Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-12-01

4 never forget
There came voices down the road, and
Maud saw a Magenta paraspI, Q white
plume, trinity bslted NOR ring dress, Q
mass OF y How hair, Q face dazzling white
-Esther Varian, in short, and with her
Marx Farquhar. Esther nodded towari
them with little air Of triumph. Mark
put up HE glass. Maud col0red with an
ger. 1t was not enough to pam and wound
Der. Ii must be done openly. that the
world might know that she suffered He
Nas P:iViledged to say with look aud &C
tion, what. as gentleman, bis tongue
might not utter-Wbst, as woman, she
must endure in silence.
She had quite forgotten Paul, but DOW
he made her look ut him. though how che
could not tell. aS he had released her hand,
ana certainly had not spoken. Than his
face. nothing could well be more Quiet,
than bis eyes, nothing steadier; but 10 that
very Quietness che found 10 some wsy
strength and reinsurance, and in that daep,
calm something of command to which
size yielded. Her color died away to
paleness, the sparkle to . look or weari-
| ness.
Please take me home,' she said, put
ting out little hand, to be helped
down.
They went back 10 silence. Maud vas
questioning herself. That morning Paul
had iounged by her side, and she Thought
OF him very much as Of the bird skiuming
before them. or Of the VIeW-somethinR en-
eIreIy external to herself She had known
Paul year. What had be said or done in
Enls short hour that must make him hence.
! 'orth part OF her thinkiDCi Why should
che feel herself 10 come Way ccnoueredf-
What did be meant What did she
mean?
Esther and Mark were already back on
the piazza. They had taken . short cut
across the fields
p Plainly a very cutting party SAID
Maud looked at him for an answer. and
sat down upon the steps, her brown ewes
toll OF soft light, her cheeks flushed into the
pink OF sea shell. and her hair wherever it
could escape the restraint Of comb and net.
falling naturally into waves and rippIes.-
At that moment she was lovely.
we were talking Of vou,' said Father
When We passed you Mr.. Farouhsr woold
have 1t that You we're Rochester and jane
Eyre, only that Rochester houid have
been on the fence aud Jane was not pretty.
1t ~aa an effective tAblesu, however
POite = said Paul, With perfpet gravity.
"A coincidence 10 my heart l have of
tenlikened Miss Maud to little Janet
There must exist . resemblance 10 chsrsc-
ter
Esther bridled.
'Don't thank him. Maud. 1t is q libel.
Jane Eyre Was most unwomanlvI
PauiS eV0a beOan I'm ana rklaB
Your reason, Mss Vsrian.'
The book itself. As an examnIe. the
scene 10 the garden where che confessed
der love to Mr.. K chester Til q man con-
tesses himself. think il unfemin inc even
to have questioned ones self about him: hut
to Love while yet uoasked is, to my thiuk-
ing. impossible. for q true woman.
thr"Hsh. OF course. don't speak E aa1ke.
drG.'
1t lie, then an exchange. in which the
lady Is specially cautious of being cheat.
Ell
i deny it, broke in Maud. There ia
no law that says w"mac shall not dare
to reverence, to admire. to love, whatever
10 pare and noble, spontaneously, iDvolun-
tarlHly, as does q man. Pride, delIeacv
instinct, will indeed control and maxi lie
expression. lest the thought of her gbuuld
be prJfaDed 10 the heart of some man uho
knoSs not properly how to reverence her
bnt to sit cOWsrdly down. and when hear,
md hard are offered Affect surprise and
take -, as Of gratitude Or extediencv. or
because con~inced by reasoning ia mn,
w"man!iness. but bypOcrisy or seIfdecep.
ton For 1t is scarcely possuhle that man
sh' uli 1--we, and woman should be uoeon
scIous. Even If too weak to dare ask the
verdict OF our heart. if We find q thing
loVable We 1--we; jf strength, or rett. or
knowledge that We crave, we take IL IN viz
tn: ct the very necessity of our uature.-
We drink in light and air without reason.
ing; and inVOluntsrily our moral nature
also takes its light and life. Right. honor
possibility, enternsl, circumstances deter.
mine its expression; but it's receiving or
It's rejection is not Of ourselves, or within
our province: our subject TO any law but
that Of CD
'Brave.' said Paul.
Maud thinks best to defend her position. ,
returned Esther, With world of scornful
BY way OF csOtrast,' resorted Paul.
Esther eOfoeed TO the temples. Mark
came and sat down BY Maud.
Have offended You have scarcely
LOOKED toward me to day.
i. must have been that you were not
within my range Of vision
BE II 90. You are 10 arrears, then for !
whole morni"g's kindly notice. Wilt thou
come and play chess?
Maud rose. aud in 90 doing dropped her
gloves. Paul picked them Up aud plsced
them in his breast.
i will keep them ss hoetaees.' he said |
linen came now o time of much self |
questioning and eeIE.commuuine with |
MAUD Tor certain it was that, do speak |
what or With whom she would the consci-
business OF Paul attended her; not always
strictly expressed in her thought. but ri. |
Waye felt; besetting her in the morning.
Ano going with her through the dog; s"I
thus submitting to Q stronger will and a
fixed purpose, masked under an slmost
WomanIsh gentleDess. che stood afFriehted.
faDcying this new frame of mind a moral
nonetroelty, and blamed herself; and when
she detected 10 herself q relish for this
submission che despised herself and
rsbeiled, only to be conquered anew O.
wiFe was che in theory, 80 simpIe in prac.
sicel
All this lighting 10 secret we're on her.
Ind just as the two weeks came q an end
'ne Ot her headaches seized upon her
NOW Maud's headaches were not affairs of
Eau de cologne and Q few hourp; So finding
,oe Of hand she ct once reIiDquished eli
thought OF the mOuntain party, 90 long
discussed, aud sat quietly down to suffer.
fsni came to Der 10 the library, where she
lad cneconGed herself as the coolest and
n"et quiet spot. and seeing her face White
Ind drawn with suffering. was moved with
;Om passion.
Poor child let me stay With you,' he
ald earnestly. You look as il you needed
lursing.'
But she motioned him awav.
by n1 meacs. YrU can nothing and
am hekfAF alo0ag