The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1876-06-29

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.hc g.3ed round op tbe arm 81 tbc gal.
ant eapla.u. poofCapiain FsE Norman.
lt was hard. after bis wcAg waiting, 70
God a.s ls3y fair 50 absent and 50 dif
ferept tum Der usual bright SELF for She
Aad scarcely word to spare flr bim la
reply to Die feeble sma. talk Her
ta0ush.s were fuli Of one isa dark Gg.
ure leaning against tie window frame,
dancing NOT aad speaking 70 nobody.
And, as she could not have tht one part-
ner she wished 0T Dorothy began TO
vote lho BAH failure
Bot lhe i4tes were ia her favor. She
saw Kane speak TO another of the 122l,
With whom She was acquainted, and
presently they crossed Tic ro0m together
toward hcr. Mr.. Deriug approached and
asked her itho might introduse q brother
officer Of bis, Mr. Kane. Aud Dorothy
her face flushing up hotly with blushes
a. her PaIadin advanced, in few mo-
meuts aherward, heard him saying iu q
lone tone:
did not like 10 presume on the acci.
dent that made us acquainted yesterday,
Miss Aston, aud have sougM more le-
gitimale mode Of introduction. trust
you have not suffered in consequence Of
the flight you got?
Dorothy uttered something inaudable
to signify she had not, and surrendered
her card unreservedly into bis hands, at
bis request for "some dances" over
which be scrawled ok" wherever he
listed. As he retired Captain FitzNor-
man scowIed after him, remarkng:
| can't understand what has made
Kane come TO the ball, as he knows no.
body and hates dancing.
It's never too late to mend you know,
suggested Dorothy, with tiny smile
playing aronnd her mouth. It's odd,
though. What could have brought him
to the ball?
She guessed the reason as she sat in
"maden meditation though not fancy
free in her little pink-linen nest ofa room
after the ball, and thought over her ev-
ening's experiences. One face only
filed her, one voice only rang in her
ears aud made her heart beat quickly.
Dorothy knew, though she would have
been unwilling TO confess to II, that, for
veal or woe, for good or III, Clement
Kane was the one person in the world
for her; she even looked lovingly at the
faded remnants Of her boquet, since from
It his hand had reft the crowning glory,
a Marshal Mel rosebud, and carried it
away "just as remembrance of one
happy evening"
Mrs Everest had been introduced to
Mr.. Kane, and had approved Of him
highly--nay, more, had invited him TO
call upon her.
In the mean time Clement Kane was
walking home to Shornecliile in the cool
early morning, smoking pipe of renec-
ton, Dollie's rosebud in his buttonhole.
He was thinking something OF her-much
of himself. She was dear, sweet little
soul, fresh and original, moi like other
girls at all. lie even went so far as to
acknowledge that he saw she was taken
with him--but no further. Clement
Kane was poor man and proud one,
His sword was his wife, he was wont
to boast, and be would neither sell bis
freedom to an heiress nor drag some
poor, pretty girl he might love down to
the position Of a subaltern's wife in a
marching regiment. Still ;hG little face,
framed in soft curls, did haunt him
great deal, provoking tho idea, in spite
Of all its efforts to crush it hack, that,
when he grew old and smoke.dried, like
Major Luton, of bis regimen It would
be pleasant TO have the comparionship Of
loving little heart like Dollic
If il wasn't for the pin.mmey some
thing might be done; but in lhcse days
a wife
Visions Of various officers wives he
had known fitted before bis minds eye.
No, be would rather die the yeriest old
curmudgeon that ever breathei than see
bis wife reduced to The level OF one of
those.
Still, next LAY found the moth near
the candle, and day followed day Ia the
same fashion With ready voice and
hands Mrs Everest made Clement well
come, while Dorothy's eyes booked the
welcome her tongue never uttered; and
he came and came, and came again
Six weeks fed by, and one night the
usual knock woke the echoes ID Royal
Terrace. Mrs. Everest, good sou, aroused
/ from her alior-dinner nap, sleepily bade
/ Clement seek her niece on The balcony.
So be went there, and found her looking
ou, on the silver pathway that the moon
had traced on the water Silently they
T shook hands, and Tor some moments
gazed on the glorious beauty Of the scene
\ together.
4 /, WAS very fair to lock at; bat fairest
+ Of all, 10 Clement, was The sweet girls
+ face al bis side. Hard indeed, be felt,
would be the word he had come that eve.
ulng to speak Orders for marching bad
come aud the l22i were 70 embark foI
+ Malta. cu roa.e i0r The Est.
lie bad with some difficulty obtained g
few days leave % ser the ast of bis only
living relative, al Old uncle who bad
been his guardian, and 90 ihe following
day he was going 70 bis honsc in somer
selshife
All fthfs lie told her. irving 10 ASSUME