Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1881-01-13

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throbbed. Then great contempt for
myself swept over all and shamed the.
Roe looked at me fxedIy.
Have you any message for me y
Eyes, na'am; Mr.. Paul told me to
tell you that he would not tail TO come
Tomorrow night" sl.e
"You do not care for him, child: he is
20 much Older and graser. Happy
married lives are attained only by those
who marry suitably; II you marry man
older than yourself your sprightIiness
will soon become wearisome. and you
win find il difficult to adapt yourself 10
habits you are not aceustomedio 10, IL you
should attempt ii. II he il younger,
woe be 20 you for sooa yoaEa age WILL
tell on you; be will be young man,
you, middIe-sged woman; he, a socIe-
" man, pet Of the circle 10 which he
moves; you, a useful but not ornamen-
tal appendage Of his house, call il home
u you like.
"Your picture is horrible in all lights.
Where is the happy mean TO be found
] notice you have not mentioned Il. /
suppose, so few travel that way. that
/ lis bounds are not definitely defined. II
that is the case. do not believe in
love aud therefore never expect TO be
injected with that disease"
Have a care; those who imagine
themselves invulnersble will al length,
like the wound.prooi Cygnus, find 40
| Achilles 10 smother them"
And in taking The spoil, will find
me resolved into that long.necked, dis.
agreeable bird, called The swan; 10
fact they would regret having disturbed
me-"
Eyes, said Roe, absently.
The oihers had LETT the room and we
were BY ourselves.
"Breta, speaking quickly snd softly.
''you will find il very difficult to get
along in this house. There are sever
al reasons why. but keep perfect self
possession and control yourself. no mat
ter what occur. Martha and Lewis
held an indignation meeting about the
church affair before you came. She
goads him on, BY httle things which
have grain ol truth in The centre,
round which she has wrapped, told on
Told, OF her own composition. You are
not in favor with her, you know; well,
when you stopped showing your letters
TO her, you gave an afront IRON which
she has never recovered"
"But. cousin. | long Tor FREEDOM
The more am confined, the more
desire liberty.
i goh ihak rorld rcsj asdecIaFaiior
OF independence here al once. YOU
should have seen her fell over pile oil
my books when was reading one
night; il was too comicsll Was read.
ing contcnledly on the floor, with the
lamp and myself 10 the mid,t OF book
tort. had 90 idea wha, purpose the
would serve when she came foraging
around TO sre what was about.
thought moonlight sufficient for ms
purposes. and Laid quietly in wait as she
broke 10. Her lalrn,s Tor research are
-woaderful---so soon found
she was hunting her game near il, GOV
er. ] waited bres,hlessly til she ieI
lever the barricade. breaking my lamT
Kinney, cousin, and covering hersei
Fi.h oil. She was angry, fearfully an
~. though she had done il herself. I,
las 80 funny TO see her boil. "
"Breta, Breta. what shall do with
ou' DO you not see that il makei
pore trouble for meF
III il makes more trouble for you,
IA try not TO act so; otherwise. don
pre-. II makes no difference in thel
pnion. no matter what do. hav'
Utmost reached point OF indifference ii
90 what they think"
| Il wish | could teel so. but words
cut and sting me rs much as II had
not bern wounded before. We ar,
watched continually FOR fear we vii
devise some eon,raband idea. thinl
you had better go to your room nov. =
shall not 90 10 church tonight"
We parted hall caielessly, YET feel
Ingly, and Lewis Rodan rose up iron
beneath The windows with contsmp
luous sneer on bis hard. cynical face
TO BE CONTINUED,