The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1877-05-03

don't wish for any compliments s.;
1 was just going to call you sir but
/ Pm not q school girl now, and
shan't call you sir any lOnger.H
every we'll, Miss Warren then in
revenge shall deprive you Of your
title, and heueeforth call you Min
ME-"
Minnie 0lushed slightly, and turned
round to look out OF the window.
But directly afterward she turned her
face to Vincent again.
''Shall you be here again next term,
Mr.. Vincent %
"I am very uncertain. It depends
greatly upon circumstances"
Minnie laughed merrily, and laid
her hand upon the door as IL about to
! leave the room.
4 ''This is one OF the provokingly in
definite philosophical phrases. I sup
pose time will show. But really all
/ the people have left. l must be quick
and get home. Good-by."
/ She opened the door and pretended
that she was off in a great hurry.
/ Leonard appeared for a moment un-
decided then be took step toward
her.
minnie"
She stopped and turned around
with an assumed air Of indiffer-
ence.
$50 you are going off without wish
/ ing me q happy vacation? q? am sur
prised at Miss Warren"
"I thought you were not going to
call me Miss any longer ?' she
said.
80! I forgot. Have you nothing
to say but cold good-by, Minnie, now
that we are seeing each other, per-
haps, for the last time ?"
Minnie exhibited s scarcely per-
eeptible start st this announcement.
ooh, am not going away" she re-
piled, perhaps q trifle more earnestly
than the occasion seemed to warrant.
81 shall be at home when school be-
gins again"
"But think it very likely that l
shall not. think l shall go to Eug-
land for good. have been here long
enough"
$50 you are tired OF us Americans
already All, well, We are stupid
people, 1 suppose. Goodbye. them"
She held out her delicate white
hand and it trembled just a little.
Leonard took it, raised it to his lips,
and then gently let it go. Minnie
laughed her ordinary gay laugh.
SIS that how Englishmen say good
by? What knightly lot Of people
you must be ?''
drawing nearer to Minnie. "that is
not how we say good-by. We only do
tn at when we mean that We are new
er going to say goOd-by.'
''Oh, indeed Then l must leave
you, suppose, without exchanging
the usual eivilities ?"
She turned and moved very slowly
toward the door. Vincent reached
her side with a single step, and took
her hand in his own. She turned
around and the blossoms in her
cheeks deepene1 in color as she looked
in his face, unable to say anything.
"Minnie," said Leonard, in q low,
earnest tone, "you understand me,
though you pretend not to. May 1
always keep this hand ?"
She looked down at the ground, 3
most unusual thing with her, and re-
piled somewhat indistinetly
"Really, that would be asking you
to stand here too long,"
i'It is very pretty hand. May 1
kiss it again ?"
Minnie gave no reply. He took
silence for consent.
"Those are very pretty lips. Min
ME. May kiss them ?''
The question was asked in a tone
little above a whisper. The reply
was not in words, but the look that
was in her hazel eyes as she raised
her face to his told him that Minnie
Warren, with all her beauty, and all
her ROBUSTNESS, was his own.
And so he did not leave America.
He wrote to his father telling him
that he had won wife who belonged
to family that the old cotton spin
ner had no reason to be ashamed Of
as his relations in reply, his father
opened If not his heart, at all events
his pOeketbook, to his no longer way
ward son. Mr.. Vincent, for reasons
of his own, had no particular wish
that Leonard should return to Eng
land, and experienced no great sor-
row when he was told that his son
desired, for some time at least, to
continue 10 reside in Am5riea.