The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-06-19
n. 1 followed his example in each

10 make you as ClmIOrCaDIe as VIC can. we
shall always be glad of your company at
dinner at seventh you prefer dining late,
but we hope you will quite consult your
own inclination about that. Your pupil
| you will see when we go to the drawing
room, | expect He remained out longer
than | did. Tomorrow we can arrange
| further details, as may seem necessary"
| shall never forget my first morning over
! the books with my new pupil. He was a
very nice boy, but with far too conversa-
tional tendency, thought, as tried hard
| to keep his mind land my own fixed on the
work in hand. lie would break off sudden
| ly from some heartrcndiGg passage to ask
me if | had kept horses at Oxford, or ifthe
proctors had ever been down on me Once
or twice found myself tripping, aud only
| too ready to run on iu the unclasscal con
versation such questions suggested, while
! Horace and Euripidies lay open, but for
gotten before us.
Florence is coming this evening" he
said one morning about week after my ar
rival, as he was finding the pace always
long business, before commencing to trans
| late.
"Who?" l asked.
Florence; my sister, you know. 1t is
always jolier when she is here. You ought
to see her ride. Most girls are great mufs,
[ think; but she isn't bit. -
| heard little more of Florence, but |
did not see her until dinner time. We had
taken our seats when she entered, and hur-
riedly took a chair opposite me. Mrs.
Gawston murmured the customary words,
and we bowed across the table. The con-
ver,ation was general, as our party was so
small. Miss Gawston, who | stated was
grown up, and not the somewhat honyden
! ish young lady her brother S description
had led me to expect, joined in it freely.
and we fol veral thipgs to say to OF an
other across lhe table. | thought her oX-
! tremeIy pleasant | remember, and remark
ably pretty. She seemed about nineteen,
and had just returned | found, to my hor-
ror, from visit to ssnle fren Is in the west
MY daughter tells me she met some
Miss LuXtons while she was away. Are
they any relations of yours?' asked Mrs.
Gawston. | may say that that lady and |
were on very pleasant terms; but L had
every evening to encounter the severity OF
black velvet Il used to wonder whether she
had but one dress), and to feel NY teeth on
edge if by any chance my hand touched her
robe a. we marched in to dinner.
''The daughters of Sir Grahame Penres-
ton, explained Mrs. Gawston.
felt very red as | explained that they
(being really my sistersl were connections
and then made vigorous effort to change
the conversation.
As the Colcncl and | entered the draw
ing-room Miss Gawston, seated at the piano
forte, was playing the large Apass|onoto,
from Beethoven Second pianoforte Soma
ia. ',Oh pray do not stop" [ cried, as she
paused on our entrance. That movement
is more than beautiful " Thus pressed,
she continued, then on to the Scteyzo and
LASTLY the brilliant ROndo in splendid style.
| was delighted.
"You are fond of music she said
Very .
II play the violin, and l sing to a
certain extent. ] was longing for her to
ask nc to bring my violin down. | saw Il
music volume close by labelled "Fiolin and
Piano Forte Mrs. Gawston sat funcreal,
statesque and immoyablc. Colonel Gaws-
ton was asleep, ard his son reading Mayne
Reid $ something or other. Miss Gavston
was trihng with the keps; possibly she fear
ed asking the tutor such a thing. | was
desperate. Shall fetch my violin and
music?' said, Without waiting for an
answer [ went. The EeXt moment we had
commenced and during the evening we
played together, and then embroidered by
this beginning. We sang together. What
happens once usually happens twice, and
the next evening we occupied ourselves in
the same way. Not always only in the
evening though, but many stray hali-hour
during the day we found time for a little
music Then, ALSO she rode well and as
her brother and rode almost daily, we Of
ten found ourselves taking the same direc-
tion; so altogether saw good deal OF Miss
Gawston. Need | tell the-result? Before
a fortnight was ever was deeply in love,
anG ny intention OF recommending Colonel
Gawston to look out for another tutor was
fulfilled We often met before dinner in
the library where there was a large Japan
ese screen that shut out the door. Moving
very slowly towards the room one evening,
near dinner time, / overheard some words
that made me pause before entering. and
cough violently, if not affectedly, in order
that my presence might be known. !,
"Ahem, my dear; the voice was Colon
ell Gaw> tons; Don't you think, my dear,
that Mr.. Luxton is-aham-ratfer, just a
little, perhaps not prudently, intimate
with Florence?"
Il have thought so, certainly" respond
ed his wife; "and was very glad this morn
ing to receive an invitation from Lady Fitz-
Pedigry for her, rs it will take her away at
once. ] have accepted the invitation for
her, and thought of going with her TO town
tomorrow or the day after to see Madame
Vaenciennes, as She" .,-
At this moment [ interrupted the good
lazy by entering the room. rather discon-
ccrting her by my sudden appearance.
The words had overheard determined
me to learn my fate from Miss Gaws'on be-
fore she left, as | felt that, under any cir
custances, it was impossible for me to stay
much longer at Gawston Flats in my pres
ent false position. Ii could not gain
personal interview determined to write to
her; and that night | wrote candid letter,
which | proposed sending her, if no oppor'
tunity for private conversation presented it
SELF But fate was kind, and the next
morning I met Miss GawSton accidentally
in the garden about an hour before break
fast time. The result was that she did not
appear at breakfast, and that when we rose
from that meal requested few minutes
private conversation with the Colonel. -
| Never shall forget his look of indignant
amazemont when he learnt that his son S
tutor had proposed to his daughter, and
that with success.
"Mr. Lux ton when engaged you,' he
said, 'there was one thing | was assured of
most emphatieally; and that was that you
we're gentleman. This is not the conduct
of gentleman to enter my house, to un.
dermine the affections of my daughter, to
cntrap her into an engagement! Sir, you
should hayo thrown up your situation here
rather than have done this
felt he had justice on his side. As far as
he knew, | was nothing but a penniless sui
tor, who had abused his peculiar position by
using the many opportunities it afforded
him Of making 1--we to Il young lady, u
reputed heiress Of apparently superior social