The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-16

Blanca. you NAV take her payments
for pin-money if you chose. And now
tell me something about your cousin.
What is she like =
Like a very lovely woman, Antho-
NY
sHandsome p
"Clever q
GAS schoolmistress. You Will be
delighted with her conversation, |
know. She has the faculty. people
say. of making all woman appear stu
pid and trivial ny contrast.
"NOnsense. Blanca. That slmlle OF
schoolmistress was very poorly chosen
if you want to prepossess me with
Your cousin. l abhor schoolmistres-
ses. Just hand me that bottle direct
ly behind your elbow, that dear.
Mrs. Stanley turned toward the row
of bottles placed upon shelf IN her
husbands surgery, in front OF the
| desk at which he was then seated.
"Which Anthony This one con-
tanning white liquid =
! "Gracious, no. That's horribly
poisonous compound. Imagine poor
Mrs. Marlow's feelings if took over
to her sick baby vial of that deadly
stuff The one to the right OF it II you
please. Thanks, my dear. And now
one more question. When is Miss
Fllinor Erskine going to make her APP
pearance at the cOttage!
"To-morrow morning, she writes
me. And we may expect Ter, Tor
Ellinor is infallible about keeping her
promise.
The next morning Miss Erskine
justified her cousins remark by arrl-
wing at Oakwold. The greeting which
she received from Blanca Stanley
was warm and affectionate. The two
ladies had been intimate friends for
as long as each could remember, and
the love which existed between them
was. on Bianca's side, at least, OF the
sincerest nature. Physically, they
formed striking contrast, Mrs. Stan
ley's pink and white complexion, pale
gold hair, and petite figure being
widely different from her consn
statuesque, stately beauty.
/; 1t was beauty of a superb type.most
, people were fain enthusiastically to
Z, admit on seeing Ellinor Erskine for
the first time. Unusually tall but OF
IL tO1S>>~
and every gesture, that tallness was
charm. not a defect; possessing Skin
of the fairest whitenesS, HAIR OF tnat
glossy blue-black hue which ISL sc
rarely seen and eyes Of deep, lustrl
Gus hazel: showing in her manner ano
conversation all that most cultivated
and fastidious taste could desire, Miss
> Erskine was what we may term
fascinating woman in every respect
The first evening following her ar
rival at Oakwold, she accompanied
her host and hostess on twilight
! walk along the exquisite wooded
shore near which the cottage wa
situated-a line of rugged picturesque
land, where rocks, and fringy cedar
made qnite battle for performance
it vet mingled their wild elements II
one wild sort of harmony beautlfn
beyond expression.
"We must show EllinOr the arm
at chair, Anthony" Mrs Stanley remark
ed. as the party stood on low Gill
J. overhanging the waters. beneath
bathed just then in the soft purple 0
lie the sunset. "It's only about var
from where we now are,
ssThe arm chair y Miss Erskln
said, in surprised tones. s'What ca
you possibly mean Blanca Z
III ga perfect arm chair, was tn
replv.-sscarved out of rock by tina
;. slow old sculptor, the sea. Anthem
and I discovered it about mont
= ago.
They reached the spot PRESENT..
and found the curiosity Blanca ha
= mentioned-a mass of rock so worn
the immemorial action of the wave
"A below it as to bear an exact resen
to blance. legs omitted to an eXceedln!
w comfortable, commodiOus arm chal
elbow delightful exclaimed Mis-
1T Erskine, seating herself in this pee
* of natural furniture. 81 suppose 20
or come here often. Bianca-you an
70 that loving husband of yours = wit
Ia a glance of that young lady's haz
90 ewes in Doctor Stanley's direction
ne ssThere's ample room for two. by tt
way isn't there =
nd s.Oh, YES" Blanca answered. "W
od do sit there now and then. Anthem
w read me Tennyson's 1dyls in tn
IS spot about month ago.
dc Mrs. Stanley's remark served
a1 turn the conversation, during the
70 homeward walk, upon literary su
~ iects; and if her husband had n
M concluded that Miss Erskine s Int
no lect was fully equal to her beaut
nd certain clever words which now II
~ from the lips of Bianca's cousins mu
m have assured him that such was q
d. fact.
he 81 like her immenselv,' he said
his wife later that evening, VIII
ut their guest her retired. "She is &C
sh tainly a very brilliant woman.
sor I'm so glad you think so, "
t I the pleased response. "Elilnor
going to make your summer. as w
as mine, Anthony very delightful
oh am sure"
,es Before many days had passe
ess Blanca Stanley had cause to recoile
len her phrophecy with regard to ELM
off; Erskine. There seemed decld
The probability of making Anthem;
70 crD,rpor for mora nlnaSant than