The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-12-04
REUBEN'S BEGGAR.
Exchange.

You were more kind than wise.
! Charity ought to begin at home Eve
Walworth sad, with a very decided
and uDamiable pout.
hate maxims, Reuben Wright re-
torted, half in annoyance. half indig-
nantIy. And | really could not re-
pulse the old fellow Eve he seemed
so sick and miserable; his distress
seemed so genuine.
And because an ordinary beggar
happened to seem all that, you gave
him your last dollar and walked five
miles through the dreadful storm, the
girl said. contemptuously. do not
wonder Will Chadock was amused.
Will would do nothing so absurd, |
| am certain.
j The young mans dark eyes flashed
and his cheeks flushed sullen red
| | am equally certain that Willis
would never do arything of the kino.
he returned in nettled tones. | adj
NIT that he is quite incapable of any
\ indiscretion on the score OF generosity.
q L hate sarcasm, the girl said, loftily.
and with roguish intent. 1t is even
more Objectionable than quoting pro-
n verbs. Butt dare say that VIII
4 would not mind conscious of super
iority, lie can afford TO ignore or des-
4 pise any spitetul animadversion.
Reuben turned toU.rd her with a
look of unaffected surprise.
You seem fairly confident about the
mans projections he commented in a
displeased and questioning voice
Of course | should never presume
that you could be jealous of an infe-
rior, she answered harshly and rudely.
And | should never have presumed
that you could be so ungraciOus and
silly, he declared Grossly.
Am | ungraciOHs because | choose
90 return satire for satire she queried
)efensively.
Am | silly because | approve the
good sense of gentleman who-who
she hesitated with brilliant blush
that was rather enlightening to her
aroused lover.
With extreme irony and some ex-
aggeration he finished the incomplete
sentence for her.
Who desires, perhaps to succeed In
your affections, my most unlucky self,
he said.
The irony. the accusation implied,
stung the spirited and perverse girl to
swift, unreasoning resentment.
iii luck is but synonym of incom-
2etence, or what is none the less de-
acknowledgements of thrift injudic
Sus liberality, indiscrIminate charity,
he said ha: silly and slyly, too.
You begrudee my poor beggsr his
aims, obviously, Reuben remarked,
aughing, despite his vexation.
He loved her with mans best love
: this slender girl with her bright
lace, her dazzling eyes of bonny blue,
her shining hair of richest gold and
he was to be his wife, sometime,
When he would have a home fitting
or one so fair and proud and dainty.
He loved her unutterably-this
andsome, ungratetul girl, for whose
axe he had battled manfully against
n Incredible series of monetary dis
sters. He rad indeed been unlucky
is prospect of goodly legacy bai
cen spoiled by some singu' ar legal
ecbnicality prod gal and unscru-
ulous partner had bankIupted toll
Fably prosperous business. and an in
plvent bank had completed the ruin
us category.
The home that was to be so dear
I'D delightful seemed sadlv far away
nd latterly the manner of his betroth-
3 wife had been neither comforting
Tor encouraging. Her moods per-
|lexed and depressed him her little
.arp speeches, her saucy little ,affecta
bns that once be deemed so witty
I'D charming he now fancitd were al,
tgether too meaning, and he could
,ly feel aggrieved and affronted.
ld more CALLING than all was the no.
N that Willis Chadock ad in some
y made 1.-The little rift within the
lie" that was silencing all the music.
lbittering all the sweetness Of his
easant love dreams.
Will Chadock was an undeniably
sciuating man, not so young, GER
Tnly, but he had an aristOcratic
untenance, high-bred mien and
eat expressive black eyes, and he
Is q master of cunning fattery. He
rs considered, too, as parsonage of
eaith and some distinction and alto
Their he was precisely the sort of gay,
ausible, pretentious individual whom
impulsive an susceptible girl might
pit into prince of perfection.
Rut if Eve was faultilY i,nnnlsiue