The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-11-15

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cult TO guess what will ensue.
us Miss Paulett not coming ont
this evening"" he asks, when they
have taken turn around the green,
to the dismay aud disgust OF the oc-
cupants of the villas.
Aunt Catharine? No; | couldn't
drag her out, so braved u solitary
stroll. shan't have many more
walks on the green"
"Why not!" he asks with qualm.
"Im going away next week. Nam.
ma will have me home again"
She has morbid horror OF its be.
ing known here that she ont of a gov.
erness; and she has made her aunt
vow silence on the point. To imam.
ma therefore, il becomes necessary
to impnte greed for her child's socl.
ETY., which amounts TO selfishncss.
They are on the verge of the green
now, at the tnrihest end of the village.
The ruins OF an old abbey are in sight.
Beyond the abbey there is n wood
She tossed her head in the direction
OF the wood, aud says:
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take dear lazy old Aunt Chalhcrinc a
bouquet of wild flowers"
4 faint spark of loyalty 10 charm
ing Miss Paulett is still alive in
Boughton's breast He is preparing
TO say something that shall attest 10
his admiration for and sympathy with
Miss Paulett's tastes, when Minnie
adds:
"Shc is so .tond of things-oi eats
and flowers. It's Il pity she hasn't
something better TO love instead OF
wasting all her life in bemoaning SOME
one who didn't care for her
The sole rcmarking spark of loyal.
~ dies out. Has she done that ?
Let us go aud get the flowers. Miss
Ward; | know where the best live in
that wood
rCan you spare the time :" she asks,
softly. oh. how good of you. My
last walk at Binham will be my pleas.
ATTEST one"
| Mr.. Boughton has maiden aunt
living with him who keeps his house,
and drives off the uuwary who ap-
proach him when she is near She
has for some time had her aunty eye
on Minnie, aud Minnie has delicious
little se;Isc Of satisfaction now III hav-
ing brought things 10 this pass. No
aunt, neither his nor hers, shall come
between them now.
She SITS upon stiic. and he stands
close by her side. And the rays of
the setting sun streams through the
leafy bon.hs. and gloriiy her head
IL is all very pleasant, but Minnie feels
in her own iorcible idiom, That
pleasantneSs wont pay"
For few moments shc forces her
self 10 contemplate each side of the
shield II she marrics Mr.. BouehIon
she will have TO lcal Il Binham life,
and when he is her husband she will
not he able To ininsc an element ofcx-
ciiement into her Binham lite by iiirt-
ing with him. II will be dull, proba-
bly,, but
But it will be better than horrid
teaching" she reminds herself. She
has no more sense oi moral RESPONSE
billy concerning what she is about TO
do than n child has about knocking
Gown house of cards.
I've altered my mind about the
flowers gather tonight. Mr. Bough-
ton They must be for your study.
VIII you have themy'
will not :"
His face is in the shade, and looks
very well there. Minnie adjusts her
heal at becoming angle, and makes
another effort.
Aunt Catherine, with that good,
servicefble common sense Of hers,
would jeer at me for being romantic
il she heard me say that should like
to take tiny bit of stile away 10
wear in locket as charm"
He knows that she means him TO
think she loves the stile becanse he is
leaning upon il with her, in what a
} poet would call the cleaning" lie
knows all she means, and likes il.
He takes out his knife and dcfrauds
: the lord of the manor by cutting a
square inch out of the stile. He
would detraud twenty lords of the
} manor of twenty times the value of
the one square inch of stle at this
juncture to please Minnie Ward.
With rather Jhaky hand he pro-
ceeds to cut his initials, "E. b." on
the little bit Of wood. He trims 1t
and smooths it, and then he looks a:
. her.
She gives him one look, and he for
, gets all his views as to the propricty
OF the clergy being celibatc body.
7 'May | cut yours here, too?" he
asks; and she bends down her head
and whispers, "Yes," and when she
comes down from the stile she is en-
gagged TO him.
AS she leans upon his arm she
makes him understand that life will
be a wilderness to her until she has
the right and power to SO lean always.
He has his own views about short en-
gagements-he disapproves of them
-butlhe thinks that her soul trembles
at the prospect of ever SO brief a sep
aration from him. And he believes
it-good young priest that he is.
"fhen it had better be soon," he
says, eagerly. Why he says it he
can't exactly define, but he gathers up
! impressions that it had better be soon,
and speaks from the impulse they
) give him.
) "Oh, if you wish it,"
, OF course he wished it. Suddenly
r he found himself wishing it very
much, and feeling that all his precon-
ceived ideas on the subject were utter