, 1873-03-23
THE MAN WITH THE NOSE,
Dr RHODA DEOEGUTOy.

IF RHoDA pRorGuToN
[The details Of this little story arc Of course tnap
belief, facts. They happened twenty. or more thai
twenty, years ago.]
"Let Us got map, and Feo what places 1ool
:. A for that." reply l. 81 on u:p most places
look equally pleasant"
obey.
ado you like tho sea-side?" asks Elizabeth
lifting her little brown head, and her small hap.
py, white face, from the English sea-coast, along
which her forednger is slowly travelling.
''since you ask me, distinctly No." reply I,
for once renturing to have decided opinion oi
my own, which, during tie last few weeks OF in
broke my last wooden spade five and twenty
years ago. have but poor opinion of cookies,
sandy, red-nosod things, are they not? aud
the air always makes INC bilious"
.'Then we certainly will not go there" saya
Elizabeth, laughing. "a bilious bridegroom |
alliteratiyc, but horrible! None OF our friends
show the least eagerness to lend us their coun-
try-house."
men to take their wives straight homo as their
fathers did y say with cross groan.
/ 1T is evident, therefore, that We must 70 somo-
where" returns sho not needing the aspiration
contained in my last speech, making her FORE
finger resume its employment, and reaching
Torquay. ....
3" suppose co." say with sort of sigh +:
:" for once in our lives. we must resign ourselves
to having the finger Of dorisiop pointed at us by
walters and landlords
j" You shall leave your now portmanteau ut
home, and I will leave all my best clothes. and
nobody will guess that We arc bride and BRIDE
groom they will think that We havo been mar
rled-oh! ever since tho world began (open-
I shake my head. with IN old portmaDteau
ana in rags We shall still have the mark of tho
| beast upon us."
Do you mind much do you hate being
| ridiculous 2" asks Elizabeth meekly, rather de-
! pressed by my view OF tho case "because, it
| so let 60 somewhere out Of the way, where
there will be very faw people to laugh at u.s.
On the contrary return I stoutly, ''wo
] we do Chiefly congrcgate,-w wo shall DO
| swallowed up and lost i'll tho multitude OF our
| fellow-sinners." pause devoted to reflection.
What do you say to Killarney p" say cheer
| fully.
"There arc great many fleas thcro, be-
lieve," replies Elizabeth slowly. Flea-btcs
| mako largo Jumps on INC. You would not liEe
r1e if were covered with large lumps."
At the hideious ideal picture thus presented to
mo by my little beloved, 1 relapse into inarticu-
I suggest, "Tho Lakcs:" s1v arm lis round
her, and feel her supple body sLircr, though it
is mid July, and the bers arc booming about in
the 511 d1 na a'9epy ;St p9on 1Ssa garden outside
"Why such emphasis? ?" I ask gnyly; "more
feas? At this rate and with this sine qua non,
our choice will grow limited"
Something dreadful happened to ne there"
she says with another ehudacr. Bat indeed
did not think there was any harm in it. I
never thought anything would CONS of it,"
''What the devil was 1t 2" cry in jealous
heat and hurry. What tue mischief did you
d do: a, and why have not you told me about it be-
II did not to much" Fhe answers meok1y.
seeking for my hand, md, when found, kissing
it in timid depreciation of ruy vrEth; "but T
was i'll. very i'll, there. I hai nervous fever.
was in bed hung with chlntz with red-and-
green fern-leaf pattern on it, hare always
hated red-aud-grecn forn-lcef cLntzes ever
since"
ut would DO possible to avoid the obnoxious
bed, would it not = say I, laughing little.
..Where docs it lie: Windcrmore : Ulleswatcr
Wastwater? Where p
1--WE were at Uleswater,'' she says. speaking
rapidly, while hot color grows OH her SMALL
white checks, s,-''papa mamma, and 7; and
went to SEQ him; everybody did; md he asked
leave to mcsn1erizc me; be said should he snch
a good mediun-and- did not know what
it was like. thought it would be quite good
fun; and-I-I let him.
sho Is trembling exceedingly: even the loving
pressure OF NY arms caunot aia:o her ehiver-
ing.
"Vel?"
@Anu alter that ttO not remember anything.
believe did al sarts OF extraordinary things
that ho told mo.-saug. and danced, aud made
fool Of myself but when I ca1ao home was
very i'll, very. lay in bed for five whole weeks.
atld--and-was off my head, and said odd and
wicked things that you would not have expected
forget it =
Eve will net go to tho Lakes say, deci-
svely; and we will not talk any moro about
mesmerism.'
''Ihat is right" she sav4. with d eigh OF re-
lief. II try to think about it as little rs possl
bic; but sometimes in the dead black OF the |
night, when God seems long way off, and tho |
Devil near, it comes back to mo So strongly |
somewhere in the room and must get up aad I
follow him.
''Why should not We so abroad ?" suggest /, t
abruptly turning the conversation.
"Nhy, indecd?" cries Elizabeth, recovering |
her gaycty, while her pretty bluo eyes begin to
dance. How stupid Of us not to have thought |
abroad 2"
'sWo must be content with something short
OF Central Africa" cay gra'ely, ,'as I think
our hundred and fifty pounds would hardly take
us that far"
wherever VIC 60, We must buy dialogue
BOOK. suggested my little bride-elect land
will learn some phrases before wo start
AS for that, the Anglo-Saxou tongue takes
one pretty we'll round tho world reply I, with
feeling OF complaccnt British swasger, putting
my hands in my brecchea-pockets.
=, :, Do you fancy the Rhine ?" says Elizabeth,
fashion to run it down nowadays, aud call it 3
cocktail river; but-but, after all, it cannot be
20 re'y contemplate. or Byron would not have
said such noblc things about it,
"'Tlc castlcd crag Of Dr1cienfes
FroWna Ger the wide and winding Rhine,
Naoaa breas: Of watcrs broadly .wtiis
Between the banks which bear the yine,'" ;"
say I, spouting. 'Aftor all. that proves moth
ing for Byron could have made silk purse out
If sow's ear"
THE Rhine will not do, then:" sayR she re-
signedly, suppreseing sigh.
On the contrary, it will do admirably; it IS
! cocktail river, and do not care who says it is
lot,' reply ], with illberal positiveness- sBut
everybody should be able to say so from their
own experience, md not from hearsay; the
Rhine let it be, By all means.'
So the Rhine it is.
II.
I have got over it; NC have both got over It
olerably, crodtably: but. nfter all, 1t is much ]