The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-09-13

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spoke. be aoalj enforce DIS aof3s by 81
kinds 81 expressive and Appropriate
paa,omins and male them sii ihe
praules Is casual gspees 81 $40 face
and fsnre vhleb tho glass gave baak
Add viai $50 Garth is your reasoa i5r
wanting me to eo mosuer be said
,hmuiag 80 open letter upon the table
aud forming laaly 70 bright itiie eli
dolly lads ah9 aas basily sorting "a
ors II bef dysk
You kaow my reasons, Kenneth, she
ausw cred ptboul stopping in her en-.
ployment. Just a. sell as ] know them
myself shall not repeat them
By the powers, you are bot and proud
about II 1 said Kenneth
hot aud proud. do you say retort d
his mother
Indeed 90, was the reply Why
don't you listen to a fellow quietly2
Speak "a ne quietly, and | viii listen
With pleasure Kenneth
Then oaca more, said be- what are
your reasons for wishing me TO go r
There that was quiet, ! am sure.
sly brother bas asked you twenty
times, Kenneth, and il seems SO unkind
and unreasonable TO 20 on refusing
as you do--too proad even to disgnise
why
Oh never mind that, said Kennethi
| III bear The blame Of unreasonableness
sooner than undergo the visit i he
| had stayed as he was, would have
gone AZ used TO 90, willing euought
but when he made such a donkey Of
himself. and married that languidi bad
tempered beauty, made resolution
to keep country between us hence.
forth
Perhaps when You know her, Ken
She
neye will know her. said Kenneth
that's better plan.
Her daughter may be nice girl con
tinued bis mother and you are nearly
cousins, You know.
Not very nearly, ! think, answered
Kenneth, with an ominous curl in th'
small, thick moustache, and neveI
can be nearer, that's blessing, o
course she is her mother over again
girls always are.
Boys arc not, said Mrs Goring, will
a twinkle in her eyes.
| You wish they were, | suppose, sal,
Kenneth, with light little laugh, 70
then would be anAiouHatos 60 10 Eris
ton
shall not answer the letter until to
morrow, said his mother quietly. Brinl
your answer home from mess, please.
! have given il you hundred times
mother he exclaimed. What an obsti
nate little lady you are
Mrs Goring was quite right in th
cogitation which called up that smile
for at night, when Kenneth came fror
mess, and found her waiting him, b
said as be bent to kiss her, I'll g
mother, il you Ike. My leave begin
on Thursday, aud | may as we'll go Q
once-I shall be back the sooner. Yo
seem bent upon it this time; I wish
were over
She wisely refrained from arguin
the point then at all, and turned I'll
conversation, while strange to say, tbs
a. he talked that night, looking ver
handsome in the open scarlet JACKIE
, bis face bright and earnest, Kennel
never gave even one careless glacce
the mirror opposite; be might indee
i have forgotten its very existence
There had been fair at Colebridl
on that Thursday morning, and
Kenneth Gorng walked down the ST
j. ton platform, be noticed that gre
? many people were going by this trail
!. Dot that they would interfere with.hi
be thought, a. they made lively assault
on the third-cless carriages; a sci
i boisterous roughs. with whips in the
hands and generous odor Of stab
about Them.
There was always a good deal Of c
nosity about Kenneth Goring HI.
as be beld his head, the blue eyes miss,
very little oi what was going on belc
them, and now they Nere almost n
,t consciously busy with these drosei
ior whom he felt kind Of eonteml
uous pity, as they eagerly crowded !
tothe close, dusty, third-class carriage
, I've Pot your portmanteau into q
van, sir, aud the gan and 6shing-ba
ket, said the groom The rod you y
g keep With 700 ia the carriage, su
. pose Sir. The smoking compartment
: empty, .ir, and the train doeant 81
= until il reaches Liston junction,
s8 All right sasd Kenneth. You 10
60. Barry
The groom looked back, ns,onish
f = see Lls master s,ill standing al III
end q the station Fearful oihis a
obedience he set turned back 70 :
burrdly, Trans iast abont to sta