The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-03
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FASHIONED beginning, without thought or
knowledge of the end both sincere and
earnest and gentle and fair, the palm tree
and the pine of true womanly beauty. DIR.
Parker had never seen Clara 80 charming
as when under the influence of this assocs.
tlon. That glrllshness which he had
always before witnessed with some degree
of Impotence vanished here, and her fine
womanly qualities, her good sense and her
intelligence displayed themselves to his
surprise and admiration. He realized, too.
more fully than he had ever done before
how grossly lie had insuted and trifed
with her on that unfortunate drive from
the seaside. lie learned what a fine
womanly nature he bad shocked, and, as
his her affection for her increased. be
grew also more and more ambitious to win
the OBJECT OF his love, as a triumph over
the obstacles which he felt his folly and
wlckeduess had thrown in his way. He
had sagaclty enough to see that Clara had
not forgotten that event, and that it pre-
vented her from stepping beyond that
region of kind consideration which che had
been taught to feel for him from her child
hood, into the higher region of love. He
could see that she was obedent still no
more. And he felt, moreover, that as her
intimacy with Fanny went on, her knewl-
edge Of herself would increase, until her
own nature, and not the nature imposed
upon her by others, would assert itself.
lie knew that she loved Charles Ingalls,,
ana that nothing would prevent her from
being obedlent to that love, except her
belief in the bonds which had bound her
to the will of her father and to himself az
her fathers friend and her protector; and
he trembled when he thought upon the
possibility of revolt and self-assertion and
the liberty which must follow. He could
not speak to her upon subject which in
an hour of prostration and abascment he
had referred to in language bordering on
bufloonery and folly. The stars of Heaven
looked down upon and told him that with
a drunken leer he had compared her eyes
70 themselves. The sweet tones of her
voice reminded him of her trembling fare
well on that unhappy midnight. And he
knew also that before her stood continual
ly the pure and honest and manly form of
Charles ingalls,, whose gently Difference
told the feeling within, whose department
was So exemplary, whose purpose was so
honest, whose soul was SO spotless, whoee
mind was SO eager 10 enter upon the work
of life tor her sake, and between whom
and her heart of hearts stood nothing but
his own long established authority, clothed
and be never ceased to remember 1t, that
Fanny Wright had married the young
minister from a sense of duty alone, and
without the slightest idea of the law of
love and he hoped and believed that her
experience might still be considered law
unto Clara, and that she might be led to
believe that wisdom and prudence and
thrift are a better guide than love itself.
But he forgot that he in bis mad moments
had taught this young glrl the lesson he
would now have her forget, and that when
he habbled of his own love he pointed the
way to something purer and holier.
Neither did he know that love had already
sprung up in her heart, and that the path
which Fanny Wright had trod was i'm
possible to her. There was no such thing
now for Clara Bell as Fanny Wright's
marriage with the minister and Dr. Par
ker ought to have known it. The school
master did, and possessed his soul in peace.
Ii was while DIR. Parker was consider
ing in his own mind how he could best ex-
trlcale himself from the difficulties which
surrounded him, and enjoying his daily
visits tn this charming circle, that the
time arrived for another meeting of the
club. The doctor was not sorry for this.
He hOped to meet Squire Wright there,
and he thought it possible that he might
produce favorable impression on that
genteman's mind, which he might convey
To Fanny and Clara. He hoped, too, that
he might meet the schoomaster and learn
the condition of his mind, under the
knowledge of his own frequent and long
continued visits at the Squire's.
The meeting of the club was unusually
agreeable. The old parlor never looked
more inviting and hospitable the fire was
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