American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-09-07
ONE DAY AT ARLE.


ONE DAY At ARLE.
bne day at Arle--a tiny scattered fish
hamlet on the northwestern English
hst-there stood at the door of one o.
Z cottages near the shore a woman
ming against the hntel4post and looking
{: a woman who woaid have been apl
attract a strangers eye, too-a woman
bung and handsome. No..
1t was not the face of a tender wife wait
& for a loving husband, the face that
as turned toward the sea. If she had
hted the man for whom she watched shf
build not have seemed more unbending
yer since her visitor had left her (she had
ID visitor duringthe morning( she had
pod In the same place. even in the same
Psltion, without moving, and when at
st the figure of her husband came
puching across the sands homeward she
mained motionless still. % @
And surely his was not the face of a
hppy husband. Not a handsome face at
dull best, it was doubly unprepossess-
: then. as pale and breathless. he passed
stern form In the doorway, his ner-
BUS. reluctant eyes avoiding hers.
"Yo'n find YO're dinner aw ready on TIL
BILE, :" she said to him as he passed in.
Everything was neat enough inside.
BILE was set tdily, and the meal upon it
as good enough in its way; but when
e man entered he cast an unsteady, un-
mprehending glance around, and when
flung himself .inbs-a cl,aif,- he did not
Tempt to touch the food, but dropped
face upon his ann on The table with a
and like little GroAn. 4AssGi =
She must have heard it, but she did not
fice it even by a turn of her head, but
od erect and steadfast until he spoke to
+. She might have been waiting for
wortls-perhaps she was.
'Tha canst come in an say what tina has
say an be done wi IT, he said at last,
a sullen. wOrn-Oat fashion.
She turned round then and faced linn,
Fder to be met in her rigid mood than IL
had been a tempest.
Tha knows what I ha' eetten to saw
answered, her tone strained and husky
h repressed fierceness. "Aye, tina
pws it well enough. da' not much
ID to tell thee owt. HE conn here this
rning an he towd me aw wanted to
bw about thee, Seth LoAas-an' more
He comm to me- put in the man.
he advanced towards the table and
mex it once with her hand. s,f
Tina st tOwd me power o. lies," she
y. ''Iha's lied to me- fro first to last
serve thy own eends, am tha'st gained
h-tha'st lied me away fro tn man as
tn world to me, but tn times conn
W when thy days DER an his is comm
I'm. All thou bitter villin Does ia
nd how tina comm an towd me Dan
1t lass O. Barnegats? That wor a lie
that wor tn beginnin'. Does ia mind
W tina towd me as he made light o. me
hen tn lads an 1asses plagued him. am
feeped 'em down as he didna mean to
hrry no such like lass as me-him rs
br ready to dee fur me2 That wor q lie
; that wor IN, eendin' az tha Lnew r.
build be. fur / spurned him fro me th'
nv neest day. an wouIdna listen when
tried to straighten. taIt. HIT he eot Mt
truth at last when he wor fur fro here.
he browt tn. truth back to me to-day,
I theer's tn eend fur thec~husband or
-
The man lay with his head upon his
ms until she had finished, and then he
bked up all white and shaken and blind.
'Wilt Ia listen il speak to thee 90 he
ked.
SAye," she answered, s.listeu to more
S 70 u IL ErE7f
And she slipped down into a sitting nos
re on the stone doorstep, and sat there,
r great eyes staring out seaward, her
nds lying loose UPON her knee. and
embling. AfleTsat
There was something more in her mood
an resentment. In fhis.sinnLe ,orestI,re
e had broken down as She had never
oxen down in her life before. There
IS passionate grief ia her face, a wild
TT of despair, sflcb, as one fnioftt zee In a
ldenly-wounded. untamed ,creature.
RS was not fair nature. lam not tell
the story ~ a ,-antlo 49,. oo,,IaII
imam. am simply RELATING the inc;Ients
one bitter day whose tragic close was
ending of a rough romance.
Ter life had len 4 3opee hath AGAINST
worlds scorn: she had been either on
offensive or the defensive from child
bod to woman.iood, and then she had
ught one glimpse Of light and warmth
ing to it yearninply for one brief hour
ID lost it.
Only TODAY sbe b,d I..-,, t,,.. H.
VI lost it through trraTherv She had
d dared To heIiexa in No. hI;s. e ,,au
its faireSt existencs o ani zen ~ . J.r,
|ht-hearted. handsome Dan Mo-"a.,s
aI had worl.e1I a@.;nst bi,r LII, 49,
oofs- her r.veno. had hnaa, VIII ia,sg
am. Rut n hal fallen banl, ~, i h'.
IN head now. This very mornin% hand nd
me Dan had come back AGAIN to XrIe
II earned his .oG.raatoc tEn,,,-i, -
Il only meant ~ cI..a I 49, ,',i.., nc nc
u her what chance had hrom"ht To i;aht
had come back-her lover. the nan
no had conquered and swectened her hit-
nature as nothing oIso IN aartt HI
liver TO do-he had come boat III c nav,
r. what sbe rasNthn ',,; a.. n anu iouuu
nom She had never c.rn mI 81. = ltstll LoI
In who had pIayed them both faIS. nj
bbed her of the oneIo0r /, oleam Of low
had known.
Yo mouuht ha, Jefv me that -, ssbe
III. ..Yo mouyht ha, left n tn me !
here wur other women as would hal