Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-08-11

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"shirk" was still ranking within him; il
was not by any means the first time that
Celia had Scoldel him for being lazy, but
that epithet somehow seemed to point aud
dive home the reprolch in quite new
way.
Rory was lazy. there is no denying
that. You saw it in the languid grace CT
his well developed figure; in the peculiar
curve OF his lips; in the very way in
which the heavy lids, rose slowly from
his eyes, as ii it were hardly worth the
trouble; in motion and outline, rs in
coloring, the Southern mother was be.
lraycd in him. Yet. underlying all the
| tropical warmth and soltness, was the
| frmer stratum that came from his New
England ancestry on the other side; and.
Just rs you were surprised. when tho black
lashes were lifted, TO sec a pair OF deep
blue eyes set ig tho olive face, so you
were surprised sometimes 10 see those
large, sleepy eyes kindle into keenness
of comprehension and energy foreign 10
his whole exterior To repeat. the rock
lay under all. only it lay so deep tha, it
was seldom touched But il had been
touched tonight. lie had left Celia in
one OF those flashes of anger not at all
unusual TO him; but he seated himself
now on the stone by the mill-brook, with
an uncommonly well-defned purpose OF
thinking it all out, at" being Celia, him.
sell, and his own position with regard to
her, and things in general.
What that was does not require many
words TO explain. Rory-and here ii
may be remarked that he did not owe his
Iris b name to any Irish blood. but TO the
inability OF one of his fathers farm hands
lo-as he phrased it-get his tongue round
the little fellows name. For Captain
Trent, with that peculiar taste in nomen-
claturc not inirequently to be observed in
the New Highlander born and bred. had
called his boy Rosario. after the South
American settlement, where he had met
his wife; and. this appellation being un-
manageable to more tongues than Pat
. Ginnis's. that worthy's solution ot the
difficulty had been speedily adopted by
everybody. Rory Trent, then, was the
orphan son Of South American Spanard
and rowing New Highlander. who had
been II sailor, and little of everything
else before becoming 4 settler in BuenoS
Ayrcs, where he made considerable
money in sheep, which he a(terward lost
IN speculation. Shortly after his marriage,
The fancy took him 10 return 10 his native
town. which he accordingly did, richer
than when he len it by a wife and lor-
tune. Bat he did not retain either very
long. The dark eyed Peruvian pincd and
dropped in tha, uucongcnial air; and
before The village folk were tired of Cos
,iriug about her outiandish Sarb and
ways, one bleak November day they were
Jidden to a hushcd assembly, where "thc
foreign woman lay, rigid enough now,
her outlanlish gart exchanged for color
/ less grave clothes; then the black, frozen
sods Of the New England cemetery closed
over the stranger from the far away land
OF the vine and palm, and there was
nothing left to tell OF her save that mound
and a motherless little boy.
Captain Trent followed his wife before
many years, but not until he had succeed
ed in making ducks and brakes Of his re-
Gently acquired money by rash specuIa
ton, and the undertaking of New England
| farming on q South American scale, with
the result to be expected from more zeal
than discretion. That accomplished
concluding. perhaps. that he had about
exhausted this world-he bctook himself
to another, leaving Rory with the wreck
of his property-just enough, as Celia had
said. TO let him dwadle along through
life. Boy aad property were coniided to
the care of the captains hali-brother
Jacob Wetherell, who was to give the lad
home during his minority, send him 10
college-this being expressly stipulated
by the tcs,ator, with the exaggerated
ideas of the advantages OF that institution
peculiar 10 those who have not shared
them-and be altogether n father to the
fatherless boy.
The provisions OF the will had been
duly carried out; Rory. grown up, had
passed his four years within the university
walls, and lett them the wiser. no doubt,
by all that experience of prank-plaI ing
and authority.cheating which are among
the benefits OF a collegiate course. 9th
eryise, it cannot be said that he had par
ticularly distinguished himself. He had
graduated, and returned home at The age
of twenty-five, healthy, handsome and
law. with his life ali before him, and no
apparent notion OF what to do with it be-
yond smoking, idling, and making love
in season and out OF season, TO Celia
Welherell.
As for this last pastime, no one, seeing
Celia. would be disposed to blame him
She was the type we all know in New
England, and should hardly meet will
out of it; q mixture of fun and gravity
sentiment and. shrewdness so pretty ii
seemed she must be good for nothing, anC
so capable one ielt taAi she ought to b(
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