Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-01-30

to make me so miserable, and wish
/ was dead-I do
At this interesting juncture arrived
Mr.. Gerard Fay. Mrs. Parker not
feeling desirous to meet, vanished
through side door, and Nellie, un-
able to control herself or dissimulate,
without intending to do so, allowed
Gerard to guess the meaning of her
distress, and he, feeling unusually
magnanimous after an extra bottle of
champagne and moved by the sight
of beauty in tears, forthwith offered
himself and was accepted.
"There, I told you So" said Mrs.
L'Aymar, furiously, to Kate.
keep COOL was the rejoinder,
"and let us go and call on the bride
elect. Frank Rashleigh will be down
next week, and then we shall see
what we shall see.'
And Mrs. L'Aymar, having no
small confidence in her cool-headed
friend, waited patiently until Mr..
Rashleigh, Gerard's intimate friend,
should arrive.
When that important parsonage
made his appearance, it is to be pre-
sumed that the ladies enlisted him at
once, as shortly after his arrival, he
took occasion to remark to Gerard:
''That's rather a pretty girl, :"
pointing to Nellie. ''Pity she is such
dowdy figure and dresses in such a
Sandwich Island STYLE
Gerard said nothing-being abso-
lutely dumb with astonishment. Mel
lie dowdy and badly dressed? Was
that the Judgment of Frank Rash
leigh, who was a well known con-
noisseur in female beauty-on his
pearl-his lily of maidens, as he had
fondly termed her? Was he, indeed,
so blind?
Rashleigh saw the shot had taken
effect, and wisely forbade any fur
ther comment at that time. He then
turned his attention to Miss Irwin,
whom he pronounced "a perfectly ell
egant woman and faultlessly beauti-
full"
"May-be so," dryly answered Ger
ard, "but I prefer the half opened
rosebud to the tulip"
Spite of which, ere long he virtu-
ally transferred himself and his at
tentions to Miss Irwin, who conceal
ed her delight under an affection Of
cold dignity.
Sometimes Nellie's paling cheeks
after an unusually protracted absence
smote him with keen sense of self
reproach.
''But she ought to have understood
me from the first" he argued. "Rea
son should have shown her our en-
tire incompatibility."
Singularly enough, reason had en-
tirely failed to perform her duty il
the first stage of Nellie's love, bu
she had stepped in now and suggest
ed that a man who had behaved ik'
Gerard Fay must be alike devoid o
principal, character or common goot
feeling, and should not therefore b.
t considered very serious loss by an,
sensible girl.
: Whereupon Nellie took heart ant
grew prettier and more blooming thai
I ever.
One day as she was walking lei
surely along the little path that woun'
through the beautiful woods froI
whence the village derived its name
( she suddenly found herself face t
< face with Gerard Fay.
Her first impulse was to turn back
Her second to bow stiffiy. Her thir
v to speak in the most cordial manne
Imaginable, which she accordingl
h did.
0 Gerard's salutation was by n
means so unembarrassed, but instea
of passing on, as he might have don
y he continued to walk by her side, dis
:. coursing on the weather, the scenery
y the last new novel; and CROWN
more and more desperate at Nellie
e unmistakable indifference-tillla at las
I he frankly told Nellie the story of hi
shortcomings with regard to her, tax
: ing care to color it slightly and praC
i ticing little arithmetic upon it i
q the way of additions and subtraction
Il winding up by asking Nellie to tax
him this time for better or worse.
+ Whereupon Nellie, who listened t
Il the whole with a perfectly immovabl
countenance, quietly asked
S 'Have you finished, Mr.. Fay?"
"Yes,' replied the gentleman
8 somewhat doubtfully.
every well, sir. I have only
/ say that l cannot marry a man | d
5 not love-could not marry a man
did not respect, and could not re
+ spect the man who had not the priI
ciple to refrain from entering il
. to rash engagements, the honor
: keep them, the sense to patch thel
|. up when broken. Good morning
y Mr.. Fay
And so ended Gerard's campaig
for 1881.
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