The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-02-17
My Lily-Of-the-VaIley.

childish voice, well known and loveC
by me; and yet started in half af
| fright, so deep was my reverie. Rev.
cries, in the majority Of cases prob
ably, have love for their inspiring
god, but this was an exceptional one
else I had surely been prepared FOL
any such surprise as this, from the
very prIestess herself of love.
Not that she acknowledged II, or ]
either, for that matter. But we are
both finite, and love is infinite.
"You little puss p' 1 exclaimed,
'ihow you frightened me ~
"Do look so like fright, then, in
my mssquerading 2"
'Of course not. You are always
charming. But your voice"
"Was harsh and"
"How dexterous you do fish for
compliments this afternoon Yol
know your voice is soft and musical,
for I have told you so several times
and"
"Hs, ha, hal Go on"
sit was that very sweetness and
softness that startled me, being so an
tipodal to my thoughts just then"
"There J" a sudden seriousness set
Ting over her manner. "That con.
vinces me that you are not obeying
your doctor. You must have been
thinking of those dreadful columns oil
| figures, and of puts and 'calls,' and
Shorts and such ridiculous non-
sense. Don't you remember you told
me you shouldn't think of any calls
but calling the COWS, nuI any shorts
but those they have for their supper,
to make them give you an extra
quantity of milk for your breakfast,
so you can 60 back to the city in the
fall vigorous for business, and freIh for
the smiles Of your sweetheart"
"Quite q long speech, upon my
word And it Is not a month YET
since I supposed you never INDUCED
in any thing beyond monOsyllables,
and scattered ones at that"
''Thank you for nothing. But how
do you like my costume ?'
"Charming. Who assisted you ?''
81 made the things, Cousin Maggie
helped arrange them, and Mr.. Fred
Martson acted as critic, to see wheth-
er was presentable.
"And pronounced you du fat ?"
tiYes, if looks would do so. But he
was so busy sketching that he would
hardly say word"
"Puss," l said, after a moments
deliberation, and wondering whether
I really had the courage, "do you
really remember all ] told you, in my
gossiping way, the day after Fred and
I arrived, how l was never to think
of business or cares of any kind, but
Il IT, hoI
came uppermost 2"
"Yes-perfectly."
"Who'd have thought 1 would &c
so contrary thereto =? First, to come
up to this quiet place, where bott
amusement and nonsense would seem
to be sacrilegious and"
"Secondly," looking as prim and
dignified as so slight and sweet body
could,
"Yes, secondly, by falling in love
with you"
1 spoke deliberately, and with an
effort and the last word had no
died from my lips before I knew thai
my premonitions of dangerous ground
were not uninspired.
4 A pink glow suffused her face for al
| instant, and then faded into a white
ness that was not so deathly as it wal
transparent.
It added to my pain as well as to 8
vague delight / felt in the picture
she made in her masquerading dress
"Miss Perry" said, "the portrait
yonder is enough like you to pass fol
your own, if you should only tell peo
pie you were masquerading. How
like lily-of-the-valley it looks, will
the round, delicate face, and the dell
cately penciled ruff P'
"What an idea % said Miss Perry,
the daughter of my hostess. "An(
yet, since you suggest it, l can tract
quite a resent mblance. 1 rememoe
hearing papa say once that she wa
quite belle in her day, and there wa
something Of q romance connected
with her."
1t was in dFess precisely Hike thi
in all its details in which Miss Perry
was arrayed when she peered over thi
rOsebush on the afternoon in which
my story opens, and greeted me will
her innocent "Peep P'
$780," she family articulated, "you
amusement and nonsense for thi
summer are falling in love with al
unsophisticsted country girl Quit
delightful ."
stMiss Perry % 1 exclaimed, il
blank amazement, you wrong m
by your misApplied irony. My word
were not trifling ones, as you seem +
think. 1 was too abrupt and precipi
tate. I am but tyro in wooing."
I saw her no more that afternoon
and the next morning Fred and
were off on a trouting expedition be
fore she was astir. At supper she Wa
absent, and her mother volunteered
the information that she had gone T.
visit her cousins over the noun
taiDs.
"Ips in the j'ining county, some 2
miles off," she said. One of the boy
was over this way on some busines
or other, and when be spoke ont
lest bundled her of quick. It'll d
her good. She's a gal like all 9th
ers.n
I ITwenty miles p' repeated. "She'
probably, then, be gone some five @
six days.
"Five or six weeks more like" wa
the reply. ''I told her she'd have
stay, most likely, till we sent for he
I and that wouldn't be till after hal
yesting was well over, The men an
horses is mighty busy during he
weather"
ST ssy, Fred" I said that eyenIn
as we sat on the piazza smoking Ou
. cigars, "PVe been thinking that Z
go back to the city tomorrow or nez
day. To tell the truth, it's getting
little dull and monotonous, and-n
"Dull snd monotonous! What hs
got into you? Why, it's only a da
: or two since you were going to SITS
i 8 month yet. You're just the queel
: est chap"
'Tve been told that often enoug
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