The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-07-17 00:00:00

A BAZYLLD LOVE&

A shower that began to fall at the moment
Georg* Dalton entered the garden parlour at Cole'
worth previistiel Kate from setting oil for Mlin Green
quite as early as abe wished. About ball-past eloven,
however, aim melted the letter piste, and had th•
satisfaction of finding her mother, thanks to an egad-
lent night's rest, and a very becoming little sap retain-
ing hardly a trace of her resent ledimmeitices. Kate
wea • poor dissembler, and had aeon betraytd Colonel
Grant; bat thumb Mra Maritoo professed herself quite
aftrontrid at his ill opinion of her looks and hie evil
report if them, 1b.... evidently much pleased that be
bad noticed them and had made it his busioess to speak
of them to KM.. The latter carried out her resole* of
offering to rentals at boo.; but Mrs. Menton's looks
azd good spirits nay missed the offer to • mere com-
pliment which that lady digitised to enterigua for •
moment. _ . .

risk, indeed," As said, "of beteg thought
inhospitable by Kr. Daiwa, I shall wow] you to re-
turn to Colsworth as soon as yo a ere really rested, to
relieve Frank asd Felicia of all anossiosai, sod to pee-
ress the.. frost coming ova.; for Adel& and I inteud a
little quiet drive, and shall very likely show ourselves
at Coleworth in the coarse of the afternoon."
" Goland Grant," said George Dalton, whoa they
were only a few yards beyond the gals, "is a high
favourite with Yrs. Marilee, I sea"

"Oh pal
" He mama, I Wok, to hay. taken a. all by Morn."
By storm Oh, you mesa he has not boos hire
loos. Hot at to as, bin koooing Olivia so and bar-
inc.«. her so lotoly, mods quint a sort of hood."

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mopes SO.
It was by this time pest noon, sod the day was
beautifully bright without being too warm The shower
of the morning bad brought out all Um colours of the
landsape, und bad evoked a fraicherr whisk was de-
limou ; and Kate's looks tied vote, and carriage were in
lamming hannoey with this mac To say the troth
this was not ferreting. In addition to the natural
youth sad health in the freesias and
rigealrome al
of the bear there were ot`ter things. Kats's
mind was relleved from the nomaisees on Wm score of
her mother's health, that bed bolo pressing is it sines
the afternoon before ; she scold look forward ins Salado,
met less agreeable than the preeording week bad boon;
and lastly Ire minutes ocevemation with Ken. IlleriMe
ea the 'object of the volunteer review had poserseed bar
of that lady's very etiefordory ideas with meant to not
only "bototets," but an entire toilet for the oceaskin.
Kate then walked lightly forward, and without per.
calving that her COO psalm waa hardly u.seslbl. of the
abarming sondities of the attooephere and of the elm-
rosediag lastest, ea she was beresff, without per-
ceiving either the dais of ailed that impelled him to
' the (request decapitation of the long snem and wild
flowers, that were,unluokily for the.m.lvsi within remit
of his este as he pared aloes, or to those eneemetis and
unneeseses7 jumps over sash stiles sto massed big posh,
when ha could jest u well hese pared through the
gates he opened for HAUL Nevertheless, it was not till
they were more than half way to Colsworth that be
broke • little silenoe that had occurred by saying,
-• •

" I wonder could Coloool Grant tau niiasytbiag
shoat Egypt?"
"About Egypt About Cairo and Alesaadria be
might, wimp& I bays no snot idips that groom
aoatieg bows by the Onriaad ramie have very mush
WWII foe obeeseetioa. Bat why!'
• • •

• "
Oh? Is going to the Ileillornmese cos might,
far ; and Una it would be as well to pick
PiupTtP Udag Gould about places before head."
"Bat are you thinking of the Yedlierraseus r
" I am—a little— in fast, a good dela"
" Seriously 1"
" Seriously."
"AM Mr. end Ida Delta. will they spare you r
" I have esnaritsd then yet." bips•o4 *lit* dryly.
" Whew as. It twony-kair one is not quite • child;
though U on• lives at hens aid does nothing bat Ash
sad play segued, one has ae *lst to be sarprieed that
other wow overlook the feet."
1 gate tamed her ego ea bin Iqt • mood with itora-
pion wirptio. At keg* oho Lad bosoms aware that
sonothiag was anise. O•ald It be that he was wended
mid that he thought himself thrown Into the sbado by
superior maw and talons sertreelllow al Wesel
Gnat? It 'rum unlike Gouge We to be envious
• ill-buneered, that she beeiniesd to entertain the
idea. Might ;set she booed be • WO* blows Had
'be set bees • goad deal osespied Ib ber own very
ebuf ii awl ps" sod • little inatteutive
to hor eons= poo Ha had moo pod nanuedly escorbed
isuri Yet she lutil Is.. al se gaol pint to wake kis walk
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'and to all—had. Kate thought, hardly thsaked him.
They had depended unreasonably on his friendliness and
good humour, and he might really feel hurt. Bhe owed
him amends she found, and would devote himself to his
amusement, and take an interest in his Vans for the
reiusinder of the walk.

"Bat this is rather a sciatica 'dee" she &it'd, reverting
to his Maditerrattese project, "is it not r
_

" liatber—not quite. he replied, and her tone had
been so attentive and kind. that bla countenance bad
brightened immediately. "Th• fact is as • man gets
older he begins to feel lie otict either to do something,
or see somathing ; and if he has no work at home, spa
no profession to awry him abroad, why the next best
thing I take it is to travel on his own hook. Of slum,
if I bad gene into the army as I intended to do, and
ought to have done, I should bayonet) all one wanta to
see in the course of Nereids."

"An to tint;'; ka—t•-•;;;Iired, " I do not know that
generally speaking men in the army are the wisest
treveller• I believe travelling on one's own hook, as
you call it, may be the better thing. Men in the army.
I have beard mamma say, look through such a narrow
medium. To a certain extent you see they &tempt
carry with them the same aurroundinp. I have • great
notion of independent travel?'
"It may be a better thing, perhaps."
"A person can take his own time."
"Esactly.—And go at his own time—al any time .
"Yes, at any time."
"Not but what men, if there is nothing to prevent
them, travel early jo these
.days." .

,
"Oh yes," 'mid Kate, "I have not a word to say
against early travel. Look at the Prince of Wales."
Looking herself. however, as she spoke, at Kr. George
Dalton, she penalised that his eountenanee fell • little,
and that she bad not said quite the right thiug after all
She thought, perhaps, he was not an very mach in
earnest about pt, end that it might have been but •
little mortified kind of threat, and shaped her next
olwarvations aceordinely.

"Your,, however," she said, "is rather a peculiar
position. As an only child, your Mot duty is to CCM.
tribute to the happiness of your parents, whims I.
remaining at beam you do."
" You are very kind to say es," be replied, and there
was • short *lame, which brought them to • gate.
He opened it quietly, not vaulting over either it or
the ,ti. this time, and they pulsed through.
"I weeder," speculated Kate, "if the.. will be many
blackberries this year r
"I don't know," he sold—not however with reaped
to the blackberries—" I don't knee what my father and
mother might my to Egypt, but I believe they would
be eery glad to lose me in anoilier sort of way. I
believe, be motioned, twisting off • ;mit bough,
webs's* to look for blackberries—and thereby bringing
a considerab'a ooloar into his faise—"l believe nothing
eauld make them happier thee my marriage. especially
If it would not take me any great distance from them.
But then you see they we not likely to be made happy
in that way, for who would take such • very inellgab6
port( as I am? At my lather's c'eath I shall have I
believe about • thousond • year, which is pretty well as
times go—et any rate for bcppinem."
"Oh, quite I should think." . . . .

"In the nmeatime he would, I know, 070 MO btal that
suni—and very liberal of him to do it—for it would be
dividing his independent intwe with mu. I could not
extuot--eould not allow him indeed to do more; but
there, who would wry me en Are hundred a pier r
"I suppose it would not do to marry upon," mid Sate,
aympathiriesly. " But then though you are not, as you
lay, quite a ebild at twentrfoor, Mill you or. • very
pre maa— very young to marry, think.•
' I am the manse age," repliod Yr. George Dalton,
again • little drily, "that your brother was when he
married."

'Oh but Frank married—that is be married • lady
with sixty thousand pormda. which quits alters the case
Now if you ens in love with any lady who has sixty
thousand pounds, I think you mance do better than
propose to her Immediately."
"Thank you, No, ?rook is one of We luckiest
follows to th• world. I hays not • syllable to say
against fortunes, or young bides who possess than; but
I ala not in love with • lady who has sixty thousand
pounds, and I shall never marry for mousy."
late had never hoard him speak no bitterly —had
sewn so ill-pleased, so pabed a look twos his
good-humoured fans; and • SW* unwelcome light
began to Sod its way into her mind. She was sliest.
ITooonamously she quickened her pace. They were
ind.ed close upon Ooleworth. Is almost the same
Wool. they mune witldo sight at the mate, and ma theY
did so • horseman wh• had not see. themselves we
materials at 11, A pretty little colour sprang into Wate's
cheek, where It was unhappily ream observable, for
she was a pale girl, and George Dalton said
" V•ila r

"ColOoeroraat wag hr tba yowls lady salted, "I
of iihotto,.."
"Eh will bo glad to hear our good sooonot of
MISMAINI."

"Yrs. That is satisfactory at any rate. nut this Ls
Inv tarn*, (or I will not divide with you the welcome
Trumeebiany sociorded to the bearer of good tidiatlng!
I believe I bare hardly Innebed oboe at the •
since 700 have been as Oolewerth."

Felicia is a well-drawn character --a woman of
the world—soft sod oat-like in her Dater*, all velvet
and purring whilst the world Rom well, but treach-
erous. A kind of beautiful tiger. Jai* the kind of
woman one meets now and then, daseling every.
body. With her external beauties and sooomplish-
meets, but rotten, bad at heart A match I. made
up for her with a young gentleman named Menton,
whale family care not that he has love from his wife
If he can get money with her. So tkey proceed
tbroegh many stages, the wife unloved and unloving,
tbe husband rather indifferent till Felicia terns out
to be a flirt, and then leaves her husband deet4te,
disgraced by her cioudiert, heartbroken when be
thinks what might have beenlant for his parent,' eager
desire for money. The subordinate personages are
Eirdin grand relief. There is the family at the
nge, "the Mots'," nioe, gentle, loving girls,
naturally graceful and elegant, in vivid contrast to
Felicia and her sisterein•law.