Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-08-19
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Il could not said Doria. '' Fancy it's |
being in your wife's power to tell you. |
whenever You had row, that but for her |
you would be u pauper-that your house |
is hers; your servants, hers; yourself, |
thing she has bought! No, thank you"
My dear Lncifer, you exaggerate. If
you are getting rs much for portraits us |
expect you will, a couple of years hence.
you will be able to marry any woman, and
preserve your independence. How sharp
ly your Academy picture was snapped up
this year. 1t was not sold beforehand,
was it?"
mo; and put an extravagant price
upon it out of sort of bravado, because
Jones tried to cheaper it one day, before
it was finished. What funny animal the
public is. The price that picture fetched
brought me more orders in week than l
had ever had in year"
Perhaps the merits of the picture, not
its price, did that"
Not IA bit of it; it is not halfs good us
my -Ariadne."
. Oh, yon have sold that too?"
Yes; and to the same person; at least
the name is the same: Needham, Miss
Needham."
Another heiress"
Il don't know; II good customer, any
how"
well, good bye; | have finished your
chibouque. and am due presently ut a clas-
sical concert. By-theby, will you come?
have splre ticket Perhaps Miss Nu-
gent will be there"
No. thank you; hate classical music
Besides, must work. Goodbye"
When Il man announces that he really
must work, IN idle fit is coming over him;
it is equivalent to the : won't give in" of
one VINO is Just beaten. Directly he was
tlune, Dorit sat down in the place his Wis
itor had vacated.
50 p .ople talked, did they? Was there
anything in her manner to justify outsld-
erS in thinking that she would have him II
he asked her? What did it matter? He
certainly would not ask her. Rnt was II
prudent to 90 to places where he was sure
10 meet her? He must avoid her in the tu-
ture; she would ~ back to the country IN
a few weeks, and then he would forget all
about her ought of sight, out of mind. ."
He had made good beginning, by declin-
inc to 90 to the concert.
Poor Doria must have been very far
cone. when he tried to deceive himself.
lie knew well that Sybil Nugent disliked
classical music rs much rs he did, and
would certainly not be there. In truth. he
had hardly admitted to himself how far
his happiness was bound up with the love
of a oirl. lie was not 4 susceptible man ;
his affections were stronger than his pas
sions. and both were we'll under command
Of his reason. He certainly would not
have alloa ell himself to grow so fond of
I Svbil had he been aware of her pecunary
D. p,sitiOn. He had met her at different
houses where he was habitual guest, and
from her retiring manners, and simple
stvle of dress, formed the conclusion that
she was a poor girl, rather patronized by
the friends with whom she was staying,
He was one of those men who never catch
floating gossip till long after 1t Is stale
news to everybody else; and when at last
he learned that she was wealthy. and that
he was rising rather in estimation as n sue
cessful heiress-hunter, he felt the wound
90 deeper than his pride, and he had a
good thick coating of that, too. Yes; he
had too much pride, but very little vanity
and lack of the latter quality originally
confirmed him in his idea that Miss NJ
gent was poor, p. obably dependent. Would
she listen to him. draw TO hlln as she dld
if it were otherwise? To him, a poor, lit
tle-considered artist. with no prospects be
yond his al.t? As for Sybil, she entirely
reciprocated his affection, and had made
mp her mind, at II comparatively early
stare of their acquaintanceship, that if she
did not marry him, she would never mar
~ anv one else. OF course. IN her cast
there was Il piece of romance about th'
matter She grew to know and like hin
. before she caught his name, which hl'
f been slurred when she was first Introduces
: to him; and so the coincidence strucI
her very forcibly when she suddenly ant
accidentally learned that he was the yer
+ man whose studio she had examined i
. SO unceremonious Il fashion, and who's
r Ariadne she had purchased in cousin Emi
Tvs name She felt perfectly convince
E that he loved her, and wondered why h
: did not say so.
Are there any limits to human pervel
i sity? Lovers are torn asunder by povert
q every dav. but here were a couple VIII
{. positively failed to come together simpl
+ and only because one WAS rich. 1t W;
not an ordinary love-atfair; they had ne'
er talked Of love But their tastes, idea
svmpathies. agreed SO admirably, that the
J. seemed positively made for one anothel
o. and to friends who knew them both,
: seemed more than natural, almost nece
l. sary. that they should marry. If of Il
|. same SEX. they would have been fast friend
a Had their ages been very dissimilar,
II had they both passed the age of the pr
Is sions. they would have still been draw
closely tooether. These eases are We
10 rare. but they occur. and when two SUI
is people meet, and marry, they attain d
gree of happiness not often vouchsafed
ct mortals. And vet these two never m
III again. Doria stuck to his resolution, al
avoided Sybil who went back to the cou
x try. and took to ritualism, and f;,ntas
IL embroidery.
er Another Nav came around, and Uar
III Doria had four portraits-tlree ladies. o
..of pentleman''-hungo on the Acader
IN walls; besides classical study, whi
IS, sold for a high price. He eXcelled mos
e. in figure painting, but figures must ha
re foregrounus and backgrounds, and he W
eft not quite satisfied with his landscap
So, when the season waned, he pack
ed his knapsack, and started off on solit'
to walking and sketching tour, for the p'
nd pose of studying English skies, stream
e. and trees A wandering life of that XII
no having great attractions for him. and
&C. autumn being remarkably fine, The MOI
to which he intended to spend out OF to
sin expanded to nearly three, and it was
IN wards the end of October that he entere
pretty village, which took his fancy
in much that he stopped, though 1t was ea
ar. in the afternoon, and he meant to hf
,ut gone some miles farther. g must hs
nd NJ, that church porch, and the avenue y
on said TO himself, as he turned into the q
w. fashioned inn, where he left his knapsa
and ordered his dinner, and then w
al out again with his portfolio and wat
w. color box, to utilize the couple of HOT
remaining daylight.
al What is the name of this placer"
ta,. asked his landlord that evening.
"a Nutting, sir, Nutting," replied
! host, astounded at the depths to which
man ignorance could sink. Nutting!