Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-28

into converse with his beautiful com
panion. In few moments he found
himself turning over the leaves of s
Browning which he had taken from 8
small table by her side, and then, in al
other few moments, giving her, to his
great surprise, his opinion of thai
writer and his works.
I say, to his great surprise, for the
doctor was really shy, reserved man,
and nos at all given to talking poetry to
pretty women; but this woman was SO
pletty.
AS lie went on, waxing eloquent, ii
suddenly struck him that a needle
woman would not be familiar with these
poems, and he paused, to have her, to
his greater surprise, take up the sub
ject, and deliver criticism far better
and cleverer than his own.
From Browning aud that more re-
splendent genius, his wife, to Tennyson,
Dickens, Thackeray, and at last George
Eliot, of whom the seamstress spoke
with a deeper crimson Oh her cheeks
and a brighter light in her glorious
brown eyes. "Silas Marper," sue said,
"is the loveliest - BY this time the
doctor had become so interested in
Watching the play of the prettily curved
lips and the bewltchiug dimp!es that
came and went with every smile, he
ceased to hear what the enthusiastic
speaker was saying; and when she, look
ing at him straight ia the face, asked {:
"Dont you agree with me, doctor r.
he was obliged to stammer 81 beg a
thousand pardons, but what was your
last remark3"
cit is l who should beg pardon, !"
said the pretty seamstress, with q
charming little grimace. "How thought
less have been! OF course you have
patients waiting for you. How could l
go ON soa" The doctor wished she'd
90 on forever. "But pray don't stay
another minute; only tell me what to do
if baby is taken sick again, and if l find
[ can't manage him, I'll send for you
Immediately. hope, however, to be
able to get along without you"
The doctor hoped she wouldn't-in-
ternally, of course and then he said:
81 assure you, madam, | have still an
hour at your SERVICE" Oh, wicked DIR.
Stone and old Mrs. Aspen grooming
with rheumatism and expecting you by
appointment this blessed moment! 81
shall be only too happy to stay-1 mean,
| think it necessary L should remain.
These childish complaints are, as per
baps you are not aware Of, often very
dangerous" And again, oh, wicked
DIR. Stone for you know you are quite
sure nothing serious is the matter with
baby Prescribe for yourself, doctor
1t is you who have caught a " danger
GUS malaGy. III spite of Jour sneers
and scotfs all your life long at the tender
passion-in spite of your emphatic dec
laration not more than an hour ago-you
have fallen in love, and she isn't sweet
sixteen, and she is-a seamstress.
- princess" he repeated to himself
again, and then he said, aloud: &C will,
at least, remain until the baby's grand
mamma arrives"
"Ob, if that is all that detains you,
go ut onle," said the fair one with the
golden locks, a mischievous smile
dancing over her lovely lips and IL he1
big brown eyes. "She is here.
Here2" repeated the doctor,
"Where =
"Why, didn't nurse tell you7 I'm
baby's grandmamma, and dotingly fond
OF my grandson too" Then out burst
the merriest little laugh, that was hushed
in a moment, for fear of waking the
sleeping child, for the doctors face was
a comical stuiy. A dozen different cx-
pressions were mingled The re, as he re-
membered that the girl wife, Mrs. Phil
lips, had once spoken to him of her
sweet mamma-a widow, aud widow
for the second time. But who could
lave dreamed'of such a widow-such q
mamma-such a grandmamma Scarcely
knowing what he did, he DO we'd himself
from the room. forgetting all about the
directions he was to leave, and fastened
into the street.
"Good heavens, how preposterous"
he exclaimed, as soon as he recovered
his senses "and how beautiful"
And Just six months from that day
Payne was shouting at the top of his
voice in the doctors office: "Ha ha
ha Be a groomsman9 OF course will,
old fellor: But when I think of the
young girl who never loved another,
transformed into a double widow-ha !!
ha! ha al-and a grandmother in the
bargain-ho! ho ho!"-
"If you don't shut your mouth,
Payne" said the doctor, seriously,
"you'u have terrible cold on your
lungs, and l won't answer for the conse-
qusuces."