The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-11
FENALLOSA.
IHarner's Razar.l

IHarper's Bazar.l
s'Will YOU to marry me?' Those were tn,
words that, coming from the veranda in
deep, rich voice and most tenderly impas
stoned tone, broke the capricious silence
that had Just then fallen for a moment on
the singing and the laughing of the
lighted rooms within. will you to marry
me?'
1t was Ignacio Fenallosa's voice, and he
was repeating question that, under variou:
DISCUSSES he had asked of Chrystie perhaps
hundred times before.
Ours was the prettiest if not the busiest,
little village in the world, with all ITS en-
bOwerDg green close upon the sea, and its
two great counting houses, to which belonged
al the wharves and warehouses of the South
American trade carried Cd. there; and this
was a young South American, who had
come there, with some others, in case of the
consignees of the houses at home, for mer-
camille and English education. He was
probably progressing reasonably - that
is, we did not know whether he was or
not, for we saw little of him-when
at length Chrystie came home, not as
wild as a hawk, because she was. after
all more like a dove, but a shy, startled,
swift moving creature, with cloud of hair
just a shade more yellow than faxen, with
immense dark-lashed eyes that you took at
first for black eyes, till you learned how
dark the blue star-lit midnight sky can be,
and with skin where the red rich came
and went like torch that the wind blows
on, tall, 1.-the, slender beauty, wayward as
the weather, and born to have her will.
FenallOsa was strolling by one September
day as she spTang from the coach and ran up
the cracking path, and threw her arms
around John Allan, her brotherin law, who
came to meet her. The youth stopped de-
iberately and surveyed the scene, then lift
Ell his stick and shook it at John and strobe
on. We heard afterward that he that night
assembled the other young Spaniards, as
they were called ia the village, and the rest
of their comrades. and gave them to under
stand that il they chose to enter the race
was free and fair, but there was to be no
foolishness. since for his part be meant to
carry the girl with corn-silk hair over seas
with him and the priests blessing; and he
appeared next day with a tassel of corn silk
from some late field In his button hole, anu
as many days thereafter as there was any to
be had.
tIe did not wait for an introduction, but
climbed the fence one sunset, and accosted
her in the garden with such an air of adora-
ton and reverence that she could not be Of
Tended; but as he could then only speak
Spanish, and she could only speak English,
al she could do was 10 retire with great dig
nifty. at which he was by no means abashed,
for that, he knew, was her proper course,
and he considered that he had now made her
acquaintance, and he followed it up. few
weeks later he was heard to complain TO
young Juan that he had learned all the Eng
lish he. wished; he had learned No and
''NeVsue," and he was going home in the
next brig
Unnecessary to say that the brig sailed
without him. She sailed many times with
out HIM, indeed, but never without the
transaction of a little high tragedy on his
part previously. He was leaning one spring
day over the rail of the veranda, the lazy
roller creeping underneath-for our house
was close upon the sea, built so by grandpa S
whim, the summer parlors almost and the
veranda quite Oyerhanglng the deep water,
the solid old stone foundations belonging
once to a lighthouse that had been removed
when the bng rolled out again with all
sail set Some day" said he to Chrystie.
~oking back at her, you will be sailing out
in her with me, and never come back" III
Cbrvst;e nodo-,,, he would have been con-
tent and have asked for no more just then,
being strenuous Eat she should W "o To 20
unbecomipg; but she shook her head =. ~
took it all for granted that OLSEN. on ner
part seemed absolute rebellion, and then he
snatched his hat and stalked off without a
word, and meeting Leon at the gate, pitched
him clean over the fence and into the ditch.
OF course a challenge was the result;
duel was arranged, and doubt not would
have come off but tor notes that iiew from
the naughty Chrystie 10 the combatants, In
consequence of which, and in total Ignorance
that each note had been a counterpart OF the
other, they both appeared before her and
bound themselves ever to keep the peace.
But Leon was tickle youth, and it did not
much signify. As for Fenallosa, We rather
wondered at Chrystie, for he was like no
body else in the world, and with an irresisti
BILE personal charm il seemed to us. Such
nx TndQr SnQn1CH
brows; the fine black hair lay In great lock:
on forehead that had something infantlls
in shape and hue; but the rest OF the fecs
was of an unbroken bronze tint, except fO
the thin, curved lips, and the teeth, which
made his laugh, the whole face breaking int
dimples, dazzling. If Chrystie were not II
love with him. the rest OF US barely escaped
it-John Allan in the number. OF course
as soon as the danger OF the duel was over
Chrystie took occasion to quarrel with Fen
aIlosa's attention, and to tell him to visit u
no more If he could not cease annoying
We expected him to take her at her word
but it was only the next day that b
stopped on horseback under the window
having seen here face framed there, ant
having ridden IN the garden path, as b
told me on her disappearing, TO ask her ]
ssshe had not changed her mind" for III
never made the least secret of his suit. ant
seemed to feel that he had enlisted US all a
his auXll1arleS because ne ndQ llgnts, MI
success was but his desert. He really rod
up that day, though to display himself ant
his horse, for be rode like young centaur
but il seemed that that was no way to vii
Chrystie.
She had quite a different ideal-some littl
middle-aged, grIef-worn hero. with iron gra
hair. perhaps who had struck her fancy in
novel, but would have been feariully uncom
Portable in housekeeping, and she conss
quently regarded Fenallosa as boy tina
which nothing could be more maddeping 3
him, for he regarded himself rather as
king of old Spain. II have the blue blood!
4. Lur. al that daV I