The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-05-18

Eleanor; "you select a-weA, VIII ao-
NIT it.-a particularly silly conversation
and speak of it as of the type OF what we
talk about in society. You artistic Peo-
pie, as said before, claim TO monopollze
all the tolerance, and yet you shut your
selves up in Your shells ke small COM.
psny OF oysters who should agree to con-
slider all the other fish and sea things like
so many interlopers in their domains;
You build Chinese wall about your
selves, and the rest Of the world become
mere outsiders Now, l, for one am q
Phiistine; and I'm not ashamed of 1t
either; l love the world, l belong to
it, heart and soul. have not made So
ciety, and can see hundred points in
which wou alter it i'll could, but 1
can't, so l accept it and find the world
pleasant place, as it always TO people
who try to please n"
"Be witness, Miss Hardy, it was not 1
who made the discussion personal one:
MAY ask, though, how it is that with
such strong convictions you are not al
ways of this delightfully."- optimist opin-
ion?"
because l am young and unreason-
able as my aunt says, 1 suppose" said
Eleanor, lightly, ~ dare say it will pass
with time;"
II dare say it WILL assented Desmond
gravely. "Horesty of impulse does not
live long in the atmosphere Of ball
room. You must have had an uncom
monty large quantity to start with"
"Sce here, Mr.. Desmond" said Elean-
or, facing square round in her saddle. 81
won't pretend not to understand what
you mean. I've that much honestly left,
whatever you may think" she went on
Indignantly. "You imagine because
she hesitated-"becsuse l MAXWELL,
probably l shall marry man older
than myself, and very rich, that l can
have no good left IN me. 1t is not true.
You are hard, you are unjust to me in
every thought of yours. Don't you sup
pose know myself, MY own wants and
needs, better than you can? Talk of
giving up all for love and the world we'll
ost' to girl accustomed to
simple life, and what wonder if she lis
tens to you, with everything to gain by
it nothing to peril? Talk of it to a girl
in nv position, brought up as / have
been, and if she is honest, she will an
swer you us | do. am accustomed to
extreme luxury, 1 have no fortune of my
own, my happiness is centered on things
which are offered me freely at the hands
of man for whom | have The utmost
respect, and who believe is very fond
of me; why should ! not accept them?
"Why not, Indeed?' echoed Desmond.
They rode on few minutes in silence.
His scauiescence had suddenly shocked
and puzzled her. She had expected to be
argued with vehemently when she threw
down her gauntlet and now the gage OF
deianc was returned TO her with u polite
b,w by her adversary. Eleanor did not
understand 1t, and, being disconnected,
beIan to lose her temper.
at is so UNJUST said she, speaking
very fast, - man will give up anything
will work all his life long TO win posi-
ton and become wealthy, and you will
all applaud HIM to the skies for doing it.
And yet, let woman have the same
craving for power and influence and
ease, let her have an ambition TO be more
than cipher in the SUN, let her bring
into real life one out of the countless
lessons she has received since size left tie
scheolroom, let her too make an effort TO
gain her ends, and where will you find
eplthets with which to qualify her un-
womanly heartlessness, her mercenary
lack of sentiment
Desmond struck his boot absently with
his whip, and smiled. There are just
few men in this world who do not count
money as the browning good CT life, and
who cling still to the exploded old belief
that women, by the mere fact OF their
womanhood, are better, nobler, purer than
thew" he said. And really, Miss Hardy,
YOU exaggerate. Who ever gave any
thing but praise to a girl no made q
good match in society,""
The gentle mockery of his tone
stung her to the quick 1t is one thing
to dismise lover, but quite another to
have him accept his dismissal with
equanlmity. The woman who does not
feel Il secret JOY and pride in being still
.sthe one fair woman in all the world" to
the man she has Just refused TO marry,
and does not think of him with tender,
re.rotful approval, is as rare, per
haps, as the man who IS
not privately convinced that were
merit the only test he would
never meet with want OF success. A
pathetic .it might have been,' the mem
ory of some hour when it did not seem
so improbable that this was the COM
panion of her future life, casts its halo
around many an otherwise commonplace
rejected lover. Until he becomes consol-
ed again, man never finds warmer, II
need be. n more INSCRIPTIONS partisan
than in the woman who has just assured
him she was Indifferent to his love.
A quick resentment of Desmonds self
possession seized Elsnor. Very well!
we will seelf l cannot make him show
he cares, before the day is overV she
thought revengefully. And she smiled
innocentIy and sweetly, the while, upon
her intended victim.
don't let US discuss" she said softly;
II never get the better when l quarrel
with YOU, and So The blue eyes
looked up to his sppealingly and ended
the sentence for her Sne laugheu anu
touched her horse with her whip; 'they
dashed on UP the hill, racing the feet,
light cloud shadows that fitted over the
fresh green of the fields. The sky had
the pale, watery blue of an April day.
Little gusts ofthe warm spring wind went
and came, now bringing puffs of wild,
faint fragrance, now wandering off until
lost among the blossomy fields. On either
side of the road rose-hushed shower OF
perfumed STOW covered the bushes Of
lowering thorn; the birds in the hedge
rows were twittering and thrilling under
the shelter of the small green leaves,
every now and then hurried rush OF
wings telling how the tramp of the horses
had startled some biooding mother bird
from her nest
AS they rode on, the fields widened;
the sky seemed to lift and the horizon to
lower; the whole landscape took that IN