Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-04-18
LOVE AND QJiCK~ANn.
4 Little story from tie sunny son,

Little story from q sunny .outI,
1t was springtime in Southland.
Delicate, cummlngled odors pervaded
the air, as II a myriad of waiting priests
were swinging previously laden censers
within the verdaut chancel of the earth.
censers whose sweet perfumes fOated up.
ward to invisible heights within the vast
piue dome, whose tracery was in heecy
cloud, frightening i'll the ceaselcss flow
OF light from the Fastening sun. In the
woods, IN the valleys, on the hillsides,
painting, thrObbipg nature seemed to bt
bringing forth all her treasures of bios
SONS, OF flower, Of Leaf to show them
the sun.
There was a party of merrymakers
down among the opulence OF spring time
glory. They had come from neighbor-
ing plantations on horseback and car
rlages to royal resting place within the
forest, where spring of crystal water
dubbed up from creamy sand and flowed
unsteady to the almost dry bed of n great
bayou, strewn with pretty pebbles and
hecked with shadows from the trees and
canebrakes which lined the sides at inter.
walls.
1t was birthday anniversary they
were celebrating. Irene Chennrd had
hidden the viciuaga folks to 4 revcl with
the reveling flowers OF springtime, and to
remember that she waa Is. Even her So.
date father Major Chcnarl, was taken
with notion of frolic, aud omitted his
customary morning ride around his plan-
tatlon to do his fair daughter honor. So
the negro fddlers were released from worl,
that day and the house servants were
taken along to help, and thus it happened
that there was sound OF mirth and MI
sic under the old trees, and as happy a
company as you could find under the
smiling sun. The fires roared where the
self-important negro cooks were deftlv
preparing dinner the old ladies sat com
fortably on improvised seats, discussing
neighboring and household affairs aud
the matrimonial prospects of the girls
Elsewhere the negro fiddlers, Tom and
Jake, lndustriously piled their bows on
the crepitant strings of the violin. Jake
calling out the figures in a penetrating
voice to the young men and maldens as
they moved rapidly and gracefully amid
occasional peals of merry laughter. in
the ever-changing dance.
Sitting on rustic throne. crowned
with flowers, was Irene the picture of
maldenly beauty, surrounded BY n crowd
OF friends who paid homage to the fair
queen OF the day. Her sister Fanny was
there, too. She was the fairest of them
all. '''0'''
linen there were two men standing in
the group-one, Henry Stauwood, n law.
yer OF the neighboring town, who had
ridden fifteen miles, not SO much to CON.
graduate Miss Irene as to see her siste,
Fanny. For since the great party nj
General Ihornton's, a year before he
mad been In love with her, as only n man
VINO really loves for the first time and is
not upset and demented over every pretty
woman, can love. A man of cool and mn.
lure Judgment was Harry Stanwood. m
industrious lawyer, of very moderate
means and OF great and promising abili
~. lie was not handsome was. in fact
70 the casual observer, decidedly plain il
appearance but people who looked into
ms great brown eyes and marked the in
telllgence they communicated to his face
ana engaged him in conversation, though,
him posltivel y good looking. But, h,
was poor.
The other man who stood there Lof
come to see Fanny Chenard, also. Rem
WICK Nichols owned fine plantation
within half an hours galop of Maio,
Chenards mansion. He was rich ani
handsome; mad an Enthusiastically ricI
LOOK, he was easy and graceful in hi,
manners and dress was charming in hi,
conversation accomplished, sopbistico.
TED and had Travelled much. lie had 3
way OF monopolizing talk and getting
people to listen to him which was graft,
lying to himself, at least. He. too. had
made up his mind, aftergoing the round !,
mat OF all the girls within a radius ii
twenty miles, which was the scone of hi.
quest, Fanny Chenard was the only ons
VINO could properly be regarded by him
as the possible future mistress of Mid,
hurt his elegant country home, Like
many other men, he mistook his admira.
sion OF her physical beauty and his con,
oeption OF Fannys availability as the
central ornament of his home. for love
Inc TACT is, he sought her as he would ar
exquisite copy of an edition de lnYe n
some valuable book for his library. He
pad ABOUT made up his mind to MARX
nef, although he had spent some day,
Trying to determine whether Irene yvon}d
ny NO 20 as well; He had, of course, view
ca WIN no little disturbance and the oc
Gaslopal visits Of Standwood TO Concord
Place. AT the Alderson's party . fau
nights before, he had walked he Iona
gallery with Fanny in the witcbsrv ni
incoming, and had vehemently assevers' a.
yea MS love and had firmly believed ths,
she was conquered, although She With.
aie" hef hand quickly from his and said