, 1871-12-07

amidst which she had beart-brohenly sat
down with all her things on. "I knew
you'd come back" she said.
+ - So did l." he answered, I'm much
too good and noble to sacrifice my
preference to my duty" % 2aI.> z s,.'5at
"Ididn't care particularly for the two
horses, BASIL" she said, as they descended
to the barouehe. sit was your refusing
them that hurt me-" l1- -i
'TAnd I didn't want the one-horse car.
riage. Hwas your llOgicali;y that pro-
voked me-"
Do You think people ever quarreled
before on wedding journeys" asked
Isabel, as they. drove out Of the city.
"Never 1 can't conceive oft. 1 sup
pose if this was written down, nobody
would believe it." .o/ 1.,,,,
"No, nobody could said Isabel, mus
ingly. 81 wish you would tel me just
what you thought Of me, dearest. Did
you feel as you did when our little affair
was broken of, long ago, did you hate
me :"
a did, most cordially but not half so
much as despised myself the next mo.
ment. AS to its being ike lovers quar-
rel, i wasn't. It was more bitter; so
much more love than lovers ever give had
to be takep. bach. Besides, it had no
dignity ySahd a lovers quarrel always has.
A lovers quarrel always springs from a
more serious. cause, ana has an air of ro-
mantle tragedy. Phis had no grace of
the kind. 1t was a P1or, shabby little
squabble.HT e s.F.1rt 'g~.-f sEg.-t
40, don't call it 80, Basil should
like you to respect even quarrel of ours
more than that. i. was tragical enough
with me, for didn't see how itcouid sIsr
be made up. l knew couldn't make the
ADVANCES. 4 don't think it is quite fem
mine to 4e the first ss forsiYeSiS 'lt:Y ]
"Tm sure 1 can't say. Perhaps It
would be rather uLladylike.P ..W
"Well, you see, dearest, what 1 am
trying to get St is this whether we
should love each other the more or the
less for it. j think we shall get along all
the better for while, on account Of it.
But ] should have said it was totally out
of character. It's something you might
have expected from very young bridal
couple : but after all we We been through,
it seems to improbable
"Very well, said Basil, who having
made all the concessions, could not enjoy
tho quarrel as she did, simply because it
was theirs '' let's behave as Il it had
never BEEN"
go, no, we can't. To. me, it's as if we
had Just won each other"
Ia fact it gave wonderful zest and
freshness to that ride around the noun
tain, and shed bene6csnt glow upon the
rest Of their journey. The sun came out
through the thin clouds, and lighted up
the vast plain that swept away north and
east with the purple heights against the
eastern sky. The royal mountain lifted
its graceful mass beside them,. and bid the
city wholly from sight. Peasant-villages
in the.shade of beautiful elms, dotted the
plain in every direction, and at intervals
crept up to the side of the road along
which they drove. But these had been
corrupted by mora ambitious architec-
ture since Basil saw them last, aud were
no longer purely French an appearance.
Then. nearly every house was tannery
in modest way, and POLITICALLY published
! the fact by the display of a sleeps tail
over the front door. Now, if the tanneries
still existed, the poetry of the sleeps
tail had vanished from the portal. But
our friends were consoled by meeting
numbers Of the peasants jolting home
from market in fhe painted carts, which
are doubtless of the pattern of the carts
first built there two hundred years ago.
They we're grateful for the Immortal old
woman, crooked and brown and bowed
with the labor of.the fields, who abounded
in these vehicles, when huge girl jumped
from the tan Of her cart, and showed the
thick clumsy ankles ofa true peasant
maid, she could only sigh out of their I'm
speakable satisfaction. l' hHs ni $500.
Gardens empowered and perfamedz the
low cottages, through the open doors Of
which they could SEQ the exquisite neat
ness ofthe life within. One of the doors
opened into schooIhouse, where they
beheld with schoolmisttess, book in hand,
and, wih a quaint cap on Der gray head,
and encircled by her -heck Of little boys
and GIRLS ". D. Howell, IN November.
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