The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-02-03

be willing to let her learn to love him
before he demanded more. But she
couldn't. try as she would. The idea
grew more and more repugnant;; only
the sight of her mothers happiness in
it made her hope that the love might
come when needed. Yet, although
that happiness of her mothers was
something very touching for her to see.
nevertheless, in all her tremor and
terrors, she could never help laughing
at the sudden respect and Difference
that Osric began to pay her.
4 $50 you are really going to marry
my cousina'' said Mrs. Grey, when he
brought her to call on Evelyn, and left
her at the door.
! 81 suppose SO, said Evelyn.
ssYou suppose SO! Don't you know!'
asked the pretty widow. nesting in
her laces.
81 have promised to marry him, s
said Evelyn, then, looking up in the
sudden hope of some help, some sym
pathy, and rem mbering how unreason-
able that was to hope for from his cous-
in, who loved him herself, people said,
although how she could, as Evelyn
said to herself, with a sort Of shudder,
was mystery.
'sYou have promised, . repeated Mrs.
Grey. And you are the kind to keep
your word, I suppose. Tell me-
have right to know-would you mar
ry him if he were poor man?'' said
Mrs. Grey, imperiously.
Il should marry him now, rich or
poor, since my word has been given, =
replied Evelyn.
''That is not answering my ques-
ton
! II will answer that. when you tell
me what right you have to ask it.
| Mrs. Grey hesitated. every right
every right, she cried then, with
sudden swift emphasis. s.The right of
years Of waiting, Of patience. and Of
| hopeless devotion. I have the right
at least to demand that the woman
who wins where I fail, shall give him
some portion Of the love would have
lavished.''
II am very sorry for you.' said
Evelyn, simply, after a moment or two
of silence had followed this outbreak.
81 wish he did love you'll And then,
room, she dashed by her and ran out,
unable to control the tears she could
not bear to weep before this woman.
Il came to pay my compliments to
your sister, said Mrs. Grey coolly, to
Julia; "but she seems to regard her
: approaching marriage as anything but
a subject for compliments. am sor
ry she is SO unhappy in it. l suppose
there is another attachment
s'Oh, dear me- drawled Julia, who
never had more than half sense, as
their old nurse used to say, ''We DOM
consider her old affair with Pierre
Gilland of any consequence
ssPierre q asked Mrs. Grey, gently
; with an air of interest in Julia's con
! versation. And when the carriage
came round for her she knew all JUL:
: knew.
GA very lovely girl said Mrs
q Grey, as her cousin, who had not gon'
. in with her, took the seat beside he
= again in the carriage. "But I cam
congratulate you, as could not con
- graduate her. She is in love with an
OUucl 1CA1O
= civD engineer on a Peruvian railroad
who had always expected to marry he1
: but who left her innocently on suppos
q ing she was going to accept the rim
of that little wretch who is now he
brother-in-law. Dear me, what a foo
that woman is!-the sister of you
4 pretty Evelyn. How fortunate 20,
:, are not going to marry the family!'
Z "Humph!'' said Mr.. Bryce.
But when he returned that evening
- and found Evelyn still excitedly read
, for tears at word, and obliged to g
! early to bed with sad headache, b
10 went round for little comfort fror
" his cousin Kate; and every time tina
q Evelyn seemed to shrink from hin
~ and show him the GOODNESS that sh
~ could not help,he involuntarily sough
10 with his cousin the sympathy he ha
J. found with her before,
1t At Christmas-time he gave Evely
% some pearls that made Julia's eye
10 fairly run Over" with drops of ecstac,
t. and at New Years some diamond
,r over which Osric hung gloatingl,
II But Evelyn gave them back, and hes
~ ged him to keep them till by-and- by
IF "You mean," he said, ssthat you don
le love me well enough to take thel
d. now e.
N 81 think, she said, s'that cannot /
Of SO loaded with obligations. Let you
I'd cousin Kate keep them for me- An
at then looking up with sudden boil
re ness, she added: ''Why did you n,
at marry her? She would have mao
h you better wife than-than anybod
id else. And she-is very fond Of 70
ct really
10 MARRY my cousin Kate! Why, IL
q, thought never entered my head.
or man doesn't marry the women Of b
ne family he exclaimed. 'sAnd / mes
er to marry you'll
al But the thought had entered b
yn head now. And the next time he can