all the of her intellectual nature for something better than her narrow life by all her joy in the conversation of d the only man her equal in culture she had ever known she felt drawn to be the wife of the yet if there were roses there were thorns in such a path the village girl knew that madame la must lead a life very different from any she had known she must bear with a husband whose mind was ever in a state of and and she must meet the great world in truth there were two there was the that her neighbors knew the that went to church the that taught school no there was the other that read and shakespeare and de with this new had nothing to do and it was the of her nature that caused her then her conscience came in because there might be worldly attractions on one side she leaned to the other to reject a poor and accept a rich and one had something of treason in it at the end of a week she sent for them both henry s had been ready to start for new for two days and company were expecting the who was in some sort a ward of theirs henry and the d walked side by side in an awkward silence to the little vine covered cottage of that interview i do not know enough to write fully but i know that said such words as these this is an awful responsibility i suppose a judge when he must pass sentence of death but i must make a decision that the happiness of both my friends and myself i can not do it now will you wait until you both return in the spring i have a reason that i can not explain for wishing this matter postponed it will be decided for me perhaps i do not know that she said just these words and i know she did not say them all at once but so they parted and miss more who ribbons and scandal and whose only effort at mental improvement had been the out of the hairs to her forehead that she might look intellectual � miss more from her at the window the two friends walking away from mrs s cottage and remarked as she had often remarked before that it was absolutely for a young woman who was a professor to have two at once and such good friends too gifted girls like usually have a background in some friend intelligent quiet a dark thoughtful girl was sometimes spoken of as s double � but she was rather s opposite her traits were to those of her friend the two were all but inseparable and so when found herself the next evening on the bank of the river she naturally found with her slowly the of which henry was owner and master drifted by while the three or four men at each long oar strode back and forward on the deck as they urged the boat on henry was standing on the elevated bench made for the pilot holding the long oar and guiding the craft as his manly form in the western sunlight attracted their attention both the girls were with admiration both waved their handkerchiefs and henry returned the adieu by swinging his hat so intent was he on watching them that he forgot his duty and one of the men was obliged to call out swing her round captain or the mail boat d sink us hardly was the boat swung out of the way when the tall mail boat swept by see the cried and again were waved and the stepped to the guard and called out to henry i ll see you in new and the swift steamer immediately bore him out of speaking distance and henry watched him disappear with a choking feeling that thus the nobleman was to him in life see said you are a lucky girl tou have your choice you can go through life on the or on the of course you ll go by steam there are on sometimes said then turning she noticed a singular expression on s face her insight was quick and she said confess that you would choose the and turned away two strings to her bow or two to her string i should say and she did say it for this was miss more s comment on the fact wliich she had just learned that miss had received letters from the lower country the handwriting of the directions of which indicated that she had from both her friends but poor miss more with never a string to her bow and never a beau to her string might be forgiven for shooting that did no harm there was a time when had letters from only one henry was very ill and d wrote of his condition to and to his family in one of these it was announced that he was beyond recovery and and mingled their tears together then there came a letter saying that he was better then he was worse again and then better in those days the mail was brought wholly by and it took many days for intelligence to come but the next letter that had was from henry himself it was filled from first to last with praises of the that he had taken henry out of his boarding place and put him into his own large room in the st charles that he had nursed him with more than a friend s tenderness scarcely sleeping at all that he had sold his cargo relieved his mind of care employed the most prominent and anticipated his every want � all this and more the letter told and the very next from the lower try the great heavy duke of with a green half moon of work in 