The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1872-02-15

BIZ RHoDA BoUaHroN, AUTHOR OF "RED AZ A ROSE II
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CHAPTER XVIII.
WHAT THE AUTHOR SAYS.
"Guod.bye" is an ugly word written
ur spoken. it has an Ill look-a down.
looking, siehing, weeping word. There
Is something family disagreeable even
in tho limp hand.shake with which one
parts from disrelished, tedious guest
as one thinks, with slight remorse, that
perhaps he was not so bad after all
But of all delusious and all snares, see.
ing people off is the worst. It is bad
enough to take Indifferent acquaintance
to the train-to stand With your hand
oo the carriage door-thc last civil re
grot uttered, the last friendly hope for
speedy meeting expressed the smile
Of farewell! stereotypcd on your lips,
while your ears thirst for the engines
parting whistle, wh ioh will not come
for Eve minutes yet. But hcw far
worse to see one that is really dear to
you off on a long voyage To stand on
cold, dirty quay on some dull Novcm.
Der morning, while the huge, drab.gray
sea beaves and booms before you, sug-
gestive of shipwreck, while the harbo,
is robed 10 mist, and through it the tall
ships masts and rigging show indistinct.
ly great; while oil about you uni ceiling
men roll barrels and carry bales, and
uuder your veil your teas drip miser
ably, to the great annoyance Of the
dear one, who, it he be equally griev, d,
vet, manlike, feels angry with you for
adding to his sufferlngs and if Gas is
most probable) he is not equally griev
ed, yet is constrained, out cf sympathy
to pull long face, while his manly
soul yearns for the consolation Of pipe
and copguac! Even if you are abso
lutely certain never to see btlovej
one again, yet abstain from "secing him
off,"
But Leuore thinks differently she is
bent Oh seeing the last of Paul. The
voyage from St. Mulo to Southampton
is certainly not long one, but in this
case it is not the actual breadth of The
seas which lie between tho lovers tina,
constitutes the bitterness of the parting
Paul is going on doubtful errand-tc
break to two doting sisters and gouty
Calvinistic father the news that he has
at length found a woman to his mind
woman as he himself uncomforta: y
teels) Of the very kind most antipathet t
ic to his people.
lenore, meanwhile, has resolved |,
pass the time of SUSPENSE that mus
cnsuo a: Dinan. She has wisel,
m'de up her mind to 90 over each sa
cred spot where they first met am
squabbled, ard to weep plentifully a
each. She will be in 10 whit behint
Marianne Dashwood in ''Sense and Sen
sibility," who "would have though
herself very inexousable had she beer
able to sleep at all the first night afte
parting from Willouyhb7."
Meanwhile, they have made up thei'
| little differences. Paul has eaten hi
words-has assured his betrothed tha
he habitually values people for thci
own merits, not for those of their tor
bears; that, 10 fact, he looks upon an
cestors as rather a disadvantage tha,
otherwise. Aud she, on the other hand
not to be behindhand in magnanimity
has been rackiug her brains to recollec
an authentic great-grandfather.
LIE Mesurier has done his best to dis
suade his beloved from coming to wav'
her pocket.handkerchief after him a
he sails away from St. Male, but ii
vain.
"It will be too much for you it vii
upset you~ he has said, tenderly, bu
she has answered with wilful smil,
and a shake of the head.
"Nothing ever upsets me, except no
getting my own way that has Away
i,Jured my health from my y. nth up
So he is silenced, and has perforc'
to submit, with what grace he can, tt
the prospect Of what he most dread'
on the earth's face-a scene. aud beine
publicly cried over.
Still be makes one struggle NOR
against his fate.
II hate saying 'good.byo'-do no
you Scrope?" he says, that night, tt
bis friend, as they sit On the hotel-step
smoking, under the yellow moon, which
in her third quarter looks old ant
khroa.Nnrneynd.