The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-25
JACQUEMINOT ROSES.

1t all came about in this way. Of
course it was wicked, and outrageous.
and ungrateful, and all that, but then il
was so sudden that she really did not
know what had happened. And then,
why in the world should the professor
object to Adrian. in whom there was
neither spot nor fiawP The man selfishly
wanted 10 keep the child himself, and
after him the dcluge Yes, it came
about in this way. He had adored her
so long. At first at such an awful dis
tance-" the desire of the moth for the
STAR" her uncle Redmond used to call it
in his evil way; but another person
might have said it was the pure and
ardent passion of a young soul for its
counterpart. And certainly that ex-
quisite being, so fair, so frail, half hu-
man, half seraphic, was only the coun-
terpart of this fiery, turbulent boy, so
strong, and so tender, too, Tor all the
so 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 strange attrac-
tion for his beauty was as extraordinary
as the sweetness of his tones.
"Beauty" growled the uncle Red
mond, when some one said so. "He
looks like the child of an organ grinder.
Doubtless he was filched by some pa
drone from some peasant
"And what of thatp" said the aunt
Redmond, fully in favor of the affair.
"Some people might prefer to be chill
dren of Roman peasants, with all their
Roman history and ancestry behind
them, rather than to be children of par
venus here"
Tooral-looralr' was the reply-a
customary one in such case.
But little did Ella care whether those
long black lashes darkaned the eyes OF
Roman or SaXon-they were Adrian's
eyes, her lovers, the only eyes that had
ever looked into hers, and the light OF
the world was in them. 1t was not
heart; it was his persOnality-himse self.
AS for Adrian, he had seen the girl
coming into church, had met her at col
lege festivals, had watched her walking
in the gardens. He knew her name, and
often strolled under her windows once,
indeed, he sent band there to breathe
out music in the soft dead dark of the
night, and Uncle Redmond growled
something about throwing the Revised
Statutes at their heads, till the aunt pro-
pitiated him by wondering if the sere.
made were on account of his great work
on the Civil Code. But all this was al
a distance. He had not dared approach
her; had not dared speak to her; haC
not dreamed of following her. -. -A
But one sunset, in crossing a public
square, with the shadows of trees dark
ening the walks almost to twilight, Ii,
saw her moving hurriedly along just be
fore him, themselves the only people t.
be seen in the square. Z" She does no
touch the earth, she floats" he said
But as he thought it, II drunken crea
ture started from the shadows and reelet
up, leering into her face, while sh
shrank back with a slight sudden cry
With a bound Adrian was there; hi
arm fell. and the offender assuredl,
touched the earth, whatever Ella did
Then he bent with bare head before he
half an instant, stood aside for her t
pass on, and followed again, only at
respectful distance.
She was coming down the step
from the presidents reception whe
he next saw her. her uncle wait
ing for her below-her aunt seldom 20
ing out in the college society. Presiden
Rex always gave rather gorgeous recep
tions, though, so far as flowers an
music went he ftasted the spiritua
part, mt any rate, and for the rest. lf
weak tea and lemonade go as far as the
would. Flowering plants lined th
passages and stairways; and as in he
early gauzes she descended all alon