The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-04-26

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CHAPTER xiI.-coSrrsuEp.
Thus the weeks flow on. and Grace. |
despite the vivid hopes aud fears OF her
prisate life, continued a dilIgcnt student
atthc college courses. Occasionally she
and Mabclle Fairfax would take their
way together, 10 or from school and
college; WHEN the hours Of their classes
happened 10 coincide Grace could not
resist Mnbellc, despite her active dis
Ike 10 the girls sister. and all her ways
and works. and Mabclle appeared 10
derive . pleasure, intense. though al
mosf timid. from tho society OF Grace.
"She N , wonderful child" Grace
said TO Thekla ono day. Il am cor
tain she IL really clever. She seems 10
have read almost everything; she says,
when her IA her was alive q had moth
ing TO do but read 10 herself and him.
fancy shc was kept In the background,
aid 20 Ind time 10 improve her mind.
and sense enough 10 do H. But she. Ii
awfully old for her age she Is only Just
sixteen you know"
Indeed. Mabclle was In many 70.
spects very old for her age, while in
others she was really young. A shad.
ON had undoubtedly brooded over al
most tho whole Of her young lifc, inter-
course with none but persons older
than herself had forced some Of her
powers to an carly maturity. while a
strong, sweet aud unseliish nature had
quietly received and accepted the burden
Of poscr,y and reversed circumstances,
which 70 Angela had appeared 90 great
> calamity. such m unheard-of woe,
that alm0st any mean Of escape from
= presented itself 10 her mind ne lcgiti.
mate. From the first II had been Ma
bello who had acted and done, who had
d6vised wars and means, who had faced
the world; Il had been Angela who had
enatcted 1t the gifts sent BY tho gods.
while grumbllng that they were not
6Incs Philips departure, MabelIe's
spirits appeared 10 have revived some
what. II would have been impossible
touay what the child had In her heart
what vague rejoicing that Philip was
out Of harms way. Of what misty hopes
1hnt In . years absence, amidst new
nd exciting scenes. be might, perhaps,
QnIcarn something Of the passion that
bed possessed him whom he departed.
When thu time for lessons began
again. Angela, like other people, was
forced 10 work. and Nabelic's sad little
face exon began 70 wear . smile now
and then. Like al healthy natures,
che tufued gladly 70 work as . tonic
and 4 braclng influence. and like many
inexperienced natures, sho Imagined
Wat what TO her was 80 good aud
strengthening must necessarily work
wonders In cvcry one else. AfabclIe saw
~ relationship between Philip and her
oIster with her MI eyes, not with An
GcIA's, and 10 those eyes Il seemed .
food and q beautiful thing that q man
aheuld 20 out into the world and work.
and that the woman be lcft 1t homo be-
hind him should not be ashamed 70
Wort. too. when the end In View was
u1tael union and happiness. So ahe
BOXED At the matter. and imagined that
cher eyes would soc Il In tbs same
1iytk
6he had been thinking tho question
osof one afternoon, late In October, a
ehe tat alone. preparing her tasks fol
t1e following day. II was one Of the
afternoons on which Angcla's time W..
entirely taken up with several music