Ellsworth American., 1874-07-09

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was still ranking within him it was
not by any means the first time that
Celia had scoldcd him for being lazy
but that epithet somehow seemed TO
point and drive home the reproach in
quite Q new way.
Rory Was lazy, there is nc denying
that. You saw it in the languid grace
Of his weli-developed figure in the Pc
culiar curve OF his lips; in the very
way in which the heavy lids, rose slow.
ly from his eyes, as if it were hardly
worth the trouble; in motion and out.
line, as in coloring, the Southern moth.
er was betrayed in him. Yet, under.
lying all the tropical warmth and SOFT
ness, Was the firmer stratum that came
from his New England ancestry on the
other side ; and, just as you were sur
prised, when the black lashes were
lifted, TO see pair Of deep blue eyes
set in the olive face, so you were sur
prised sometimes to see those large,
sleepy eyes kindle into . keenness of
comprehension and energy foreign to
his whole exterior. To repeat, the
rock lay under all, only it lay 50 deep
that it WAS seldom touched. But it
had been touched tonight .ie had
left Celia in one Of those flashes of an
ger not at all unusual with him; but
he seated himself now on the stone by
the mill-broOk, with an uncommOnly
well-detined purpose Of thinking it all
out, lit being Celia, himself. and his
own position with regard 10 her, and
things in general.
What that was does not require many
words TO explain. Rory-and here it
may be remarked that he did not owe
his Irish name 10 any Irish blood, but
TO the inability Of one Of his fathers
farm-hands to-as he phrased it-get
his tongue round the little fellows
name. For Captain Trent, with that
peculiar taste in nomenclature not in-
frequently to be observed in the New
Enylander born and bred, had called
his boy Rosario, after the South Amer
lean settlement, where he had met his
wife and, this appellation being un-
manageable to more tongues than Pat
Ginnis' 8, that worthy's solution Of the
difficulty had been speedily adopted by
everybody. Rory Trent, then, was
the orphan son of South American
Spaniard and roying New Englander,
who had been q sailor, and a little of
everything else before becoming = set
tier in Buenos Ayres, where he made
considerable money in sheep, which he
sfterward lost in speculation. Shortly
after his marriage, the fancy took him
~ return 70 his native town, which he
accordingly did, richer than when he
left il by a wife and fortune. But he
did not retain either very long. Tue
dark-eyed Peruvian pineu and dropped
in tia; uncOncenial air and, before the
village folk were tired OF gossiping
about her outlandish garb and ways,
one bleak November day they were bd-
den 10 hushed assembly, where the
foreign woman lay, rigid enough now,
her outlandish garb exchanged for col
orless grave clothes; then the black.
frozen sods Of the little New England
cemetery closed over the stranger from
the far-away land Of the vine and palm,
and there was nothing left 10 tell Of
her save that mound and motherless
little boy.
Captain Trent followed his wife be-
fore many years, but not until he had
succeeded in making ducks and brakes
Of his recently acquired money by rash
speculation, and the undertaking Of
New England farming on South
American scale, with the result TO be
expected from more zeal than discre-
ton. That accomplished-concluding,
perhaps, that he had about exhausted
this world-he betook himself TO anoth-
er leaving Rory with the wreck of his
property-just enough, as Celia had
said, to let him dwadle along through
life. Boy and property were contided
TO the care Of the captains half-brother
Jacob Wetherell, who was TO give the
lad home during his minority. send
him to college-this being expressly
stipulated BY the testator, with the ex-
aggerated ideas Of the advantages OF
that institution peculiar TO those who
have not shared them-and be alto
gether father TO tue fatherless boy.
The provisions Of the will had been
duly carried out; Rory. grown up, had
passed his four years within the uni
versity walls, and left them the wiser ,
no doubt, by all tha: experience OF
prank playing and MISUNDERSTANDING
which are among the benefits Of col
legiate course. Otherwise, it cannot
be said that he had particularly dis
tinguished himself He had graduated,
and returned home at the age of twenty
two, healthy, handsome and lazy, with
his life all before him, and no appar-
ent notion of what to do with it be-
yond smoking, idling, and making
love, in season and out Of season, To
his cousin, Celia Wetherell.
A for this last pastime, no one, see.
ing Celia, would be disposed to blame
him. She wae the type We al know
in New England, and shall hardly
meet with out Of it; . mixture Of fun
and gravity, sentiment and shrewdnesa
SO pretty it seemed she must be good
for nothing, and 20 capable one felt
that she ought tn be ugly; kind, keen
and clever fresh and sweet Is an open
ing brier-rose, with all the roses bloom,
and some of its thorns.-as luckless
Rory could testify. Occupied herself
from morning till night, she looked
with extreme disfavor on his purpose.
less existence as she regarded it. Blu,
then, IS it happened, hs had one pur'
pose, and that was TO make her bis
vile 20 when she said tonight, with
such sncompromising plainness. that
ske would never marry . shirk, the
words went straight home as no Others
could hsye done. He could not ge'
rid OF thsm the mill current seemed te
ripple to their tune; they formed the