News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-04
Mount Desert.
BY @. z. DAVIS.

| b1 ". Il. DAVIS.
"And so you leave Mount Desert and
pleasure tomorrow, Miss YoungP You
have made the summer doubly pleasant
to me-pleasant as always find vaca-
ton time"
"It is very good of you to say so, Mr..
barley, and I'm sure you have made
Mount Desert very pleasant to us. In
deed, my mother was saying only this
morning how useful and nice to us you
have been. But, you see, she must be
getting back to New York now; there
are the boys going away to school, and
all that"
"Well, I suppose it is necessary. But
you won't like leaving?"
"Why, of course it is. No, / shall be
very sorry to leave; and yet 1 shall be
glad for some things to get back. 1t will
feel so much like home after all this
travelling and seeing all these things"
eyes, no doubt you will bless the
first brick house and dull pavements
you see in town they give your eye
such q sense of relief and quiet"
"You are going to stay on here some
time with Mr.. Paget, are you not? He
tells me now you have left the hotel
where you met us. you have got such
| pleasant rooms"
"No, don't think 1 shall stay on
here any longer after this week"
"Why, I thought you intended to
stay right on into the fall, and he in
tended to read all the gossiping old his
torians, and you meant to hunt up every
kind of fish that could possibly live in
these cold Maine waters"
$50 did but I'm not going to now.
I'm going to leave. I'm tired to death |
of it,
"Why, just now you said it was al
ways pleasant ; and what will Mr.. Paget
do?"
"Oh, Paget Pagetl suppose he'll
come with me or else he won't. I used |
to think Mount Desert pleasant, but I
don't now."
"Wen, you are changeable person"
$50 would you be il But do you |
really think me a changeable person,
Miss Young ?'
"No, Mr.. barley, don't think-at |
least didn't think that you were ?"
"Well, but what did you think about
me? 1 think you thought something
about me-"
Perhaps 1 did. One thinks some
thing about everybody, you know; but
perhaps don't think it now."
81 suppose you thought something
about Mr.. Paget, too?"
"Oh, yes, thought something about
Mr.. Paget, of course. 1 like him very
much"
"But how differently did you think
when you thought about Mr.. Paget and
myself?'
"That's very difficult question. I
at least we-thought you very nice,
too; but"
"But-but what, Miss Young?"
"Oh, nothing, except that 1 thought
So"
"But want to ask you how differ
emily you thought, and 1 want you to
understand me, and not to look too
serious"
"why. you don't think I'm serious,
do you?"
''Well, as a rule, you are not serious,
certainly; you are delightfully."- gay. But
there is a certain quality of seriousness
about you; and you are always very
serious when L want to say anything to
to you. Remember how serious you
were that day when we looked at the
old wharves over in Rockland ?"
"Yes, but that was some time ago,
/ and But let Us talk of something
else and be friends"
"But we are friends, are we not
| Only"
'I say, barley, come along. Mrs.
Young says she'd like to look inside the
new hotel before we get into the car
riage, though it does look like a meet
ing-house except for the tower"
"Oh, I don't care for the hotel,
thanks, and believe, Miss Young, you
would, would you not, prefer to finish
your sketch of that yacht? 1t will be
soon done now."
"Yes, perhaps, I should; that is,
think that ought to finish it."
"All right, Paget: We'll join you in
| fva rninutea I'd mat lilo 70 el,atob
the coast in the distance myself; it looks
so well just now with the sun on it."
"Well, don't be long coming down. I"
"Had you not better get.your sketch
book out now they have gone, Mr.. Oar
ley, and begin the coast ?"
"Oh, my sketch-book Oh, I sup
pose have forgotten it p
"Neyer mind, here's leaf from my
block; and here's pencil"
"Thanks; but don't want to sketch
at ALL"
"You are, changeable, indeed p
II want to sit here and talk to you
and look at you, as you are going away
to-morrsw."
"But if You look at me l shall be en-
barrassed and unable to sketch, too. Be-
sides, you know the coast looks so we'll
just now, with the sun on it."
"Bother the coast"
"What, the coast that you used to
rave about, with its grass MOSES of rock
and the white spray darting up in clouds
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