The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1882-02-03

LeOnidas in that memorable engage
ment. On going away we shook hands
and he said that it was agenuine pleas
ure for him to talk on any subject will
one whose mind was well-informed ant
impressionable.
thought of this after he had gone
for he seemed in what he said to have
let new light in upon his own char
acter. He has always shown himself
pleased to talk to 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 cOnversep There is a
point in the character of LeOnidas |
think could make more clear to him.
l should like to pursue the subject.
will lend him the History of Greece
again. 1t would be pity that he
should 60 yet. l will not speak to Miss
Grindle-at least not until 1 have ex-
planned to him that point in the char
acter of LeOnidas.
JUNE 26.-It is nine hours since the
ceremony was finished; but my hand
still trembles while l write that Mr..
Lindsay was married this morning, in
the presence Of Mr.. and Mrs. Williams
to-Mary Meryonl
Lola was right; Mary is deep. For
surprise on the top of surprise-this
turns out to be not six weeks love
match, but the completion of in affair
of seven years standing They were
engaged before ever he went to sea;
and he came here never knowing whom
he was to find; and they knew each
other the moment they LII, t, when he
entered the room, that night he first
dined with us! Nay, she knew him
before, when his name was told us by
Mrs. Williams, And yet not a word
to any of us from either of them. Jok-
ing with Lola, tender with Ethel, ear
nest with me about ThermOpyla; and
Nary silent all the while, eager only to
finish her English essay. And not ev.
en- to ask us to the wedding!--but per-
haps that was kind. Mrs Williams,
too, only to be told last night when
wanted, with Mr., Williams, to be pres
ent as witnesses at the ceremony!
Mary, who kept her own counsel, and
when she did speak only jested with
Ethel and Lola, balancing their chances
of success, giving herself the humble
role of looker-on-Mary is at this mo-
ment Mrs. Arthur Lindsay!
believe was the first to offer my
congratulation, and that l offered them
with becoming heartiness. Little Ethel
followed me, and if the task was any,
thing of hard one to her, her manner
did not show it. Mrs. Williams has
succumbed to excitement and neural
gia. Mr.. Williams sits in the lower
regions, chuckling frequently; and, un
der the stimulating influence of tobac-
co, becomes communicative to Jane on
the subject of his own engagement to
Mrs. Williams.
Jane, prophetic after the event, takes
credit to herself for having long ago
assured every one that "this was what
it was a coming to-"
Lola-foolish little Lola-has locked
herself into her bedroom, and is max
ing strange noises with the furniture
upon the floor. have tried to reason
with her from the other side of the
door, but she only answers through
the keyhole, between her sobs, that
"she knew Mary was deep"
l am afraid my sleep will be broken
again tonight, and (as happened,
think, on the evening made my FIRST
entry on this matter) l have toprepare
for my Grecian history class tO-mor-
row; and have mislaid my smelling
salts again.