Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-07-02
CHAPTER V


CHAPTER V.
THE LIVES OF OUR CHARACTERS ADVANCE.
Five years had passed away since Sophia
and Percival were parted, and time had left
its marks upon other personages of our story
beside its heroine Without any question,
Sibyl had greatly increased in personal at
tractiveness. Her dark superb style was de-
veloped and heightened as she drew nearer TO
the meridian of life. No doubt the early
bloom of youth was gone; but her form had
become more finely rounded, and her carriage
had become more stately. She was a beauti-
ful woman of the world; no man ever looked
at her once only. But her manner had he
come more retirent than ever. She relied on
her beauty for place among her Sex, and
was Mt no pains to cultivate conversation,
letters or any branch of the art of pleasing,
except the setting forth of personal charms.
Had her manner and her talk been what she
might easily have made them, She would have
shone out as a beauty, indeed, in the prime
of her wumanhood. For Sbvl had no lack
of sense nor OF education either: but proudly
reposing on her mcontestihe loveImcss she
rather withdrew than put forward her other
attractions. Stll she could display herself
when She pleased; one occasion we'll +, monl-
Der, when she met in company "A vivHcious
Italian, who was extremely struck with her
appearance, and paid her a rrofu-on Of gay
compliments At last. his English failing. he
tried to enhance his polite speeches 10y some
poetical quotation in his own language. a iding
that he was afraid She would hardly UNDER
stand what he had said On the instant Sbyl
answered him back with return quotation,
as | understood. from the same author Not
knowing Italian, | could not appreciate her
READINGS; bus that the ret'rt WAS lively and
happy was sufficiently proved by the torcigu-
el's utnGht. His eyes sparklod with pleasure.
"Nou know mo re than do, he exclaimed,
clapping his hands. You are a Woulyr-a
wonder. M dear lady
But Shy relaps,d into silence and treated
her success with a sincerity of Indifference
which showed how lightly she regarded any
mental achievement.
Car had meanwhile changed in way the
very opposite. She had grown thinner. and
her frame, which was large one, wa, more
prominent Car had gone in for intellectual
iGeas, and was improving her mind diligently,
and was fast obtaining in our httle town the
reputation OF being what is now called a
womaus rights woman She ind become
rather too fond Of talking in n..Xcd companies
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error h + lively little mother had fore~eeu ten
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