Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-03-24
THE PROFESSORS PROPOSAL

THE PROFESSORS PROPOSAL
Professor Gray stood on the piazza OF
the Fort George Hotel and watched Mis-
Carlyon going slowly down the path to
the lake with curious feeling expressed
in his eyes. You could have tod, ii you
had been looking in his aee just theu,
that he loved Miss Cprlyon, but didn't
know what To do about it. Ii she ha1I
been n piece Of guei,s, or granite, q
Quartz, he would have known exactly
what to do to come to perfect knowl-
edge of her But he couldn't analyze Il
woman. Women had been curious >pe
cimeus to him all his life. lie had long
ogo given up all hope of ever understand
ing them, and had left of studying them
His rock. aud fossils didn't perplex and
| battle him rs women did. Years ago,
when he had studied them, he had
thought that he understood them. and
one woman in Particular. He had taken
more interest in that one particular spe
| cimen-tor to Professor Gray everything
was spccimen--lhan in all the other,
| he had ever known. lie had even gone
50 far rs to tell her that thcucctorth, ii
she SO willcd it, his lite should be- given
up to her and science. And sha had
smiled, aud looked SO pleased, in her in
uocent way, that the poor Professor had
| . t,. a,,l IL !
She would help him to arrange the ac-
cumulatiug specimens IN his family cab
met
But he had supposed too much. lie
found that out when she got married to IA
lashing young captain. When he met
her after the marriage he told her So
And she, with one of her pretty, surpri,-
ID looks of hers, answered his indignant
words by saying that he had never asked
her to marry him.
"l don't know as did, replied Pro-
lessor Gray, after thinking it over. d" But
that was what meant, and took it for
granted that you understood me-"
Yes, but you've no right to take any
thing for granted" she had answered,
aud the Professor had mentally conclud
ed that She was right so far rs women
were concerned, Mt least.
lie had got over that old disappo'nt-
ment bravely. What had seemed to
him pnro gold lie found out at hast was
merely iron pyrtes, nothing more and
whe, he had found ot4 ho WAS glad thut
She had failed to understand him or not
exactly that, for be tolt sure that she had
understood him well enough, bat glad,
rather, that sho had understood it t" be
more for her interest to marry the Cap
Hin.
The Professor had not met her for ev-
er SO many years until this SUMNER
And here She was, with u child half
grown up tu.womuuhoJd, who had taken
a. great It fancy TO HIM rs he had evor
had for her mo.her, and persisted in fol-
lowing him wherever he went, and sit
ting or his knee in II why that was very
amusing to Miss Carlyon, if not to the
Professor, who endured the iuilictiou
with becoming meekness.
Miss Caryon wa. u quiet little body,
with pretty face and most expressive
eyes and She could tall, geology with
the Professor in way that did hi, heart
good. He had never before me. II WON
an who could talk with him for bal; an
hour on his iavorite su.j ct without ex-
hnu~tiug her geological knowledge. But
he had found out thpt neither nn houg,
nora day, nor week. exhausted her
capabilities OF ralting intelug"ntly on the
-u jrct o@ the ice period or the carbonif-
orou- em. And from tho lime he found
thut out be loved her.
But be didn't know how be was goinq
to tell her SO, if he made up his mind
that he cared enough for her to mnrly
her. lie wanted to be quite sure that
she was worth his hove, and he wanted to
be quito sure that he cared as much for
hcrns for science. So be waited. But
this morning he had concluded ihut -he
wa, Just the woman he had been waiting
Tor all these ycass. She had talked 80
mteligcntly about the siiurian deposits,
and the glacial theory, that she hnd
moved hi, hst lingering doubt. She was
the one woman in the world for him.
But she would have to be told all about
his regard for her, and he would huve 60
tell her, and how he was to do it was
what puzzled him. Several times, when
they had been alone, he had found the
conversation branching off from geology
Of the earth into that OF the heart, and ut
such times he actually felt frightened
when he thought of what be might say
or do in moment Of sudden reckless
ness.
He finally concluded that there was no
need II saving anything just now, and
that he would wait few days and let
events shape their own course in other
words, that he could trust to Providence
/ for a week or SO.
lie walked down toward the lake after
Mis-, Carlyon, aud found her sitting on
rock reading Sketches OF Clealion. She
smiled when sle saw who her interrupt
er was, and The Professor thought that
he had never seen any one who lad "a
| pretter smile than she had. 1T seemed
/ to break all over her face like 81 Shine
over II meadow. She made room for
him, and he Mt down beside her.
Winchell is interesting reading," he
sad, taking up the book She hnd closed