The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-24
ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY,

j.. 1876.
asked < s1I them b pt.o,lteske to take ont .Mias. Ian
!e.s!.?a caster .a and at last, o. if in honest
9!PsI dsPespair a1; ct a finding her good intentions
9! Of 20 20. avail, abs. said in a moderately
: lloyd e1!ls voice TO Bernard: ....., :......
. my y dear; boy, jN!bat N earth shall
:! I d.? d.? None None Of the mep will dance
y! with b Miss \ Lancaster. .apd you, can
easily silly tell why. 1t is excessively un-:
lf.f pleasant q for me, yet what can I: do2"
, Bernard saw, it all, and was on
Il thtorns: As bis mother. said, what
could 60 she-or indeed. anyone--do?
This was no place for, Lois. His
! mountain e',' ne = daisy, 50 beau utiful in her
own simple home, was i'll set when
tr9a.nsplanted I! 2 to the: artificial grace
and iaa! conventional circumstances of a
life like this at Wildwood. There she
satisfied i'6 fl]2i his ..Ab Aighsat ideal; .he1ehe
was forced to admit it-she was in
; harmonious y; and discordant. And
yet, was nnot his life to be spent here !?
Was not his home to be at Wildwood,
{ and hls = duties, all that were COM
prised r ..e in the ownership Of such .
place? He woold'not live under the
:Wythburn crags or under the dark
shadows Of Helvellyn, forgotten and
forgetting, as in last summers Long.
H He must take up. the. position into
which he was born, and fit. himself
into his sphere. These thoughts
flashed like. Lightning through hi )
I. brain ai while his mother spoke; but
he gave, B., words only to- the. first Of
them, and he answered, very ,coldly,
"You were wrong. mother. and
cruel, to ~ expose her as you: have
done" !;
<.,:. (which means, af my dear boy. that
when g Miss Lancaster 4. is Mrs. Haynes
! Wildwood 4 must be. closed against 80.
:!ciety at large" che said in a low
voice, turning away to capture a
young guardsman not quick at fence
or falsehood, and present him to Miss
Lancaster for the next -Lancers.
If Bernard who saw clearly was on
thorns, Lois who saw but dimly was
not on roses. The. occult difference
between herself and the rest became
at every moment more confessed
and gra dually her sense OF humilia
ton worked on her nerves
so powerfully that She was on
the verge of a fit Of Mysteries. Al
last, escaping to the safe seclusion
Of her own room, she sat down be
fore the glass and had what she her
self called q good cry. She was un
utterably mortified and wretched
she scarcely knew why ; for the glass
gave back face which she knew
we'll enough to be the loveliest in tn,
room, and general appearance with
which, in her: iignosance, she was per
fectly content, and wherein she saw NJ
point of infer,ority to tn . best
among them. None the! less v, was ll sh,
miserable and wished quite aloud .,
least . dozen times that she had n ey
er come, and she would 60 home to
morrow, that she would, and never
set foot in Wildwood again! If Mr.
Bernard had to go with Wildwood, le
him. Mrs. Haynes and Miss Mauc
would take the sweetness out Of hon
ey itself, and make the very sunshine
but a dree hillside mist! She coulc
not bear it !; and she would not; they
would break her heart before the,
had done with her. and she woult
not have it, that wouldn't she!
When the housemaid broke in
singing, to arrange her room for th'
might and make up the fire, poor Lois
more at home with Mary Anne tha,
with any Of the grand folks will
whom mocking fate which gave tn
Dead Sea apples had thrown her TO
the time, frankly fraternising, poure.
out all her troubles and wept like :,
sister upon her neck.
"Why, Miss, what's to do" c1ie'
Mary Anne. amazed that anyon
should cry who had 8 on a musli,
frock, dotted with = thousand; sky
blue bows, and who had been dane
ing with real gentlemen in the Mid
wood ballroom.
IL feel SO lost, Mary Anne r sobb
ed poor Lois piteously. "1'm no
myself here, and I've taken the ru
for coming"
Then eaid Mary Anne briskly
b aving her own private suspicious G
King Cophetua, and thinking to he,
self that if she could she would pu
any number Of spokespossibleinto thai
wheel, LA, Miss, if you II not min
my saying so, you're no fit comran
for our folks; you're not the sam
kind as our young ladies, and it's
shame of them to ask you here ane
make game Of you as they do. Your
best with your own, and it's my ad
vice that you 60 back to 'em SHARP
You and I are not so far differen
when we come;to measure things, an
I'm sure I couldn't do as you do
make free with a family as grand q
missis's.
"Whv did thew hove mo hara