Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-03
CHAPTER Ill.

l She has not come.
I Did not tell you sor
Dismay and triumph struggle oddly for
mastery on Priscilla's face as she answered
She was at the rector door, where MI.
Hornby had come out to meet her, ana Is
she faced him now. CONSERVATION began 10
creep over his countenance. .,
She said she would come" he answered
sheepishly.
| "Of course; but that was before she had
| beoup to consider. You know there was
no reason in the world why could not re-
| ceive her at my own house. -,
| Il thought il was best to have her here
And she did not think so.
| Miss Priscilla sat down as she spoke, aud
united her bonnet-Strings, and the rector no.
| riced that she was flushed aud breathed
hurriedly, aa though but little would be
| needed to make her cry.
lam very sorry" he said pesitently.
at is not your fault; you meant we'll, and
| in any case am no worse off then | was.
She wiped her eyes turtively as she spoke,
and her host grew still more miserable, =,
"Inever dreamed OF this,' he said. And
no one else would have played me sucn
shabby trick"
Well, nev-r mind Let US take 1t for
the best. But it does seem hard, when
likely thing arose. TO lose it like thisG
but she may come vet. There IS an
| other train at Eve, and she said positively
that might expect her. You will walt
won't your
If YOU think there is any chance"
he had meant kindly, and he was very
down.hearted, and so she could not bear to
De bard on him. His face cleared.
1T will be quite like old times to have
sou here for an afternoon, he said.
Miss Priscilla sssen,ed, but not very cor
disIl,. Where there are diverse periods OF
OLD times in life, ii is sometimes difficult to
Tell hich is referred TO.
Il lie long time since you have spent q
| day here" Mr. Horribly continued, eager to
| make conversation.
Il have not been here since Mrs. Horribly
died" Miss Priscilla answered gravely.
"YUu will notice cahngeS, signing.
bliss Priscilla sssented, bat did not COM
mi, herself to statement of the form the
:kCrgcs seemed to take.
we used 10 be a good deal about the
rec:cry in our young days. Priscilla" he
| continued after pause. 81 think Mr.. Max
vel vas partial to US. Why it seems like
,tsu!day that he us,d to take US blrds,nest-
NJ liz he woods."
Yea; it does not seem an age ago, though
sou ard are old people.
II suppose we are; apdyet DO you know,
| Priscilla, never felt myself younger than
nov? never remember enjoying nature
I ore OF finding nore G-s5s qualities in
rditsry people. -
"hge makes US tclera@t," Miss Priscilla
all With flicker Of spite'u) mirth.
Yes, suppose So and yet can't realize
bat i: is go very long ago since | was lad
aud vru the most beautiful girl in the world
| o ne"
You we're very young then, Miss Prls'
ella said coldly. 1T must have been quite
year before you got married"
The rectors whole form seemed to droop
from its momentary happy attitude.
You never understood that, and 1t was
sudden. own" he said; "but suppose in
every life there are inexplicsble occur
| repces"
"As if every one did not know that she
married you, and not you her, you poor
| goose And serve you right, too; | never
9i,i.d YOU" Miss Priscilla said to herself
very clearly and emphatcally; for she was
oniv woman, and his detection, though
twenty years old, had power to move her
still. Not that she held him wholly mex
cusable for it, for it had been the foolish
| line of life with her then-the time when
| she had believed in heroes and felt fine
corn of ordinary men. Aud so she had
Aouted him and held him aloof till it was
TOO late.
1t had been little hard on her, though
neither he nor any one ever guessed It; and
| afterward, when he returned, as rector to
he parish where he had been born cher in
huence working always for his benefit), she
vas one of the first to welcome him, and the
readiest to find something good to say OF
he pseyish, fretful wife who made life as
| hard for him as she knew how.
But all that was over long ago, though
| for a moment Miss Priscilla had felt as 1t
The past were not so long past, and in that
moment she had called Mr.. Horribly, men
tally, poor goose; but looking at his troub'
led face, her hart sottened.
One need not understand ones friends
10 approve of them" she said heartily.
Nr. Hornby sighed; his nomentary ex
/ oansion was oves. For hetime he felt that
I'D things we're quite ended.
Locked back on life is different from
)nc's cipations," he said sadly. MOT
hat have not got more than my deserts
ont still the award has been different from
ANYTHING ! expected
Il hink it is better, even for our happi
ness that results of all we do are in other
bands han ouIs," she answered gently.
! Nc doubt, no doubt; hut still"
lie stopped, as though isthoughts would
not shape themselves TO any words thai
fitted the occasion.
They had been sitting all this time in the
bleak, damp little drawing room, and
whether from the conversation or from the
atmosphere, she felt chilled and depressed
though bright sunshine lay athwart the land
The rectory was cherries house now, with
dusty decorations dragging from the spotted
CRATES and long cobwebs hanging unnoticet
in dim corners. And once she had known
him so fond of brig htness, and free air, snC
sunlight. Poor George! OF course, hi
was 20 more neglected then are other lonely
men, but having known him young auC
hopeful, his circumstances struck her will
melancholy sense Of contrast 1t was ikc
Miss Priscilla to forget her own immediate
troubles in plying some one else.
The lunch made a diversion, though j
vas not what could be called, strictly speak
ing, an enliveuing repsst A grim serving
woman waited on them and handed then
! scld plates with ah air Of protest. and he
presence, taken in conjunction with III
dim glasses and spotted gallery, made Mis-
Priscilla very unhappy.
he has seven hundred year il he has
penny; and yet everything is perfectly dread
full" she said to herself, while his good
natured hospitality over the soaked potatoes
and hard peas. and UNDERGONE mutton CAV
her tremulous inclination to laugh an
CRY together.
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