The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-03-02

~iNdbe sohie crazy old tinklsr,; III md
71nting''iiS this isthe way :xsuaafs4 |
eoing % carry ohJ''n saidj her 4ashkr.|
pasiiienately. :Who!in meroysnaa3e, Il
but ty6urself would ohave qivenqqpl
inch' 'chanceaas th,s?" ! ;: G1.,9. 4
'Fvery' honestgirl, who held herr
self asishe 6aght,o and ljdisdaineaL 10
push ahersaf"awhere| she Lwas'on noti|
wanted; )" Lois. replied, holding iheri
head high j"and 1 tell yoa AGAIN. g.:
ther; Pd rather: eat nay 6ngersa off
than we'd: with Mr.. Bernard Haynea
to have to live at Midwooda with nih his
mother and sisters. So that's plain
and I can't make it no >plainer az
Saying which she retreated with dig:
nifty to her own little reom up stairs,
and, taking her slate. wrote: on 1.-THE
first draaght' Of the letter Of, :Fennn-
ciation'whieh to.morrow's post was to-
bear. to Bernard Haynes.-.|:.. :: p. =:
Life is simple enough and. action.
easy while'o feelings 's;ngleiapd
not complex, swhils our motives .Eraanl
clear and are mot entangled I>but!
when desires PM passionately at the:
left, and reason warns US loftily to
the right, whom self:interest and self
respeet1are At war>together;zit s:d;fGz
culttdAecidei On our best eeu.se,aApd
even when decided on:b 'dimcult 10.
fellowyuThn VAS the case,now with.
tLois' She knew quite well what she:
ought to 'do,t and she intended, 10 i do
it, Still it was hard The vision Of,
'her grandeur had been very sedaact,
'i4ewhils itlasted and jbsfore It had
seentested; and, naturally: enough,
:it' WIS atrial to. put off hers regal:
goldand purple and come back, to-
.heridull;, homespun. But, it had ito
be done. ;HE>'': 49,.
I She had never been deeply in tove'
with Bernard; He was' not the kind
Of a man whom She would have
chosen for himself; and: before every
one else in the world, to be her hus:'
band: He was too re6nedin thought,
too subtle, too much above her head
to be completely sympathetic with
her; that well-to-do tradesman ;of
her earliest aspirations was much
more the kind Of thing to suit. A
country gentleman, with views, was
altogether beside the mark; and she
was sufficiently reasonable to confess
/ all this to herself, and to act as she
confessed: Also, she knew full : we'll
that, as she ha a said to her father,
she was entirely out Of place among
his people; Her selfrespect in this
had been wounded; it must now re-
assert ITSELF She must show them
.all-that proud woman more than all
f,-thatl she, tho daughter '=of the
|'fells, jhadstoo much Independence ,of
character to force herself into = farnpi-:
(which did not want her-to mar
~ for money one whom She found
that she did not really love. All the
/ same it was a sacrifice, and she suf.
fered while she made it,.
But she did make it, and eallantly.
She wrote her first copy on slate, and
by care she manged to write it cor
rectly. 1t was without care and by
the spontaneity Of nature that she
wrote it with dignity. She sent these
| few lines, she said, to wish Mr.: Ber'
nard and them all good:by-to break
off the engagement between them
because she was not fit for them and
they could not make her feel at. hons
with them, and things that wenl
wrong IN the beginning generally 6n
ished off worse at the end. She: san
that she was in Mrs. Haynes's' wa,
and that she could do nothing; t.
please her.; and it was best to par
now,> before it became harder; ;. to do
He had better keep to hia. own,: 'sh,
said-rand the tears fell fast -, ish
added, renouncipg for; ever all: he'
splendid hopes- she, would keep with
hers ;and not ali the world could Of
fer would make her 60 through an
other such time a. she had had q
Wildwood, or induce her to sees hin
again or carry on with him in an.
way, She ended by wishing him an
them all health and happiness md BY
being his bedient servant, Lois ar
caster.
'Ii So ended the dream Of the >begga,
girl and the endeavor Of our moaer
King Cophetua to lift her to "a ,plac
:. beside him on his throne 90 ende
the new Utopia planned by the yqun
reformer, the regeneration of societ
that was to follow on the sors Of th
aristocracy taking to thennee]v'
, wives from among the daughters =,
the peasantry.s It was a prosaic: se
mon on .poetical text, q hating e.
} voi to a gracious idyli; but it W.
inevitable, as things stood, and tt
t only way of wisdom open to either.
"Now, my DEAR" said Mrs. Hayn'
t to her daughter Maud, after she hs
. read the letter which. Bernard fun
over to her in paroxyem, Of despa
: and she had failed in her .fi1st, a