The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-11-05

S Nelly as frequently together as possibl,
e and thus Jim's tete-a-tetes were reduce
t to miserable minimum. Worst of al
as jim remarked TO me one day, Nell
+ had confessed that her stepmother ha
| on more than one occasion limited tha
Mr.. Blagden's visit and stay were no
solely prompted by friendship to he
parents. Mrs. Spalding was, in othe
words, clever woman, playing mic
little game of diplomacy, and Will,
keeping on the most friendly terms will
Jim, was, to my mind, furthering he:
own aims and ideas of matrimonial
alliance fer Nelly with the elderly iron
founder.
T So things went on at Rockhampton
with diplomacy at Mount Grove, and
despair at No. "A High street, where Dr.
James Brooke announced his willing.
ness to relieve the afflicted daily troS
10 to II A. ~, and to s P. n.
had been sitting cogitating over
matters one evening at the Red Lion
jim having been called to distant
! part of his parish-when an idea,
founded, I believe, on a quotation from
an old French author, occurred to me.
The quotation was to the effect, that
"when moral suasion fails from anv
cause to change an opinion, it is lawful
to appeal to the most trivial of our emo
tons" Happy idea! thought I. 7
shall see whether or not can work it
ont to the advantage of DR.. James
Brooke and-shall4I add>it ITO The
confusion of Josiah Blagden, ESQUIRE.
My plans were then rapidly matured.
Morning, noon and night find me busy
in the old church. I am hard at work
on canvas in which the interior of
the edifce grows under my brush day
by day. There are no sounds of the
"Kyrie" now; nor are the jubilant
strains of Mendelssohn heard, as on a
bright sunny day not so far gone by.
Nelly does not come to practice her old
favorites, as of yore. Blagden, know,
hates music; and painters, as he once
expressed it-in shocking bad taste
are usually "a seedy lot" I remember
Mr.. Josiah's white vest and cable chain,
with enough appendages attached there
to to have set up q small ieweler in o
thriving way Of business. The aisle and
gallery of the church are now complete
in my picture. paint it as I sit in the
aisle; IN the distance you can see the
altar and chancel; and the vicar, who
looks in upon me occasionally, saws it !
is as like ss can be. he is curious,
however, to know the nature of the fig
ares I have sketched roughly in. There
IS group passing down the aisle from
he altar rails where the vicar can still
be seer at his post; and there is fig
Ire standing alone and solitary in a
pew, as if facing the advancing party.
The vicar cannot fsthom the design.
The church he can understand; but the
meaning Of the picture puzzles him.
lid him wait patiently for the solution
# the mystery.
When my study OF the church was
I went home to the Red
ion, and there painted in my figures.
there was little need for models. for
ay sketch-book was full OF studies.
turning to my picture, now progressing :
apldly, I fnd that there are heads of
70 elderly men, and there is careful ,
ketch Of q young mans face and a ma {
ronly countenarce, and another face Y
'hich seems not unlike that OF Miss s
'lagden. At last my task IS completed. {
he picture is mere "study" but it j
careful study wi.hal The old t
nurch they recognize at a glance; the {
cures -. Well, we shall see. '
Tae vicar has been busily spreading
report that have been painting pic.
res Of the church and there is a curl.
'ity to see them. 7 now propose that
1e fine day very few OF my Rock :
'mpton friends shall come to see nv