The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-09-08
LADY R0DNEY'S PLAY.

81 wish you Wonldn't Dotothy."
Z. "Wonldn't whitT'
"You know very vol"
: "Inleed ] do not"
p 'Wcll, ii must lie moro explicit, j
wish yCu would noi act with that Pom.
sonby. The way lie stares at you, ard
fixes you with bis eyes, is enough to
make II man forget his manners"
MY dear Oyfii you can't be serious,
l have never heard yon so unreasonable
before"
Unreasonable My dear grill Con.
sideriDG we are TO he married SO socp.
and all that. I really thought Won
wonld not object to little advice from
me-"
"Of course not. III like it, shall
always follow it. You know that"
"Bnt surely, Dorothy, st can't lie n
pleasure to go through rehearsals with
that lanky fellow
We'll. you see, am bound to act
now. This is the sixteenth, and the
| Tho Intricnl coma m -. tho ,,i~atao-4I.
only three days: and how could Lady
Hodney provide & substitute in that
time? And besides. shonld like to-"
"Oh, would Won? That, of course,
settles the question"
"Why, Cy,il," exclaims Miss Bohun,
81 do believe yoT ave isalouei"
81 Wn. it docs not make man par
ticuIariy cheerful to know that the
woman he loves is to be the object of
another mans alteration for even an
hour."
"Bnt, my dear Cyril, it is only a
farce"
"But, my dear Dorothy, I see no
reason why it might not terminate In
tragedy"
Miss Bohun laughs.
even that" she says, "would he
better than nothing. This place las
grown so dull since the Stewards left.
and those men at Cooto Hail."
"Look here. Dorothy, throw it up.n
says Mr.. Disney, leaning over her chair,
aud bending his head nniil his face is
nA7AI,o,r - 'yan iain mrs ma
fever, I'll take it; bet don't see wherc
you'll get il, as there's nothing of the
sort in the parish, and Pm convinced
that nothing less couid cave me from
TINS thing"
"Then you are quite determined not
to give it up?" says Disney, coldly,
drawing himself t. his full height.
81 never was determined IN my life,"
says Miss Bohun, with some just indg-
nation. Il an remarkable for never
saying mo to anybody. You yourself
have frequently told mo 1 had the
sweetest nature in the world, aud it is
quite too late TO alter Lady Rodney's
arrangements now"
"No doubt your are right as you al
ways are. I'm sorry / can't be present
on the nineteenth, but it 10 impossible,
as I shall have business that will detain
me abont that time"
"Very pressing business?"
"Yos, very pressing business"
"Ahl' Gays Miss Bohum.
4
When Dinsey has been absent two
days. his thonohta undergo deoidad
change.
10 have left Dorothy in tho manner
he had seems 10 him now to have been
cot only an unmanly, but most un-
worthy action.
There is only oae way out Of ii. He
will write to her and hambly apologize
for his conduct.
The night passes wear:iy enough,
and the morning brings him no relief.
He is still indescribably miserable, and
sinks into the belief that there is no
balm in Gileal for his uneasy spirit
The next day he grows even more
desperate, and finally decides that to-
morrow, come what may, he will
metaphorically speaking him.
self at her feet, and implore forgiveness.
How slowly the train seems to move,
and how intOleTabla seems the delay at
each station to Disney, as the next
morning he nayels on his way to
| Brompley. One half-holr more, and
he is fulfilling the guards demands for
| the shattered ren aims OF lis mutilated
! ticket. and awakes to the fact that he
has actually arrived at his destination.
Hastily procuring mis- luggage, and.
engaging the first car convenient, he
Immediately proceeds to tho Hall. Ar.
irving there, he dismisses the man, and,
giving his luggage to the inestimnblo
Williams, he enters the house.
How good it seems to him being back
again, and how small by this have
Dorotby's sins grown in his eyes. After
all, how could she help it2 He is sure
she hated having to do it. And how
could she refuse Lady Rodney, after
promising to play her part? And, be-
sides, how many women act in private
theatricals, and why shouldn't Dorothy,
who IL evidently Tilted by nature for
that sort OF Sport? Aud when one comes
to think OF it dispassionately, there are
few things so SO innocent as little
tablsaux, and little drawing room
pieces, and thatl
In fact, when they are married, he
doesn't see why they shouldn't have
private theatricals once month. That
green room at Kingsmore is just the
place for n stage-footlights and drop
scenes, and so on.
He is getting positively enthusiastic
- over the theatricals, which subject has
carried him us far "a the drawing-room
when it suddenly occurs to him that
J Miss Bohun ia not there, as the man
has led him to suppose.
Il No doubt. she is in the conservatory,
, which she SO much affects. He pauses,
He thinks he will give her pleasant
, surprise, and, cautiously moving aside
the curtain that he may not too rudely
break in upon the reyerie that is doubt
less filed with him, he gazes upon the