Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-07-23
BEAUTYS SECRET.
BY ALAN MUIR,


tIFtS, Etc.
And She turns her back on him.
II only say | can't marry you as poor
man"
every well: don't marry me, then"
"But ! don't want you to speak in that
way"
And cont want you to speak Mt all
"Sophia, YOU need not be So ill-natured.
She turn, On him. making ready to tell fib
the second. which this time was silahe one,
without any mistake.
90, knew what it is; you have some other
woman out i'm Australia whom you want to
marry and this is all pretcnSeW
Want to marry some other woman out in
Australia" PcrCival cried, aghaSt at the
thought Another woman! Why. Sophia,
look here
He sinks at her feet, and then h" presses her
handkel aief to his lips-not her hand-hum-
bly, sirnfymg that anything about her is
dear to him. And She, though not ill-peased
to see how artstCally she has brought him
to her feet, bites her lip, losses her head,
looks angry still. Then releasing her hand
kerchief from his grasp, and putting it TO her
eyes
81 know til $" She says. "If you really To-
followed me. YOU would not let thi, miserable
mono money stand in our way.
And quite overcome with grief, sh plunges
into her pocket handkerchief, am! j, lost to
his view
He viii haze her out; She will not come.
He will dry her eyes; she does not want to
have them cried. He will maize her stop
crying: she cries all the more At last he
sinks at h,r feet.
"Listcn Sophy; | will do anything YOU
please. ! will make no trouble about any.
thing. ! will marry or not, just a, YOU like,
if you only will stop crying. | can't bear to
see you cry; | can't, indeed
SO, you dear old stupid" she cries, unveil-
ing herself at the moment; and there She is
rosy, blushing, laughing, triumphant. She
has carried her point and made Il 1ooi of him,
and she losses her handkerchief in his face.
and file. from the room, killing him with a
retreating eve he tries to catch her in vain
NV wish is that every reader Of this tale
should. at all convenient places, have the
moral lessons of the passage pointed out
Here vii just remark. that if any read er
is very much in love with woman, and She
wants him 10 do anything which he does not
want to do, he may as we'll do it at once and
save time
One other fragment of their courtship, Of
later date, let me give, just to show how
Sophia wove her web around him. She is
at the piano, and has been singing In Questa
Tomha" to him. They are alone in the little
drawing room. and Perc.val says:
a am so fond of that melancholy music"
Melancholy music. Win you have some
more
"Plcase'
Ripple and dash, her hands Hy across the
keys Ripple and dash. the notes Glance Off
I,a,. 1..,,.l .r IL
Then with one look behind her at him. and n
face full Of fun, she start, of:
WE TWO.
Laugh if your heart beat light, dear 10y;
Alone and merry are we;
For Love is the game and am the toy;
SO laugh, if you like at-ne!
Sing if vour heart beat light, dear boy
Like lark DER a sunit lea:
Let the first trll be Passion, the next be JOY,
And the end of the music-ne,
Dance, if your heart beat light dear boy;
There's nobody here to see
You can be saucv-and can be COW
Dance, with your arms about-mei
Just for one hour of needless joy
Thi, shall our pastime be
Laughter and singing and dancing dear boy;
And only yourself and-nte!"
She ceased and turned up thorough flirt-
ing face, sparkling like n brook when the
sunshine glances on it through moving
leaves. O, she was ready for bit of frolic
just then, our grave Sophia, with her seri-
business and her natural piety, and all the
rest Grave young women frolc at times,
my uninstructed reader, and | would have
Won know if
But Percival more prosaic than SLEEPER
haps more in owe lust then-looked at her