The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-03-28

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been very well oil only that Fan must
have her satin dress, and he his hunters
Lola was the richest OF them all, with her
little lodging for nothing under the ivy,
and her slender wages for teaching two
small orphan cousins, whom Granny had
taken TO herself. Lola was the only one
amongst them who knew how to enjoy
her lie.
Lola's way lay through u green lane,
across fields, over the river on rustic
bridge, and then plunged into q wood,
through a blue tunnel followed among
leaves, where the path was moist and
brown with dew. Then she entered Rose
lands, which deserved its name, and went
into the house with the perfume OF thou
sands of roses hanging about her. Granny
was a willful old lady, who loved lilac
ribbons in her cap, and old china in her
cabinets, and who could scold and pet
little people, and sometimes big people
too. She was somewhat severe upon
grown.up folks, unless they happened to
get sick, when she became an angel
Arthur Gray was an invalid when she FIRST
made his acquaintance, and the people
said this was why she took such fancy
to him. He was a son Of distant con-
nection Of the family, dropped by chance
into their llves-cleVer, poor, and with no
friends. The ladies, hearing he was
scientific, had at first stood little in awe
Of him, with an idea that science Is IN
comfortable; but Gray had been presented
10 Granny by the most famous scientific
man in London. We do not soy that
Granny would not have been kind to him
II she had picked him up in the gutter,
yet lhogrCat man had his weight when
10 did choose TO stop into the scale Of
the young mans chances OF finding favor
among his kins.iOlk.
Granny was sitting In her dainty an.
tiquc drawiDg.room at the head Of To-
bic drawn up in cool corner under the
shade Of q green blind, her work'basket
before her, her children on either side
with open books, and Arthur Gray at the
foot Of tho table, pencil in hand. He was
now no longer an invalid, and was sup
posed 10 be- pluming his wings for some
wonderful flight in the regions Of scien-
tihc discovery. By the sidelong looks OF
awe which Granny was casting toward
him over the rims Of her spectacles, she
evidently thought he was at this moment
deep in some absiruCe calculation; but he
was only scribbling faces in his pocket
book. He had broad, square brow, and
troubled eye, and o mouth which betray.
ed u character resolute and tender. He
was man who had q great future before
him-of hard toll. heartache, and fame
Lola was late. Granny pointed 10 the
timcpiece, and the lesson began. Lola's
voice was low In asking the questions,
and the Children's tones were shrilI In
giving the answers. Granny raped
with her knitting.nGedle on the table
when things were not going on 80 as to
please her. Arthur Gray renamed for
the study, and his study was Lola's face.
Lola's vice grew lower, and Grannys
raps Tell fast upon the board. Arthur
Gray suddenly got up, and left the room
he walked out on u terrace, and paced
up and down. Lille was at this moment u
tangled skein 10 him. He wanted TO have
for his own that sweet woman indoors
who was teaching the children, yet how
was he 10 have her without blightiDg his
career? Marriage meant poverty, struG'
Cling, uncongcnial druggery, and Arthur
had had enough Of 1t from childhood up.
Genius was stirring within him; opportl-
nifty, at this moment, lay invltingly before
him. BE held in his hand letter which
invited him to join scientific expedition
to the other side Of the world. a few
months ago such IN offer would have
been hailed as the realizations OF his
sweetest dreams. But now there was
Lola. Success, power, fame, all TO DO
swept away by woman's hand. On this
morning, as he sat scribbling at tho table,
he had declared to himself that the thing
was monstrous, that it could not be; but
Lola had walked into the room, and lie
had felt ut once that 1t would be easier TO
walk hand in hand with her instantly into
the valley OF death, than to set out on
any sunny path to fortune, leaving her
behind.
He wOs nowhere TO DO seen when Lola
and the children came out Of Granny's
house, and ran of towards the woods
The children from tho next house met
them with dinner In their bags; for this
was to be an outdoor holiday, while the
elders OF both families dined with neigh
boring magnate Of the land. The child.
rem were wild with glee, Lola less wild
than was usualson such occasions. The
children tried to light fire to roast their
chGsnuts, but failed, and Lola lay in the
grass, her hat tilted over her mouth and
eyes, and listened to the happy humming
OF the insects. The children Cheered sud-
denly, the breeze blew Lola's hat aside,
and here was Arthur Gray coming 10 join
them. .
This was like one of the old pripeval
days when the garden Of Eden bloomcd,
and before sorrow came into tho world.
Gray made q great fire, and screened 1t
with boughs. The children shrieked
with delight, the Chestnuts Kissed and
sputtered, the thrushes sung, the quail
away in tho meadows below sent up
satisfied comment on the state OF things,
ind the lilies tapped their golden wings
wantonly down in tho river. The purple
distance that girdled the forest world
looked as inviting as the beautiful future
which your eyes sees in dreams. The
sunshine Redeemed on tho boles Of the
trees, and on two faces that leaned to.
ward each other, often across tho heads
of tho children. Dinner was eaten on
tho grass, with dock.leaves for dishes,
and Arthur Gray told stories to the chill.
drGn about wonderful places and things
which are to be found on this moving
globe; showed them glittering caves in
tho heart of the earth, deserts with q
fierce sun brooding over their bEghted
flats, and q flying camel carrying dark.
faced men and women out OF reach Of q
burning death; and, again, regions where
the stars glitter big above mountains Of
ice, and tho white bears wander from
block 10 block Of snow in the lonely seas.
The children listened with bated breath.
Had Mr.. Gray seen these places! Should
he ever SEQ them? No, he thought not; he
should never sec them now. Yet that
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