The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-10

/ lii voice and eyes 81
II wish you would tell me something, Miss
Rothasa,y y, f is matter have puzzled over
aWell?" she asked.
ri cannot imagine why You dislike me so
intensely I Now can't endilfe to be lisliked.
Becha1itable, and tell me the reason
She felt q little confused. but had no iiitet,-
1.-THE assertion is a gratuitous one said
she. playfp,ly; !, you must let me hear upon
ut Ia SO plain you cannot deny the fact
| "Oh, / do not mean to deny" she said. 81
never attempt denial, when people choose to
think ill-natured things Of me.
II wish you would feline was mistaken, y
aNstIi 1t would be i,nnolite to contradict
tool
| 'Les me see! Do dislike you? Oh, have
| forgot, you have settled that point .
"Btf went to know why. What fault have
hAh, as for that, your conscience may he at
rest's
II don't think I'm half a bad fellow. Other
people tolerate me.
stferhaps that is the reason, since you will
have onel Other people find you so wonder
! fully perfect! am sinful creature myself,
and abtor perfection, perhaps from envy, who
| kRows!'
earnest ~. - 57.z-.=- -,
aBut YOU need mot mind my ppinion, always
snpposing 1t as tialevolent, as you Insist On
believing. You have the general verdict III your
favor, and oh. there are the Misses Lin
eolnsl' ,.a....
OF disgust
Straight toward usl How very fortunate.
Now you will be able TO forget me and my dis
likes, as soon as you please"
He growled something awaF down In his
ON the new corners, and however deeply It
Il might be her evident duty as a young woman
OF spirit to dislike him, Il was not possible,
being a woman, to avoid kind Of satisfec-
ton ct bis tndisguised annoyante ever the
interruption of their tete-a-tete
The two auburn haired sisters came up Ii, a
pretty Autter; they were Of the order Of
Young ladies who always do futter In the
presence OF an eligible man; and they chat
tered and giggled till Montgomery felt con-
yineed that they had been mosquitoes in q
former state of existence, unusually exaspe-
rating ones, and wished heartily that hecould
| hate had the pleasure OF DISCRIMINATING them
both before they developed into their present
shape. -E
If ever man met his good angel SO
thoroughly disguised rs to be unreeogniKable,
4 1t was Walter, the day he encountered that bull
Dating from this epoch. he and Miss Rvthsay
vent fapidly on not to acquaintance simply,
edged as such by Madge; though AT first she
Iaid not give this Intercourse that name, and
believed herself only nagnanlmoussly trying
to tolerate him. In spite of everything and
rather admiring herself therefor
/ An item in letter from her grandnotbe,
Iaided Montgomery's cause. "You need not
have flown in my face, as you did, and rushed
off In such haste, wrote the old lady. oval
ter Montgomery did not come to Newport
Mrs. Harrington has heard from him. He is
off in the country somewhere; did not even
| give an address, and from what he wrote she
Is sure he is IN love or has an ENHANCEMENT OF
somethng SO another time you had better
show more sense. However, III not scold
that dreadful hole and these fast weeks are
pleasafiter than ever. went to Mrs Astor's
ball last night and wore my"
But Madge read no more; her thoughts had
flown far, from Newport, and the pleasure.
loving old wpman's nonsensical details
solution of certain things, which had puzzled
her in Walter Montgomery. as she learned
really to know him She Thought he was not g
happy man, In spite OF the fund Of high spirits
| which he kept OH board for the benefit Of utdi.
nary acuuaintances AS the weeks drlfted by
; an odd restlessness she had observed in him
seemed to Increase; his manner became al
most caprieibus sometimes he appeared
fairly to avoid her.
ter, and felt more aud more convined that fo1
once in her life, tresome Mrs Harrington
had hundred on a truth. Walter Montgom-
| cry was in Hove and was unhappy The idea
made her very sorry fer biz and occasionally
she found herself wondering over the tin
|. known woman who had caused him pain
, thinking what a bat she must he not to appre-
eiate this man. who was elevated by his tai
ents, his goodness, SO far above the ordinary
, level Of his sex.
But before the autumn had begun to lose its
gorgeous loneliness revelation came te
Madge Rothsaf, which fairly overwhelmed
, she had never thought to care for him, or any
other. Madge was SO angry with herself thai
, her rage gave her q kind OF strength. She
could not fight against the fact, however; Il
remained fixed and unalteiable, and she was
, | forced to recognize It.
She cared for him she would not admit &
, stronger word to express the state OF hel
feelings; even to go SO far, in her admission
was great deal more than enough. In al
| conscience
.. She despised herself heartily; she, who hat
believed herself proud and strong she hae
reached fine pass indeed To care for 8
man, who was devoted to another for now il
her eagerness to punish herself to the fullest
| rushed far past her former theory, in regare
! to Montgolnerys stats Of mind, and was as
certain that heart and soul he lay bound be
Meath the feet OF some unknown woman, as i
he had put his dismal story into words.
She would GO away that was the result d
, | two sleepless nights Of meditation and angry
; remorse-two weary days. during which she
looked so i'll that poor Miss Laight was
frightened half TO death.
During this time she had not seen Walter
| Montgomery She knew that he had beer
more than once at the house. She had a new
reason for self -disgust in this dread Of meet
, ing him. but IL was stronger than her will
and so IN order TO avoid him she had seen M
| one J.I.
She had just told Miss Laight that It was
time for her. to go. Her grandmother hat
been writing for her. and was growing i'm
patient. They had visits to make. Indeed
perhaps before winter set in, she should per.
suade the old lady to make another pilgrim.
age to Europe. She was tired of America
: After all. there was no place where one really
lived save Paris Existence elsewhere was
vegetation and really she ought to marry d
duke. at least. and quantity of other non
sense and verbiage in a similar strain, so TN
like Madge Though it might have served as q
fair specimen of the gable of modern fash
ionable young lady, that Miss Laight was
really terrified, and certain that either uadge
had received bad news, which she did moi
choose to communicate. OF was on the eve ol
some terrible illness.