Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-06-05

mean to say that; but, oh! I have
never forgotten it. and now I believe
8 Philip arrested the hand and held it
in his own as hesaid: k Afkk B
'.Do yon think me SO vindictivc, Ma
be1lep"
'.You have been so dreadfully in
jured" she said 3 ised ~ slG
You really believe me so vindic-
tive" he repeated, and though he was
amused he found he could not smile.
81 remember you suffered dreadfully at
that time You were punished for a
sin which you could not have commit
ted if your life had depended upon it.
You were ill. and before it all came out
you had endured tortures. remember!
Grace wrote me about it at the time,
but at the time. instead of plying you,
i was. I am afraid, hardening my heart,
and cursing your sister.
'tAnd it is you who suffer still. You
are SO constituted, suppose. All the
conscientiousness of your family was
bestowed upon you, and you have toe
much of it, and others have too little.
And you imagine me nursing anger in
my heart against you: cherishing envy,
hatred and malice all these years! ]
must say you have as nearly as posi-
BILE succeeded in offending me.o7e II
shows me that l must have behaved
abominably in my first moments of dis
illusioEism for you to have thought thus
of me.P 5sGtf 30 rs itsl -!
OF course, by this time Mabelle was
dissolved in tears, with DR.. johnson by
her side in an attitude of profound
melancholy, his head and ears dropping
with dolorous curve She managed
to say, however:
"And you mean that you have quite,
quite got over-forgiven, mean that
.1never loved your sister for one mo.
ment, after found she had lied to me. "
he said, in a voice whose hardness dried
Mabelle's tears like magic. '.On the
contrary, hated her with an unreason-
| ing. contemptuous hatred-as bad feel
ing--for, after all, she was made so.
What enraged me was that could not,
with my love for her. shake off its eff.
| fects upon my mind and character.
That was impossible. My love for hel
had made me soft, [ suppose, and hel
| deceit made me hard; and hard and
rough shall remain all my life in conse.
| quence. No doubt you know. Miss
| Fairfax, that there is said to be a tide
in the affairs OF men-and there is also
generally speaking, time when the
stuff of which man is made hardens
into shape, and no after-events can dc
more than somewhat modify the cor.
ners and outlines of that shape. Moth.
ing short of smashing him to pieces
making an end of him-can Go more
| When your sister Tilted me forgive the
world am apt to speak rather toe
plainly for the ears of young ladies,
know
..But not for those of women who re
spect the truth" interposed Mabelle
decisively, though in a smothered voice
mo; that is well said. You arr
like Grace, I see. and prefer straight
forward expressions. Well, when YOU
sister Tilted me, the stuff l was made
of took very rough. marred sort o
Tshape; it got twist, and nothing car
ever make it straight again, or turn mt
into an agreeable, or gentle, amiabl,
character. Butts did not make me al
utter brute, as you seem to think. j
did not deprive me of the power to dis
tinguish between your sister, to whom
Truth was stranger, and you, t.
whom she was the dearest friend--'
Is Oh, if you could ever forgive me
II have thought too much of it. 1
was all the world to mel hated it 81
what she did; and / fancied it wa
all the world to you, too"
."Well, you owe me some little repa-
ration, don't you think, for having
fancied such things of meP"
. Indeed. 1 do. and anything my
single thing you can name ~
.'Then stay here until Grace sets yo,
free to &C. home. and let me endeavo
to show myself to you in a more favor
able light than hitherto"
Every well. must appear very
foolish TO you. and-oh, my letter t.
Angela! 1t will have gone"
lit has gone just as lar as my coat
pocket" he answered. producing it
and Mabelle made a snatch az it.
''No, no." said Philip. ''Suppcse WI
tear it up and scatter it to the ocea1
wave. I'll do it, and you sit STILL
Mabelle and DIR. johnson watched
him tear the letter into tiny fragment
and Scatter them in a. little shower owe
the cliff. - T.
$50 is dispersed the absurd idea O
your going away from Red Lees yet,
said he, composedly, while she sat witt
her hands folded before her, not feelin,
equal to opening conversation, til
Philip said:
'And how is she-Angela, [ mean
your sister. Mrs. Fordyce?"
''She is very well, thank you.'
'.And happy?''
'Not exactly"
s.Miserable?''
"Oh, no!''
you live with her?n @#Es
Eyes" AIS
..Do you like itP'
| s.Whyp'' ~
"our-I don't think our taste
agree
You quarrel. perhaps3'
"No, never"
"You each 60 on your own way, an
never speak to each other?'
Mot at all. We see great deal Q
each other. We get on somehow"
And 60 out a great deal, l suppose
and have a lot of visiting? They sa
that is a wonderful help when one 4
dull at home" s
4 "But we don't 60 out much. Mr.
Fordyce does not like it. We are very
very quiet
dull?'' -
Dreadfully dull''FfHfg }
You must be. And you find it les
dull here, do you?"