The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-03-06

must look at all sides,-you have lost your labor and moncy, suffered intense disappointment and perhaps broken your grandfathers heart. do not think Ae would survive a separatioa from yoa again. Dear ckild, be content to stay at home with us. We love you so much, and you arc all we have.'
 When LiIzie ventured to urge her again to plead ~itA her grandfather to let her go to Paris, her mother said, sterrly, Your grandfather and will no, live to thwart you much longer, Eizzia. Try to endure the rostraiat until we are gone. Then do as you please
 This rebuke cut ker to the heart; at the same time it showed her ambition in another hght. Her own hi shcst hspPi- ness would be the misery of two lonely people who loved hs< in their own way devotedly Her mere existence in their presence made them content, while she felt her own life to be wretchedly empty, and the contradiction of duty and desire became almost unendurable yet tor the time she was able to conceal hex dis appointmen, so skillfauy that the two excellent elders thought tho Paris study a mere caprice that had died of inaAi- tion-it was so comfortable 50 to believe
 Emerson calls discontent a disease of the will, want of confidence, but am not prepared to admit that the diagnosis fits all cases. Lizzie's will was ot the 6rmest temper, and her confidence in her power ts lead larger hse vas boundless, bu: she was deeply discon,ented. You see she had no friends of hex o=z age to talk of her morbid moods with. Mrs Gregory had horror of anything like opea house or open table. She was happy with her father and Lizzie, and constrained and bored with strangers She had lived her life, and nov wished to be at peace. Lizzie had proved by a isw attempts to enlarge her circle that the lite of the elders was fixed in an ada mant routine, and that she was subordi- nate and powerless under their roof A, last her discontsnt crystanizsd into plan to escape from the tyranny of a life that was not less oppressive because it was a tyranny ot love. Her art ambition had been be fflsd, aud she determined to marry. She thought nothing oi love, she had only read about it, which is like looking at the magic-lantern slide with out the lamp. Meo looked thick-skinned and unpleasantly bearded to her, rather ugly, and for the most part undersized but they were what one m married.
 "When the few stiff little men she had formed her sighting estim ate upon came to call on her in the cheerless parlo, which Mrs. Gregory took pains to fit up with every discomfort, Lizzie would calmly wonder which one of them It would be and how violent her mothers opposition would be. Her own mind was perfectly made up to accept the first man who proffered marriage, and abide by hei choice against all opposition.
 "Au tho teachings ot her lifetime about the slavery of m arriage had failed to con. vince her that one master could be as terrible as she was daily finding two. l' was rather pathetic, considering the ig norance of all things it implied, and the meagerness of the hope 1t held waso it ["
 Mature masquerading is always either pathetic or funny"
 come to this resolution her grandfatAex' pexspicuity had discovered tnat she was feeling out of spirits. He was obliged to take . shoxt journey on business, and took Lizzie with him. Tho place the, visited was a town that thought itself [ city etiquette was relaxed as bosttei bucoic innocence, cridcs were ccaseriu. as bs6tted civic sophistication. At the boarding ksuse where Ll1zie and hes grandfathsr had rooms, three girls, also visitors, lived with their various natura. protectors, made friends with Lixxie ss< the four weat about together as girls do with greater show of Intimacy than ex. istsd They had seen moro of the wsrid than she, aad had the light, bright hard. heartsdaess characteristic of the avexags American giri, which international c1isscs classify so@etimes as seklessaess aad sometimes as inspired csmmoo sense One day oae of them ann ounced, with tAe scs.atic delight of damsels of hes type-'OA, girls 1 Jack Vernon is co@ing He's too elegant Liuie vas only med erateiy iase<es<sd h this sxcsss s< ckc4ce ness, zztil that evsniag hex grandfathes said, hear Eilen Vernoa's nephew 1. expected hero. ElleA Vegnoa was a deaa fne.d of yosr Mo,hex's. We must kss, hin up.'
 Bu, before the leisurely old gentle man had hunted Vassn up the alezt young ladies had hunted him down. The girl who knew him introduced him to Lizzie asd the others. have seen hin "a tall, thin maa of about thirty five with large, black, wandering eyes, coarse red mustacbe, and coarse, lustreiess straight rcd hair. His manner was a pretty bad imitation of the san, gene oi an English gentleman. As soon as he smiled any maa would have known what he was and to a woman who only meant to amuse herself. of ceurse it would ne, matter what he was; but Lizzie was not that woman. He had spent his life in jildHg and boosting of tt; 90 he knew at once just about the caiibex of the four girls He took an off hand fancy to Jalia Jackson, the tallest and most aggressive of the four, and showed a disposition to slight Mary Harris, the girl who had an- nounced his coming so raptxousiy-ex.