The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-10

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sorry, moved,' d,'ilent.9r ~.,9a g
ssThen she faltsied; eshy1y; Il sup
i pose so, ,aMr. aJohn:"-' and did: moi
, look iat him. >5:;+:s ...,
Il am sorry for it Miss Lancaster u
), said John bluntly. *"You'd b; b,eess'
with your, own people and your OWL
kind I reckon naueht BY thase' th'' we'd: ed
dines out of, ! ,body's '1ho hoomdes dsit iatnd, esll:
ling, g one might isay.'''. '''' Best bide
with one owsin!'' p :''> '''' IT. ~. -
III He spoke" with feeling, therefore
j With ! broader accent and le.s pre-: pre-
cision than usual; and Lois was wa,
j quick enough to note the difference.
/ 't.That might have been all verry
we'll fifty years ago, but It doesn't do
now, MI: John" she answered. tax
! ing heart Of grract,ee; to speak il self:
defense: THE world has moved on
BIT since our grandfather times,
and ve e must go WITH it" '''a :: '.*'.
+ s'"rheyy knew 2 thing Or two: afore," "
saia John, With more ore senss than ele.
gance;; ''a,n,d if We We take hold of some 81,
pevf good we 2 needn't leave loose Of
/ al the old
+ "DeaNr; me; me; Mr.. John 7" cried Lois
I viii" forced smile; ::one,. . would x;
think I was, going tto'' New; Zealand,
never TO come back: 10 % more; 10, $ ana "a
/ I'm q only y going into >WarwickshiireI
ana shall be Home again ja!1,itsH soon
/ ''Yes; home again but how 2
! said John. ~ '':,': '.''':';''.'> 49,,
!. Again she sblushed.
/ THAT has .;1J3t nothing; pyE;Yt to do with my
going away now';,' 'ih3 'ishe 3:ssaiid1. si1 t'rha,
was to be, whether 81 /: ;ia' no.' ',''' '.'
T. Johnns Mpsgravs pls'gEi,S1s sai22beedd:> sai2beedd>o '''.'
I, II don't Ii Il #, IT, t'nsi hs' said after q
Ipadse, Nth 6ne .s,unpon a1 laia spf ii III m
lt4rnal feeling? Is If h Is was think III; k;i';
only for I Loia, and u no %nowise for him: d:
!: Lois looked at him. Her calm
leves frightened With i i certain: some:
thing; il i was nlot! Wholly malice and
Lii was not all regret, but it Es was q eli:
rious mixture Of s. the. 't,si two. ): - Deep
down in the ipnermost recesses was d
certain consciousness that she had
been tacitly false to; John Mqsgrave
How much soever she would have
disclaimed the, accusation, she knew
in her own heart that when she first
came home from her Penrith board
|ing:echool ahe had thought Mr.: Mus.
grave q young man Of very fair at
E fractions, and had more than once
J. pictured Fellfoot as her future home
To be sure she would have preferred
some gentleman in :, the commercial
'lline to hillside farmer. and tow
life to a country one. She would
! have liked 4 neat little six or esiighI
roomed suburban villa, with 3 ggtteee1
}|do9r and 1 bflsilss.h j IS h.pdled bell, vezne, u
tan blinds, 4 and : | nice its little plot q
,Egroaulnd ii i'&6 font, wVbsre 1sbe + nigh
'Pha av,e grown 1s y mlarigold aid miigno
:yFaette; and 14' lie would baiivve biiv . enjoyed
+ town . housekeeping, ~ where every
thing is at your hand, and YOU, 'neet
:: not trouble with laying in stores ant
forethought fol: every J detail. - Hei
+ one girl would have. done The, rougl
work, while she would have, put he
hand to the finer parts, dusting TIL
":drawipg:room," and the like; bu
John Musgrave was too fine a fello,
; Fin himself, to be lightly regarded
+ and, though she: was fit for something
, 1,better than to be a farmers wife, a
!, she often said to herself when: sh
looked in her glass, still she : nigh
/ 60 farther and fare worse; and b
had . good bit Of land and was clean
ly living, sober, and handsome. ! ID.
! But when Bernard, Haynes. cam
Ito: lodge at Brigeend and made him
.] self the Strephon to her Chloe, the
John NJ psgrave faded away like
= 'disolving view; and to be the wif
d Of a real gentleman % who talked s
4 we'll that she did. not fully under
!, stand him was a prospect too dazzlini
| to. be foregone:. For all that, sh.
had this certain uneasy ciousness
and more than once wisheathat JOLT
lMusgrave had not come to bid he
.Egood:by; though it did crafty, be
to show him the prize which she hat
won and 10 make him fsel the xoftl
! of that which he had lost. Z Had Il
/ not been so cautious and deliberate
/ according to his race and kind til
!. thing might have been settled lon,
ago, and then she would have bee.
caught and Gagged. What &. goo
, thing that hehad' been 20 backward:
She knew that she would have accept
ed him had he offered, and what
miss she would have had! But fol
!, all this knowledge and selfconfession
/ had she been asked, she would hav
averred warmly that, Of all the gen
r tlemen of her acquaintance, Joh1
Musgraye was the last at whom sh
would have looked, even over he
shoulder.
a. "Well, I must be toddling,"'' sai'
I John, rising with a. heavy sigh an
limp look. "Good-by, Miss Lancas
ter. .:1,suppose that you'll: be writin
. home, 80 that we may have word q
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