The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-01-13

by her side; she's more than half AFRAID
you won't like me, and if you don't 1t Will
make him very unhappy So she spoke
in i, girlsh almost childish outspoken way.
without seeming to consider or TO mark
the effect of her words either on the man
she addressed or the bystanders. 81 should
have known you as Theo anywhere I'd seen
you," she went on; "you'll be exactly like
Mr.. Bligh when YOU'RE She paused
abruptly and colored little, but ii moment
after she forced herself back into compo-
rure, aud resumed "when you are as old as
he is, l was going to say, but remember
that young men don't like to be reminded
of their youth, and so l bungled and blum
dered. Can you forgive me"
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
tauch Of accent-that way Of softly resting
on the vowels that is speciality of Irish
| women's pronunciation of words that they
want to caress? AS he asked himself this,
he looked at her more observantly, and
wondered also how she had come by that
face and that expression.
A pen-and-ink portrait of girl whose
glory is her youth and warmth and color,
must, like photograph necessarily be
hard and crude. But no other can be given
here.
! She was about twenty-five when Theo
Bigh saw her frst-,just old enough to
! know that she had mind, but not to be
wel-acquainted with it herself yet. Quite
a girl of the PERIOD as far as the Vatican
| like picturesqueness of her costume of
deity mingled blue and pink went, but
| innocent of all Grecian bend or other vul-
| garties of the like order. With golden
| brown hair and eyes-afiiectionate and
changeful eyes, something like the eyes OF
my Last Duchess who '.loved what
Ger she looked on, and whose looks went
everywhere should imagine. Firm and
| erect in figure, fluctuating in movement
! us most women with caressing manners
are; possessed of beautiful hands and feet
of which she was daintily fond, with an
openly displayed fondness that was inf
! nitely amusing to men, and infinitely wear
isome to women, who had not the same
/ objects of affectation; able to invest her
| attitudes of listening with an air of inter-
est and comprehension, that was not always
altogether genuine, perhaps. Bright in
heart and in mind, able and adaptable,
the sort of women to be easily nodded, and
| whose fate would be grand OF CHASTITY just
as it pleased the first man who really thrill
ed her to will it. This was what Theo
Bligl saw when he looked at the lady
whom he had already registered " Bonnie
! Dundee
How had she come by it all? How had
she come by the winning grace, by the Irish
Goes and suspicion of accent, and by the
southern warmth and splendor that envi-
roned her? He must have put his curiosity
into form in some way, for before the even
ing was over the girl found herself explain
ing to him that although Scotch by name,
there was but little Scottish blood in her
veins. my father was half Spanish, and
my mother was wholly Irise, and so l can
make no claim to being very pure in race;
if | am anything, it's thorough bred
mongrel.' And then she lapsed from that
subject into one that was naturally more
interesting to her-the Blighs, namely, and
whence they sprang, and whom they mar
ried, and in what way they had distinguish
ed themselves in the days gone by.
Undesignedly, and almost unconsciously,
there came about a certain degree of init
macy between these young people, even on
| this the first night of their meetng-an
intimacy about which there was that indef-
Unable something which cannot be put
into a word photograph, but which never
the less strikes the observant, and the
interested, as being rather more than kind,
and entirely unnecessary.
| Now Mr. Bligh, the bethrothed of Miss
| Dundee, the owner of the Chase, and the
uncle of the other innocent offender, was
neither malicious nor observant by nature.
but he was interested just now through
stress of circumstances. It would have
hurt him if Theo had maintained that air
of suppressed unhappiness which had
marked his demeanor on the morning when
he first heard of the approaching wedding.
For Mr.. Bligh was blessed with one of
those dispositions through which was
| colossal vein to desire to set all crooked
matters straight, 1t would have been a
| flaw in the scheme of banevolence if Theo
had not come to an amicable conclusion
concerning the case. But still Madge
ought not to have been so entirely oblivi-
Gus of their relative positions as she APP
peared to be while she was teaching Theo
new and ingenious mode of playing cats
cradle, pastime which Theo found to be
exhilarating for the first time.
"Young blood will have it's course lad,
And every dog his day
This couplet forced itself upon Mr.. Bligh's
memory as he looked at the pair whom he
had brought together and whose good will
he had bespoken for one another before
hand The good true, honest gentleman
had no feeling of small jealousy, no petty
distrust of the pretty creature who had
listened to his offer with bright eyed sur
prise, and accepted with bright burst of
gratitude. But though he felt no jealousy.
and no distrust, he did feel considerable
fear lest the animated should misconstrue
that out-spoken, well-developed flattery of
voice and look and manner of which his
nephew was the object Just row. Its
only her way he told himself" and bless
her, wasn't it Tor that loved her at first,
before knew how good she waso'' Blu,
| though he reminded himself Of this truth,
the remembrance of it brought him small
comfort, and he glanced at Madge uneasily
and his uneasy glances were seen by the
very friend before whom he desired her to
shine as bright particular star.
| Miss Dundee-or "Bonnie - Dundee. as
she soon came to be called in the Blighs
set by those who were very keen on every