The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-17


the little party The lady with the sweet
voice was tail and graceful, but her
face was not the face of his memory
Compared with that memory the face
was plain, though few people would have
expressed so unfavorablo a Judgment had
they bnt looked at it by itself. The eyes,
OF no particular color, were large, intelli-
gent aud sympathetic; the lips were beau
tifully alike in form and expression; the
brow was broad and white The skin was
pallid, and the hair, like the eyes, was OF
no particular color Perhaps the want Of
definite coloring was the chief fault of tho
face; but, be that us it may, it was
thrown back, for whatever beauty or
charm 1t claimed, upon expression. There
was no chance OF finding out all these
things at look and Trcgarthcn was only
conscious of a disappointment The face
was not the one he remembered nor any
thing like it; and there might DO two voices
alike in the world attcral
He was a little embarrassed for a
moment, even though he stood on his
own ground and the newcomers were
strangers and intrudors, for the lady
looked at him when once she had felt
u
curiously candid and unaffected gaze.
much more like that of a child than
woman. Before Trcgarthens sense Of en-
barrassment became overwhelming, one Of
the lady's male companions stepped for
ward with somewhat overweight
flourish of poiiteness.
II believe have the pleasure Of address
ing Mr. Tregarthen" Tregarthen bowed,
and the stranger fourished his hat
to his head, and nourishcd his
handkerchief out of his pocket II
have not the honor of being personally
known 70 you, sir, but my father was your
respected fathers solictor-Mr. Penruth,
of Gorbay, have dared to trcspass in
order to oblige these ladies and gentlemen
with a sight of Tregarthen Castle"
81 remember your fathersr said Tregar-
then, little confusedly, land you are quito
welcome here 1t was strange, he thought,
that in so little while his absence from
the common haunts Of men should
have cost him SO much in sdroir-tnYe
If your friends would care to see
the interior Of the house | shall be happy to
admit them. Pray introduce me-"
Mr. Penruth was obviously delighted
= Y.
The last representative Of the great local
family was not rich, as the times go, but he
had background u fact TO which people
who have no background are apt 10 attach
a superstitious value, Tho solicitor flour
ished through the introductions, and caught
no name until he faced the lady he had sup
posed to be Miss Churchill
Miss Farmer" said Mr. Penruth--" Cor
bays chief ornament--Mr. Tregarthen
The girl flushed at this for moment
with look Of anger but she bowed to Ire
garthen Us if he had been n squire Of low
degree and she princess. 1t crossed him
that she was not so plain rs he had fancied
Mr.. Penruth was persuaded that he had
said the right thing in the right way, and
got through the remaining introductions
with increased ease and glibness
" If we may have your permission to visit
the castle" he began, when tho ceremony
was over-Trega,thsn cut him short with
dry Certainly" aud fell into talk with
the lady Of the voice. She seemed chary at
first Of letting the voice be heard, but by
dnd-by, at the sight Of the picturesque old
ruins and remnants Of Tregartheus house,
she warmed. The dim family portraits.
VIC uI!l tLt UluCh OAK Oh Wills,
ceilings, and furniture delighted her, and
she took no less interest in tho gray walls
from which trees sprang, tho broken arches
ami window spaces opening on blue air in
what had once been tho family stronghold.
In case like this it is perhaps less impor-
tant to note what a charming woman says
than how she says 1t. Her commonplace
were commonplace enough, but they dropped
~ Trcgarthen's ears so pleasantly that he
would rather have listened to them than to
much learning and wisdom.
She was charmingly dressed In a fashion
which is now dcservedly stigmatized as
Ugly. Tregarthen thought he had rarely
cen anything SO dignified yet 80 gentle as
ner carriage, and the singular soft fasci-
nation Of her voice grew upon him more and
more.
When the rounds were finished tho host
grnifered to his guests some slight refresh
ment, which the Gorbay solicitor, in behalf
II self and friends, declined with many
ourishcs Of humility and gratitude. Ire
,Grthen saw nothing for it but to permit
hem to retire. though he would willingly
nave detained one Of them u little longer.
When they had gone, the young gentleman
was guilty. OF what ne tClt 10 De mean
ness. He stationed himself at his bedroom
window, and thence, by means Of single
oarreled opera glass which had belonged TO
his mother, he kept the lady of the voice in
light until she and her companions had en-
tered the boat in which they had arrived,
and the little vessel, being pushed of, dis
appeared behind the cliffs
Tregarthen did not resume his studies
that evening with anything like his custom
try gusto. A commoner malady than the
I'D one had clapped him On the shoulder
His books lay spread about his library Ia
bic, and now and then he fingered the leaves
If one or another Of them, and even read
passage in which he found no meaning.
That was not at all an uncommon thing at
he best of times, but it generally arose
from the fact that there was no meaning to
bc found, whereas now the main reason was
that he brought mo understanding to his
reading.
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