The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-05-31
\ MAGNOLIA, MISSISSIPPI, THURSDAY. MAY 81 1883.

paragraph; her household gods are
inventoried, her profits estimated. her
weaknesses chronicled, and her features
photographed
But personally she is not SO much q
public character. She has reserves. =,
And after that the subject dropped.
But Lucille and DIR. Harrisse had a
thousand other things to discuss. He
delighted in woman who dared ~
disagree with him They found that
they had Just missed each other at In
terlaehen; that he had only been pre-
vented by a chance from joining the
party with which she had made the as
cent Of Mont Blanc; they had mutual
friends abroad; but still the great enig-
ma, where he had known her in Ameri-
ca, remained unsolved. But he troubled
himself very little about it Just now; he
was drifting with the tide; he was pass
ing through new phase of existence.
He had believed himself invincible, and
behold! he had been conquered by
''touch Of hand, turn of head" 1t was
absurd, perhaps, for man of his years
to be so easily enchanted; he rather
longed for the end of the voyage in or
der to discover if it was only the CLAM
our Off pretty face and sweet man
ner that infatuated him. He assured
himself that it would not last. but he
seriously hoped it would Such moon
light nights were never known be-
fore as those which he spent with Lu-
cile; such starlight never shone upon
palace gardens or mountain streams.
Was it the same old world, or had he
been translated She sang to him in
all the strange foreign tongues she
knew; sometimes his tenor voice ioined
hers till 1t seemed as if they were merely
two spirits soaring. He began to con-
fess now that he had never been so han
py in all his life; he began to wish the
voyage would last forever. He had
forgotten to ask where he had met her,
who she was, how descended, how
placed. tpj
1t seemed to DIR. Harrisse, about this
time, that DR. Johns was always Joining
them; that he had y weakness himself
for Miss Lindsay; and Harrisse smiled,
thinking how futile it was.
You remember Captain Hamerton2n
asked DR.. Johns on one of these occa-
sions, when the talk had somehow
drifted upon love and marriage.
ooh, certainly" said Harrisse, wish
ing Captain Hamerton and DR.. Johns
were in the Red Sea, figuratively speak
ing. II remember him-an ancient
mariner, always endowing something
or somebody, ehP"
swell, you know, he fell in love with
a circus-riderl Fact. And he sixty, if
a day; a real love affair!i
81 think must go below" said Lu-
cile; 'the sun is withering." Naturally
enough, Lucille was tired of the sur
geon's "reminiscences; naturally she had
no interest in the vulgar loves Of circus
riders and old beaux.
"You will miss the sunset,n he said,
aside, OBTAINING her cdr. Johns will
be gone presently. Let us see the even
ing star come out, together, on this last
night at sea- gB E
"And ! suppose he married her and
lived happily forever AFTER said Har-
irisse, having carried his point, and
turning to DR. Johns.
"No; she wouldn't marry him; but
when he died he left her fortune, and
she left the profession,
's'And the Hamertons were MayAower
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DrJohns left presently, and the sunset
famed in the west, and darknessdropped
down over the wide lonely sea, and one
star softly trembled into view; and far
off sail, like white wing, shone
against the dark horizon, wan and
ghostly.