The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1877-03-22

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6 out OF cur sight.
= It was 80 with Phemie Sszton now
: A last day had come for her, 3 YER
!, borrowed summer day at Christms
4 time, and she went down to breazfas
j with a most BOe-begone face. Wins
Z was the good Of the sunshine vine
:, everybody was going away tO-mor
e row and when Christopher kenni
q cote looked in at Sea View Terrace
y as bis daily custom was, he found he
!. sitting near the window, listless an
e discOntented. She frightened I'D
= little at the sight Of him, and thel
e grew dismal once again over th
4 thought that he would not be able +
2 come any more.
I Colonel Hursley glanced from hi
2 visitor to his niece. Take her ou
2 for little fresh air." be said to tn
i one, and fGo and put on your bonnet
0 my dear" to the other.
/, His orders being Obeyed, the two
} young people soon found themselve
D sauntering along the cliffs toward th
}, place of their first meeting. It was {
: little promontory jutting out into tn
e sea beyond the rest Of the coast.line
D Soft green turf grew underfoot tha
z was pleasant to walk upon below
lay the sea, blue as the sky overhead
: but not 8 Summer sea lying lazily
and unruffied in its unbroken calm.
To-day little waves broke eVerywher,
, into white feathery crests, and KEEP
it in perpetual motion.
! For q minute or two Phemie watch
ed it; then, with an impatient sigh,
she sst herself down on q stone witt
her back to it.
"Why do yOa do that ," asked Mr..
Kennicote lyon won't have the
!, chance Of looking at the sea to-mOr
rOW.n
"Indeed shall :" she salu "every
day Of my life see il from my win
dow at home, and it is just because
don't want to be reminded of going
that turn away"
THAT is an easy way Of forgetting
so l suppose when you have lost sight
of Cercombe you will forget all about
me ?" said Christopher Kennicote.
Phemie looked up quickly, and was
about to protest, when she was seized
with a sudden shyness that for the
first time made her avoid meeting his
eyes, and withheld her from speaking
frankly as she would have spoken
five minutes ago. Her heart began
to beat fast with strange nervous
ness, and though fearful lest he should
believe she could forget, she made no
answer.
ri too am going sway shall for
get you ?" he said.
Phemie choked down an inclina-
ton to cry at the mere idea Of such a
thing, and yet, perversity that is born
of love in the feminine mind, said
diff you like" though convinced
she should be miserable II he did.
At this answer Mr.. Kennicote, who
could not read the workings OF her
inmost mind and know the evil spirit
which promoted it, felt himself some
what aggrieved.
"You might have given me klnd-
er reply than that" he said.
"I think it is nice to do as one likes" "
she said, defending herself against
the accusation.
"Then I am to forget you ?" be
asked.
"I never said that" she answered,
now terribly afraid that she should be
taken at her word.
BY this time Christopher Kennieots
began to see his way q little more
clearly.
"You are very changeable," he
said, "or else you are, like Mistress
Mary IN the nursery rhyme, quite
contrary Why are you so perverse,
or is it that you really do not care ?'
81 don't know" she answered du-
/ biously, still possessed by thespirit of
] NFNTE,N-1eea
"You don't know :" he repeated re-
proachfuIly ''but must know one
way or the other. will not pretend
that you answer is a matter of indif-
ference to me, for love you, Phemle,
love you so dearly that could not
forget you il l would. But it lies
with you to tell me il 1 am to go away
tomorrow glad or sorry that l have
came to Csereombe glad because
you love me, or sorry that you like
me so little, you will not even say,
DO not forget me- =
HI will :" she cried ; 'indeed 1 will
say it now. L wanted TO say it before,
but somehow could not"
She felt this was q very lame ex-
cuse, and besitated good deal over
the making Of it nevertheless Chris-
TOPPER Kennicote was satisfied there.
with.
When Phemie and Christopher came
back to Sea View Terrace, Col. Hurs-
ley was still writing letters but he
laid aside his pen, asking them where
they had been and what they had
done.
FTell him." said Phemie, escaping
! from the room.
Christopher did as he was bIdden.
Then said the Colonel, "I am very
glad to hear it, am sure that you
should marry Phemie has been my
wish since first I saw you seemed ta-
ken with one another"
"It is most kind Of you to say So"
Christopher said. "And how do you
think her father will take the engage
ment 81
"You won't have any difficulty
with my brother-in-lsw," Col. Hurs.
ley answered. HE and Phemie don't
get on over well, but perhaps when
he has q son-in-lsw to go about the
country with sometimes he will for
give that poor child for being q GIRL"
And then he told Christoper Ken
nicote the old story OF the 'Squire's
bitter disappointment.
"I hope he won't object to me as
Phemie's husband" said the young
man, laughing.
"You can afford to keep q wife, 1
suppose, or ct least Sir Christopher
will allow you q suitable income to
marry on ?n asked Col. Hursley.
"My father has always been most
liberal to me he Is generosity ITSELF"
answered the younger Christopher
warmly. 81 am sure l shall only
need to tell him OF my wish to marry
for him to agree to anything reason
able in the way of money; We are
not likely to have our first quarrel
over that"
Col. Hursley nodded his head sp-
provingly. From the tone of Chris
topher KeGnicote's speech, it was
evident that be and his father were
on the best of terms with each other,
and that those terrible dividers of q
ousehold-money, and It's shadow,
debt-had never yet come between
these two to stir up discord and ILL
feeling, and the old officer gave his
favorite further step, still higher
promotion, in bis good opinion.
"Do you think had better write to
Mr.. Seaton, or 60 down to Roscorla
when my father and 1 have talked
matters over ? 1 will speak to him as
soon as possible after get home, but
there will be houseful of visitors,
and I can't we'll leave again till 3 few
days after Christmas" continued
| Christopher.
"Oh, please write to him l would
rather he heard it first from you /; be
thinks me such a child still, he would
laugh at me il said 1 was engaged.
Write after you get home, and then
come down for New Year's-eve to see
me-" Phemie said. She had just
come into the rOOm in time to hear
his last words.
"I think you bad batter do as
Phemie suggests. You can tell her
father all particulars when you see
him. And now, as it is nearly two
O'Clock, perhaps you young folks will
have something to eat, unless you are
too much In love to be hungry" said
Colonel Hursley, taking his seat at
| the table.
The next day Colonel Hursley, bis
niece, and Christopher Kennicote
travel as far as the junction together /;
but there their ways diverge. Phemie
Is the first to start, and stands at the
/ carriage door after il has been locked