The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-06
MONA SCULLY
OR,
The Irish Bride of an Englishman.
A STORY OF THESE TIMES.
TCOntinued.1

The hound stalks on before them; the
peacocks wake up and rend the air with
a dlScordant scream. Lady Lilias. com
ing to the sun-dial, leans her arm upon
IT, and puts her head in the right posi-
tlon. A snail slowly travelling across a
broad lVy-leaf attracts her attention;
she lifts 1t slowly leaf and all, and di-
reefs attention to the silyery trail it has
left behind it,
How tender! how touching!0 she
says, with pensive smile, raising her
luminous eyes TO Godfrey; whether it
is the snail or the leaf, or the slime,
that is tender and touching, nobody
knows; and nobody dareS ask. lest he
shall betray his ignorance. Molly. re-
greet TO say, gives way TO emotion of a
frivolous kind, and to cover it blows
his nose sonorously. Whereupon Geof-
frey, who is supernaturally grave. asks
Lady Llllas if she will walk with him as
far as the grotto
How could you laugh?' says Mona,
reproachfully.
How couldn't II" replies he. Come,
let us follow it up to the bitter end
~ never saw anything SO clean as the
walks says Mona, presently: there
is not leaf 70 a weed to be seen, vet
we have gone through so many of them
How does she manage it?'
Don't you know?n says Mr.. Darling.
lmysteriousIy, 1T is secret, but /
know you can be trusted. Every morn
ing early she has them carefully swept
with tea leaves to keep down the dust,
ana II The tea is strong il kills the
weeds
Then they do the grotto, and then La
dy Llllas once more leads the way in
doors.
Il want you to see my own work"
she says, going up markedly to Mona.
IL am glad my garden has pleased you.
could see by your eyes how well YOU
appreciated it, To see the beautiful in
everything, that is the only true re-
hglon. She smiles her careful absent
smile again as she says this, and gazes
earnestly at Mona. Perhaps being true
70 her religion, she is noting "the beau
fui IN her Irish guest.
Mlln Fhillppa they have some tea.
ana then again follow their indefatiga-
Die hostess to a distant apartment that
seems more or less to jut out from the
mouse; and was in olden days tiny
chapel or oratory.
~ " an octagon chamber of the most
uncomfortable description. utnodoubt
artlSlic, and above all praise. according
10 some lights. To outsiders it presents
acuflous appearance, and might Inv the
ulilearned be regarded as a tumble OF
az ages, makeup of Objectionable
pits from different centuries: but 10
Lady l.lllas and her sympathizers it is
simply perfection.
Inc furniture is composed of oak OF
the hardest and most severe, To sit
down would be labor of anything but
love. The chairs are strictly Cothic
Inc table is a marvel within itself Tor
ugnness and inutility.
mere are no windows: but in their
place are four unpleasant Sits about
TWO yards in length, let into the thick
walls &c studiously unequal distances
these are filled up with an OPAQUE suh,
stance that perhaps in the Middle Aces
was called glass. 'e''
There IS no CRATE, and the fire. which
has plainly made up its mind moi Ia
light, IN composed of Yue-lors. The
floor Is shining with sand, rushes hay-
ing palled on Lady Lilas.
Mona is quite pleased. All is new.
which In itself is pleasure to her, and
the sanded floor carries her back on