Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18
asleep on his shoulder before he reached

MI. marlborough made no f to
nm any parents for the new Rose; he
ga iar 700 much afraid thatthey might
nnu nm lie avoided advertisements.
a.Si posted notices, and criers, and gen
eral conversation for months: the child
was TOO small to give any account of
nerscit. Ii he had no wife. he had a
now; and his heart glowed
with a warmth it had not known for
years. 1'1
me coming of the child changed
nluen OF the custom of Nh. Vancebor-
1ugh,s life. His daughter must have q
nome; he purchased a stately house,
had 1t furnished by men whose ideas
were based on the furnishing of palaces.
mad nurses, g%overnesses. masters, COM
Panions, and even sought for society,"
the thing he once had s~purned-that
Mnen ms child were grown she might
nave If1ends among the best there We're.
IN return, the child was sweet and gra-
clo"s; atfectionate with him as with any
one, liking all her pets and people much
the same, and none of them too much.
but a little suticed him. All the capa-
ollltles for love pent up in his nature
found expression in her direction. He
lost himself thinking of her over his
iedgers and trial balances; he hurried
nome to meet her; he fingered in the
morning. loath to leave her. As she
grew older, he found himself reading
and studying that he might meet her
with his sympathies; hedragged himself
out to operas and plays that he might
see her pleasure; he wound up his bus
mess and took her to Europe, that she
might have the last finish of art and
culture. He was proud and happy as
if the girl were the child of his love in
stead of a wait of the streets, and his
whole being revolved about her.
Yet Rose had not won his affection by
any beauty or by any b~rilliancy; she
had won it by nothing. indeed; but the
circumstance that his heart had been
empty and aching, and she had hap
pened, unconsciously, to fill it and heal
it as only children can heal aching
hearts. She was very far from pretty,
if not decidedly plain; none of her love-
ly dresses became her, although they
had the deceptive effect Of their
own beauty, and made you feel as if
something lovely was ear at any rate.
LIZ JCWClS olllJ SCItCa W ulSDldy CTtIS
like vase handles, and collar-bones like
those on ancient grave-stones; for she
wa thin as one might not think posi-
BILE in view of the ease of her life, the
dainties, wines and sweets of her daily
consumption. Nor was she in the least
intellectual; she had, indeed, but a
81 nder intelligence, eked out by some
cunning; sic was never known to say a
wise or witty thing, nor was she the
cause Of wise or witty things in others.
She cared nothing for books; she cared
nothing for anything, indeed, but fine
clothes, fine apaf tments, fine horses,
and the fine speech of people. These
things she has had had now all her life,
and if deprived of them she wonld have
been wretched. She YVES not at all de-
monstrative; she had the same word and
gesture for her adopted father that she
had for the Siberian greyhound; but she
was unifo mly good natured-pcrhaps,
with no wish ungratified, having moth
ing to be %ill-natured about.
But to Mr.. Vanceboy ough she was
perfection. 1t was she that was beauti-
full and not her dresses; she looked
neither scrawny nor t wny in the dia-
phanous robes str aiming with jewels,
in TIE itch C i'm son pushes, the azure
radiant, and all that his fond pride
would have her; her least remark was
wisdom in his ears, and in the flow. of
her good splits he saw the wit of the
English humoris's. What life was be-
fore he had'her he refused to remember;
wat it might be should he lose her h.
shuddered to think. 1t was true that
his wealth, his servants, his daughters
attendants, kept his house blight and
beautiful; but to his view it was simply
his daughter that ma 'e it so; and She
and the friends her matclessness gath
cred about her. as a magnet gathers
steel dust, made it a place of cheer.
Judge, then, of his horror-struck amaze
mcnt, OF the chill that shivered through
him a second time, when he discovered
his peerless Rose inclined to accept the
attentions of that ~jackanapes De
F%raunceston, the younger son of the
younger son of somebody, without a
farthing above the pittance he spent on
his dress and lodging, dining where he
might, a species of unattached attache
with nothing to do.
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but then, as you see, h" loved Rose, and
under other circumstances he might
have felt more willing to share the re-
suit OF his life's labor with herhusband.
If the young man had had anything
whatever to recommend himself, in
deed, it might have made a difference.
He had, to be sure, great physical
beauty, and he danced as if it was his
profession, but he could not dance into
Mr. Vanceborough's good graces as he
had into those of Rose. He had moi
faculty enough, it seemed to Mr..
marlborough, to carry dispatches.
And, moreover, he had made his ad.
vances stealthily in the dark without q
hint, and they seemed the treacherous
advances of a foe; for Mr.. Vanbebor
oagh was an honest soul himself, open
as dayl ght, incapable hitherto of doing
a thing by indirection. and he only saw
in the suitor a fellow who had come ii
and stolen his treasure behind his back
he could not call the dancing, bowling
popin;ay a man. The DE Frauncesto1
family had scared the youth a place il
the legat'o on. probably as a means O