The Republican journal., 1879-02-27

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talk was of house work, Of vulgar tinery,
and vulgar Irritation. Priscilla knew no
more of these things than of the squab-
bles of the fish women on the river bank
She had spent most of her life in travel
ing through the beautiful places in the
world; her companions were men who
dealt with great facts and ideas. They
had hedged the girl in from all rough un-
Seemliness with a fine courtesy. In Zack'S
view she dwelt apart upon a height it
did not. indeed, at first occur to him that
he could climb to level with this Young
gentlewoman. Her father and uncle made
a companion Of DR. Nealy They found
a genuineness and delicacy of feeling in
the young fellow which We're different
from the other Finnburghers.
"He is undoubtedly a man of good
breeding and birth" said Mr. Peter Shiras
one day
''On the contrary, he has limited 70 me
that he has struggled up from extreme
poverty. replied PrisciIla's father.
"That may be-" retorted uncle Peter,
taking of his eyeglasses. There were
many scions of good families who landed
pennlless in Virginia | never am mis-
taken in the species of a man, any more
than OF spider.
For three or four months young Dr
\ealy'S mind was full of his new friends,
whether he was in market, or in church,
on at the bedside OF a patient. lie thought,
PROBABLY, that he was studying them as Il
species. Miss Shras being the best speci-
men. He had that sense OF ownership in
thclA which we have in a tine landscape
which we alone have discovered. He
could not tolerate the mention of them
from any ordinary finnburgher: and
when once a decent old farmer spoke Of
"that daughter Of Shirass," though he
did it respectfully enough, Tack could
scarcely refrain from striking him.
He did not know what this meant until
one day late in June. he had gone ouI
with a night moth to Mr.. Peter >hiras:
he had fallen INTO the habit of taking out
specimens after his last round Of visits
was over. 1t only needed a few moments
for Uncle Peter to prove. to every body
that the specimens were worthless, and
then they would have tea under the pines
while Priscilla, in her pale blue dress, sat
at a little table and filled the cups.
This evening she was not at the table.
Nealy glanced quickly around while he
was talking ot the moth. He saw her
riding down the road, tall, soldjcry-
lnnl,,nr man beside her
.That i Henry Shiras said ncIe Pa
t,r fnIInuin,, his ay,. IL rnusin FIN H.
moved Thara was same nlan when Miss
/ Shir,s vas -, chiId If ., hetrotb,l l,a-
tween thnm Knt thn vnunr naonIp s4t-
III snrh fhiuos aItngnthar tnr ihemsnlyrs
h ms conn1ry ~ no Dr. \raIy you
are nujtn mistaken ,hout this moth
,oI, ~ lis ,ntnnn,.
Tbrn if vls that Dr \nalv first knnv
what had hapunned ro him He went
homo ,rnn,isin,y ia cnmn hack later in
1 rbn nranin,r II Was > ynrv rnmfnrt,lIn
nynn lnvnrious hnnn to which II. Want
I HttIn Nancy conId command much h
I fb,t chea,, nriohLnrhond In = ritv thn
hnusr with I'M sIonrs of lawn anI forest
lLYu, ii vnufd h.,yo hrnn rrrknned !
sr3-riv dwp'r-nr \ra'y Wont rnsrIrssIv
mn and down The halls and chambrr,
tryin.r Il. r4asnn ~ L,rnspIf W.haf had hr
NJ du vith th,. Shjiasns nr thrir marry
H. and gnjnr ii MARRIAGE, III L1d
! fIlrd mo his tbnngb1s and Ifr with thrm
/ I4trN hnt hr was ant ia hr vehemnnt in
\ MI irinnIshins Ha ha1 nyan flIrnish4I
/ rh;. h,nsa as Lo tInc;aJ pri.,i,I, v.nnIJ
| L9vr ,lnnn h,d if 1r.n ha,s hut tL.t v,s
hec7u,..' She WAS 1hc onIy woman Of hrr
cIa-s th,t he Ma known ana Me- wanted
II r.,i.r bims4lf ia hrrl lryr
Was that what he wanted
10 fLnr.4nI tinns nn' H.. wanted
her-hr, TIL woman herself, sonl and
tjacL ANA hInnl
Tie saw hjs abiect folIy now and the
axrnnt- ntit Jtr.spntl>- No wnnf Gnvn ~
! bed-e BORDERING ths road wherr thew
must nass When Ne s3w them corninr
he crossed il and stood nnt ON the WAGON
track Il seemed 10 him as if he conlI
wrench the s4cret from her bv a loo,
Ana know vh1t M VA 10 her whether
| IN -nothin@ lie rnniJ nnr w,it IN
/ hnnr ~ Lnny n uthnr mon mighr wnn
rentlv and sIowlv tbn women thny loyal
\ I'M ZeaIy had 1Ep instjncfs of his nroonn,
;tnrs ybn. rHrriad niT tLni, WINS nv nna
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