The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-01-20

that tnere nOuUIy III Ino OiV"N "
wideawake goin' in just nowP"
81 see him, sir" replied the hostler'
"It's my lady's brother-in-law down
from London, sir.
"My cyer' said the first speaker,
she's a caution, amt hep What's he
wear his hair that long forP Like
CELLS, amt itP"
"Well, you see, sir" said the hostler,
in philosophics and reflective tone,
"there's sort as would sooner be
stared at and laughed at than not
stared at all. !"
"That's rare good by-word, host
ler," said the other. 'You shall have
pint for that, anyway" :,
The poet stealthily arose and closed
the window. 1t was sufficiently un-
pleasant to have overheard this CONVEX
sation, and it would have been still
more disagreeable to have 1t known
that he had overheard it. He tried to
dismiss it from his mind, as a piece OF
unmeaning insolence, but it would not
be dismissed. The hostler's philoso-
ply, as il applied to a class at large
was sound. There were many people
in the world-the poet was assured OF
it-who would much rather be laughed
al than left unnoticed. Was he one OF
themP He thought not; he felt GER
tain he was not. But did he look
like one of themp Did he commonly
mass for one of themp He had grown
SO accustomed TO his own sartorial &C.
centricities that he himself had almost
ceased to think about them. He had
: assumed them in the folly of youth as a
! sort of badge and proclamation-a sign
of his Office as Yates. II was possible
o enough, now he came to think OF 1t,
that the cloak, the sombrero, and the
long hair had something to do with the
prodigious roasting he had received at
the hands of the reviewers, for he had
been familiar figure about town and
in society, and was likely to be known
by sight to most of them. When he
thought of the sounding of the drums
which had gone before the publication
of his poems he blushed all over. The
s hostler's philosophy sank deep, and the
poet departed from that wayside inr
carving hard-earned bit of wisdom
with him.
is Mr.. Ronald Marsh justified Wisdom
10 of her latest birth by discarding the ha
and cloak, and by having his hair cut
IN When he had made these changes HI
- = felt absurdly ashamed of himself, anC
y fearful of appearing before people wh'
l had known him in his old aspect; bu
Il he conquered these sensations in Int
~ tie while, and was content TO go abou
a like an average Christian, and to carr.
IN no badge of genius upon him.
ID Such great events from little cause
>, sprinp. that the chance overhearing O
!. a hostler's speech made tender, life
ne long friendship possible for our poet
and thereby so purified him and lifte'
ne him ne to make him at last an eXcep
u. tionally good man very tolerabl
- playwright.
l. Miss Churchill read the poetical con
- edy. and thought well Of it. The prat
49, 80 ticed writer OF melodrama had seen
~ the situations, and, though he ha
All chosen to be modest about his part I
the' Nork. he had enriched its dialogu
% and motive, until the poets smile
y, the work, the rickety child and Ii
y. beautiful woman was very fairly d,
~, scriptive of the changes he had wrougl
I Ho in il for the better. But there wei
elt still things which the stage instinct
j,s ~ the actress rejected, and news came
80 - the poet that Lorrimer and Mi
ru, no Churchill desired to meet him and h
W. W. coliabordteur, with view to the +
''o moyal of certain blemishes in the piec
I'd and then to its early production. Th
~ announcement was at once source
~, ~ delight and uneasiness. To be play,
'N' by Miss Churchill was fame and glo
. ~ enough in itself. To meet MI
- Churchill after his encounter with h
h;s at Tregarthen was not pleasa
;n thing. Looking back at that meetin
,I,n he felt that he had intruded himself u
o sto pudently, and he remembered
,S eo. magnificent snub his insolence had
= Us, :, seryedly received. And apart fro
~, ~; that-not TO pretend disguise about
e. matter which must be tolerably pl'
i''i by this time-Ronald Marsh had be
r, - falling more and more in love with
~. actress since the hour when he had
tor covered her poverty, and he was
'''i this time farther gone than any m
.o, can be with safety. He had admin
neT, anu Htu Nuch hau W Pi'l "Si 4
,o- foundly, and then to admire her ant
"'i and now he had been thinking of
$50 :, for months, while he labored at
inc comedy, with her voice constantly
Mi his ears and her form and face c.
stantly before his eyes.
~ He had listened anxiously to WI
y =, ever news Of her private life
~ reached him. Her record was blal
With less. No reproach came near her.
and II was not easy to encounter
dov again, but he did not see his wa.
in n an avoidance of the engagem'
men William John Smith. merchant
cies murder" and Lorrimer were at
house before him, and Mrs. Tregart
dler sat talking with them when he arriN
dow A mild, sad-mannered lady, who az
now. as Mrs. Tregarthen's companion,
n SO wore readable proclamation OF
and duced circumstances, sat at win'
q are knitting.
that The poet had long since besor
him Lorrimer not TO remind the actres
him his former meeting with her. III
with was Just a chance that she might
an az recognize him, and that he m
of a escape the consequences Of their
II not meeting. II he had only known '
the meeting had led to on her sid
TIM would never have had the courag
ov;nS face her at all. Now, Mrs. Tregar
M he. would almost beyond doubt
raoo1nizad tho nipturpgniIp yOunQ