New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-20


etrates through every hour and every occqgaslon.
The whole schme Of living seems ehanged. aisngugn
there may be no change IN any habit H " nuee a.
the very sameness and unity Of the hfe the way 70
feet follow the accustomed round, the eyes survey
| the came things the very Same words come 20 tne
lips that make the difference so paps6ie s. ws
mo her sTisfenos Wss absolutely as before 1t was
not an exciting life. but It had been happy onet;
nstainjng ;tsef Even in the warm and soft stag
nation of her home, her life had been IKE Q runnng
o.s5 ootnsTs foin9 now m one direction, now in
another making unexpected leapS snu @ .h; ~
her own She had the ioye OL new har
and employments which keeps life treshi ana mere
had scarcely been week in which she had NOT haa
some new idea other, quickly COPIED ana S1
nv eSs Monnf lively even when there was moth.
in1 going on And for months together notnlus ulu
a. @Q11 ysS visitors 1Ss rs The and
winter swept clean of all its inhabtants In spring
The Mountfords stayed at homo al tne year r9unu,
unless It were at the fall ofthe eat when sometimes
fhey would 20 to Brighton, sometimes at the very
desdest season to town. They had nobody 70 VISIT
them except occasional Old trlena OF some oteI
comfy family who understood the kind OF life and
lived the same at home. On these occasions II the
friend was little superior they would ask LORD ana
| LADY MeadoWands to dinner but If not they would
confsnt themselyes with the olergymen Of the two
| neiRbboring parishes, and the WoodheadB, whose
| house was not much more than Q villa Lately,
since the girls grew up the game in the afternoon
which brought young visitors 10 the house in sum
mar had added to the mild Rmussments Of this life;
but the young people who came were always the
same and 30 the old people in the village, who
them against Christmas. and their savings taken
Of When young man tF. vent or
| In the parish. Did you hear that Sally Lawson
| came homo to her mother on Saturday, sent away
| from her place at o moments noticeP or Old Cub
bins boy had enlisted Did you ever hear anything
30 sad-the the rector took SO much pains Win,
and helped on so in bis educatonr 1t was very sac
| aodsend to the parish. And whom Lady Aead dow
lands mother old Lady Prayray Poule, went and
county not to speak of those parishes which had the
best right to the news good. This was the way "
which life past at Mount. And hitherto Anne nsa
supplemented and made 1t lively With HUNDRED %
| pursuits of her own. Even up to the beginning OF
August, when Mr., Douglas, who had left various
SSnn spi e bmse so mucS on The
previous occasion, as he sald-Anne had GonSlhued
in full career of those vigorous fancies Thlen keS
gaby eli the spring and early summer growing al
most fanatcal about the tenderness OF the SHADOWS
| and the glory Of the lights. Then hading the COZ
faSeS which were so picturesque, and figured In so
many sketches, to be too wretched Tor haoltation,
though they were inhabited, she had rqsnea Into
ments, which t was difficult to force Dir; Mount
fOrds attention to, but which were evidently step
in the right direction But on Douglass second ar
rival these occupations had been unconsciously In,
termitted they had been pushed aside by hundred
little engagements when thS ~ tSeF fispa
There had been several ,PicncI, and e party at the
Rectory-the first since Mrs. AShleys death-and
marty at the Woodlands the only otter people IN the
| parish capable of entertaining. Then there had been
| an expedition to the Castle, which the Meadow
lands on being informed that CSSIiSy O APbssS
Aud And thsTS was the game at Mount all the other
| afternoons WhO could wonder, as Mira. Mounttord
said that something had come Of it, The young
men had been allowed to come continually about the
house. No questions had been asked no conditions
to thy entertainers daughter had not been written
up as 1t ought to have been, on the lodge. And now
All this was over Like . scene ct tho theatre OPEN
ing up gliding off With nothing but little jar Of
the carpentry this momontous episode was concluded
and the magician gone And Anne Monntlord 70;
turned to tho existence which was exactly as 1t had
| been Of old.
The other people did not see any difference
| In IL; and TO her the wonderful thing was
been 10 paradise. caught up and had seen unspeak-
able things but now that she had dropped down
again thSGE n .Gr her ss S tS"y cams again in con-
| tact with It, there was no difference Her plans
were there Just the same, and the question SSH 70
from the house; and old Saymore fe-emeTgSd to view
| making no his bouquets for tho vases, and holding
| how they composed; and Mrs. Worth. who oil thus
time had been making dresses ana trying diHsregs
shades 70 find out what would pest sst on Ms. Hoses
ures on the barrel-organ doing the same tt;ng az
the time-neyer varying or CHANGING. Anne looked
them
rating Just in she old way making the same little
hobs and curtsies They had no want OF interest or
occupation, always moving quite contentedy 70 tne
sat 30 many hours in his business room, walked one
DAY rode the next for needful exercise sat Just so
long In the draWing-room in the evening: His wife
was occupied an hour every morning with the COOK.
| took her woodwork at eleven ana her drive at
haf-past two, except when the horses were wanted.
Anne came back to 1t all, with Q little Riddiness
from her expedition 70 the empyrean, and looked At
the routine with wondering amusement. She had
| never known before how like clockWork 1t was,
| Now her own machinery, always a little eccentric,
declined to acknowledge that keys some sort OF new
motive power had got into her, which disturbed the
| action of the other. She began again with great
| many Jerks and jars, great many tines; and then
would stop and look Of all the Others 10 their uncon-
sciOus dance, moving round aud round and laugh to
what the scientific people meant by the automatic
theory. she wondered, being 2 young woman who
| no exceptions how was it that she herself had got
| out of gearf
Rose, who followed her sister in everything,
/ wished very much to follow her in this too. Sbo
had always managed to find ont about every new
impulse before and catch the way Off though tho
impulse itsef was unknown to her, She gave Anne
| no rest till she had GScertained Rboat this too.
'Tel US what 1t Is like she said, with hundred
repettions How did you first find out that he cared
anything he said that made you think that As It
Is probably something that ono time another will
to me S think It rs STG11 IF you Ss
youI aud what did he Eayf Did he ask you oil at
once If you would marry himf or did 1t all come on
by degreesP
not thing you can put into words. think 1t all
| came on by degrees
| But this, though 1t was her own formula did not
| satisfy Rose : am sure you could tell me great
deal more If you only wonld,' she cried, what did
| he sayf Now that you can't helpremembering; you
must know what he said. Did he tell you he was IN
love with you ask you straight off to marry hint
You can't have forgotten thatt Is not 80 very long
ago.
Bat, Rosie, could not tell you. It is not the
words, it is net anything that could be repeated.
woman should hear that for the first time,' said
Aune, with shy feryor, turning away her head to
hide the blush, when Ii Is said TO herself
"A vomanl Then you call Yourself q woman
nowf am only O girl Is that ono Of tho things
that show asked Rose. grayey, IN pursuit Of Der
know what kind of thfag 1t Is. Are you 80 very
fond of him Is people say In books are you always