The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-10-14

remember the time when L did not kno
you. I'LL tomorrow, then" And |
was gone, and she had crossed the fiel,
and ran into the house, and torn off h,
lendings in hurry, and was living O
her pillow, with all her bright tressr
streaming over it, when the rays of Mr.
Mafloorough's kerosene gilded them.
MRS. Marlborough was thoroughly {,
tigued, and when that was the case tb
conscientious chronicler would have /
state that she was thoroughly cross !
well; but to Marion's surprise she wa
oeaming as placidly and brightly as he
lamp. Ii was not the face that Mario
had expected to see.
well, nay dear" said her motba,
who, after all, and meaning no disrC
Spect to mothers in general, was NOT tb
woman of most discretion in the world
SO fate got the better of you, and yol
had MIR. Desmond to yourself for tb,
day. Or did you arrange it all before
hand, child? You needn't think we mr.,
displeased with YOU"
a disastrous speech for her purposes
Profane, hands laid on the holy of holie
injured it past valuing for Marion. I
she had been made by the happy day tc
reverse and forget her resolutions ofth
night before, this remark lit them ur
like torch in the darkness, and she de
termined, in dead earnest this time
that If she could not goaway and visit hel
Aunt Emily, she would at any rate have
no moro to say to either of the Des.
monds.
But, as she might have known, she
found on the next morning that she
would no more be allowed to 20 to hel
Aunt Emily's than to the moon. and
that it would be nearly as difficult to
pursue her other intention, as the whole
yachting party was to spend the day
with her mother, and one must be civil
in ones own home.
1.-Two days together p said her yes-
terI;ays friend, approaching her gayly
as the party landed, with his hands full
Of water-lilies
u am afraid you will find it such a
bore" she said, and took his water-lilies
as matter of course, and moved off to
speak to Mr.. Crayshaw, and left Mr..
Desmond inquiring if this were the era-
cious creature Of yesterday, or a twin
sister OF different temper. A little
piqued, he thought he should like
TO discover. But IL was in vain:
scrupulously civil, she was distant
and cool ms the white and rosy tor
OF Mount Blanc. "You are q person of
SURPRISES said he, when he at last had
her where she could neither 60 forward
nor retreat, by his side at the dinner
table. Yesterday we were the old
friends OF years; to-day 1 should
think had never met you till the night
before last"
"Well-and did your" sho said.
quietly.
"Have I offended you ?" he asked.
bending forward and looking at her 40
that her own eyes fell,
, Why should you imagine such
thlng9 Have | been rude to youP"
by heaven wish you had. Then
you would be sorry for it. Anything
would be better than such indiffer,
once."
cesslon she ierventiy hoped that no one
else saw it; but she know that her COM
panion did; and she turned to the deaf
MIR; Craddock on her other hand,
and devoted herself to him with
charitable assiduity of which Mrs.
Marlborough never coDiectured when
she placed the personages at her table.
II never dreamed of an ideal of
,aprices," murmured Mr.. Desmond. as
he held open the door for her to pass
and then he thought he saw a
sudden tear spring to the lovely eye,
md reproached himself for brute, and
'trode after her to tell her so; but she
vas not to be found, and he was NOT
'ertain, after all.
But here they were only in the be-
The Desmonds and their CAV
.achtinS companions were to be about
'arvisport the whole month, and in one
1ay or another she would be obliged 10
meet them daily, for her family were
determined to make the most of the
estive season, and so the path she had
hosen to walk was thorny. There
eemed, then, to be but one method of
utting stop to the whole business OF
arter and sale which her mother and
Iunt Anne were carrying on, and that
'as TO seek the most ineligible member
4 the party, and conduct such h iiirta-
ION with him rs would make her elders
'ish they had never been born. And
MS idea the wicked beauty straightway
lrried into action. 1t never occurred
her that Mr.. Cray shaw might take the
Hair seriously, and so complicate mat.
'rs; she rode, read, walked and talked
nth Mr. Crayshaw, and wondered what
er sister Emily ever saw in so fright
lily dull man, when ono day Emily
'rfied him off in triumph before her
GO.
Meanwhile the young pentlemon
no, as Marion half acknowledged to
erself, If his namo had not been Des-
ond and his brother had not been A
lllionaire, might havo been found de.
ghtful, watched her proceedings at
rst with pain, and then with anger,
i'd finally with amusement. 1t did
OF take him long to find out that,
1evoves aeeply Marien WAC enssgod
18th Crayshaw, she yet knew every
lovement Of his own; and that when
10 SAL with her iown-dropped eyes
nd folded hands wbi.e MIR. Crayshaw
lad to her from his learned book. ii
as not MIR. Crayshaw's voice to which
le listened, but his own, in its gay
adinage or eloquent outburst. Mr..
began to see what it all
cant. with that instructive wisdom of
vers; and on the day whom Crayshaw
ANONYMOUSLY left her for Emily, he
ok advantage Of the situation, and :
placed him before Marion could help
,Tself.
1t was on the occasion of o dance on
10 yacht, and no moro charming scene !
'uld have been painted than was made ;
the masts and cordage, the colored
nterns stfinging every rope and spar,
% flowers, the music, the glancing
apes, the swelling sails and the open ,
as, the starlight, and the vast outer !
ght, all lending the time the sensa- ,,
on of n delightful dream, till now,
hen they had come to cast anchor !
nong some weird black rocks where !