Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-06-18

tenant of this place. Madam Raymond
smiled.
"I bet you," she said to me, in her
very best English, "one of these ladies
is in her fascinating first youth"
The good lady little knows what ,
hopeless love affair mine is. / must see
Stella sometimes-I ask and hope for
no more. Never have 1 felt how lonely
my life is as feel it now.
London, 1st March. Stella and her
mother have set forth ON their journey
to st. Germain this morning without
allowing me, as had hoped and plan,
ned, to be their escort
Mrs. Eyrecourt set up the old objec.
ton of the claims of propriety. If tha.
were the only obstacle in my way
should have set it aside by following
them to France Where is the impro-
priety of my seeing Stella as her friend
and brother, especially when don't
live in the same house with her, and
when she has her mother ON one side
and Madam Raymond on the other to
take care of her?
No! the influence that keeps me
away from ST. Germain is the influence
of Stella herself.
81 will w,lte to you often," she said
= but beg you for my sake not to ac-
company us to France" Her look and
tone reduced me to obedience. Stupid
as / am think (after what passed be.
tween me and her mother) can guess
what she meant.
"Am never to see you again ?" l
asked.
edo you think 1 am hard and un.
grateful ?" she answered. "Do you
doubt that I shall be glad, more than
glad to see you when-% She turned
away from me and said no more.
1t was time to take leave. We were
under her mothers superintendent
We shook hands and that was all.
Matilda Mrs Eyrecourt's maid) fol-
lowed me downstairs to open the door.
suppose l looked, as felt, wretchedly
enough. The good creature tried to
cheer me. "Don't be anxious about
them," she said az am used to travel
! ing, sir, and I'll take care of them"
She was woman to be thoroughly de.
| pended ON, faithful and attached ser.
want. I made her little present at
parting, and l asked her if she would
write to me from time to time.
Some people might consider this to
be rather an undignifed proceeding on
my part can only say it came natur-
ally to me. am not dignifed man;
and when a person means kindly toward
me don't ask myself whether that per-
son is higher or lower, richer or poorer
than | am. We are, to my mind, on
the same level, when the same sympa.
thy unites us. Matilda was sufficiently
acquainted with all that had passed to
certain reservations in Stella's letters
to me. "You shall have the whole
truth from me, sir, don't doubt it," she
whispered. believed her. When my
heart is sore give me woman for my
friend. Whether she is lady or lady's
maid she is equally precious to me.
Cores, I'd Much.-I am in treaty
with an agent for the hire of yacht.
1 must do something ana go some-
where. Returning to Beaupark is out
of the question, People with tranquil
minds can find pleasure in the society
of their country neighbors. I am
miserable creature, with mind in
state of incessant disturbance. Excel
lent fathers of families talking politics
to me; exemplary mothers OF families
Offering me matrimonial opportunities
with their daughters-t is what So
ciety means if / go back to Devonshire.
No, I will go for cruise in the Medi-
terranean, and 1 will take one friend
with me whose company never weary
of-my dog.
The vessel is discovered-a fine
schooner of three hundred tons, just re-
turned from cruise to Madeira. The
sailing-master and crew only ask for
few days on shore. In that time the
surveyor will have examined the vessel,
and the stores will be on board.
Sd MWch.-I have written to Stella,
with list of addresses at which letters
will reach me, and l have sent another
list to my faithful ally the maid. When
We leave Gibraltar our course will be to
Naples; thonce to Civita, Vecchia, Leg
horn, Genoa, Marseilles. From any OF
those places am within easy travelling
distance of st. Germain.
M hdrch. At Sea.-It is half.past
six in the evening. We have Just
passed the Eddystone Lighthouse with
the wind abeam. The log registers ten
knots an hour.
Naples, 10Th May.-The fair promise
at the beginning of my voyage has not
been fulfilled. Owing to contrary winds,
storms and delay at Cadiz in repairing
damages, we have only arrived at
Naples this evening. Under trying.