The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-02-05
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or she could not have aiFted; but all he
gir,ation seemed to DO directed solely t
the end of vc1ing this single lover, who's
grave, quiet, rcpressed dcmeanor nevo
lct her exactly know whether he was
lover or not and drove her first to som
action that almos! betrayed her own fee
ipc., and then to one that should give th
lie to that betrayed, aud set everything q
loose ends again.
You could hardly say why Miss Trues
dell had so many suitors. She was no
90 very good-that is, she was rs good n
most people, but not jot better Sh'
was not prelty-at least not III sht
laughed and showed her white teeth, ant
adimple deep ia love ever nestled IN, Of
till she lifted her great gray eyes and lei
you sec how lustrous tHey were uhuel
that trick OF dropping lids No, 1t could
not have been her beauty that was the
charm: il was voice, smile, face, figure
ali together; her personality, gay spirits
teasing moods, sweet ways; her Infinite
variety, that attracted everybody coming
within lis sphere. She sang a little, she
danced little; whatever she did she did
we'll; and so, Of course, she ilirted to per
fiction, and played OF one lover against
another as prettily, the lOokers-on might
think, rs n juggler losses his golden balls
But what did the lovers think OF il?
One Of them thought very poorly Of it,
and was determined to bring Miss Alice
to close quarters in small time, not in the
least aware that all the others had made
exactly the same determination, and had
found that to determine was one thing
and to do was another. Man might pro.
nose, but Miss Alice must dispose; and
Miss Alice-as, indeed, they each and all
ioudly hoped-was. u match forssany oil
them. Ii sho danced with Gregory, Just
"a Gregory felt encouraged and began to
whisper the burning words, she dropped
her fan with glance at Mallory, who
Iartcd to restore it and was detained with
thanks aud gay words and replies just
long enough to make it impossible for
Gregory TO take up the thread where she
had broken it. Ii she walked with DR..
Fowler, it was only after she had allowed
Mr.. Bollcs to know that she would be
strOlling in that direction, where she was
always 80 pleased TO meet him when 10
came upbreuthlessly, and found the doc
tor muttcring anathemas between his
tecth-invocations to Esculapius, she
called them.
But Dr.. Fowler was not aman you could
put off forever when he once made up his
mind TO thing, and so Miss Alice began
to learn. And when, one night rs he babe
her goodbye, Mallory and the rest being
there, he told her, in grave but authori.
tive under tone, quite unlike that OF the
usual lover, that he wished to see her,
next morning, Mt II o'clock. II she had
wanted to deny him, she could not. But,
to tell the truth, she did not exactly want
to. The young men had seemed so incon-
sequent and SO stupid, that evening; Net
ty Armitage had seemed so frivolous;
they had, each in turn, come in and in.
terrupted the doctor when he was telling
her such fairy-like tales Of recent discov-
cries in science; she had shrugged her
shoulders at them till the situation struck
her ridiculously, and then she hadlaugl-
ed with the merriest Of them, and poutcd
at the doctor. But now, as lie was going,
Shc.slipped her hand in hiBarm and saun-
tered down the lawn with him. The night
was 0 night in June, when, il ever, nights
are perfect; the air was laden with the
breath OF hOneysuckle and mock.orange,
the winds that curled round them seemed
to come from distant lands Of everlasting
bloom, so sweet they were; and the stars
hung their lamps through the clear dark
close above the thick tree tops. She fan
cied, that night, that life was too deli
cious a thing to be INDUCED in freely, and
she murmured something Of the fancy
with half laugh, "ThCrc are times when
We all feel that life is more than we de-
serve" no answered. "To.morrow-it
may be- Shall feel tho same myself,
tomorrow, or will fate" ...
She laughed uneasily. "You mustn't
ask me riddles" she cried.
AT II, tomorrow, then, said he, lift
ing his hat. .l.ss
"At IL, tomorrow" And she went
back to the house, wishing i. were II, to-
morrow, now; and then, in gay freak, az
she heard the hall clock strike, she ran
down the hall and set tho hands forward
an hour. "Bring him the quicker" she
wispered-"bring him tho quicker" and
went back to the others.
They were taIkingof tho flags and bull
PUSHES that grew BY Lenders lake, sheet
OF water in tho neighboring woods; and
she was eager to hear the details Of the di-
rection there, for abe shared tho popular
frenzy raging just then for bulrushcs, and
thought Of all things she should like
some great punches Of the soft brown vel
vety things in the vases tomorrow.
II believe if l rose early" she said al
could be there and back before II"
"Why II 2" said Mallory, lazily.
"0h, have an engagement at that hour"
she replied, bending her head little,
that he might not sec tho color creeping
~ am at your service" said he.
"Wlll you come along, Netty2" she
asked. t,.r.
cat 5 o'clock in the morning, and on
loot? Not step. That hour in the al.
ternoon, behind a pair OF bays, would
suit mo very we'll" Young Vary thought
It would suit him too. l.t !: (
Every we'll, Mr.. Mallory. Ifyou come
ats, tomorrow, l shall have my bull
rushcs and DO back in good season." /
"We'll not fail" said Mallory. "And
10 that end, assure this company that 1t
Is tho wiching hour OF night, when the
sweetest sound the ear can hear is the
Of the big house door," And
with that they all departed,
ASS o'clock in tho morning came, Miss
Alice, with her shears hanging at her side,
and her hat tied on, was looking up and
down the road impaticntly. She quite
forgot her freak with the old clock, the
night before. at is very INDIGENOUS
way 10 servo me-. she cried, "Ten min
utes past 81 And l shall not wait another
moment. will have my bulrushes,
Mallory ornO Mallory. And II am
little late, don't care; it will seem as
though body were not SO very anxiousi
and don't know-l'm atraid-Pm real.
ly afraid was gushing, last night, and
do so despisC a gushcr And he may
only want-may only want to engage me
to watch with old Miss SIeercs, the night
she takes ether for that operNtion" And
ihersat the hItle body was of for Len
defs lake, with precious small idea OF the
exact whereabouts of that pretty sheet.
tyc tongue in my head, Isuppose,"
Az All. A., H#.1