The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-14
Doctor Stolberg's Patience.

less you intend to marry him."
I" | do not encourage him, aunty. Were
YOU to call DIR. Stolberg himself as wit
ness, he would tell you that he knows
my feelings towards him to be simply
friendship"
"But DR.. Stolberg believes that your
friendship will ripen into something
warmer and DEEPER
al cannot help his beliefs. | cannot
refuse to marry him before he asks me-"
Miss Sabine sighed.
az bag you do not look so melancholy,
aunty," laughed Margaret. al could not
help being born without that valuable ap-
pendsge, heart"
"Truly. aunty," she continued, after a
pause, during which time Miss Sabine sat
soberly knitting, IL do not wish to bring
any pain to DR.. Stolberg, but what
can / do ?"
Miss Sabine made no reply.
off you are so anxious about him,
aunty, why do you not warn him your
self There he is coming in the gate
this moment. Now is your opportunity"
and Margaret ran out of the room.
al will do it," said Miss Sabine, shut
ting her teeth together. 81 shall have no
thanks for my pains, but shall feel that
have cleared my skirts"
"Good morning, Miss Horton" said DR..
Stolberg, taking the seat to which Miss
Sabine motioned him. "Is Miss Mar
garet at home ?"
"She is upstairs; but before | call
her," said aunt Sabine, who never wasted
time in discharging disagreesble duty,
Il want to say few words to you"
"You are not sick, Miss Horton p"
asked the doctor, who fancied his profess
sional services were vs. nted.
"Oh, mol am we'll enough. It's
about yourself want to speak,"
The DOCTORS face took on an expires.
sion of amazement, which deepened as
Miss Sabine went on.
81 can't help seeing, DR.. Stolberg, that
you are falling in love with Margaret. 1t
will not do you any good. l have lived
with Margaret all her life; have seen her
through innumerable love affairs-love at.
Pairs at east, SO far as the other party was
concerned. As for Margaret, / do not be-
4 lieve she is capable of loving any man
well enough to marry him. She says that
she has no heart, and begin to believe
her. She is dear, good girl, warm
SAearted to her friends, but to the man
chat would make her his wife she is
colder than ice. like you, Dr.. Stolberg,
and cannot see you walk unwarned into
certain SORROW"
81 am man." said the doctor, I" al.
most thirty five years old. ought to be
able to take care of my own heart"
"You are angry, DR.. Stolberg, just as I
expected that you would be. Well, have
done the best that could for you"
81 am not angry" said the doctor, but
the fash in his eyes contradicted his
words. 81 appreciate your motive, thank
you"
He said no more, and there was an
! wkw pause.
81 will speak to Margaret" said Miss
Sabine, gathering up her work. "He is
just like the rest" she muttered as she
climbed the stairs. "Mighty independent
beforehand, but ready enough to come to
me for sympathy after it is too late.'
When Margaret entered the parlor DR.
Stolberg was at the piano.
81 have brought new duet" he said,
after responding to her greeting. care
you at liberty to try it ?"
Margaret sssented. They had played
the duet through several times, when the
doctor, suddenly wheeling on his stool SC
as to look straight into Margaret's face
said:
Your aunty warned me this morning
not to fall in love with you. Did you tell
her to p"
Margaret's face crimsoned, but her eyes
met the doctors fearlessly.
=" Yes and no. Aunty was upbraiding
III for trif1lng with your love, aud told
Eer if she was so troubled she might tell
you that could never love you"
"Have ever asked you to love me p
said DIR. Stolberg, coolly.
NO" replied Margaret, quite as coolly
though her cheeks tingled with anger.
"On the last page" said the doctor
wheeling around to the keyboard, "ouI
time was incorrect. Suppose we try that
page again ?"
well, Aunt Sabine, hope you are
satisfied" said Margaret, as her aunt
came into the room after the doctors de
parture.
All the thanks DR.. Stolberg gave me
for the attempt to save his feelings was
cool Havs | ever asked you to love me :?
Men are the most unreasonable creatures
II you reject them, they reproach you fol
having encouraged them. If you try tc
warn them beforehand, they stand OF theil
dignity and insinuate that you are refus
ing before you are asked. They are 8
thankless ungrateful set, any way
You seem to like them pretty we'll,
said aunt Sabine, dryly. Spite of hel
vexation Margaret laughed.
TO tell the truth, aunty, am pro
yoked. expected better things of DR.
Stolberg."
Z" l did not" said aunt Sabine, philo
sophically. "All men are alike when 70,
~ touch their PRIDE"
Margaret Winston had been an heires
as well as beauty. Black Friday hat
swept away her wealth, leaving her onl,
her greater dover, beauty. Gathering
the remnants of her fortune, she had re
moved with her only living relative
aunty Sabine, from her city home TO tn,
little village of Wilton.
at is not 80 far but that can 90 il
when there is good concert, and the cos
OF living will be far less" was the though
by which she stilled her regrets at leavin,
the city.
Margaret had not been long in Wiltor
before she met DR.. Holman Stolberp
While yet in her teens she had spent ,
year in Germany, and DR.. Stolberp