New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-12

enough for him. There needed no trner index
to fairer poem and he accepted what ne saw,
and did not caJe TO look farther. Rose biushed
10 the very roots Of hoI hair when she SAW who
was standing there in The lay window alone
hut she looked only pretiier Tor hldshin%; anu
as sAc did rot attempt :" run away, the mayor
liked her al the better Tor her sirish cmpal-
rassmcnt
lie came out from the bay OF the window and
me, her midway. OF late it he'd become r rare
! chance to see her alone and G had made up
his mind 10 profit 10y The iifst that Offered
What pretty flowers lie said. pointing to
| thc fIovrrs in her waisttand. They were only
a few sprays of jessamine, Gut h spoke as II
| they we've Something quite rare.
+ aIn so fond OF jesalmine,' said Roe simnly
So am H. returned tho major. WIN you
If you ike said Is}se, who saw nothing in
| the majors ieques; hes ord the Inelo desire t.
| have II ,wcr IN his lu;tou- hole.
And iasten il in for nc
THIS was coming 10 rather closer quarters:
| and Rose WAS not used TO gentl,mens coats
| Hostatius thea little and bushing good
deal, only cOmpi,in because to refuse woud
| be even more awkward, the girl, hanging down
! her head 4Bd trembling all over, came qnte
| close to the major; lie cruelty standing a rev
inches flu they OIL that he might have the pleas
urr of watching that bashfu!, sbamefaccd ap-
proach. Taking q spray from her waist, sic
tried to fastcn Ii INTO hls coat; But hef n'RIls
were marvell0usy slow and heavy, and she
| bungled over her simple task in an unacc0unt-
allie way. She felt rs if she we've gong to
FAINT, to de. to laugh aloud, or burst INTO tears
she did not indeed know how or what she
! felt; and il did not help her wher the IN 'JoT
suddenly taking that little quvcrng haud IN
! his kissed it tenderly, saying III soft whisper
| as he held il up TO his cheek
May ask your uncle to give me tins, hose
Win you give 1t me yourself
TLs pirI made no answer She only dropped
| her uettY head still lower, While her blusIes
| faded into absolute palcneSS ana hcr siSht
! fgure trcmblcd more.
| DO vou love me- Rose z the major went on 70
saw DO Won love me well enough TO IKE to
stay with ne forever, and marry me, ana DC
my little wife VIII YOU not speak 10 me- NY
| dnlingV .
AMI then tire major took her in his arms, ard
| lifted her fairly of her feet, rs he kissed her
silently. his heart, as hers, too full for words
And when he set Ter down again she nd
friaheq Il, happy, coniusedi N such trouble OF OF
10Y as t. be almost pain ill she found herself
| in faithful James sympathetic arms.
This day Rose keLealy was last Tor dinner
and no one knew what ale her tlat she looked
So shy aud yet so happy or what had come mo
her face 10 render her 50 infinitely beautiful
Only the major ANEW; and only Miss LodcI
So now the thing was Goue and Major
Julius Crcwkhenc, the great match oi the
country, had committed himself 10 MISS Rose
Keuelly "a girl without penny, an orphan OF
no local Standing, Just pretty htte mald wild
Irish ewes, rose-1cd checks, frank smile, ard
y true heart while bis naturally appointed
bride. Miss Belle who had eve1ythlu III heF
favor WAS Shuntcd 10 the side. passed over,
and a. we might sir, next thing to Tilted
And all tor what for beauty no more than
skin deep. and not 30 beautiful after all, even
az that aud artfuinaos that was cunning
enough to look like innocence
80 said Mary BcrHal to the cook at Martins
Tor and cook argued with her, and thought IT
a burning shame, unless it was crying sin
They were both DoyOnShTc women; good, non
est faithful and SupcrstiuOus. ABd ~ cook was
own sister TO the Lodcr butler, and mad been
born and bed on the Lod"l estate, II was o:!ly
natural that they should take Miss Belle
matter to heart. and think 1t shame IN the
major if mindful of The faith !they had sucked
in with their mothers mllk-it was not a SIN III
the Girl thei choice lying between caprice on
his part OI casting spells ana dtfllng WIN lhe
devil on hers. And again, "a Rose IS an
orphan, and Of alien pSreniaSc, the Servants
held her of no great account personally Tor
heing only Mrs Rawdons niece 1t was by DO
means certain that the master would remember
Ter in his WILL 50 that she was not even
future potentialiiy and 'urely nothing ol hotr
in the present! From all which causes II T. easy
10 understand how tire feeling downstairs went
with Tie Young lady OF the county and against
the DOOR liitle orphan. Only Jane Daily Leld ny
her Rnt then Jane had served her ever since
she was ,ix years old; and use Is second n"uIc
az Wien 3. lie [,odcl heard the news not the
kccnc,t observer could have SAD that she
suffered or indeed could have told what she
fcr at all. i vas Mrs. FaWdoh hCr,,n VINO
TOLD her. quite apologot 'cliy, and with many
rcucltrd assurances that she bad been az POT zen
takea by surprise as anyone cou'd D.. rHc nag
never thought of -ucl q thing ,-RCS", oi aI
persons IN the "orid-httie more thah = mere
child vet and only just )Ut OF the nursery
On which Miss LOder who uniii now liad pteh
sitting as if carved in alahast"r counting Ter
fau-sicks, suddenly lifted up or eyes ana
looked Ms. kawdon iuil III the nee. ana her
look was So sudden so fierce 50 direct, her eyes
we're 50 large, the pupils 50 dllated, the iooh so
fixed, tha. poor Mrs. RawdOn turned quite pa.c
as If she were gong to taint. men beIe
dropped her broad white lids again, took once
more to counting her fan-silckS, ana nfa"lcu
out in "a low and level voice:
Yes. lust so but yOu see, at eighteen 1t ls
rather late to consider GIL as a enid ana
Major CIewkhcrne is good match where thcfe
IS 10 fortune.
Which last observation a1rOnted Mrs. Raw
don and destroyed all her sympathy FOL MISS
L0dnr's disappointment.
# riches give social influence knowledge gives
moral mower: and not Mr. Darcy Cfewkhcrne
himee,f when he was aliye--and he had been the
king of these parts, So 10 speak,-had Tue DOlu
ON the people that Dame Hagley had, Mary
| BeInars aunt TO The outer eye she was gilsl
tall. dark proved, powerful. ana still handsome
woman of about sixty, living IN s"Itary n'ud
hovel set in the heat OF Wild ana desoia'c
connie or valley where nothing grew on inc
h1ll-sides save gorse and hiackcn and heather;
| and where even sheep could lind 40 pHsplrage'
But to the eye Of taiih she was greater than the
greatest, holding the power of the yiewless ones
Of the air in her hand, and With this power the
keys of life and death. Yet il SPIRITS ttronged
| TO do her bidding, they were spirits OF less Dal
evidence. if of greater power, than those whfh
| obey the black witch. It was the black witch
who banned and Dame nagley who removed
the ban at the glievous cost and suffering o. ne
former And it was well known thar not ihs
! wirke5cst Old witch OF them all Int tremoiod
| before her: and had cause 70 repent her Owl
| deeds if Dame Iagley took her in hand.
THAT cursed little piece has be@itcheo .he
major, and my aunt shall know he nights ol IT,
sald Mary Bernal to herself, when she Leard