The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-10-30

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it would. would have been unutter.bly dismal.
Bat sh.' " ohild,, i.pd had childish
v.ys which remained unchecked. She
~ =. quite yoang enough . t.ke very
kindly tioay to (|l' tho rev m,mps, y xho w 70
beautiful md 90 gosa 70 her...
1. ,".Not, 70 ,like nurse t.ld5 she, would BE-,
usly ~ ero.s,' ,sbe .n.id j ID to . b., t.vo1.
tie ps1felloF, ,-:;"bu'tl; good. ., I think
she .''i's could have brouaht the little priu.
cess y 70 life again, d well .s the fairy
did. You never saw such eyes in you,
life 's sbe q has got; just like tho pool
under the willows, where We are not "a
60, Charlie, you know down, Is If you
couldn't eyer see the bottom; ever &C
Deep. And she kisses me, too."
10 which the boy replied, with Dc.
oision, that she couldn't be fairy il
that case, for fairies never kissed any
body ; it wasn't lucky, that was uulee.
they we're wicked fairies. And it wa
oil very we'll DOW, but when Cecil mar
ried him, he shouldn't ALLOW her to kis,
anybody.
BY and, however, Is Cecil grew old
er, she used TO wonder 10 her wise lttl'
head what made her father. and mother
when they vere alone, talk to eaot
other, if they did talk, 80 like "oom
pany:". That vas her ide. Of it. sh'
jumped up from the piano one day, .nt
walt.ed round to the footstool 1t Lad,
r. R.alilnk.ms IL feet, With: sudden though
that she would find out .r."'' :.
''s"well," d ..id Evely,lo,, looking; Il 4; th,
poned:up lips, which evidently bid
question upon them, .'tvh.t,s The mat
tor {" Is your new nusio.lesson to,
hard i'' a. =: "'.. -:''>>='
| my new music lesson it's . fidpes
y oi'pk," ssid Cecil, hesit.tiog fot a,
s1pts's'on strong enough ;"but it.. no No
that. II vas just wondering WY 70, .,
aud d'pspa-"' w" sG' .,s..0 l.. ::
A., :,
Sir. Hugh let his book fail with
sudden noise; and vent out of th,
room, passing the child, but taking n
notice of her.
"Why you and pap" vent on Cecil
rsfleot'vely, "sre so odd, like gram
visitors. When there's any one here
know l have to ait still, and not tumbl
my frock, nor cross my feet; but whe1
there's no one it's different.''
"Your papa and are Lot children
said Lady Rainhsm. "Grown.up peo
pie must be steady, Cis."
"Then l don't want to bs grown uF
And I'm sure, quite sure, that Ill nev
er be married, if one is to do nothiu
but sit-sit al day long, and have n
Ituo." =:
Lady Rainham bent down to kits th
resolute lips that uttered this bold d.
o'sion, and then her face grew 'sat
There vere times whom even to hs
l:pride the life she led seemed almoe
too hard 70 be,l;- times when she Va
mad enough to think she vouId tel
Sir Hugh. thst the sot which: 11tampe
him in her eyes - base and dishonore
was no secret from her, as he doubtle,
believed it to be. But she could nc
do it. 1t seemed to her as if the con
sciousness that she knew would onl
make him more contemplate in hi
own eyes as we'll as in hers. 1t wou)
but widen the gulf, aud make what sh
was able to bear now utterly intolerablt
For she never doubted that the purpo'
of the letter was known to him, and b
had suppressed it for bis own end
And tho poor boy who wrote it v.
dead. There was the great miscbie
oft all. If be had been living an
we'll, 50 tender 4 halo might not hav
rested over the part, aud all in the pa
connected with him so bitter a resen
might not have been nursed in eilens
against the wrong which b her husban
had done them both. But Frank hs
lived but few months after her wee
ding, and she never saw him again. b
vas dead, aud she had killed him, ,-n'
not she, but Sir Hugh.
She xas thinking such Thoughts on
day when something made her look ri
aud she met Sir Hugh's eyes 4lxed u
On her: There va 10 peculisr an q
precision in them that she could q,
prevent certain proud, sntsIonisti
ipquiry ooming iute her own. He vel
towards her With 'his'book opsnrin b
hand. Hs bent down aud put II
deger on !. lioe in: i !: 10 :, p.gs, dr.vin
her b attention to it.
"'Hov much tho vif. is de.rer Ii,
the BRIDE This struck mo r.tbe
that's al" be said, and vent sway.
fr:E Evelynsat on BY the window, b,
j thsbook dropped from her fingers, IN
tshe covered her face. What did
mean? If be had only not gone avn
then
Glow could be do that ono thing
she said to herself. "He meant Ii
line as 4 reproach to me. Aud woul
have loved him,-is it possible that
do love him, iu spite Of fit7 Am /
weak and false I want 80 much
comfort him sometimes that half fo
get, and am tempted. But I new
will,-I ne1sr must: I used to
strong, ! shall be strong still.
! And 60 the same front Of 10y iodi