St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-24

the look of growing feeling in his with
so cool, so represSive glance shat he
dropped the tone of sentiment he had
adopted, and, with half-smile of un-
derstanding of his own mistake and
her reprOOf, concluded land if you
were not sure of being that fortunate
person, you'd not hint at so dreadful
possibility. There's IA pretty piece of
sea-weed, by the way. Are You at all
interested in marine specimens ?"
Not i'll the least. In fact, | partic
ularly dislike them"
''The wind is tempered to the shOrn
lamb. AT least, we agree upon one
point
81 like the seas and all that in them
is while it is in them, but as soon as
anything is taken out and becomes
specimen, it is so sticky and soft and
draggly! The least little pinch tells
so on it. | tried to pick out sea-weeds
with a pin at one time, but | have
found since that life is too short for
such pleasures"
The afternoon was wearing on; the
tide had turned, and 1. little stronger
breeze arisen.
"Oh DEAR" she said, "the sky is
clOuding over, the air is changing. l
begin to feel that possibly sometime
in the future-I might feel active
enough to shiver."
"Don't tell me so ; please don't tell
me so," said Evans, lazily digging holes
in the warm, dry sand. 81 shall be
like the man in Pilgrims Progress-I
shall never look up at the sky if there
is a chance of any change. Don't tell
me about it,
''You are an ardent lover, an eager
follower of change" said the soft voice,
quietly. Jack stopped digging, and
looked up at the speaker. "Yes," she
continued, "yOu are. You like to day
because you are tired of yesterdays
hurry you will like to-morrow's trav-
el because you will be tired of to-day's
peacefulness. You like to talk to me
because for the last two or three days
you have seen nothing but country
beauties next week you will wonder
that you ever cared for anything but
rosy checks and gingham aprons"
''Is it not enough that | have tamely
submitted to the charge of n mercurial
disposition ? Must you also accuse me
not only of Inconsistency, but of more
than doubtful taste2 | am by no
aprons"
"No, but you will be, or else she will
teach you how to make rag carpets, or
shell Lima beans"
"By Jovew thought Evans, ''I'd like
to have her teach me what she pleases,
and she'd find would he IN no hurry
for change of employment either
Do they always give you lessons in
sOmething?" he asked, abruptly.
"What are you teaching me now?"'
"I?"-I am teaching you to forget
the last one"
"NO," said he, in low voice, with his
eyes on hers, ''you are teaching me to
remember"
"Ah, no." and she shook her head, as
she glanced out over the sea, which
was rousing itself from its slnmber.
''i'hat is dangerous work sometimes.
| would not try my prentice hand at
that"
There was a moments pause and an
advancing wave gathered, rose, curled,
and broke.
''I would like to teach YOU" he said,
earnestly, but without looking at her,
''but it would be useless to try. 1t
would need master hand"
"You could teach me easily to re-
member some things" she said, slowly.
He glanced up ut her quickly. eyes,
| am afraid so," he said, with II smile.
| | shall he very careful"
"Will tomorrow he like o-day,
wondcr?"
"Of course it will not" he answered,
inpatient ut fate, not her. When was
tomorrow ever like to-dayY
''In the garden OF Eden"
eyes, and will people never learn
from that old story that any change is
always for the worse"
"Even from stormy to sunny weather,
| suppose, o apostle of peaceful mo-
notOny and unchanging calm. You are
making universal what is only Occa-
Sional"
"Perhaps. Certainly | would make
an eternity of what is, alas but one
day. am certainly very far gone in
deed he said to himself; ''if | have
begun to talk about eternities, but
heaven knows meant it,"
"'Time is measured by comparison.
Parenthetically let me remark that
think | must have read that some
where. How many days seem eter-
mites :"
"All those days which are spent on
the shore in hazy atmosphere, with
the waves and the wind half asleep"
"And those you would make ever
lasting! And we would get the neu-
ralgia in the backs of our necks, and
the crimp would come out of my hair,
and we would both have colds in our
heads-an eternity of cold in the head
Can't you propose something pleas
anter ~
give good mind to propose in
earnest thought Evans "but it bor-
ders on the ridiculous to ask woman to
marry you before you knew her name
you would have to call her something,
and 'Ma'am' seems stilted, while Say
only serves on occasions"
~ can propose that you let me put
that shawl over your shoulders" he
said aloud. "Since we can't have the
, one, we will at least not run the risk OF
r the other"
f ''If the time has come to put on
, wraps, the time has come to co." she
said, wistfully. "Tbe charm of the day
c is broken. i almost feel as if it might
2 rain, and if this quiet is once disturbed
- who knows if it will stop short of thun-
0 der? Those clouds look little like it,
4 Do you see that sail boat is almost
. here | am glad it will be safe from
r the storm"
"You have been much interested in
watching that sail-bOat," said he, pet,
e ulantly. He was jealous of its inter
= ference.
e eyes, am hard hit" he said to him.
self as he became conscious of this
81 wish the boat would go to the bot
% tom if she's going to look at it that
e way. There's more life in her eyes now