Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-07-28
LADY R0DNEY's PLAY.
81 wish you wouldn't Dorothy"
"Wouldn't WHAT"
"You know very well.''

81 wish you wouldn't Dorothy"
"Wouldn't what2"
"You know very WELL"
s'Indeed l do not"
swell, If must be more explicit. wish
you would not act with that-that Pom
sonby. The way he stares at you and fixes
you with his eyes, is enough 60 make a
man forget his Manners
My dear Cyril, you can t be serious.
have never heard you so unreasonable be-
FORE"
Unreasonable !" My dear girl Con
sidering we are to be married SO soon, and
all that, really thought you would not OBJ
ject to little advice from me-"
| FOf course not. If likeit, l shall always
follow it. You know that"
s'But surely Dorothy it can be 20 pleas
| ure to go through rehearsals with that Ian
ky fellow ?''
We'll, you see. am bound to act now
| This is he sixtaeDth-the theatricals come
off on the nineteenth, and only three days:
and how could Lady Rodney provide sub
stitute in that time ?" And besides, 1
would like to-
"Oh, would you? That of course settles
lie question"
why, Cyril" exclaims Miss Bohun, II
10 believe that you are jealous!"
Il am. It does not make man partic-
cularly cheerful to know that the woman
he loves is to be the objectof another man's
alteration for even an hour.''
"BuJ, my dear Cyril, it is only a
farce"
''But, my dear Dorothy, I see no rea-
son why it might not terminate in a
tragedy
Miss Bohun laughs.
''Even that" she says, "would be better
than nothing. This place has grown SO dull
since the Stewards left, and those men at
Coote Hail.
''Look here, Dorothy, throw it up" says
Mr.. Disney, leaning over her chair. and
bending his head until his face is very near
to hers, ''for my sake.''
| "Well. if you can bring me some fever, III
take it; but don't see where you'll get it,
as there's nothing of the sort in the parish,
and Pm convinced that nothing less could
save me from this thing"
Then you are quite determined not to
give it up ?" says Disney. coldly, drawing
himself to his full height.
81 never was determined in my life,''
says Miss Bohun, with some just 1ndigna-
ton. II am remarkable for never saying
mo- to anybody. You yourself have fire.
quently told me had the sweetest nature
in the world, and it is quite too late to
alter Lady Rodney's arrangements now"
! "No doubt you are right, as you always
are. Pm sorry I can't be present on the
nineteenth, but it is impossible, as I shall
have business that will detain me about
that time.'
"Very pressing business ?"
Eyes, very pressing business
"Ah!" says Miss Bohun.
When Disney has been absent two days,
his thoughts undergo decided change.
To have left Dorothy in the manner he
had, seems to him now, to have been not
only an unmanly, but most unworthy
action.
| There is only one way out of it, He will
write to her, and humbly apologize for his
conduct.
The night passes YEARLY enough, and
the morning brings him no relief. He is
still indescribably miserable, and sinks into
the belief that there is no balm in Gilead for
his uneasy spirit.
The next day he grows even more des-
perate, and finally decides that tomorrow,
| come what may, he -metaphorically
| speaking-throw himself at her feet, and
! implore forgiveness.
How slowly the train seems to move,
and how intolerable seems the delay at
each station to Dinsey, as the next morn
| ing he travels on hts way to Brompley.
| One half hour more, and he is fulfilling
the guards demands for the shattered re-
mains of his mutilated ticket, and awakes
to the fact that he has actually arrived at
| his destination.
Hastily procuring his baggage, and en-
gaging the first car convenient be immedi-
| ateIy proceeds to the hall. Arriving there,
| he dismisses the man, and, giving his lug
gage to the inestimable Williams, he en-
| tiers the house.
How good it seems to him being back
again, and how small by this have Doro-
thy's sins grown in his eyes! After all,
how could she help it? He is sure she ha-
ted having to do it. And how could she
refuse Lady Rodney, after promising to
play her part? Aud, besides, how many
women act in private theatricals, and why
shouldn't Dorothy, who is evidently fitted
by nature for that sort of sport? And
wien one comes to think of it disposition
| ately, there are few things $3.50 innocent
as little tableaux, and little drawing-room
pieces, and all that!
In fact, when they are married, he
doesn't see why they shouldn't have pri-