Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-06-04
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A MANS PRIDE

Earle Trovors stood upon the veran-
da in the freshness of the Sumner morn
ing, and watched the girl gathering flow
ers in the garden She did not know
that be was watching her, for an old Ii
lac bush screened him; therefore she
was her own natural self, and had not
that air of restraint and shyness which
she usually manifested when he was with
her. Her checks were bright as any OF
the roses she was gathering, and Earle
could not help thinking that her face was
like flower in its brightness and color
ii shy, wild flower, that was all the
sweeter because it had not been subject
ed to the dollhouse treatment of city
life and fashionable ways.
IF she were educated aud could have
the advantages of refined society she
would make any man wife TO be proud
of, young Trevors thought, as he
watched her.
lie had taken fancy to Susie Dins-
more's face the first time be bad seen it.
1t was so different from the faces he was
used to that it half fascinated him. He
had known her three weeks now. and the
charm her face held for him at first had
not worn off. Sometimes he almost fan
cied he was getting in love with the girl.
Her frank, shy ways we're novel enough
to any one who was used to the hollow
artifcialities Of fashionable life, and they
charmed him. When she said thing,
she meant it. How many ladies of his
acquaintance in fashionable circles of
city life could he say that of? lie rath-
er felt inclined to believe that what they
said they did not mean. Sometimes he
thought that society was all sham, and
he wished he was rid of it, But, after all,
socictys opinion was too strong to be ig-
nored or he was too weak to brave it.
He hardly knew which
A bird flew up from the June rose
bush by the gate, and sang his sweetest
as he scared away up in the blue. Susie
stopped to listen, and when the bird S
song was completed, and the bird itself
was a mere spcck overhead, she began to
sing. Her song was something like the
birds, full Of runs and trills and plain
tive little notes that set all the air to
ringing with their melody. She made a
beautiful picture as she stood there, with
her hands full of flowers, her hat fallen
off, and her brown hair blowing all about
her face. The gray stone wall with the
june roses clambering over it, and the
wide, green meadow beyond made a fit
ting background for it all. Earle Ire
vors keeps that picture in his heart to this
day. 1t is one Of the things he will new
er forget.
You have outdone the bird" he
said, when she had finished her song.
"He will hardly dare to sing again if he
is wise"
She gave a startled look, and deeper
color dyed her checks.
/ didn't know you were listening"
she said.
u am glad to say was" he answer
ed, Il never knew You sang Now
that have found out that you do, shall
ask you to sing for me often Your
voice would be your fortune if you choose
to make it So"
| don't know anything about singing"
she said, pleased at his admiration.
+" ] don't suppose bird does. if you
reduce his knowledge to rules and theo-
ries, and yet, most Of us would be glad
to sing as well as the bird Does" he an-
swered, coming down the path to where
she stood. "Let me help you gather
your roses, won't your"
Gathering roses with a girl whose face
has already fascinated you is rather
dangerous experiment if you would keep
heart-whole. 1t would have been better,
far better for Earle Trevors if be had
gone bis way that morning and left SUI
sic Dinsmore to her old life; he might
have forgotten her face in time, and her
voice would have ceased to haunt hun.
But we never know when we ought to do
that which we see clearly must be done
some time lie knew, or he might have
known, if be had stopped to think about
it, that it was not safe for him to linger
here with this girl, who interested him as
no other one ever had That which we
call interest, in case like this, is apt
10 become something more than mere IN
tercst. If he only could have forescen
then what the result Of his summers idliug
would be how much pain he could have
saved himself
But he did not foresee it, and so the
-ummer drifted by. with its roses aud