The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-20
ALEXANDRIA,. La WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1870.

those eyes, which had the old baronets
own keenness, were fastened upon HIM,
to prove that not a word was lost.
$50 he cast off the people at the
ell sn said Sir Felix. aa
ayes, he did, replied Mr.. Driffield.
"And turned them out, L suppose?"
said Sir Felix. Joy
Mr.. Driffield looked little aston
ished. 1 2 Ha9t p"
Gle couldn't do that, you KNOW"
said he :. "because the cottage belongs
to Mrs. Lyle herself" et lf'd
"Ah, true; 1 forgot" said Sir Felix,
'''The fact is, my mind has been run
ming so much on other things, that
--n - ass ~ Esit
"Of course" said the lawyer. But
he wondered, remembering the close
alliance which had been well known to
exist between the young heir and his
relations, that this should have been
forgotten The family lawyer, in a
country place especially, when he is
tolerably well born and presentable, is
to a certain extent also the family
friend, and Mr.. Driffield yentured to
hint at this alliance delicately, watch
ing the keen face opposite him. "''
"Ah!o said Sir Felix. $50 she is
still unmarried 2" tff .t'a
eyes, still unmarried" replied the
lawyer. a'' 5e"
owe are the worst half of the crea-
ton, Drifield," said Sir Felix, gnawing
. his moustache. zone half of us don't
: deserve the faithful friends that stick
to U.S." 1851 81. a
;, 1--WE don't indeed" responded Mr.
Drifield, as he rose to go. He didn't
+ quite know what else to say, the ground
=. being new to him. 1t struck him, how
= ever, that his young client was no
. altogether so eager about this particu
-! lar old friend as he ought to hav
,, been.
sI shouldn't WONDER" said the law
o. yer to his wife that night, elf it a
ir dropped through-that affair wit
~ Miss Lyle. Sir Felix is no boy nov
20 He's altered, and has seen the worl'
,,+ I don't know how it is ]; but there's
- look about him somehow that l new
T. used to see. 1t makes wonderf
difference-this foreign travel"
nd To this Mrs Driffield replied that
a one knew how things might turn GU
ow and if he We're going to be anythi
IN like his father, Esther was good az
too good for him.
,rr Meanwhile the new baronet, alone
NV the great, gloomy, red dining-roo
had called for more fire, saying that
No was used to a warmer climate, and
;cb place was like vault.
800 When his orders had been obey
fed and the flame went roaring and Graz
ten ling up the chimney, he sat and sta
into it, not doing anything to all
.uo pearance but thinking hard, as,
fer course, there was great deal to
NOT thought about. By-and-by the old u
his. Ter came and asked him if he would
over to the house but he shivered I
SIT said, mo; in the morning; any rt
,or o would do for him."
lii He sat there long in the night;
.s+od when the fire grew low, he took Pr
ct book from the breast of his coat
ii opened it. There were few lette
80 IN a very few-yellow with age; t
was a lock of brown hair, not une
:, lad mon hair at all, with nothing but
III silky fineness and gloss to recom11
D,;e it. And there was a portrait don
80 an inferior artist, but yet not altos
800 er unjust to Esther's well-cut face
- the eyes that looked out upon him
81 % such quiet resolution.
a. his 1t seemed as if he did not quite
aaea the look of these eyes. He bit
.gag inoustache, stared again into the
seen and finally got up to examine hi
y his at an old mirror But the poe
emory thing had convex surface, a
% IN turned from it with something II
re i'm oath. -....- ~
erence $50 gave her my likeness, to
;, won I q" he said, between his teet
wish could see it. wish c0u
AXE to she's like this, now, ! shall-we
.fraid," turn coward at any rate. A wo1
ravity. to be tamed.n dsgz
;urd to rra saf
/, who CHAPTER III. :
Any eff he keeps me to my prom
80 very well; if not, shall survive
lawyer. So Esther said, and SO Doubt
=" - 80 would survive it. But even he
added viii was unable to keep down a
)rifield. restlessness and expectation
would DAVIS. The boyish love, as she
lnts I'M think it, had been very dear tt
it's passionate eagerness OF sc
ure him fee for it was on her account
ed-that pally that he had gone ava.
ay !; and told her at the time. But IL
inject OF nigh. have borne with his h
ced that been patient. He wanted to
ID. sition only that he might lay
essly, ~ feet; to be independent of the