The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-01-21
IN TIE ORGAN-LoFr.

The light Of September sunset lay
full on the elm tree boughs, and
cbeckered the pavement below with
soft rosy glooms. when cab from
the station stopped in front Of the
quaint brick building which did duty
as 'semiqary" to the Bracey theolog.
zeal students, and young girl got
cut OF it, EVen-song was in progress
From the ornate little Golhlc chapel
which stood at right angles with the
long wing where the students housed
sounded Gregorian chant, rendered
by a chorus OF fresh manly voices A
little strip of closely -shaven lawn
divided the chapel from the street
It's smooth green was broken now by
long bars Of piuk light, aud here aud
there q reddeued leaf on the ivy above
glowed like q carbuncle in the sunset
fire.
1t was a pretty and peaceful scene
not at all mbllDg Der precOnceived
ideas Of what America was going Il
be, thought Aimee TrenchAr ard, as, af
ter disml-sing her cabman, she paus
ed moment on the doorstep before
ringing the bell A birds SHADE v
hluted across the Illuminated grass
he chant sof ened aud died a sleepy
twitter was audible ia the tree tops
From the far distance came tie soil
Ginning of bell. The sweet bel
uute aud the dewy silence won her
attention so long that black-gowned
figures began To pour out ut the chap
el before she remem bered what she
mad To do. Then she rang, and en-
Tered, but not SO soon as To be unob
served, and young Cbasuble poked
nfs chuni 10 the ff0s aud whispered
Hey What's that! A visitor
TO tie doctor IL must be that girl
from Nova Scotia, the deans daugh
ter, you know. I'll tell you what,
she's pretty"
Faith rather than vision prompted
this statement, but Frank Cbasuble
was justified in making it, nevertbe.
less Aimee was pretty, very pretty
With the slender swaying figure
which, with her name, she had inher.
tied from her Canadian mother, she
combined that beauty SO especially
The dover of English girls, a com
plexion of upequalled tairness-true
roses and Greenland lips as fresh
and red as dewy Glove piuk. Her
hair bad golden tibts IN it, and waved
ma urally back from a " bite forehead
beneath whose penciled brows looked
out q pair Of clear eyes, as blue aud
fearless as cbild's, in whore regard
Innocence and ignorance were charm
ingly combined For Aimee bad
been brought up in solitude by shy
bookworm of u father, aud q gentle
rectangular old aunt, and this wa.
absolutely her first peep into the wild
er world which lay beyond her guard
ed school room bound DR.. Bracey
an old college friend of Canon Tren.
cbard's, bad taken Nova Scotia, To,
year before, as the obj ctive point o
his summer vacation, aud had thel
aud there fallen in love, in fatherly
way, with bis friends daughter.
/ "Poor dear little thing" be calico
her in bis Thoughts. for she seemed t,
him cooped up aud lonely, quite un
like the girls be was in the habit 0
seeing at home, aud be piled be-
father with entrearies and arguments
till at length be won reluctant con
sent for a visit TO "the States" duriu,
the ensuing year.
This visit, for one reason or snoth
er, had been postponed till now, s,
here was Aimee just arrived, will
three months of delightful nOvelt,
and adventure before ber, AID bring
ing a heart ss uDhackneyed as bs
by's to meet them, whatever the
might prove to hold
As may well be imagined, her ad
vent crea ed tumuit among To
"Bracey Boys" Absorbed as ihes,
young gentlemen we're supposed t
be in devotional observances au,
theological lore, intervals more .
less existed during which it was bot
possible aud natural to notice tb'
, propipquity of a pretty girl, an
when both prettiness and propinquit
were So onususl, these intervals b.
: came more rather than less,
Aimee had hardly been there
week, had attended mathis and ever
song not more than dozen times III
der the wing of demure Mrs Bracey
before half the seminary were be
2 avo9ed slaves, and the other hs
] showed symptoms oi yielding Ou
: and all, in greater or less degree
; were charmed with the beauty Of ID
. = young English girl, and EXPRESSED
q 10 their d dfferent ways, by action {
by silence, which is sometimes as ell
quent thing as action.
Aimee eD)nyed nef nono's modes
ly and meekly. A little conscious
!. : ness crepi gradually into the fran
2 eyes, a shade OF innocent c,quetr,
perhaps. into the maDDer-lhst Wa
= !, all; aud no 3arm either, pronounce
: DR. Braeey, as be watcl ned this graz
q ual unfolding Of the womanly instinc
= He loved the girl and it pleased hi
TO see her having "a good time" q
ter the fashion OF her a. {. and sex.
at will do her ell suits of good
meoltsted this worldly wise old the
Iogen, With ebuckie, and be rubbt
y his hands approvlDgly.
!. Simple Or Bracey The momeu
= ary amusement of his protege was a
. te had 10 bis mind l. did not Gee,
e To him that happiness. must hapl
ness, has to be paid for 10 one shsI
lor another, and that the settling ds