New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-06
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE SUNDAY SHEET

have known itali youF life. II Il rather hard. how
ever, every tbing turning out against as, you ana
me, my pet part Of the property going away alto
gether 10 distant cousin and the rest all tied up
because one of you 10 to be made an eldest son!
Mamma said Rose, petulantIy. giving quick
glance up at her mother, and Struggling her should
ers with the superiority of youth as who would say,
Why speak of things you don't understand Then
she closed her compasses and put down her pencil.
Are we to have game this afternoon Y she said !;
4 mean, Anne, are you gongto play Charley and
Willie are sure to come, but If you of as usual 1T
wall be no good, for three can't play
The color came in flood over Anne's pale face.
Mamma plays better than do she said. have
headache. don't think shall do anything this
Will Mr.. Douglas have headache too r said
Rose; he generally has whom you have. IL is not
much fun. she added, with little virtuous indig-
mamma
Mrs. Mountford showed no resentment at this
frank speech No. she said, 10 is not much fun for
Charley and Willie. don't think 1t has been much
fun for them since Mr.. Douglas Anne likes his
talk; he is very fine talker; It Is more interest
ing to listen to him than TO play
Sometimes it Isl said Anne gravely, though with
another blush and then the two Others laughed.
Ny dear, you 6ringit on yourself; If we are not
We have eyes in our heal as well az other people
or, at least. have eyes in my head said the
mother. Anne could not but acknowledge that
there was reason in THAT she said, but 1t was not
said in way to soften the wounded and angry
girl.
i do not ask you not to laugh she said.
You look moro like crying said Rose and she
got up and threw her arms suddenly about her
sister, being an implusive little person whose SYM
pathies were not to be calculated upon. What IS
IL, dear tell me- she cried, with her soft lips upon
her sisters cheek.
Anne's heart swelled as if it would
burst out of her breast. There are states
of mind in which everything can be borne but SYM
pathy. The gates so hastily rolled to and pushed
close began to open. The tears came to her eyes.
But then she remembered that tho threat her father
had made was not one to be confded 10 them.
ind haxra hoA.a fstIy nm N EnNr fnf
and he and don't see things in the same light.
We don't aways-one can't help that, said Anne, in
q subdued voice.
Come ND to my room,' said Rose, in her ear
Never mind mamma-Ob, come up tn my room,
Anne darling, and tell me all about it. lneVer was
anyOnes c0nhdant before
But this was not process which Anne, shy with
ieryor of feeling more profound than Rose could
understand, or she herself express, felt at all dis
posed to go through. She put her younger sister
gently aside and brought her plans too to the table.
with little relaxation of her gravity. She laughed
in spite OF herself. IL is safe subject. Show me,
Rosie, what you have done.'
Rose was still fresh TO this pursuit, and easily re-
called to It, 80 she produced her drawings with lit
tie hesitation, and after while forgot the more in
terestinR matter. They sat with their heads TO-
gether over the plans, while Mrs. Mountford pur-
sued her wOrsted work. A moralist might have
found IN the notwithstanding group all that
inscrutableness of human nature which II
is SO easy to remark and so i'm
possible to >fathom. Rose, it was true. had not
much in her little mind except the cottages and the
hope of producing plan which should be approved
as the best, having in her heart childish desire To
surpass Anne. which by no means diminished her
faithful allegiance 10 her as the origin oil all I'M
pulses and setter of every fashion,. But Annes
heart, underneath the fresh crispness OF her muslin
dress, and tho apparent interest with which she
pursued hcr work and discussed her sculerle5, was
beating high with much confused and painful emo,
ton. Indignation and sense OF wrong mingled
with a certain contempt even for the threat when
bad wounded her as an empty menace never 70 f oe
carried out-a false and fictitious weapon meant lor
no end but that OF giving her pam anu, on tho
other hand, tho disappointment OK her hopes ana o
certainty OF severance from the love which had been
q revelation to her of so much in heaven ana earth
Of which she unaware before-hlled her being;
She would not give him up, but she would be parted
from hun. lie would go away, and any intercourse
they might hereafter keep up must be maintained IN
resistance 10 the authority under which she had
lived all her life. Thus what she had supposed 20
be tho crown and glory of existence was summary
turned into bitterness aud wrong. Sne was turning
il over and IN her mind, while she SAT tnere
steadily comparing her measuremonts WIN
long she must 20 on with THIS in order
10 confound her stepmothers suspicious, ana
provo that she was neither discouraged nor rem
dered unhappy by what had happened. Naturally,
IN her experience, Ammo gave great Importance
20 thisfeat Of battling her stepmothers ooseryation
and looking Just usual aud naturally, also, sne
failed altogether In the attempt. MIS- MountIord
was an experienced woman. she knew what u
meant when . girl looked too much IS III nothing
had happened. And she watched vito great yigi,
of qualification that the elder daughter, VINO
was so much moro important than her own child,
should feel that she mortal. II was not any ac-
tive maleyOenco that was in Mrs. Mountfords
mind. She would have been horrted had IL been
suggested to her that she wished Ammo any harm.
She wished her no harm; but only that she inlghs
feel after all that life was not one TRIUMPH ana
scene of unrufled success and bessedness-which IS
the best moral discipline for everybody as 10 well
known.