Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-12-28

ly he throws the book aside, rises and re
enters the hall, wanting TO find Folke, aud
ask him how II Is to be aD0ut duner.
Folke must know, and surely Il were far
better if he himself should know as well a
little while beforehand.
He has almost reached the library thresh-
old when something makes him pause
That something in his own name, in lips
feminine.
"Gorme-oh, yes; remember you wrote
me when be came"
Lips masculine take up the dialogue.
ga quite nice sort of person. Not over
twenty-thTee, / should suppose, and good.
looking. He'd only been out of Harvard
a few weeks when I took him. l really
think Folke improves rapidly under his
charge"
"Twenty-thrpe," Is the reply "That
seems horribly young for a tutor,,n
Silence. Mr.. Gorme waits q little while,
then he appears In the hall. Mr., Fortescue
and his daughter are both standing in the
doorway looking out upon the lawn,
now. MIR. Foitescue heais Mr.. Gorme's
step on the resonant hall filings. He no
with great cordlality-ihe sort Of cordial
that has wrung n Inward groan from his
sons tutor many timts before now; lam
guagc in which MIR. Fortescue endeavois
to make 1t evident how civil he really can
DO to Tom, to Dick or 10 Harry notwith-
standing whole gulfs Of worldly,and social
difference.
But Mr.. Fortcscue attempts nothing
more than this beamng nod ho tulns his
head Immediately away and goes on talk
ing with his daughter.
Mr.. Gorme, however, persists In coming
EtRga fhn tutrnHmqfian
take place, il had best he gotten over as
soon as possible. He draws nearer, near
er, and finally is near enough to touch
MIR. Fortescuc's shoulder IL he so desi es.
"IIas II been warm In the ci v to-day
sir I" he wants 10 know, II little awk-
wardly.
Father and daughter both face him, at
this. Yes, he sees now that the portrait was
right. She has the same pure-colored,
amhtr-haiIed beauty the painter gave her.
Exceedingly warm," Mr.. Fortescue
responds, title sliflly. Grisel Is thing
so SUI remely precious In his parental eyes
that for Mr.. Gorme thus boldly to approach
her, without a shade Of encouragement,
seems kind of mild sacrllcge
II think we nearly always have breeze
here at Longshorc," comments Miss For
tescue, addressing her father. She has
Just been staring at Mr.. Gormo with i'm
nensc holdnoss during the past three or
four seconds and he is devoured with ST.
lent rage that MIR. Fortescuo should delay
the Introduction EVEN rs long as that gen
tleman has already done.
But be Is angler still when he finds him
self presented in the following mauncr;
"Grise /. this is the Mr.. Gorme about
whom was telling you. Folke's tutor,
you know
Mics Forts looks perfectly uninter-
csted behind Just the ghost OF asmlls. As
for Mr.. GOrme, concealed tnry at ths
mode Of introduction neatly takes from
him the physical power TO acknowledge
it.
81 suppose YOU ilnd Fo 10 very trouble
some, the young LADY remarks, ioohins
luwnwerd, IS tEongh sho did net much
care about an answer.
"lleis very troublesome at times, states
Mr.. 6orme.
Both father and daughter lonk round
with astonished faces. Mr.. Gorme goes
on, inscW,ably;
81 rarely have known boy Who was
not"
MIR. Forleecue coughs his mag'stcr'a'
best, and walks ioNatd tue dinins-ro0m
Thr beautiful Grscll lngerf. She IL
staring at Mr. G3rmc, and Ar. Hoimc
| Iretends that he docs not observe the I'M
perlincnce, because OF some dliiicullJ
/ with seal ring on one Of his fingers.
Bat Griscll means no lNp, tlnence. sh'
/ has heen Ieilcd and spoiled all her life hl
! her fnhtr, by her mother, VINO dicd seven
/ years ago, and hei scores oi ihshionahl.
relations. She has never. really beer
taught manners. Nobody IN that clrcl'
where her childish heiuly charmed, ant
where her womanly beauty has daz2cd
ever has seemed to require more OF hel
then that she shall he gtac'iul, am! lie
beautiful. Her word has been law, ant
her focial sway KIND OF absolute mon
archy tempered with fascination. Amorl
her worshippers ste Is enchanting VIII
one whom, us In the ease Of Mr.. Gorme
she vaguely takes II for granted that no u
n sort OF inicrior-"llh person Whol
she has never seen or hea'd OF before al
being socially anybody ana whom he
friends do not know or care TO knoW-th
huge fault in Miss Forlescne.s brcedhl
becomes keenly apparent. She is not
snob. She would shrink from shown.
this Mr.. GOrme that she believed hcrscl
at all his better but il never occurs to he
that he has a claim upon her prelendc
interest, even il she cannot possibly giv'
him more and that because he has sud
deuly surprised her out OF her ndiilerenc
by an unexpected sentences OF two' IN
very barrier eetWeeh tnvll l'usl.lous llor
IN hcr lather h@use niaSes q Pt"l'o,llev s
Iudeness OF Wha'; loWuIu oiic ol our oW
lrlends; hisul eusny 1e pTluvneu' pTr,'. 81.
Ills ouilcr meets NJ rultcscuo ~ III
dinl"g room tafcshl9lu, au'ouhocs ulllnrl
"Grheh' calls ncr illueI, ,u'Ael EInHull
dinner Is serVeu' my uea, ana hlii'Sgl
enters lhc uihu'R 'ouni; vi w 'nS looN ,!i
the picture OF t'"l,lu'HlY, uus lyela ilh
} anything else' Jusu aS tho neAunlIt !
Grlsell Is moving away, Ho cohciuues l
take the bnl 10y the n0ils'
: "Pray excuse me, MISS tortescuo' h
/ murmurs, "but have you neaiu WheIncr
am to occupy he iamlly tan IN thclhtur'
| have received no INSTRUCTIONS on IN
) point"
6 she looks hslonisu uVu "-n.n e"u t''l
confused. "You have always done
{ until to-day, have you not she question
; ayes"
. Up 60 her straight, auburn eyebrows.
= "And may lnquue oil you why my o"
h arrival should alttrsnch an arrangement
C 81 did not make lne matter one OF eloi
B antl9si, ho ss"'5 .i,,i ''''" u, W
( adds, with a guiet smile ',dou',l'ss the
Is is no reason Tor my sniposltloh hAll 90.
= though to satisfy YOU
y His Ouielude Of manner somehow iti
: tatcs her. 1t dimly flashes through d
y mind that nothing in her appearance il
presses hin that there is some fdr-aw;
T., sweetheart, perhaps, who forms his ide
d of feminine loveliness and is her de,