The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-06-17
CHAPTER ii.
CHAPTER II.
IN WHICH SECRET is REVEALED, BUT NOT TO
THE READER.

THE READER
The hands of the ormolu clock, in the
little drawing-room in Hartford street,
occupied by Ellinor Arden and her
companion, protectress and dependent,
Mrs. Morrison, pointed to quarter past
eight, as Horace Margrave's quiet
brougham rolled up to her door.
Horace Margrave's professional posi-
ton was no inconsiderable one. His
practice was large and eminently re-
spectacle; lying principally amongst
railway companies, and involving trans
actions OF very extensive kind. He
was man of excellent family, perfect
gentleman, elegant, clever, and accom-
plished too good for lawyer, as every
body said, but very good lawyer for
all that, as his clients constantly re-
peated. At five-and-thirty he was still
unmarried; why, no one could guess; as
many great heiress, and many
pretty woman, would have been only
to oproud to say "Yes'' to matrimonial
proposition from Horace Margrave, of
Gray's Inn, Fir Grove, Stanlydale, Berk-
shire. But the handsome lawyer evil
IDENTIFY preferred his free bachelor life
for if his heart had been very suscept-
ible to womanly graces, he would most
inevitably have lost it in the society of
his lovely ward, Ellinor Arden, -
Ellinor had been only few weeks
resident in London; she had left the
guardianship of her aunt in Paris, to
launch herself upon the whirlpool of
English society, sheltered only by the
ample wing of an elderly lady, duly
selected and chartered by her aunt and
Mr. Margrave. The world was new to
her, and she came from the narrow
circle of the convent in which she had
been educated, and the quiet coteries of
the Faubourg Saint Germans, in which
her aunt delighted, to take her position
at once in London, as the sole heiress of
Mr.. Arden, of Arden
1t was then to Horace Margrave-to
Horce Margrave, whom she remembered
in her happy youth among the Scottish
mountains, a young man on shooting
expedition, visiting at her father S
aunt, from time to time, in Paris, and
who had exhibited towards her all the
tender friendship and respectful deyo-
ton of an elder brother--to MIN, and
him alone, did she look for counsel and
guidance; and she submitted as entirely
to his influence as if he had indeed been
that guardian and father whom he by
law represented. I
Her cheek flushed as the carriage
wheels stopped below the window. .:-.
"Now, Mrs. Morrison" she said,
with sheer; ''nowl for my incompal-
able tatar. Now for the light hair and
the thick boots"
cit will be very impertinent of him
if he comes in thick boots, replied her
matter Of-fact prOtectress. Mr.. Mar
grave says he is such an excellent young
person"
" Exactly, my dear Mrs. Morrison-a
young person, He is described in one
word, a person -'''
"Oh, my dream my dreamp she
murmured, under her breath. ..t.
Remember, she had but this day
passed wisdom's Rubicon, and she was
new to the hither. bank.rySh was still
very romantic and, perhaps, very fool
ish. AalH" rh" ''i' f''A '"t
i The Aseryant announced g Mr.. Mar
grave and Mr. Dalton. .. D..
II In spite of herself, Ellinor Arden
looked up with some curiosity to see
this young man, for whom she enter
tanned so profound a, contempt and so
unmerited an aversion. He was about
three years her. seniorl of average
height, neither. tall or short. His bair
was. as she had prophesied, light but
it was by no means an ugly color, and
| it clustered in short curls, round a broad,
tow, but massive forehead. His features
were sufficiently regular; his eyes dark
blue. The general expression of his
face was grave, and it was only on rare
occasions that quiet smile played
round his firmly nodded lips. Standing
side by side with Horace -Margrave, he
appeared anything but a handsome
man; but, to the physiognomist, his
face was superior in the very qualities
in which the dark beauty of the lawyer
was deficient; force, determination,
self-reliance, perseverance,; all those
attributes, in short, which go to make a
great man. .ry
"Mr. Dalton has been anxiously
awaiting the hour that should, bring
him to your side, Miss Arden" said
Horace Margrave. 90 He has been for a
long time acquainted with those articles
in your uncle's will which you only
learned today ..l ...7u ,lIrraiI
s,r lTo BE CONTINUED gan.lr
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