The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-02
JACQUEMINOT ROSES.

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1t all came about in this way. OF
course it was wicked, and outrageous,
-znd uaoratefui, and all that, but then
Fl WIS ~ sudden that she really did not
know Whist had happened And then,
vEhv ir the world should the Professor
o1biers 30 Adrian, in whom there was
neither spot nor flaw? The man seltishly
yssultsd to keep the child himself, and
sitter aim the deluge! Yes, it came
Shout IN this way. He had adored her
80 IoIsx. AT first at such IN awful dis
f.aMca---'' the desire of, the moth for the
STIR, her uncle Redmond used to call
1t iii his evil way; but another person
might isnve said it was the pure and ar
dent passion of n young soul for its
counterpart. And certainly that eX-
s1lIisits beiEg, so fair, so frail, half hui
man. half ssraphic, was only the count
rerparf of this fiery, turbulent boy, so
strong. and,so tender, too, for ALE the
vehemence of his impulses, so noble,
and 50 lofty in his ideals. OF course no
young girl of Elias age could have
looked at his face, could have heard his
voice. and not have felt a strange at
traction, for his beauty was as eXtraor-
.diuarC as the sweetness of his tones.
S'Beauty4" Srowled the uncle Red
.nouti. when some one said so. g He
looks like the child of an organ-grinder.
Doubtless he was filched by some pa
,drunc from some peasant" .
NsAnd what of that?n said the aunt
Redmond, fully in favor of the affair.
g Some people might prefer to be the
children of Roman peasants, with all
fheir Roman history and ancestry behind
chem, rather than to be the children of
parvenus here
q" Tooral-looral!" was the reply-a
customary one in such case.
But little did Ella care whether those
long black laShes daTkened the eyes of
Roman or SaXon---they were Adrian 5
ewes, her lovers, the only eyes that had
ever looked into hers, and the light of
5he world was in them. Ii was not his
beautT. after all, that touched her heart 4;
1t was his rsonality-himsef. If he
md been born in Il ruin on the Cam
pagna, he would have been no more in
ferestng than now as the son of fish
mo merchant on the Jersey shore, an
UNDERGRADUATE of the college where her
uncle Redmond was part of the tacul-
". and. la his own conccit, 4 very I'M
pOrtaut part.
As for Adrian. he had seen the girl
coming into church, had met her at col
Eege festivals, had watched her walking
an the gardens He knew her maine and
often Strolla& under her windows; once,
indeeH. he sent a band there TO breathe
out ,susic in the soft. dead dark of the
night, and uncle Redmond growled
something about throwing the Revised
StatItes at their heads, till the aunt pro-
pitiated him Boy wondering if the sere-
uadina were on account of his great
work on the Civil Code But all this
was nj a distance. He had not dared
approach her: had not dared speak to
her; had not dreamed of following her.
- Ella,'7 he softly said to himself.
seTrUe- She Is one of the Elle-people
she Is rot for me; she is of the fairy
sfolk, Snd am of the earth, earthy.
And yoa would have said that he be-
lieved IL. although it was but the eX-
Dressiaa of his reverence, of his sense
her separation from grOsser things OF life.
But one sunset, in crossing a public
square, with the shadows OF trees dark
senin~ the walks almost TO twilight, he
saw her moving hurriedly along just be-
fore him. themselves the only people tC
be seen in the square. She does not
,aouch the earth, she floats he said
But a. he thought it. drunken creature
started from the shadows and reeledu
-eering- into her face, while she shranB
hack With slight sudden cry. With 9
bound Adrian WAS there his arm fell
and the offender assuredly touched the
earth. whatever Ella did. Then ho
,E,eut with bare head before her half al
instant. stood aside for her to pass on
and followed again, only at respectful
distance
She was coming down the steps from
the Presidents reception when he mex
saw iIer, her uncle waiting FOX her below
-aer aunt seldom going out in the col
-,,o-e sorietV. President Rex AWAY
.--.lrs rather gorgeous receptions, though
81 f,r as flowers and music went; h,
Ge.zsted ihe spiritual part, at any rate
:zssS. fo1 the rest, let weak tea ana lena
- .,z1sde % a. far as they would, Flower
iri.y piaKts lined the passages and starr
xvsvs; and rs in her pearly gauzes sh'
-feScen&ed al alone into the dark, Sh'
looked u ldm, ascending, like the splrl
nj tse flowers and of the music behmC
W. She held spray of white roses IN he
hand. She never knew what made her
She thought of it sfterward. shocked anC
E,o--y5fje,l at herself, at her want of maid
r1sTuess and modesty, and her face red
5ts5ed. and her tears started In the lone
az night-but she held out the spray
Naili1e Poses, and gave it TO him with al
,s,1c-3,,at;nS smile, and went down as h
y,,,.,-s ma And he-he also never knew
,,yeTV1 l5TSzen eoldness, what wild daring
rr,1~~eSss.i hirn when he stepped to he
.s5He r. she walked home from churci
go, ,gsy, sud said, q May l give you ny
-1Ty.s. "a exchange for your rosep AnC
..-T,ii7,slrs1 he had but introduced himself
-. sU.,Ieaow took 10 heart the literal In