Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-09-16
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part of the room. The other, who read his
emotions like printed page, while inwardly
enjoying his disturbance, yet under the cir
cumstances, desired to allay it. He therefore
laughingly protested, in reply to Mrs. Ell
motifs solicitation, that he was too wise to
hazard the contrast there must appear be-
tween performance Of his and the one which
had just preceded, and sought to give ar
agreeable turn to ideas by producing a set of
amusing allegorical paintings, by French
artist.
4 beg pardon exclaimed Ellnott. at this
moment, wickedly tenacious of an opportu
nifty, I am not certain whether Mrs. Campo
has been invited to play
Mirror does not play returned Randolph,
with the best grace he found possible; but
the unmistakeable sarcasm of tone in which
the remark was uttered, cut him too deeply
for conccalment; his countenance changed,
and scathing humiliation and wrath swept
over his heart once more. His tormentor
gloried in the accomplishment of his aim.
The dark browed young wife caught the
import of the allusion, although she appa-
rently did not observe or comprehend the
nature of her husbands embarrassment, and
pointing Ellnett to kitten frolicking on the
piazza before the window, answered him
sportively:
4 much play that way-kids and squirrels
they know. me ALL
The beautiful little pet thus noticed, at
that moment skipped to her mistress lap,
darting again to the floor, and into the moon.
light without, as though enticing her to follow
And Mirror did follow, disappearing through
the open French window like an arrow, and
traced far away down the lawn by her un,
subdued though sweet-toned laughter. Again
Paul Ellnott's eyes turned with that bitterly
significant expression upon his own wife
and from her to the husband of the wild
Indian girl. Randolph saw and was frenzied
With some half coherent remark, to the efec
that he had left one of the pictures in the
library that morning and begging his guests
to excuse his absence while he should 90 fol-
it, he hastily left the room. As he did SO
the lady, who, far from sympathizing in he
husbands designs, was with true delicac,
affecting to be entirely engrossed by thI
paintings, lavished upon one some meritet
encomium.
1fyou please, Norie, my dear, do not lent
all the enthusiasm of your nature to the poo
purpose of feeding one mans conceit,' was
caution onveyed with tender reproof, whiel
reached the ear of the host, who had throw
himself into a chair, the moment he hal
placed wall between him and his guests
For my part, presently added the sam
voice, in an altered key, Pm thinking to SCI
the end of the buffalo chase and a careles
step crossed the parlor, and echoed lightly
along the piazza.
Curse him ? escaped from between the sc
teeth of Campo.
A pair of loaded pistols lay on sma
table almost within reach a mad, scorchin
thought entered his brain, to seize one of th
/ weapons, rush round and shoot dead wher
! he stood, the man who had dared offer hiI
| such insolence in his own house. 1t was bl
one Of those suggestions which are from with
out; better impulses from the heart quick
/ grappled with and overcame it; thrustin
aside the hands in which his face was buriet
| he rose to his noble height bearing no long
/ any trace ef anger or weakness, and in tn
i worthier mien soon returned to the parlor.
Meantime, Mirror having compelled tt
! pursued animal to take to tree, with h,
4 left hand grasped limb high above her hea
and few lightly upon it from the grount
another breath, and by the aid of las
i formed from her sash, she had secured h
i prize as the creature was scrambling high'
4 among the branches, and came gaily boun
i ing back toward the cottage with it fondl
: in her arms. It was impossible for the ge
4 tleman who, from the piazza witnessed eve
movement, to restrain burst of genui
excitement and admiration at the nome
:. when Mirror gracefully dropped herself
the shayen sward, with q prolonged che
that marked the sudden revnlsion of feelin
!. he sprang down the path to meet and col
: pliment her on her singular achievement.
/ The expression of his face alone, as he l
entered with her, though it could not UNI
!. cord from her husbands mind the misery
g had occasioned him, had suficed to disar
him of any lingering resentment. Kind
: sentiments were reciprocated, and they ps
t ted for the night.
ell lCoNcLUDED NEXT WEEK.
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