Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-03-26

wondering que tJ"S Win ltSltS dlllp0'
long enough to tanglc, a skin with the
rosc-leal's blush on it, II mouth rs swee
and innocent is a baby's, and light, loose
flying hair hale ringleted and CLUSTERING
round her white forehead, all made her
look Ike one IN some old marvel oi ivory
miniature. And lhru there vast certain
appeal IT, your tenderness in her very size,
fairy creature H. she was; you could as
easily find fault with her seriously ds with
a spite: and it was useless to try ana
reason with her, rs She could never 10y any
possibility see anything but her own side
of the case. She had had little other
education than that given by her deSul-
tory reading, although she could paint
and play and sing in IA pretty fashion
enough She was an orphan, and had
been brought up chiefly III a boarding
school she had some property, sufficient
for her needs and Uses under guardian
ship, and Mr. Sanghurst was her guar
dian What Mr.. Saughurst saw in her
to marry-thi- same little fluttering thing.
neither woman nor child nor elf-was past
comprehension But he was going to
marry her for all that; and now they
were only waiting for the arrival of her
trousseau from Paris as she entirely re-
fused to be married with onlya home
made palaphcrualia All we could do was
to say we were thankful it was no one of
us that was going to marry her, which
as all of us except the old Colonel, young
James and the Professor, were women,
was rather superogHtOry on our part
Mr.. Sauuhurst, however, seemed to be
completely satisfied with the arrangement,
fortunately for both of them and she
herself was the blthest, happiest little
tlitte1-hutter of thing YOU ever s;lw-till
Agne, Fairweather came.
We were all stnyiug with Madame
Sanghurst mere at her place by the sea,
where she usually fingered till the close of
the YEAR taxing care re, to fiji the house With
cheerful penolc who did not mind au-
tumnai eaies. Aiadane Sanghurst had
used to sjav there in her husbands day.
and she could not bear todeviate from the
routine OF those happy wears of hers, and
there were alvilNS "A plenty of us who
found it as p iI%. as She did. "' ~
OF course I-elin-thnt was her pretty
absurd nnuIr-,yns always A member Of
The -aughurst family, and one never
knew, I'M missing her. how much her
novel WAYS her gayietieS and gluums. and
ian ching tones and tempers. and perpet
nal dancing aud fitting up and down the
mouse. with all her own irihing but in
tense Interests and strange connection
abouf other peoples interests, added to
lis uleaoures
:
she said to me. sitting one morning in the
bav window of NV room. the red wood
bines aud the blue October sky through
their meshes making "A strong back
ground to her delicate beauty. 81 don't
see what Madame Sauuhurst asked her
here for never shall when I'm Mrs
Sanrhurst. She's exactly what | partic-
ularly dislike for his companion. ALWAYS
did hate those intellectual beings-sort of
monsters. don't think a woman ought
to know ANYTHING :"
"Whv, YES. | like her well enough"
sand. replying to the original PROPOSE
ton. 'She is very magnificent in her man.
ners-"
"Yes. She'd be a splendid head of "A
house. wouldn't she daresay every
one thinks how much finer she'd be at
the head of Sanghurst Manor here than
this little fool I'd like TO slap her face
for her That's what I'd like to do"
"Ispliu :"
con. YES, YOU call it what you please,
vulgar and low and all the rest. Perhaps
am vulgar and low and all the rest of
if ~ She cried 'But | don't 20 about
stealing other womens lovers. And she's
so SUPERIOR. so very superior There's
nothing she hasn't read-the Hebrew
Scriptures backward and the books OF the
Sibyl And there's nobody she hasn't
seen. from Prester Sohn to Blind Tom.
And there's nowhere has hasn't been
down the crater of Nesuvius and up the
CotopaXi Perhaps she hasn't been into
Symmesis Hole. | wish she'd 90 there
and STAY there. There's nothing of course
YOU can speak of that she doesn't know
9hont already mean to fell her some
time that when | was IA baby they took
me up in a balloon and we stopped at the
house of the man in the moon. and she'll
saw. oh YES. she spent "A fortnight there
once, and the cream was delicious. She
Wupht to he nj the head of female col
Ice She knows too much to live with
While folks -
"Iselini What a feeble little spite, You
onpht 70 be ashamed Of vonrseIf Won
ara nroyinp 50 slaugv thof nresentlv Won
Wont be able to talk properly lat ali. and
Won are injecting nil the rest of ms -
Not her. not her wish | could =,
Greek roots and things with the Professor
-it;s disTnstinU in "A woman RI ike to
change them INTO a couple of Greek roots
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