Connecticut western news., 1871-10-13
so LIKE A WOMAN.

so LIKE A WOMAN. .s...
 "Do you love her, uncle ?'
 "I am too old to indulge in the luxury of rhapsodies.n he said with laugh, "but I'll tell you this, Theo, am very fond of the girl, and very we'll satisfied that you'll approve of my cnoice." .,.y.-. The speakers were Theodore Bligh and his uncle, the elder MT. Bligh. The sub ject of the talk was young girl, to whom the uncle was engaged, and to whom the nephew was stranger: Madge Dundee, or Bonnie Dundee, as she was called.
 G We'll, uncles don't generally submit their choices in such matters to their nephews' judgments" Theo Bligh said, recovering his normal expression of benig- nant indifference as he spoke, and then he added: aI hope with all my heart that you'll be happy.
 You will meet her tonight at dinner" MT. Bligh said to Theo. "She is coming with her brothers and some friends of theirs to see her future home." ss.
 He did meet her that evening. H
 aI think Mr. Bligh has been rather ner- vous about introducing me toyou," Miss Dundee said, quickly making way for Theo to take seat on the sofa by her side [" he's more than halt afraid that you won't like me, and if you don't it will make him very unhappy" So she spoke, in girlish, almost childish outspoken way, without seeming to consider or to mark the effect of her words either cn the man she addressed or on the bystanders. T should have known you as Theo anywhere I'd seen you,o she went on ; |" you'll be exactly like MT. Biigh when you're---."'' She paused abruptly and colored little, but moment after she forced herself back into composure, and resumed, 'when you're as old as he is, I was going to say, but l remembered that young men hate to be reminded of their youth, and so bungled and blundered. Can you forgive mel a
 Could he forgive her Was the Bonnie Dundee subtle, or only sweetly simple, that she asked him this, in that winning voice of hers? And, by the way, how did she, with her Scotch name, come with that touch of acccnt-that way oi softly resting on the vowels that is speciality of Achievements pronunciation of words that they want to caress 5 As he asked himself this, he looked at her more obser- vanity, and wondered also how she had come by that face and that expression.
 In remarkably short time the two be- came the most devoted friends. a
 Bonnie Dundee was not mere unsuitable coquette. She was not heartless fool, ready and willing to play fast and loose for the sake of gaining little notoriety but she was that even more dangerous thing, a woman afflicted with such passion for pleasing that it became fine art in her hands, and when she was following it she could not stay to count the cost of failings or success. It was new sensation to her to have the right to such attentions, and admiration and love as MT. Bligh lavished upon her, and as Theo offered at respect full distance, on the score of being his uncle's nephew: It was new sensation to her, and she enjoyed it to the full; reyeling in it as one does in sunbeams after a long frost, or in dainty yiands after a long fast. The idea of it's being wrong or reprehensible in any way to gather these roses of love and youth and pleasure, that were blooming in her path, never entered her mind She was not false or fickle in reality, she was only intensely fond of the excitement of being put upon pedestal and being only worshiped in the sight ol all men.
 There came day when it was revealed to her suddenly, so suddenly that it made her dizzy, and then she behaved-Eke a woman. -,a-. ea s =-s. 14 -
 One morning, uncle, nephew, and Miss Dundee met. ...=t -,- ........
 "Theo has been talking this morning ot leaving US soon i; before he goes, dear, we must let him know what day he is to come back and hail you as an aunt" It cost MT. Bligh more than slight effort to mako this speech with apparent ease, for during she last few days he had not been blind o tight. But he succeeded in doing so, and only he himself suspected the pain his own words gave him. g.
 s'Going Theo going r exclaimed Miss Dundee, lapsing from fun into surprised solemnity in moment, and laying hel whip with a frank caressing gesture or Theo's arm as she spoke. |" Oh, don't think of going, Theo ; 1 can't spare you've can't spare him, can we ?'' e'.'-.-.s..
 The mems eyes met for moment a! Madge spoke, and in that moment eacf read that the other knew all about it "Hc knows 1 love her," poor Theo moanec in his heart, and "He sees I know it, MT. Bligh thought, with not one whit less pain. And silence fell on them, and il that silence Madge saw things clearly al last.
 To recognize tbe love of one man in tho presence of another man who has a right to feel jealous of it, is to be in position O the greatest danger and delicacy and diff culty. Poor Madge finched for the frs moment when she found herself in 1t, bu the next instant she recovered herself, and with the generosity of woman, sougb to put them we'll with one another withou regard to herself. ..... .--....
 "It was selfish of me to say wouldn' spare you, for it must be dull for you here but the fact is, Theo has spoilt me, just a my brothers do, and have fallen into the way of ordering him about as do them forgetting he isn't brother"
 It was terribly trying work for them all weighted with the discoveries they ha recently made about each other. It be came insupportable to Mir. Bligh after short time, and so he sauntered out int the garden, and Theo and Madge wer alone.
 Her spirit rose with her sense of danger