Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-18
4 COUNTRY HEART.


thought | would just look round and
zee II you were inclincd to come ont.
"Coms out! Isn't IL pouring with
rainy"
"why, yes, to be sure, 30 II Is
Well, may come 10, them"
"Ccine In, by oil means, but shake
yourself we'll tirst In the hall. Now"
- Harry Tredennick disappeared from
the window and entered by the front
door, which ct Myrtle Bank stands
wide open all the lodgipg-letting sea-
son; stake the paper. or put my WORK.
box In order, or look ct CornhiH I'LL
have finished my letter, and then we
can make Some plans"
The young man sat down with the
paper held SUCCESSFULLY in front OF him.
but his eyes looked unblinkingly over
the top Of it at Miss verey. He was
not much Of reader, at the best OF
times. and would not think Of so en-
ploying himself except under severe
pressure.
Kate verey went on writing: T" The
one young man Of this benighted place
has Just dropped in to call, for the
fourth time since Sunday."-This was
such . telling way Of winding up her
letter; so much more effective than
"Ths post is just going" or " Mamma
IL calling me to make tea" lie Is q
kind Of giant, who lives in these soil.
tudcs," she went on, TO her friend
Mrs. Chamberlain "fairly cookbook
ing and weil.msnnered, only rather .
bore about incesssnt sightseeing: !
believe he has a barenssey Somewhere
in the background. Now, don't 60
and repeat eli this to Captain Anstey
the next time you are hard up for con-
yersation, or be will be sure to say
something nasty and sarcastic about
INV summer at the seaside Blythe
BY, is he going to do any yachting this
yearf'
Mrs. Chamberlain was Kate Verey's
dearest friend Captain Anstey was her
cousin and her guest; and Kate her
self was the prettiest and most whlm-
s;cal girl in their set, who, instead OF
going visiting among her friends after
the London season was over, Is oil pro-
perly-disposed girls would have done,
insisted on carrying her mother off to
remote Southeast fishing-village for
the two months OF autumn which
should. economically, be spent in Scot
land. Whether she repented her freak,
and whether she really wished the end
of her letter 10 be preserved from Cap
tain Anstey's knowledge, leave the
reader to determine.
"Tbere +! that's DONE" said Kate,
looking up and catching her visitors
round gray eyes fixed upon her, which
disconnected the "kind Of giant" much
more than the London-bred young lady.
I" Anything in the paper this morn
ingY"
al wasn't reading-I mean, ! don't
think so-ycs, there is, though a seal
came ashore at Polkerry. Would
you," very efficiently, "like to hear
about it?"
"Oh, no, not for the world! Isn't
there any cholera news, or any military |
and naval appointments, or anything
about people one knows?"
"Ths Rev. John and Mrs. Cannody |
and family at Sea View; the Misses
Peach at No. l, Marine Parade; Mrs.
and Miss"
"Oh, stop, stop, for goodness sake
thought you had the Post, not that
dreadful local story-teller. Just see if
here are any yachts in, and then we
will decide what is lobe done with to-
Day"
"The Araminta, Mr.. Seagrave, gone
On to Weymouth; the Waterbaby,
Captain Harrison, and the Jessamine,
Mr.. Lockhart, for Cowes the Gilmore,
The Hon. Charles Burke, put in here to
coal. She's that big, hulking thing |
wing half across the harbor. don't
zee any fun in steam-yachting."
Miss vsrey's interest in the yachts
vas not very great, for she only an
,wered: "Is that ALP" and looking |
across at the bay, which lay below the |
window: 81 think it's clearing" she
said. "I'll 60 and see what mamma
il doing, and tell her we are going out.
want hundred things in the town,
and you can come and carry them for
me-"
These two young people had grown
very friendly during the month that
the vereys had spent at Myrtle Bank.
The young lady was the elder by two
or three years, and by all the expe-
risnce Of life, from childhood, in Lon
don society. Harry Tredennick knew
Mrs. Briscoe, the parsons wife Of the
neighborhood, old Madam Tredennick,
his own grandmother, and her attend
ant, Miss Meux, and perhaps half
dozen young ladies Of Torferry; good,
red-cheeked, rather shapeless young
women Of q pattern well known in this
and other country localities. Here
his experience Of the fair sex came
to an end. Miss Verey knew, or APP
peared TO know, the whole army and
navy, the bar and the Church, the ms
and outs Of both universities not
TO speak Of diplomatic circles, po-
liticai circles, aristocratic circles,
theatrical circles--widening out in
definitely into the vast ocean Of So
ciety, which used TO make young Ire
dennick by turns rabidly restless or
dolefully dissatisfied with himself and
his surroundings, wishing that this
world Of which he knew so little and
Miss vercy so much, had but one head
to be smitten of at q blow.
For, of course, the soldiers and sail
ors, lawyers and curates, with dukes,
peers, and bigwigs Of all sorts must be
in love with her. How could it be
otherwise, when Harry Tredennick,
who had never cared TO look at wo-
man before in his life, had been so
completely vsnquished by her charms
the hrst moment he saw her in Torfcrry
churchg The tall, whitehead figure
whom the old sexton handed ostenta-
tiously up to the top Of the church, just
~ Mr.. Briscoe began the service, was
q different In face and style and raj.
ment from the usual run Of Torferry
girls ~ denixen from another planet
could have been.