The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-02-27
MADE Or MARRIED.
ny JESSIE FOTHEalILL,
Author Of zone of Three" "prollt on" "The
Wcufeds," Etc,
CHAPTER xIr.-CoYrrsuEo.

CHAPTER XlI.-CONTfSUED.
Thus the weeks flew on, and Grace,
despite the vivid hopes and fears of her
private life, continued n diligent student
at the college courses. Occasionally she
and Mabelle Fairfax would take their
way together, TO or from school and
college; when the hours of their classes
happened to coincide Grace could not
resist Mabelle, despite her active dis
like to the girls sister, and all her ways
and works; and Mabelle appeared to
derive a pleasure, intense, though al
most timid, from the society of GRACE.
'She is a wonderful child" Grace
said to Thekla one day. Il am GER
tain she is really clever. She seems to
have read almost everything; she says,
when her father was alive she had moth
ing to do but read to herself and him.
Ifancy she was kept in the background,
and so had time to improve her mind,
and sense enough to do il. But sic is
awfully old for her age; she is only .ust
sixteen you know"
Indeed, Mabelle was in many re-
spects very old for her age, while in
others she was really younr. \ shad-
ow had undoubtedly broodel over a..
most the whole of her young &c, i'0t.
course with none but persons 81 er
than herself had forced some of Ger
powers TO an early maturity, while n
strong, sweet and unseliish nature had
quietly received and accepted the burden
of poverty and reversed circumstances,
whic' to Angela had appeared so great
or. nifty, such an unheard-ot woe,
thai most any means OF r,care from
il presented itself to her mnl MS logiti-
mate. From the first IL I'D been Ma
belle who had acted an lone. who had
devised ways and mean who hglfaced
iho world IL had been .r'r Who Had
snatghed at the gifts s.H. wOds,
while grumbling thct t,oy were not
better
Since Philips departure, Mahalle's
spirits appeared TO have revived some.
what IL would have been impossible
tosay what the child had in her he"
'what vague rejoicing that Phi
out of harms way or what u s,y hopes
that in n years absence, amidst new
and exciting scenes, he might, perhaps
unlearn something of the passion that
had possessed him when he departed
When the time for lessons beear
again, Angela, like other people, wa
forced TO work, and Mabelie's sad little
face even began TO wear a smile now
and then. Like all healthy natures
she turned gi IT, to work as 2 toniC
and a ht.s %. 'e,F .,,appa aud 1,l.a ,,,a,,t
inexper -.d natures she imaginet
that what TO her was so good ant
strengthening must necessarily worl
wonders in every one else. Mabelle saw
the relationship between Philip and heI
sister with her own eyes, not with An
gela's, and TO those eyes 1t seemed {
good and n beautiful thing that u mai
shoulkg 90 out into the world and work
and that the woman he left at home be
hind him should not be ashamed Il
work, too, when the end in view wa
mutual union and happiness. So sh,
looked at the matter, and imagined tina
other eyes would see it in the sam
light.
She had been thinking the question
over one afternoon, late in October, a
she sat alone, preparing her tasks 70
the following day 1t was one of th
afternoons on which Angela's time wa
entirely taken up with several musi
lessons, and she would not be at HON
until nearly five. II was approaching
that hour, and the room was CROWN,
dark, when Mabelle, unwilling TO draN
down the blinds and expel the las
CLEAN of daylight, took her Sch Her I
the window, to catch the last pale bear
OF even, while she did her need @
translation for class
Il was passagefrom the ''Jungfra
Won Orleans " that she had just translat
cd. md turning front that mohotonous,
severely beautiful, verse, she opene
the sage at some shorter poems. Th
leaves fell apart naturally at her favol
tie "Odc 10 JOY" and she read the las
verses slowly, pondering over the EN-
one OF all, and thinking:
That is true poetry, and what
spleldid man he would be who answere
to tie description" 10
With this she rested her chin on he
han and looked steadily out OF til
window. he saw two persons comm
up t1c strNet in earnest conversation
NAB eile's eye wayered, her cheek palet
but he WA uot near-sighted, and she wa
in hersane nind--npossession of all he
facutie She knewit was no delusiol