SDAY, FEBIIUARY 42, 1860.
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positive, yo , tiow,in lier'Opin•u s, and mans- 'I have ndt encouraged him more than I
, ma gives in to to ..., •••rfiTi yet. •The duke could avoid. When he has talked, to me l' .
called, and began. Dancing to mo abodt to;have answered him.' when he fins naked me to
night, wanting to Make: •me promise—oh, .1 'dance I have nol, said no. I like talking, astd.
don't know what allH•40 dance with liiin twice • I like dancing.' %Vas it my place-to assume
to e'verYlattlfts' once, ark ,l that . sort. Of non- that he was only paiing the w.iy to invite ma
sense. 'I not infinitely obliged to your grace,' ,to be Mustiame la Duchesses?"'
I ausid, making-hins'kdetuure curtsey, 'but [ j •You have workeroti far it, though, in your'
am not coming,' Yen 'alienist 'have witnessed 'nuiet way,'retorted Gpralditio. who was vexed
his face. 'Not coming' cried he. when he I that. the prize should escape her. 'Only last
could find words 'Certainly not,. lam the night you went to his,, house, hugging the
youngest„ and , ray , Sisters have precedence sowers he left fur 'you.'
over me —the — inconvenience, you see,jof hav- A +suppressed stalk; crossed Anna's face.
ing three demoiselle:s'in a family '• Off Went 'Well, it -is done, and it eannot undone,', she
' the duke to mamma, and said , --I did .not I rejoined; Mut I must repeat that he has recta I.
listen, bar the result is that I stn here.' 1 as—as—only one gifted . with as little brains
• • The young lady listener sat p laying withlas the Doke of St. Ives, could act'
her drooping bracelet.' • 'Anna, there need not 1 'Just 'listen to her!' uttered the countess,
be any more heart-burnings after'
r a isi n g her hands. 'fake care, my young is
the duke ;'
we may all resign 'him at •onee witlaa_good dy, that, you don-t show off thessystirs-bsTfors—
grace', for svCishusll,llavotodo,it• . You are in hits, or he may think -twice ore he completes
luck.' . . the birgain, Aid here he is L•lie;sai I ha
'Luck at what?' vied tidy Anna, quickly. should call early.'
'To hove gained hi - . 6. You might be Duch- But, the footsteps ; :ending the toirs wore
i - d -
cis - St:. -- Dies tomorrow' • not - ii'te Duke of Sti e 3 - TiiiliiOreTifiliiiiV
'Might I? Nothing of the sort. 'l'll turn of the gentian' se w' 11 whom Ann s had :Mato) ,
him over to you, or tut Mabel.' el a waltz the pyre ious night; during the brief.
'You know you might, me—and kitosv you period of his st in the crowded rooms, They
will., here Ito comes, trite to his allegiance. were the,tfieps.of a chieftain bold and fearless,
And now it is good-by to, you for the rest of of one OA carried his bead °roes '
aryl on
the evening, I suppose.' • . whose9oftY-features might lie traced the con-
Lady Anna glanced towards the Duke of Sbi(Alllllo73s of descent second to none, Tlis
St. Ives. lie was- threading his. way to her servant throw wide the door: . .
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j amidst difficulties, for he melts set upon and 'Tao lourd of Poununoruy:'
I detained on all sides by the ravenous gentle• The lord of Pomuneroy was not, the Duke of •
women who wore &Ishii( for him. with their St- lees, a" same little diaaPPMalMeat may
subtle hooks. 'lt will' take Islet twonty min• have been felt by Lady lit•ntla'ton l butt it soon
• tiles to gat hat•us.' she laughed. . titled away, for Ow lord of Pom•neroy 15.119
'Oh; Anna, whotn lovely boquet!" andulon- 41,10 a favored visitor. lie told them of the
ly exclaitnotrthe young lady.. observing the Panful not'itiontulo -1115 friend Stanton.
flowers for the firer, time: .Who supplied it?' Others came in, an old dowager and her
'flow can I tell?' remitted Lady Anna. with nieces, intimate friends. who might o ill early
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downcast eyes and eons:sinus cheats.' 'lt was or late. She begin a rare tale of mousndal,
loft for me just-hefo-a we cants out,' . whibirstbsorhed the,attontion of Lily Essing
• 'fin hoe taste in flowers, at any rate, if toil and her elder datighter.i and, Anna ea
! these 'were arranged under his auspice - M . cape! to the. conservatory, followed bY the
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j 'Who has taste ?' --,..• , ' ••• . ''' . lord of Pernmerny.
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4liii! You' can offlril thiS pretty Mints- .Leolin, he has asked for me!' slie -- exelaim • -
lion of uncanabiousnoss, now that you arc el, when they were sheltered hi the tierni sg.
sure of him. , -St Ives.' . 'St. Ives?' ..
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"But I ant not sure of him,' again laughed 'Oh yes. Ile spoke to papa last night in
Laity
,Antvi,. 'Awl -I sun hot suire , L•indeed, the e•aema•—aelaallY ill, hit own ball-rooms.
I don't think—that lie sent the Cloquet. Au- If lie had but spotsende.:me, I emit I hrive given
°ther eau - se, leas' beautiful: .011, that charm- him an answer qusierly, and there would have
ing one's the duke's,' cries -11 l ttll ffl si.pointing 'on cod to him. and nobody the %visa'' , Palm :
to this; 'use that one, Aroma;' and I °toyed, accepted Hut.'
- Leona Poinineroy's cheek paled, far he loved
Paying - nothing, but I fancied the other was
his:* , . her with a passionate anl pswertul love: but
tho•pride of his rocs rose within him. The lord
of Poinmsroy, secure in his remote and, lofty
- tlYtoiniriil untold generations,, afraid of th.t.
new. Duke of St. Ives, whose ancestors, seven
ty years ago, were of the people! thal -
glanced at hint timidly, her lovely eyeai - full of
tears.. Ilwdreve her to him, and boot down
his face., tenderly. whispering: - •
'Which shall it be? the Duke of St. Ives, or
the lord of Poinmeroy?'
!"Oh, Leolin dearest, why do you ask nit)? .
Youo know —you know,'. • •
~,
' 'ls the earl at'home?' he inquired, between
1 -his kisses. 'Caw he he seen?'
'Would you ask him now, Loolin?• Note!'
'Now.. Ilafore I leave.. the house. , You
must be my promised 'wife thisudiy, love, if
you would not be his.'
They sprang apart ,
, for yoloes,-brokuoa their
leers, dinbsiously noiir' - Lordy 11139Ington'atiii
the dowager and the rest. rime in view, - and .
saw Ann t sealed on a large,:llewer-p it turned
upside down, training the refractory branches
of a rare plant, with a refractory warns that .
nobody yet ever succeeded. in spelling, and the
lord of Pontneroy ungallantly standing with
his back to lier„lest in contemplation of the
wonderful American aloe, which blossomed •
bust once a contitry. .
. The dowager's.sight was,keen, and liar im•
aginationerafty. 'You should have your eyes
abbot you,' cried she, contiulanti illy to the
countess. 'Anna is just at the age tbat she
may get her head turned. and lie does not
want for attractions, that : young lord or Pons. •
moroy,' -
'My dear dowager, Anna is all safe. She
marries St. Ives
'Eli! what? Who says so?' 'ejaculated the
dowager. t
'lle made his proposals for her•to the earl_
.yesterday. ' It is all settle I.'
.. , '"Mercy on the rest of the girls, Wen!' ut
terel the dowager, 'what will they do? They
arti•all rampant after St. [yes. Is it trite that
young Stran ton ' hat shot his howl off ?' in-j
quire,' she, drawing new to the lord of Pont-,
mercy, , ,
'Not his head. One orhis.eare and part of
his bawl'
'What fools you young men ore, to get toy
ing with guns! I'd rather play with a wild
hyena, for my part: .
'Tliere"wris a flaw in it,' said the lord.—
.Bishop
.1 :shim say, lord. That's mire to be the
tale. 'Bishop, Bialtop! lie's always in fault;
never.your onn caralifss awkwardness Anna,
we ore to congratulate you, 1 he sr. Take
care child, thatyou don't get a stray shot into.
yourself: when this news shill obtain wind.
there aro some who would give you one, if
they dared.' .
'That she should allow her tongue its)-eins,
and &peak or it openly!' mentally tittered the
confused countess. 'She's talks of young
men's being fools! awhat's she I . ' .
' •Is the earl at home?' quietly demanded the
lord of Pommeroy of Lady Essington.
ul• believe' he is in his study. Da you want
Idol ?' .
'I will go to hie study,' said the lord. -
The dowager took her departure. Not 10ng.,.
after it, the study bell was 'rung, and the-lord
of Pommeroy took his. Then there camp a
message to the countess that,,the 'earl wanted ,
her. ' Altogether, it happened that when tho
Duke of St. Ives called, Anna Was atolls,
• lie 'reported to her what - he had, more for
malty, imported to the earl the previous night.
Anna refused him, kindly but fipply. •
'This eannot be your final decision!' he ex,
claimed, displaying emotion. -
'lt is, indeed.'
, .But why have you suffered me to hope?'
`Nay,' said Lady Anne, 'what have I done
to encourage hope? How else could' I 'have
acted? You have been pleased Lo single me
out, rather pore perhaps than you have done
others, hut ;I shrank' from your atfontione in-
I stead of—' •
ticwas that Shrinking from me that won
me,'•lnterrupted the simple-hearted duke; "it
was indeed.'
't sun not to blame. I. could not speak to
you and. any you must not court' me, before
you first smoke to, me. , -e, .
The duke allowed that, but he grow hot:—
'Can you not say that you —that you—Will
you let it wait awhile. and think of itl ,
'Oh no, I cannot ; it must not wait a day ;
I can never say otherwise than I do insw. .
The duke nervously phlled his glove about, '
'giving it considerable danange in the way of
slits.- I would try to make you so happy : 1
would not have a will bueyours,
Anna was nervous also—it: was her first
essay at a refusal. She stammered.out that,
he was very kind, and the anyone
rose to leave.
,'I shall never care fur else, Lady
,Anne.' • . ~ . .
He nervously putout his hand, then drew
it' back, they put it outagain. :The dltke did '
notknow what mighthetheetiquette on these,=
occasions of rejection. ' Anna 'knew as little,' -
but she frankly put lie*r.hand - inte his—and
pressed it, shie vague ideavunningthrotigh-.,
her Mind that it might soften her refuSid. - ;
• . Tho duke sighed. "I think the next best'
.thing to having you—will be .t.cl-liiiVe your
sister,!, lie observed, %deliberating with hint+.
self. ' . If f panne[ he your husband, .it •,will,
be So'm'ething to be your brother, I don't love
.The duke would sand but dm' one -who
att,' the other?'
'C in I tell, I. say!'-"'returns I
'ls not all the world dying to send them to
me?' she " .
The Duke ot. St. Ives ,reached her and took
I her away with bier - ra .wn.i .7.0
and too slender; altogether
.very much like -a
maypole, with a fair oomplexhisa, mild eyes,
hind a ineek, inoffensive face. At - Than he
was &ailed 'Milky,' and he had never lust the
soubriquet 4 'St. Ives is -a milksop still, ho
has 110 devil in hits,' !neared the fast young
men, hie friends, who had rather too much'
' of it in theni -
The quadrille was wAlked over, a gallop'
was got through, other tei adrilles and other
dances earns in their turtfratidjust as Lady
Anna Holley wapeniSiti - ntAlli7nient4 resp ite,
in a sheltered ueri - :::rotlecoheriontlecitiAti'datne
up to. her. Als4ve the middle height, bift•not
reinirkably tali: he IlTita yet a distinguished
looking man, his hair luilsriant And Of a dark
Immo, with clear, penetrating gray eyes, and
features of Winning beauty. 'Anna,' he whisp
ered, in a low, ISltl3lOat 'voice, whose tones
spoke love, if ever love was spoken -'Ann t l'•
She' started an I blushed vividly; sho hand
not aqui him advancing.
'I • Liolin!'
' you think I was lost?„,' •
• •I. thought you were never coining. Wiry
are you so late?'
'And lam only 'here now - to toll you that 1
cannot code-it - That is not Irish. Stanton -
yeti know Stanton?'
les: a little.'.
poor fellow, he has mot with au ami•
dent to-night,..,#Cdugn the bursting of a gull.
I was starting to Conte hero whin they sent,
fu'r me: he is in great pain, ire shocking spir
its, and cannot hear for rue to leave him. I
told hint he must give me half an hour, and r
came, here to tell you.'
•I aw so sorry. flow-Hole comes St. Ives
again,' she Leeks off, 111 e hurried. whisper.
.S.ty I ant engaged' to you. Lsolin.'
The llake of St. Ives received his answer,
and the other looked nt his watch. must
.stay for this one walti, Anna-the temptation
lie not to be resisted.' •
She put her arm within his, nikd his eyes
I happened to fall upon the dowers. 'They aro
nicely arranged. Anna, aro they not?
I knew it 041.M0 from you,' sho softlybreatli
ed 'This and, another were, left. Mamma
jumped to the conclusion that the more beau
tiful one must be irons tile duke, and' ordered
me to use it. His lies neglected on the table
at home.' '
`Anna, I shall begin to fear that the duke is
dangerous,' ho said, as Ile held her closer'
than he need have done in the whirling
waltz.
She smiled and half shook her head, but
her shy and pretty eyes were bent te the
ground-otherwise he might have seen•diow
full they ,word of (die.
'And now must not linger another mo
ment' he exclitheed, when the dance was
over. Stanton!'
don't believe you have addressed
a single word. to anybody in the room!
do not think I have, St. Ives excepted.
Good night., my dearest.'
'I never
,heard of anything liko kV uttered
Lady Anna rip, she stood before her
mother the next morning; with crimsoned
cheeks 'llow - stupill ltelfruit
'Stupid!' -echoed -the countess.
• Was such a thing ever hoard of mamma?
As iffte could 110 G have waited till a proper
'time and season.. Arid what in the . world took
papa there last night?. I_ doiq..think he has
troubled a ball fur years.' . . •
‘l9,anything the limiter with Anna?' ex
claimed ;Lady 9erahline.• who - had entered
while her sister was speaking -
'A piece of good fortune is the matter with
her,' returned 'the countess. 'St. Ives -spoke
to your papa lest night about her.'
•Nlitdo her an offer? asked for lier?'•breath
lessly returned Geraldine. '-
''Yes he did. - I knew it was coming to it,'
'And what's she grumbling at?'
Wo go by the rules of contrary in this land,'
grit the countess, shrugging her shoulders;
'the more happiiess.is rained upon us, the
more wo,jituttablo.. Qrumbling is indigenious
to England.'
That think of the stupid way in whicht he
went to work,' retorted Anna; •usaier to say
a, syllable to me, never to give me a hint of
what he was about to do, but to go blundering
elf hand,to papa! And to speak to him in a
ball-room, at his own hotted • I-wonder papa
would listen to hint.'
'What does •it signify where ,he 'spoke to
him?'
'lt signifies this-,that he otight to-have told I
me first, and not have breken it to papa with- -
out my knowledgti.'
.You must havd seen he watt progressing to
it. Me has flirted enough with you,' :
'There's the evil,''eried Anna. 'Men nit)
so : much given to flirt now-a-days, that you
eiinsiot tell what. is tlfiiing aro what. real--and
woe be to the, feelings of any 'Off' wile mis
takes the-false for the.' genuine-
,If the Duke
of,St. Ives' has flirt ecl with - zit° I hate'
'the word. and I have not. encouraged. hips--
others have flirted with hits;,; you, have all
boon ready' to ptill him io itieciewin'the con
test,'
'Marano, she says she has.not encouraged
hitn!'.. exclaimed Geraldine, with a smile..
bet, it's true; but laball pollee lava any ono
bat ynu:! '. •• .
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• Anna prettyitearly exploded with laughter
'Oh yes, that would hetlelightful, if you Could
only fancy her.' 'Which of them do' you
mean, Mabel or Geraldine?'
'Well, Ilion% • know,' sail the duke. 'f
htioie not thought about it.' I 'mist talk to
my mother'
Lie shook her hanj again, and quitted
her, and Antt i , -hiiniming. a tnerrd daude,
waltzel rjund tumiL routuf the romin to its
tone. •
The Coonteis of Essington had found her
husband is his study. A. little man,. with- a'
velvet cap on'hi.j head, anti a flowery areili•
ing-gown, a irterry:hoalte 1 little man, wiu
lilted to take thing.; pleasantly..
Die yon send Ponimeray to :no?' • ,
I toil him you warn here., Why
--"Pbea; - you 'don't know what he - wants?'.
'How should I? to talk about Stanton, per.
haps.' ,
••lie wants Anna.' ,
211102e0untess_ quo sainted with her ()yeti.
'Wants l r fir what?'
•To'be la 1' of I.)).n:neimy.",
'What a donkey ha must be!' uttered the
conntiss, irascibly. 'Wlc,v, the old Dewager
13 trhant let it out that sbti was going to mar
ry St Ives!'
'Bat is sh going to marry St. Ives?'
'What should ;tinder her?' retorted 'the
countess.
'She may like sweetie ly elselietter.. The
Inr.l of Poinineroy says she does.'
'I wish the lord of Pbeinteroy had been
buried in the Yomtn.).roy vaults before he had
cum.) upsetting thing's in this way!' was the
intemperate rejoinder- of Lady Essington.
l'rttt 's not such a m ttchip all linglati I as
St. Ives, and if .land were te let hint slip I
me tut sever forgive. her. 13 Hides, 41 . 1.3 c toi't
now, that prating.old dottriger is off to tell it
bl leantlaii:
Cto earl laughed, lie enjoyesd. the jok).
'You and the dowager must settle NAL:tweet)
Tsuppose you told, her first.
13a0f-Anna hatsgtitalic lord of l'outtnerey
in her };racy, Ah.l can't in Li* St.
The countess neowled. .
'.tifould you let her rnarry-Pointneroy with
St. Ives in ilte..way
'l'd let boron tr?y Po`lnincroy with St, Ives
iri°the way or him,' returned the earl.
`When young people take inutnal likings
where'S - the use oftstanding"on against th tat?
thereboon anything objectionable in the
' lord of Penitn.troy,_that...lht-tnight
her,
.why did you suffer them to inlet? tiers
his he hien in the Itotka.enitinnllly. like a
taint cat—aot that T eduiplttin, I like hi It—
in3lllol Jetill44l.oll - 11ther °Vet . ) , ether.:
bro id. I saw them last night whispering.
and twirling together iri th it brainless dance I
that's only grit for in thing the head real I
and the stomach •
. .
'My daughters have-Ifr e ,tel to) properly
reared to allow tholes:A va atm !h i _
ed where it's. not espedionC,' acid the In ly,
'Bat nature's nature,' cried the, earl.
'And traiAing is training,' retorted Vic!
countess.'lia says . I
slit: , loves hint; and he says lie
ardently loves heF,' - vai the answer. '1 be
lieve he does.' ' •
'Lott* rejoined the countess, scornfully,
'love moist give place to ex'padiency. Did he
speak of the duke?'
'Yes, he did,' replied the earl, his face in
a glow of merriment. 'He called him names
—the bran new Brumtnagen duke!'
Le.ly lissingthn's eyes Ilaihed fire.
— •.`Shameful! Row dared he?'
'Pared! These old families, these long•
pedigreedtristocrats, do bobl- in contempt
new people: fa point of descent, the duke of
St. Eves is d ot w irthy to buckle on the gar
ter of the lord of PointnerOy.'
Before Lady F11111.;(011 could reply, she
he trd the duke's voice upon the stairs, an
opening the dear; saw him pasting down
them. Lie was departing,a ft erthis inteview
withAetna. L Estin4tenthattened to ae•
, eat but the "duke looked back' with a
cold bsw only, and iris ' One.
.She has been refusing him exclaim t !
the counle:ii; Sinking in. a chair—`and old
Dam! 13 trlutin has gotta with her open in milt
mund the towel If Anna has been such an
idiot, i think I shall beat her!'. •
She bent her angry and hasty step to the.
tratving•room, and taught:my ...yo . g..utg_l4l4:
Allllli in the midst or hrt .eareering, waltz.
She seized her by the arm and swung hur.
round the other way, not very gently.
iVhat have youLhoen doing to the dake of
St.lvei?' •
how you startle Mel'
'What have you been doing to the duke 'of
St. Ive.i?' •
only told him I could •not marry him.'
'You tricked girl! Net marry him! not
mscry St, Ives!..lithel ; come here,' interrup•
ted the cpunress,,hisaring Lady gabel in the
nast voetn;:loolc a your sister there— , 3oC the
ngare she cuts I She has boon refusing St.
Ives.'
'You have not!' debated slabed, slowly
speaking to AnntiV :
'Seth a fuss!' cried Atina. 'Who's St- Ives?
The lord of Potninerov calls him
'Be still, you shameless child! Flow' can
yon flare mention the 12rd of l'omincroy to
jny . ,.fiwc?.—afier sending him to your papa
watt a tale that you had fallen itt love with
him, arid he with you?' - •
Anna stood with blushing cheeks-and ful l
ing eyelids. !It is true,' she murmured'.
'Mabel, he called St. Ives a branmew Brum
:umlaut duke, or some such vulgarism ; all.l
•—and—' the countess hardly knew whet li•
er to subside into itfit of shrieking hysterics,
or to siidke Anna-4.11e earl takes his part;
says he shall have her?
•Ile is the lord of Pomruseroy,' obsetved
Anna, in &low tone. 'But for the duke of
St.lves wanting me,you would never have
thought of objecting to
exclaimad the earl, 'inter
rupting them.
'Wulf f papa,' cried nitheersharply,,q never
thought you would have upheld her in such'
onduct.'
'What conduct?' asked the earl.
'She has encouraged the duke shamefully;
nobody else has had a chance with himrand
now to turn round upon him? Last night that
ever was,'she went parading his
. boquet•gift
in his rooms.'
The earl looked nt her displeased—Anna
hither lips to hide a smile. • :
'There were two boquets came for me, pu
pa. i t he one was a.beauty. and mamma or
dered me to use it.'
'But you had no right to use it,' screamed
' the countess,. 'if l'ou went, to reject the dtiku
to.day.'
'But it was not the duke's,' returned Anna,
demurely; 'the duke's was the.ollo WR left'at
home. It was the lord'of Pometeroy's. .!•
'You littleldeceitful—' The earl burst
into a hearty laugh, and drowned the- rent.
Ho laid held of Anna and led her.to
,that Window, where ,they eould
'Anna; Lire your affection* fixed on famlitt,
POnintoroy?' • • " '
Her
,ceulltenance ttitt.s suffesettwitl' ,
anti—an,all•sufficient answer.
'Or on the duke of, St..l.r.tier ntim
.
tied..
• „
._She loolctal nilipelsiliasl7.,
don't ortre.fol• 'And
with the, duke would surely not be quite eui.
table for me--ive•are not of the eatuil
`'True. But io many hiterinarriugee take
Isl 50 per annum In advance
$2 00 if not paid In advance
place now, that—However, let it be. I only
wilds by give you it 'word of ad vice: Anna, be
fore!ltrdilisvg4yevocably; make sure that you
kuOw your own mind.. The wife of the duke
of St. Eves, let- him marry wh - am he may, will
be mistress and master—he„will make a do•
cite, obedient, and kind husband. :The lords
of Poihnieroy, on the contrary, have theire
potation of liking to rule their wives with an
imperative will.'
The tears stood in her eyes as she looked
besechingly up• 'Papa, I, could not respect
or love a man who would yield his will to
table in great things. I must be able to rei,
tir2llCe my husband; to find him one that I
en e obey; am certain first LeOlin , ivill
ever love mo•and be indulgent to me.'
•13 3 it so, then,' said the earl, as he kissed
her fireh.old. - 'Lang, life n. - nd happiness to
•yea, Lily of Ponuneroyl'
'What slur is it upon• the Polluter eseut•
011200' dens in led La lyGeralsline. ‘There'S
-something.(---Thedatedord lcilled - his - brother, —
, di I he not?' -
1 , 'rile brother killed the late lord,' corrected
the e _mote ‘9t quarrel vote botivain them
owing, it 13 said, to the lord's wifu favoriag
hie ha.uls pee brother. Rupert. It was shrou
ded iii a dual of mystery, but a mortal setae
to >lt pla'ae bAweieen . the brothers, a pistol
Went oT, and the lord woo killed. R u p er t, on •
eopol ho It to never b tot he or I of vot,thou
• on trly • ye 11.:3 )1:11 eel The third
be Wier, Goorge, ICA:11 ! lord of Polninerey,
for of e kurte a Inartbrer Os:11101 ellorit:
George• %Yak oh Imo I with, his regiment.'sorae•
! where in India. but he did net Come home;
he remoinel out there till he :fedi and now
Loulin it lord of Pu:n neroy. There's the
h is tory:-
'lt wal not thel tte lord who woo 'ki Iled, then?'
--!Strietly - spnCrin4 uoti for lla irge.was the
late lord of Ninineroy. wit (Joy, the el-,
nett of all, - had the loot who reigned' at the
abhor. Georiie.'lMl'lle became lord, made
his'4ll-health a plea for not ramming. G
„11i7P)1Y has reigned at the abbey hithertoila•
dy of Mu tierey:' •
'Did he leave 'no children'?'.
No heir.'
IMIE
• 't shoal d. not relish goioa , ,,to a home al
ready oecapied by a lady n' Porn mere) , and
her her 'child,' 'exelairnel Mabel, speaking
l'or the knit time,
'She is, weloonto to live 'there,' said Lady
Anna; -tho abbey is.largo otiongb,.by all an.
eoutit3?--- , .
Anna will be . lerly.o-f . Poinineruy. The
widow will subside into her proper place,'
said Lady gisington—
'ft 15 the costom of th'o widows of the lords
of Pommeroy to remain in the• abbey . ; who
ever may succeed ,as o*rvetl Anna.
• heolin has told me a great deaf about 'the
Pont meroy customs, sr
the Pommerci3t own to all sorts of old
customs and. traditions, and they think they
Intl - it:obey them.' They were always a super
stitious race.' .
TO S6•CONTINUSD
THE ALPHABET OP LOVE
The heart can
its
the Aqililtdiet. In
Ah I love begins its A, B. C. [re who ears
A musts's° say B, but the tongue is timid,
an lit is in Beholdidg that love looks through
the tender eyw t iato the heart add -kindles
there a volcanic- fire, which is the second
step. 'd'here is no rest; having put his hand
to this plough, the-youth must ran the fur
row to the end. The presence of the beloved .
one confuses and he must stand on Ceremony
defers to her as to an honored sovereign, a
g illess, and this is the fourth stage. Bat
shadows gather around the 'growing lover;
the Demon, ho of the green eye and crooked
t mime. watches every crook of the finger
and every direction of the eye, thus. jealousy
r icks him, but Emulation whispers that faint
li :art never won fair lady, and so he labors
by kind deeds, and sweet words, 'and fine
presents, to win the gayer cif a smile from
the rosy mouth of the beloved.' Thee the
hart . beatS higher, hand lies -trembling and .
c iy in hand softly pressed, and the seventh
stage dernands'an action of pathetic hereism,
the Greeting of a kiss. It is done; the uni
verse is mirrored in the angel of his life. How
call he talk prose when all his thoughts are
songs? -Lie finds himself, atthe eight stage,
in Keayen. Onward sweeps into the field
- of his•visioil,, no earthly insides, but .a sweet .
--Idealithat carries up to themi nth stage. The
loved one hovers,. through his dreams ; the
litht that-streams from her eye is a lamp to
his path ; the laud, men, all things are bean-.
- drill by iltit, reflection, that shame the stars N
to' littia. Higher yet,. to the tenth, of Joy, '
. where sin and sadnesi seem like a inytholo-....
A: dream of sombre men, dead long ago.
13 it the mounting Sun suffers an eclipse ,• ..
the eleventh stage reveals a tangled Knot of
human imperfections and misunderstandings;
the angers eye is dim, and her garments are
dr.t . ggled. At the twelfth appears the Laugh;
ter, who remembers his early diseoinfitures
and later wooing,and winning, and reminds'
the disconsolate one that the sea has fish as
good as ever caught; yet, for all . Mat, gel- ..-
ancholy dresses the world in mourning, and
leads him lower to that fourteenth stage, a -
merit! Nostalgia; for his 'soul feels - at home .
no more; a lonely vagabosd• is he front the .
Gerdes of Eden. But lie must justify him
self. There is a meeting, and the fifteenth
and sixteenth stages in the alphabetic jour , .
' nal of a lover, disclose the Offerings of a'rna
' teal apolocy and the Promise of eternal con.
I
staney. ,-Yet the curse of love will run mud• •
'dy ; the onds of
by
attraction are
lo.isened a little by a. lover's Quarrel ; they
stand apart; she smiles on this -one, walks
with that, rides with it third aitddances with '
a fourth,.and all to let him know that she eau
do without him ; just as if you could, 0 ern: .
el, self-deceiving girl I He is in torment,
and at the eighteeuth stage, seeks a &con-
..-.
ciliation. And then there are pledges Many.
and promises ,more; moonlight walks and'
cosy sittings; forgotten are the- tantalizing'
dance, and ride, and smile; unreckoned are
the instances' of masculine unfaithfulness;
they stand on the nineteenth stage of the Se
eurity•of experience. 'No more to fall from -- .
the ~grace of love, they, plight their • Troth
Alon..the-twentietli.. Full hearts make loose
tOngues, aid they talk over the' plans, the
cost, the dangers, this toil and moil - of life; . ,
but, on the next stage, one queition absorbs ,
Fail else, as daylight does the stars, the ones— .
tion of onion. ,'The day ,is fixed. ;,.The
t inc tvearkslowly on and waxes slower as it
nears. Alas Tor hiiman calculation, at the
twenty.second 'appears - the Vexaqop of hope • -
' deferred, making the hearts of lovers faint
with fears ,of 'perpetual 'single enrsednets,.
lint time is the great restorer,..aiid at the '
tiVeiity.third stage behold the Wedding:. This - -
is the hilarious time among all people,. ()hill- •
lands, in all times. men, at the .4 1 111 4
rehab,' there ie a Sly connection with the,o ti,„ .:-,
fats; a busy, secret working'„ iiii , the }remi t .. , .
duchy, the - receptiOn'ofstrangrs,littld Siren." .
'gm's, consisting olnameles little aiticleehip '-_:: •‘',.
'away down in thehopem of the drawrie.•Con-' , -
gratplations t presents, compliments, kind ..-:•
wiSheslllll,llkC7Wtertihe ef. iloWers,, en :the' ••,'
tkinty-fillh, in lidilet.tif the Youttgling, sweet.;
household bond: oreorrew E the. pleneanbtrou. v 0,7
ble,•yet•tho bripo,ttage, , ,which-Aringii , hint' -I =
1,1,u sighs the.,Alt l/ and huc;who!nnsweied,io ''"
As the s es answers to the wind, to the Zenith
of deniestio household happiness i the zenith • •
of a social latitude rind longitude, -that. i
ratheC in tho.torri4l in the tsmpeiate
none.
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