The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-05
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ROMANCE OF A DON.
1t can do no harm 10 assert In tho pref
encc ofa skcptical racc OF undergraduate
that the Rev. Stanley Detel was ono
Young. lle was young; II may almost h
said that he was in love. Were ! no
afraid Of encouraging the young cynics
who since tho day Of Thackeray ar
thickertfan the frank snobs before him
would add roundly that lo was almos
In love with n married woman.
From the time when Stanley, not onl,
young but oven m extremely small boy
had got OH 10 tho foundation Of I'LL ancien
public school and into Il hat and gowI
Two sizes too large for him, no Ind neve,
doubted TINT it was his duty to relieve thu
pAlerllul pulse by galniny whit money Ii
could. lie had not liud much time fol
doubts, for ho had screwed up his short
sighted eyes over Greek letters and sLui
his long thin ilosc into dictionaries, unit
after acquiring many shelves Of handsome
books with Latin Inscriptions to his honor
he had begun TO gain money also. Finally
when college fellowship had made hin
wholly independent OF parental aid, tht
habit o%(th0ught remained, aud he woult
have felt wicked II he had refused IL chance
Of earning money. Thus it happened thai
long ago, when even Stanley Betel was
young, he betouk himself to Kirby in the
Long Vacation to coach voting Ornte for
his %matriculntion. o5g
Do what he would the young fellow
could not make his pupil 10 much work.
ioung.Orme had Il hearty love OF outdoor
life and Il cheerful belief in his good luck.
lie WAS fond Of assuring his anxious in
structor that he should scrape through
somehow and the instructor Was so little
older and Of Il bodily presence (if MIR. Betcl
may be said to have had Il bodily pres.
ence) SO much lesa imposing. thut he had
but small authority. And so it fell out
!iiat the young uoL, who had worked 50
hard, yielded bashfully and with many
thrills OF conscience 10 the charm and
leisure of the place. He told himself
anxiously that he must not accustom him
self to luxury; but in the dlowsy air Of
Long Vacation, in the great shadows OF
trees on the wide lawn. in the sloping
woods and open glades OF Kirby, there
WIS u luxury 10 Which even the most deli.
cete conscience could scarcely take ex.
ception, !
There were people staying in the house,
= Summer party, relations and intimate
friends, playing tennisin the coollawn, ex-
changing family jokes from garden chairs,
dlncing after dinner, very much at home.
They were rather light people, In whom
their host and their hosts sou found
much delight. These were part OF the
opuleut show, ut which Stanley Betei
blinked with a new pleasure; hut their
radiance was as nothing in his narrow
eyes, when he turned rtverently to the
lady OF II" house, the lady Of the world,
his pupils mother, Mrs. Orine.
new sort Of woman. lie had l,ad SO little
lime to look ut women. Feminine beauty
and grace were linked in his mind onl,
with the pale Hellenic phantoms Of his
well.wo:n classical dictionary. It may
almost be said that he had never seen a
woman except his mother; and the good
Mrs. Betel was one whose strange gar
monts suitable lnr any weather hung in u
narrow hall, where also was a prevalent
smell oil mutton, II WHO dashed all
crooked into her bonnet ut the TASTY sum.
mons Of some village sufferer. Now Mrs.
Orlne appeared before Mrs. Betel's son,
tall, lar e, and stately, but very gracious,
betrAying the goddess as she moved on
the smooth.shaven green, and dress.
ed with snmptu0us simplicity.
Stanley thought roverently Of
Mrs. Orme's gowns; il he had seen one
hanging on a peg, he would not have ven
tured 10 sit down in its presence. In that
new leisure which Ills impatient pupil
forced upon him, he spent much time in
wondering ut this gracious digniGed lady.
Trembling lie arrived at the daring con.
ciusion TINT she was lonely with Il wild
throh, half painful and half cxQuisitely
pleasant, he found himself plying her.
lie WIS sure TINT she was LONELY. lie
coi|d sec for MI his scrcwed.up eyes that
she WINS Of different clay from her guests
1t is true that the young girls told each
other that she WAS perfect, that she was n
dear; and they came TO her a dozen times
Il day for unnecessary advice. 1t is true
ttlat nlen OF all ages treated her with Il de.
ference unusual in d disrcspectful age,
Still Mr.. Betel knew, and it was with
ecstacy that he whispered to himself thut
he alone knew that this gracious, splendid
Woman was lonely. And when this Pencil.
ope, translated into English for the young
scholar, began 10 showa n interest in his
thoughts and his studies, and even 10 ask
his advice about books, he straight way
fell down ut her silent feet and w~orshiped..
lie would have given his poor little
angular body to the stake for her.
Mrs. Ornle on her side wNs interested BY
her boys tutor. She said to herself
plaeidly that it was n pity that she had
lived so little with clever people; she
seemed to have known nobody worth
talking to. Mrs. Orme was not forty, but
she was SO near that age that she had be-
gun to think herself ali old woman she
had also begun to th~inlealso now and then
that she had not lived. Beautifully
brought up, and married, rs a girl should
DO in her second season, She had been de-
lighted with her handsome and gallant
husband, who had a capital scat on horse
back and enough money. to pay all the nc
cessities OF town and country life. She
had n French cook, u French dressmaker
and 4 French poodle; some people said
that she had the neatest ponies in Lon
don. AS for Kirby, it was the ideal
country place, neither too near to nor too
far from town, and the incest people al
ways wished TO be invited there. Nobody
doubted that Mrs: Ormc was u very lucky
woman. Some Of lcr female friends muir.
INJURED to each other thatit was n pity that
she had nc girl; but then, when 4 place
like Kirby was in question, how fortunate
she was in the possession Of three boys,
all' stout and ruddy rs their father. II
was when the youngest OF these
three sturdy lads went to school
that Mrs. Ormc felt for. the
frat time that her life was nonoto.