The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-22
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: She had been growing whittier an
: winter listening to him. She saw tha
I the end had come. But, for his part
he was as much astonished, in his So
preme Recommendation, as if it ha'
! hghtened out of blue sky, when he
! voice rang out: "Stop! I do no
think You will take any pleasure in mar
: rying me. 1 understand that we ar
totally untitled for each other. 1 hop
You will find better-bred woman TO
your wife. Good-by!" And then sh
was gone, and she had called the chill
dren round her; and, whatever it cos
her to do it, she was froGcking will
them as before, let her heart break o.
, not.
Mr.. Vincent Maurice was speeches
with indignation and amazement.' Blu
ne had no idea that his engagement wa!
broken-hOw could it be when he haG
not broken it? He turned and walked
up to the house, but when, after ar
hour, she did not follow him, he went
to the inn, and thence to Mrs. Stanton's
for the evening; and receiving word
that there was no answer, on sending
up card in the morning, he returned
to town.
1t was not till q letter, made up Of
equal parts of reproach, anger and love,
was remailed to him unopened that he
began to think the matter serious, and
to ask himself if he had not made a mis-
take. When Saturday came, although
badly injured, he could not help going
down again; he felt, after all, as If he
must see the lovely face again, again
touch the sweet lips; he hardly knew
how to wait longer for the pressure of
the dear arms. But the house was
closed. The two old servants left in
charge said they had no instructions ex-
cept to " stay on" And nobody could
say whittier Miss Rivers was gone. No
body knew, in fact, that she had any
where to 60 to, it being generally sup
posed she was that fortunate being
born to good estate without relatives,
her cousin Francis Rivers and his wife
being quite overlooked.
But it was to the shelter of her cousin
Francis Rvers's Newport villa that
she had betaken herself, q welcome
guest, during the two months that they
fingered there after the full swing of
fashion was over; and when they re.
turned to their home in Philadelphia,
after q round of rather quiet if elegant
gayeties there, she departed with him
and his wife for a European
journey, and all that Mr.. Vincent Maui
rice heard of her for the next TIVE wears
was q notice in some newspaper that
Mrs. Francis Rivers and Miss Kate Riv-
ers had been presented to the Queen BY
the American Minister, and the beauty
and the exquisite dress of the younger
lady had created sensation at the
Drawing-room.
If at the end of it all the child of nature
had not been transformed into the bril-
liantly artificial woman of the salon, it
was because of the gentle wisdom of her
cousins, who knew just where to stimu-
late and where to repress, until the
graciously developed brain and soul |
were evident perhaps trife sooner
than they would have been otherwise;
for Mr.. Vincent Maurice need not have
troubled himself with any fear that,
when the bud was already so lovely, the |
full blossom would be less than perfect,
If he had but given it time to bloom, in
stead of rudely tearing it open.
He was not a very happy man in those
days; he remembered with increased
bitterness the brief happiness of other
days. He longed now with all his heart
TO see Kate Rivers once again, sure that
all would then soon and easily be made
right.
His longing was answered; he saw
her again. It was in the court of the
Grand Union at Saratoga, one evening
when the electric light was burning, and
he fountain blushed in the hues of all
he precious stones, and the trees waved
heir boughs through vast lights and
shadows, under which the people moved
antastically while the band breathed its
music. A group stepped out from
lmong the others, and went in from the i,
hight air. He followed, and saw them
gain in the ball room; Count Beaure-
,aire-he had seen him before-a tall.
leroic looking man, attached to the
french legation, or in Washington, rath-
r, on special mission; perhaps it was
irs. Rivers on his arm; Just after them '
anne General Francis Rivers, and with
it be possible? -Kate! His
late. A woman whose rounded shape
'ore its lace and silken raiment as a
and wears its glove; whose face, with +
s tinting of rose and ivory, with its nut +
rown hair in Raffaelle locks about the 9
1owy brow, with its great innocent blue .
yes half contradicted by the archness r
the smile running over in dimples,
as the face of his dreams, of his ideal. a
Kate Rivers as he had never dared n
ope to see her. a
He sprang forward; but they had
aused only one moment, and then e
cunt Beaurepaire had bent before her Il
it'll questioning air, and they were
iding down the room together in a b
altz that made Mr.. Vincent Maurice n
lash his teeth. She was taken back n
her cousins presently, and the Count b,
'ew about her the swans down wrap III
at Mr.. Rivers had held, and they went te
it on the piazza, and she passed with W
yard of him, without seeing him. m
thout dreaming of the eager, pallid
ce, without seeing the quick move f,
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