The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-06-10
denly and felt my checks begin i

sss = yS G1 CHI Bne SAID, tendefly, when
you have seen q few more 81. the ups and
downs of life, you will think more of 3 Z
good mans love than YOU viii 81 these
outside manners. Mr.. Brodhead told ne
be had been IN his strait to some sc on
mutual friends, but he supposed they had
not spoken with you. And we must III
Judge him bY the standard we would an
ply to some people. he Is shrinking to
timorousness, especially to ladies. And
he says he is conscious that he always an
pears his worse before You. Poor ma1ll
I've seen him pit at church with his eyes
fixed On the ribbon of your hat, as ii
futtered q little IN the wind, and looked
60 hungry and hopeless, my heart just
ached for him. " S4 4 y; Il
This time my face flushed with anger
as we'll as shame. a}as
81 fell Inundated, Aunt Kent, !" said j.
81 hope nobody else has seen him make
such 9 silly spectacle Of himself. y
Belle, my dear, you are wrong" inter
posed Aunt Kent, gently. I've must
take people as they are, not az we would
have made them. The man is cast in q
delicate sensitive mould, and this isnear-
| u or quiet . matter Of life or death with
him. I doubt if you are loved again by
90 worthy . man, and am sure you will
not be any more sincerely. hope you
will not be SO misguided as to throw
away such treasure, only for romntic
notion Ss5T
Icould not laugh at Aunt Kent's ten
der earnestness, but I shook my head
and felt immovable from the bump Of
6rmness down to my ooot s0les. And
thus ended the third lesson. n j
Weeks after this, one day in the dawn
ing of the year, !" when the bees hummed
and the ilacs bloomed, I went out to dig
blood-r0ot where the road ran through 8
bit Of woodland q little north of the vii
lage. Because if we didn't need It,
somebody might, and Aunt Susana con-
lsidered q few roots and herbs $50 handY
to have in the house = Presently felt
an unconscious, magnetic drawing to
look up, and there stood Mr.. Brodhead.
To this day / can t tell howl he came there
It was as though he had been shot up
like q field lily, right out of the ground,
and he stood with his eyes dropped shy-
II as girls and his handsome lips
trembling. I pitied him almost as Aunt
Kent had done. Il
ut will kill me if don't speak; and
| it will kill me If do; and you don't
listen said he, throwing out his words
in jerks, like water running from
straightforward bottle, and looking sud-
denly at me with such pathetic feeling
in his great Brown eyes that I began to
feel abashed. For what was that
he should be 50 stirred BY me2
You couldn't care any for me, I sup
pose7" said Mr.. Brodhead, humbly.
Perhaps I might, / don't know I
replied, almost involuntarily. n
sDear me!' q love story sounds so diff
ferent when man tells it himself. d
"And SO, presently, it was I who trem-
bled and cast down my eyes and blushed;
and it was Mr.. Brodhead who looked as
though he was master of the whole world,
and the stars besides.
Aunt Susannah, waiting behind the
woodbine window, thought I was gather
ing herbs to stock pharmacy, for the
sun had dropped behind the cedars on
the top Of Mount Margaret, when went
home with Mr.. Brodhead by my side,
my hands empty, but my heart full. g
sS Yes, we are engaged, and are tcl be-
married IN two weeks from Wednesday.
And the moral of my story is this:
slf you want your business done, go;
/ if.nOt. send. J" q