Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-05-06

| was not the aggregate SUN VI leT dt
fractions which rendered her SO fasci.
mating, but rather the ever shifting
play and variety of their combinations.
In word, she was the most winning
Young woman | had ever seen.
My dear uncle welcomed her with
his usual kindness, mingled with a
critical admiration delightful TO be-
hold. His hobby had never produced
such fruit before! He was very at
tentive to her during the evening, and
indeed monOpoliZed SO much of her
conversation that | could not help feel
ing little sulky. although | knew that
his attentions to her We're in my own
interest. l knew that, while he was
playfully drawing out her various
tastes and procliyities, he mentally
noted them down for his own pur-
poses: and when l heard her quick
witted replies, l was sure that she
must be finding favor in his eyes. But
he had the true spirit of scientific in
vestigation, and refused to anticipate.
When we were left alone at night, and.
Drumming over with excitement,
asked his opinion of her, he only an
swered:
"Well, she seems a sensible girl, and
she is certainly pretty one. She has
her fathers eyes. Did l ever tell YOU
the story of Philip d'Aggineourt and the
French mariner
But [ was in no mood for listening
to my uncle's yarns, and hastily babe
him goodnight.
During the week Miss d'Agincourt
and l walked and talked and rode and
! read together, and my life was raised
to very high pressure. One look
| from those deep eyes could raise me
to state of ecstatic happiness or
| plunge me into the depths of misery
How delightful were such possibilities
in comparison with the monotony of
| my previous existence! Is not love
like Captain Whites Oriental pickle,
"a most delicious combination of
| sweets and sours?" l could not help
fancying that Rose was mot altogether
indifferent to me- as modest young
| men say in novels; but the uncertainty,
| and the alterations of hope and fear
plagued me terribly, and made me I'M
commonly glad when the Saturday ar
| rived on which my uncle had prom
Used to pronounce his verdict. What
that verdict would be had no doubt;
for my uncle was evidently fascinated
| by the girl he had undertaken to ana
| lyze. and / could hardly think that after
the first evening he had the heart to
disSect her.
"Wen, Reginald" said nv uncle,
smoking MS aftcr-breakfast pipe upon
that Saturday morning, my observa-
| tons of Rose d'Agincourt were soon
| completed. She is good, honest, SEN
sible and practicable little woman"
My ears tingled with delight.
Yes, uncle: and you wish me to"
81 don't wish you to do any thing
except make yourself civil to the girl so
long as she remains here. OF course |
am rather disappointed that she has
| turned out SO different from what eX-
pected, but we must look elsewhere. |
don't mean to say that [ regret her
visit here, for she is a very pleasant
soul to have about the house-a de-
lightful little body. Think we have all
enjoyed her company"
''Butuncle," l gasped, '.you said she
is SO sensible and good, and 1 am sure
she is both. What objection can there
be TO her? think one might 90 far
Their and fare worse" added, with
foolish laugh.
My dear boy replied my uncle,
taking his pipe from his lips and pro-
| ceeding to mount his hobby, ''she is an
excellent woman, an admirable wom-
an. She would make capital wife
fer a poet or novelist. | think of
| asking Tom Woodbird down to meet
her. If l could marry those two. it
would be a beautiful match. OF course
l must give up all thoughts of mating
her with a practical fellow like you.
such a marriage could produce moth
ing but the commonplace. You have
neither of you one iota of Imagination
1t is disappointment to me, confess;
for, personally, l like the girl very
much, and every thing else is in her
favor"
l could restrain myself no longer.
Uncle" l cried, Il hope YOUR
not serious, because I'm in love with
hertz
Il thought you seemed rather smit-
zen, s'lt my Uncle. with the most
aggravating GOODNESS, '.but the feeling
will soon pass away. As for your being
in love with her, even you must see
that such a thing is psychologically
absurd. You know very well how often
L have told you that it is only the at
traction of opposites which produce
any real and lasting attachment. Now,
there can not possibly be any such at
traction between two equally sensible |
persons, like Rose and YOU"
I'm not sensible, uncle; Iwrite poe
try"
What" exclaimed my uncle, bound |
ing out of his chair as if he had been |
shot. lis that true, Reginald That |
would alter the case indeed. But it's |
impossible. Some moralizing doggerel |
-eh? Good. solid matter-of-fact. cut into |
longs and shorts. All, my dear Regi- |
maid, that isn't poetry"'
Now, was not little vain of the |
results of my surreptitious courtship
OF the MUSES., and these remarks chafed |
me.
II don't meao RI COW tbot hove