The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-12-29


as she liked, and gave no heed to the direction
which that management was taking. Il was only
when Fred asked her 10 be his wife, saying, "Hou
see, Rose, the old ladies have madeit up between
them but we can't do better, unless you are not
for H." that she understood the meaning OF the
last few years.
"shc did not care much about the matter one
way OF the other, she said "shc liked Fred bet
ter than either my Lord Marcy Masters, who was
old enough to be her father or than Sir James
Vcntour, who was halt a fool B" so she said, eyes,
very well, Fred )" and there the thing rested. And
that was about the extent Of lovc-makng that had /
been between them.
While Harvey was making him self agree able" |
70 Mrs BlaCkett, Fred Whitfield went out on a l
rowing commission 10 look for Rose, who was |
never 10 be found, Ike any other young lady, IN /
the drawiug-rOOm but always where she had no |
business to bC-in the stable, or by the dog ken
mel, or shooting at mark with real pistol as |
she used 20 say, or practising Croqueti or doing
something that was not needle-wcrk or anything
else essentially feminine. A turn Of the scale
more, and Rose would have been EAST as IL
was, she was only free. Fred found her as usual,
in the yard experimenting some tremendous
proceedings connected with Fan and Fans pup
pics, and after their first Ofl-hand greetings they
met more like two young men than a lover and
his bCtrOthcd) told her who was In the drawing
room, and asked her IL she would 60 and see him,
"Ihats your friend come TO SEQ you turned
of; she asked. Aud Fred said yes, il was.
cob, very yell Of course III go" cried Miss
Rose, with lust the shadow of a blush on her
face "but yen know, Fred though don't care
about such things myself, it is terribly like being
trotted out for show
ooh nonsense Rose, drawlcd Fred. "TTar-
vcy' far too good fellow TO have any such dis
| agreeable ideas Aud they went into the draw
! ingrOom together
Certainly Rose Blackcu was a very pretty girl.
! Tall graceful, and yet with a certain leDk Of per
/ sOnal power about her, which some men like in
/ women, though others rcppdiate with large dark
/ eyes of uncertain shade, and thick, rich, glossy
| hair Of the brown that sits next door TO black;
! man
| gloves smell feet and dainty ankles, which the
| looped-up purple dress and curt red petticOat
| showed to full advantage; dangling her hat with
| its sweeping feather in one hand, while sticking
the other into the pocket of her short jacket with
| the big metal buttons, half blushing and half
defiant, she was altogether a girl Of the period"
after the best models of her kind; just little too
| jaunty perhaps, and a shade too indifferent, but
| evidently a nenatured, pure-minded, high
| hearted creature, as yet in the block, and un-
awakened. At glance Harvey read ii all.
"She does not love him." he said TO himself,
"and has never loved"
The two young men stayed to dinner on Mrs.
BaCkett's invitation; and at first amused then
surprised, Harvey ended by being indignant at
the cavalier indifference with which Fred treated
his betrothed. Indeed, the whole thing was
really painful to him; it seemed to be so little
earnest, and so devoid of the poetry and passion
of love. And he who thought of marriage as Of
an earthly heaven, and who would have given all
he had in the world TO be loved by such girl as
ROsel
'How often it is that people have what they
don't prize, and that others would give their lives
| for he said TO Fred as they drove home.
"Yes," said Fred, YEARLY. "SOme men like
love-making and all that bother; confess
| don't"
"You do not give yourself too much trouble
about it," said Harvey, secretly nettled, but at
tempting to laugh. "Of all the Indifferent lovers
ttat ever lived should say you were the most
at suits Rose" said Fred, "sud am sure
do the best l can under the circumstances. IL is
such a stupid position for fellow TO be in, alto
gether and even Rose, though not silly, and not
bit sentimental, dislikes it rs much as 1 do. Did
you see how she blushed when she came into the
room TO see you Z"
al saw she looked very beautiful and rosy"
replied Harvey; "but did not notice that she
I was paTticUlarly embarrassed or blushing."
"NO, not embarrassed; she Is not the kind OF
| girl for that; but she OOlOred up" Which seemed
TO have impressed the young man as something
wonderful; for he spoke of it again before they
When they reached home they found that Mrs.
| Whitfield had gone to bed, suffering from
slight attack of fever; by the next morning she
was decidedly Ill ; and in a short time dangerously
so. II was an attack Of nervous fever, and for
time her life was despaired Of OF course the
marriage was put of indefinitely now, until she
covered and as Harvey Wynn was free, not having
yet made practice anywhere, he agreed to
remain In the house in close attendance, until she
had passed the crisis, either Of lie or death.
And this was how it came about that he took
up his quarters at the Hawse, and, by cOnse-
quence, became we'll acquainted with Rose.
Rose was notmerely "the jolly girl without any
nonsense about her that Fred proclaimed her,
and that she Ostentatiously proclaimed herself to
be, in deed, at least II not in word. Harvey, who
had no love for "fast" girls and who had the
power Of truth to elicit truth soon found her out
!, and told her plainly that she was acting part
; which neither became her nor belonged TO her 1t
was all very well, he said, that she should like
riding, and be fond of dogs and horses and even
| enjoy firing at mark-though he hoped she
| might never develop into sportswoman, clever
Mt killing pheasants or hares either; but it was
nothing but affeCtation her trying to make her
| self into the bad imitation of man, and pre-
tending to be ashamed of herself as a true woman
: | Women were women, he said and not all the
big buttons or easy going slang in the world could
= make them anything else and, whatever the fast
school might say, there was a grace in softness
u and power in love, and an ennobling influence
: In enthusiasm, not TO be had in stables and hunt.
: ing-felds; "and womanly work is womanIy
I glory, Miss BaGkett," continued the young doc.
!, tor warmly "and home is not merely a place tc
sleep and fed in as you say, but the emblem
and enclosure of womsn's truest life. And all
this you ought to feel strongly and enact steadily
because you are strong and steadiaRt."
This he said earnestly for lie was too thoroughly
manly himself to uphold "as truly womanly'
< | incapable or imperfect women; and the thing hC
u liked the best in Rose was her power, and the
. dash of N manliness in her. which might be turned
Il TO such noble account il she would
y "And when you have made me all these fine
things" she said, her eyes kindling as she spoke
y but not with enthusiasm, "what will be tht
u good Of ii Much Fred will value me Muct
y the world will understand me! One gets NJ
| good by g1Ch suntleties, Mr.. Wynn; people
y, do not care for them, so what is the good o
u ! them 2"
! II am sorry you think so," Harvey answered
. 81 should have expected from one SO entire a
| yourself, the recognition Of a good, for its oWl
sake quite independent of the sympathy or un
Il | derstanding OF the world"