The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-10-27


the study this afternoon I picked up
piece OF paper that had ftllen from her
bIotttng pad, on which she had been MAX
ing variety Of calculations relative to the
| cost Of furnishing houses, and in one cor
! them beihg one to the effect that, deal
topped tables, with mahogany legs, would
do very we'll for the first year" am told
that she has secreted in her bedroom copy
of the House Register and has set pencil
mark against an advertisement of "a small
unfurnished house, in a suburban
district, suitable for young
married couple" She says she brought
! away the paper from her aunt Sarah, with
! whom she took tea few nights ago. For
myself do not at all approve Of a young
girls visiting relative who was separated
from her husbsnd in three weeks.
June ID 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. 1 have had to get Mrs. Williams to
speak again to Lola; but cannot ask her
to speak to any one else, although q word
| OF counsel and advice is, I fear, needed else
| where. Less work is got through in the
study than was being done a fortnight ago,
! although We are u fortnight nearer to the
examinations. Why is it that, within the
last few days. Mary seems TO have avoided
m XvhSlo cha o,s1 T O1a Inn, k1,n,>
| been on the verge Of an open quarrel? Ethel
does not look at all we'll, unl her usually
| sweet disposition has undergone visible
change. MIR. Lindsay has taken to fire.
quenting the study. and has met Ethel nnd
Lola more than once in t cir afternoon
walk. 1t he really has preference for any
one of them, why does he not avow it? But
he is attentive to each, and, SO fur as one
may judge, to none more than to another.
Yesterday; just as entered, he left the
study, in which found Mary alone. Mrs.
| Williams and have spoken together, and
both agree that it is we'll his leave will e.
pire within two weeks. Still, there has
been, 80 far as I and Mrs. Williams
have seen, nothing that could DO called love
making; but though wo have discovered no
cause, the effects are unmistakable. Mrs.
Williams will not speak to Mr.. Lindsay
without positive reason OF complaint, bnt
ought not I to speak to Miss Grindle?
June 19-To- day Mr.. Lindsay has taken
Ethel and Lola on q visit Of inspection to
his ship Wellington. 1t had been arranged
that We should all 60. but an unexpected
engagement with my class detained mo, and
Mrs. Williams (who. however very unwise-
~, az thought, was unwilling to let the
visit be postponed) was confined to her
room with Il severe attack of neuralgia--a
complaint from which, am sorry to say,
she is constant sufferer. At the Inst
moment Mary excused herself on the
ground that she was late with her English
essay. When Lola heard Of Msrys refusal
she made Uso Of slang expression which
my brother, Charley is in the habit Of en-
ploying when skeptica!ly inclined toward
an ~ that is told him. She calculated
June 18th--Lola. after coming home,
told me that she managed to get separated
from the others on board the ship, and
that while she was lost amoHg "forecastles
and binnacles and things" Ethel and Mr..
Lindsay were alone together for an hour.
June 2lst-I will tell Miss Grindle to-
morrow. Asceoe occurred here this ever
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 friend of her mothers to q
concert at St. JAmes's Hall in the evening
and accordingly, at dinner, Mr.. Lindsay
appeared with 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 a word of warning, got up
quickly from the table. and ran out Of the
room. Ethel took the flowers and went to
the concert-Mr. Lindsay complimentina
her on her appearance as he handed her in
to a hanson. Going to search for Lola,
found her in her room sitting on low
chair, with her feet on the dressing table
sobbing violently. / 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 roasing her told her Of an engagement
she had made with her aunt Sarah for thai
evening, but she entirely refused to 20 out
and was disrespectful enough to speak oil
her aunt Sarah as an "old fool" It was
late before brought her to reasonable
frnme of mind. Yes, I will certainly tell
Miss Grindle Tomorrow.
June 22d-I had no sooner left Lola last
evening and returned to the study, thar
Mr.. Lindsay came to GIVE me back the His
tory of Greece had lent him. He STAYED
for half an hour and We talked the whole
time about the battle of Thermopyln. He
seemed to me more animated, earnest and
interested than had seen him before, and
gave most intelligent opinion on tho con-
duct OF Leonidas in that memorial engage.
ment. On going away We shook hands
and he said that it was genuine pleasure
Tor him to talk on any subject with one
whose mind was SO well informed and i'm
questionable.
thought of this after he had gone, TO,
he seemed in what he said to have let new
light in upon bis own character. He has
always shown himself pleased to talk with
me. and he seemed at bis best last night.
when wo talked uninteruptedly alone.
May it be that, while he enjoys O laugh
with Lola, he finds higher enjoyment in
rational and intellectual converse? There
is o point in the character of Leonidas /
think could make more clear to him.
should like topursue the subject. I will
lend him my history of Greece again. It
would be,a pity that no should 20 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 I write that Mr.. Lindsay
| was married this morning, in the presence
OF Mr.. 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 q six weeks love mash, but the CON-
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 vet
not a 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 os,iu 4o An;af