Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-07-08
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"a tishermald of low degresF ne had
quoted. laughingly, when he confessed
all these things to his college chnm
young DR.. Bolton, whose quiet sister
Lettice, he had once admired id sor
of way when both the young men were
in the graduating class.
"a wild rosebud, don't you see? A
genuine daughter of Nature, who ha
never been out of sight of the ocean,
oh said DR.. Bolton.
"Of course she has no exterlo
polish, added Carlisle. "She will have
everything to learn. But she is so re-
freshing as compared with the conven-
tional city young lady that one gets SO
tired Of
Exactly" said DR.. Bolton, seeing
that his friend expected him to say
something.
"Her father owns small fishing
smack-he is real character. And
her mother is one of those nice old Ia
dies that one seldom sees. Domestic
you know-neat-handed Phillis-all
that sort of thing III take you there
Jack, if you'll promise not to find fault
with the primitiveness of the thing"
"Oa, I'll promise" said DR.. Bolton.
Bolton was a man of instincts. And
in this case. his instinct told him that
Will Carlisle was altogether astray.
"He is beauty-struck," he said to
himself. For the time he is bewitch-
ed. It's the old story of Ulysses and
the Sirens over again"
But he went to the seaside cot where
Augusta Cotton had all the old china
pitchers filed with wild flowers, and
sat like modern Flora, dimpled and
smiling, in their midst.
She said very little, but she smiled a
great deal-and Carlisle was more in
fatuated than ever when he came
away, towards II o'clock of dark and
brooding August night, with a sus-
picious closeness in the air, and vivid
sheets of lightning here and there.
isn't she perfect?" he cried, as he
and Bolton walked along the edge of
the shore.
"She is very beautiful yes,
"And graceful-and womanly Y'cried
the lover, greedy for praise. -.
81 concede all of that" slowly spoke
Bolton; "but don't call her exactly a
lady"
"Pshawr' said Carlisle Your
ideas are formed on the hackneyed
model of society. A girl like Augusta
is capable of any degree of polish.
And did you observe what a'sweet low
voice she had-hke a lute?S
"Granted: but it struck me that her
grammar was little shaky now and
then"
"Oh, grammar; that's nothing,
She'll soon pick up the phrases of the
people she is with"
Carlisle" cried his friend quickly,
you are not engaged to herr"
mo; but l shall be within the next
twenty-four hours" boldly asserted
Carlisle.
4 beg of you, do nothing rash, .
entreated Bolton. "Wait a little
until"
Don't preach little impatiently
q tell you. I've been considering the
matter all summer, and / have made
up my mind"
"Then there is no use in my argu
ing the point" said Bolton.
mo use at all, cried Carlisle, q
call myself not contemplate judge O
Character, and I pronounce Augusts
Cotton to be one of the sweetest ant
rarest types of true womanhood"
By this time, however, the long i'm
pending storm had burst. Sheets O.
rain poured down, vivid lightning clef
the sky, casting lurid glow on tn,
boiling waves, unpleasant showers O
spray began to deluge them ever ant
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