Iron County register., 1881-10-27

House Register, and has set q pencil
mark against an advertisement OF a
''smal unfinished house, in a subur-
ban district, suitable for young mar
ried 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 young girls visiting relative who
was separated from her husband in three
weeks.
June 14th.-I do really begin to fear
that matters in this house are assuming
g somewhat serious complexion. Mr..
Lindsay now makes point of attending
every meal; aud Lola says she should
be i'll il he We're to miss dinner. / have
had to get Mrs. Williams to speak again
to Lola; but can not ask her to speak
to any one one else, although a word of
counsel and advice is, / fear, needed
elsewhere. Less work is got through in
the study than was being done fort
night ago, although we are fortnight
nearer to the examinations. Why is it
that, within the last few days, Mary
seems to have avoided me, while she
and Lola have more than once been on
does not look at all web, and her usually
sweet temper has undergone a visible
change Mr.. Lindsay has taken to fre-
quenting the study, and has met Ethel
and Lola more than once in their after
noon walk. If he really has a prefer
ence for any one of them, why does he
not avow it? But he is attentive to each,
and, so far as one may judge, to none
more than to another. Yesterday, just
as 1 entered, he left the study, in which
l found Mary alone. Mrs. Williams
and [ have spoken together, and both
agree that it is well his leave will expire
within two weeks. Still there has been,
so far as and Mrs. Williams have seen,
nothing that could be called love-mak-
ing; but though we have discovered no
cause, the effects are unmistakable.
Mrs. Williams will not speak to Mr..
Lindsay without positive reason of COM
plant; but ought not to speak to Miss
Grindle?
June 1sth.-To-day Mr.. Lindsay has
taken Ethel and Lola on visit of in
spection to his ship Wellington. 1t had
been arranged that we should all 90, but
an unexpected engagement with my
class detained me; and Mrs. Williams
(who, however, very unwisely, as l
thought, was unwilling to let the visit
be postponeO was confined to her room
with a severe attack of neuralgia-a
complaint from which, 1 am sorry to
say, she is a constant sufferer. At the
last moment Mary excused herself on
the ground that she was late with her
English essay. When Lola heard of
Mary's refusal she made use of slang
expression which my brother Charlie is
in the habit of employing when skep-
tically inclined toward anything that is
told him. She calculated s'Walker!"
June 19M.-Lola, after coming home,
told me that she managed to get sepa-
rated from the others on board the ship,
and that while she was lost among
ssforecastles and binnacles and things"
Ethel and Mr.. Lindsay were alone to-
gether for an hour.
June 21st.-I will tell Miss Grindle to-
morrow. A scene occurred here this
evening which spoke for itself that the
present state of things ought not to con-
tinue. Ethel had said at breakfast that
she was going with friend of her moth
er to concert at St. James's Hall in
the evening; and accordingly, at din
ner, Mr.. Lindsay appeared with hand
full of hot-house flowers, which he beg
ged to be allowed to make into bou-
quet for her. Ethel had hardly said,
with a 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 complimenting her on her
appearance as he handed her into a
hanson. Going to search for Lola, I
found her in her room sitting on a low
chair, with her heels on the dressing
table, sobbing violently. I ought to
have scolded her, and did make the at
tempt; but she cried so passionately that
was first obliged to comfort her, and
dry her tears. By way of rousing her,
l told her of an engagement she had
made with her aunt Sarah for that even
ing; but she entirely refused to go out,
and was disrespectful enough to speak
of her aunt as an 'old fool" 1t was
late before l had brought her to rea-
sOnable frame of mind. Yes, [ will
certainly tell Miss Grindle tomorrow.
June 22d.-I had no sooner left Lola
last evening, and returned to the study,
than Mr.. Lindsay came to give me back
the History of Greece 1 had lent him.
He stayed for half an hour, and we
talked the whole time about the battle
of Thermopyla. He seemed to me
more animated, earnest, and interested
than 1 had seen him before, and gave a
most intelligent opinion on the conduct
of Leonidas in that memorable engage
ment. On going away we shook hands ;
and he said that it was q genuine pleas
ure to him to talk on any subject with
one whose mind was well informed and
i'm pressionable.
1 thought of this after he had gone.
for he seemed in what he said to have
let a new light in upon his own charac-
ter He has always shown himself
pleased to talk with me; and he seemed
at his best last night, when we talked
uninterruptedly alone. May it be that,
while he enjoys laugh with Lola, he
finds higher enjoyment in rational and
intellectual converse? There is point
in the character of Leonidas think I
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