Morris tribune., 1881-10-27

the Study this afternoon picked UP q
piece of paper TINT had fallen from her
blotting pad, on which she had been MAX
ing q variety OF calculations relative to the
cost OF furnishing houses, and in one COR
ner were some pencil memoranda, among
them being one to the elect that, deal
topped tables, with mahogany legs, would
do very well for the first year." ! am told
that she has secreted in her bedroom q copy
Of the House Register and has set q pencil
mark against an advertisement of "a small
unfurnished house, in suburban
district. suitable for a young
married couple" She says she brought
away the paper from her aunt Sarah, with
whom she took tea few nights @so. For
myself do NOT at ali approve of u young
girls visiting . relative who was separated
ftesn her husband in three weeks.
June IA do really begin to fear that
matters in this house are assuming some
what serious complexion. Mr.. Lindsay now
makes point of attending every meal; and
Lola says she should be i'll if he were to miss
dinner. I have had to get Mrs. Williams to
speak again to Lola; but l cannot ask her
to speak to any one else, although word
OF counsel and advice Is, fear, needed else
where. Less work is got through in the
study than was being done fortnight ago,
although we are q fortnight nearer to the
examinations. Why is it that, within the
last few days, Mary seems TO hats avoided
| me, while she md Lola have more than once
been OF. the verge of an open quarrel? Ethel
| does not look at all well, aud her usually
sweet disposition has undergone a visible
change. MIR. Lindsay, has takeh to fire.
quenting the study, and has met Ethel and
Lola more than once in Z cir afternoon
walk. If he really has preference for any
one Of them, why does he not aSow it? But
he is attentive to each, and, SO far as one
may judge, to none more than to another.
Yesterday; just as entered, he left the
study, i'll which l found Mary alone. Mrs.
Williams and 1 have spoken together, and
both agree that it is we'll his Leave Will ex-
pire within two weeks. Still, there has
been, SO far ~ and Mrs. Williams
| have aeea, nothing that could be called love
making; but though we have discovered no
cause, the effects are unmistakable. Mrs.
Williams will not speak to Mr.. Lindsay
without positive reason OF Complaint, but
ought not I to speak to Miss Grindle?
| June ITO day Mr. Lindsay has taken
Ethel ana Lola on visit of Inspection to
his ship Wellington. 1t had been arranged
that we should all go. but an unexpected
engagement with my class detained me, and
Mrs. Williams (who. however very unwise-
ly. as thought, was unwilling to let the
visit be postponed) was confined to her
room with severe attack Of neuralgia a
complaint from which, am sorry to say,
she is constant sufferer. At the last
moment Mary excused herself on the
ground that she was late with her English
| Toln &c
she made use of slang expression which
my brother, Charley is in the habit Of en-
ploying when specifically inclined toward
anything that is told him. She calculated
| "Walker!"
June 1Sth--Loia, after coming home
told me that she managed to get separated
from the others on board the ship, and
that while she was lost amoag "forecastles
and binnaoles and things" Ethel and Mr..
Lindsay were alone together for an hour.
June 2lst--I will tell Miss Grindle to-
morrow. Asce1e occurred here this even
ing which spoke for itself that the present
state of things ought not to continue
Ethel had said at breakfast that she was
going with o friend of her mothers to O
concert at St. JAmess Hall in the evening;
and accordingly, at dinner. Mr.. Lindsay
appeared with o handful of dollhouse flow
ers, which he begged to be allowed to make
into bouquet for her. Ethel had hardly
said. with smile and blush, that she
would be very pleased to accept them, when
Lola, without word of warming, got up
quickly from the table, and ran out Of the
room. Ethel took the flowers and went to
the concert-Mr. Lindsay complmenting
her on her appearance as he handed her in
to hanson. Going to search for Lola, I
found her in her room sitting on low
chair, with her feet on the dressing table,
sobbing violently. I ought to have scolded
her, and did make the attempt but she
cried SO passionately that was first obliged
to comfort her and dry her tears. By way
of rousing her told her Of an engagement
she had made with her aunt Sarah for that
evening, but she entirely refused to go out,
and was disrespectful enough to speak of
her aunt Sarah as an "old fool" It was
late before brought her to reasonable
frame of mind. Yes,I will certainly tell
Miss Grindle morrow.
June 22d-I had no sooner left Lola last
evening and returned to the study, than
Mr.. Lindsay came to give me back the His
tory of Greece 1 had lent him. He stayed
for half an hour and we talked the whole
time about the battle of Thermopyle. He
seemed to me more animated, earnest and
|
gave most intelligent opinion on the con-
duct of Leonidas in that memorial engage
ment. On gong away we shook hands,
and he said that it was genuine pleasure
for him to talk on any subject with one
whose mind was so well informed and i'm
questionable.
I thought of this after he had gone, for
he seemed in what he said to have let new
light in upon his own character. He has
always shown himself pleased to talk with
me, and he seemed at his best last night,
when we talked uninteruptedly alone
May it be that, while he enjoys laugh
with Lola, he finds higher enjoyment in
rational and Intellectual conversep There
is point in the character of Leonidas I
think could make more clear to him. 1
should like topursue the subject. I will
lend him my history of Greece again. 1t
would be pity that he should go yet I
will not speak to Miss Grindle-at least not
until have explained to him that point in
the character of Leonidas.
June 26th-It is nine hours since the
ceremony was finished; but my hand still
trembles while write that MIR. Lindsay
was married this morning, in the presence
OF MIR. and Mrs. Williams, to-Mary Mer-
yon!
Lola was right; Mary is deep. For-sur-
prise on top of surprise-this turns out to
be not six weeks love mash, but the COM
pletion of an affair Of seven years standing.
They were engaged before ever he went to
sea; and he came here never knowing whom
he was to find; and they knew each other
the moment they met when he entered the
room, that night he first dined with us!
Nay! she knew him before, when his name
was told to US by Mrs. Williams. And yet
not word to any of us from either of them.
Joking with Lola, tender with Ethel, earnest
with me about Thermopyle; and Mary
silent all the while, eager only to finish
her English essay. And not even to ask us
to the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that was kind.
Mrs. Williams. too, only to be told last
night when wanted as witness OF the cere-
mony! Mary, who kept her own counsel,
and when she did speak only TESTED with
Ethel and Lola, balancing their chances of
success, giving herself the humber role Of
| locker Mary is at this moment Mrs.
Arthur Lindsay.
believe was the first to offer my con:
gratulations, and that offered them with