Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-11-27

belonged to his successor, Ana so, III
| much content she sat herself down on
the heather, with all the wide, sunlit,
still world mapped out before hor-thc
silver thread of Mudal Water visible mere
and there among the moors, and Loeb
| Meade with its islands, and Ben Hope
| and Ben Loyal and Bonnie Strath Mayer,
and the far Kyle OF Tongue, close 10 the
northern sea.
Now what had Love Meenie climbed all
! this height fory what but to read herself
back into the time when Ronald used to
come here alone, and to think of what ne
| had been thinking and to picture herself
! as still an unconscious maiden wandering
about that distant little hamlet that
| seemed but two or three dots down there
among the trees? This or somcthn" like
| it, has always been II favorite pnetne
with lovers; but Meenie had an oddl ional
source of interest in the possession of
packet of those idle rhymes, aud they
were II kind of key to by-gone mou1s aud
| DAYS. And 50 it was here in this st'an@e
stilness-that Ronald had written these
verses about her; and perhaps caught
glimpse Of her with his telescope. aS she
came out from the cottage to lnt"rrcut
the mail: when little indeed WIS sh"
dreaming that he had any such i9ucics
| in his head. And now as she turned over
page after page. sometimes she laughed II
| little. when she came to something thAt
seemed u triIie audaCious, and she Source
ly wondered that he had been afraid OF
/ how gncb did Ipplnrnt ions. and
tLau o,,nin ~ Kind of connunctinn filed
tncl,' "So'.', Il ~ ,i,l,I r. ,'.,li 1,,I ,,,t
hel icI' "l' ~. w" 49,. - -. 49,, ~
deserve it? and how would her coming
life he made to correspond with these all
too generous and exalted estimates of her
cbornrtnr9 or course she liked well
i,t -. oo,,,,, ,,rou rr,igoe of Lar
eiouti ~ Nol,l' 49, TO-, Iti,ila,Si
apuhuall brown muir anu ne f - u iil,tn"
eyes, anu lle fo9e-lcdi ti'iu vi ncl t''ccN7'
and the lightness of her step: for she was
clad enough that she possessed them
For bod thrv NOT commended her to him.
Hut ms for these other wonderful graccs
Of mind and disposition with which he
had adorned her. She was sadly afraid
that ha would lind her stupid. i'll instruct
cd unread fractions. unreasonable. in
conohln of rdnrstondiutr him Look for
eVnmnlo how he could Imbue these hills
and moors and wales with a kind Of magic
SO that thry seemed to become his per
sonal friends To her they were all dead
i1evcnnt NudoI Water. mt times. on the
enmnrcr EVENINGS but to him they
seemed instinct with life. They spoke to
him. and ne to them: they We're his com
panons and friends: who but himself
rould tell of what this very hill of Clebig
was thinIlinry
Ben tlebrlg : n blaz e OF splendor
III " ,i i!l' i,' mu1 1 vi L,,o .'l9,m
NJ ~ nr1 a. .,Nv,, ,,' b ,tr
h-t1
! OF the antlcrrd stag affair
And he laughs at the royal challenge.
The hoarN", harsh challenge OF war
, ,..,
h WI pen ,'.,,T - ;t ' ~ l ,o,t :"
! And The mia and - nelloy radiance
Shines on his giant crest:
For he's looking down upon Meenie
As she wander. along the road,
:. And the mountain DeStows ms blessing
= oh the l"ir's' chi'" Vi "on'
u-Lo he in a,
' (she asked herselfJ that he should write of
: her so? lie had declared to her that the
magic with which all this neighborhood
was imbued was due to her presence
there: but how could she, knowing her
, self as she did, believe that? And how to
show her gratitude to him. and her faith
in him. and her confidence as to the fu
; ture? Well she could but give to him
: her life, and the love that was the life OF
Z her life - if these were worth tie u i
I ing.
=. But there was one among these MANY
; pieces that she had pondered over which
i She returned to again and again, and
with a kind of pride: and that not because
it sounded her praises but because it as
' sured her hopes. AS for Ronad's mate
J., rial success in life, she was troubled witt
= little doubt about that 1t might he n Ions
time before he could come to claim hi!
+ wife; but she was content to wait
n III that directions she mad no 1oar
Z whatever. But there was something be
u yOud that She looked forward to tn,
u Jay Wen estn lie 81 ,',i ~
r. "lu 'io9'S 7huuut NnE" T,'0 it sis''ii'o' ~, w.
n man 'HlN WIS " nom SUI h"' 'hoNcH !"
n her husband. Her mother had calle'
i no heed TO the tauut rather she wa
Il thinkinr, of the time when Ronald-othe
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II tniuT9 NcinH H.. Pu. 'i,'i3 ~ ~
holding the position there that .lefIrc'
n hold .bnl, rpDliut, little old