The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-09-18
UNQUENCHABLE LOVE.
DID Aunt Dorothy and Her Ever
Noble Prince.

"What was all that commOtion about
lust now"
"Oh, nothing 1t was only some
stupid old man who had not been in the
town for ever so long going by, and
Mrs. Brown called us to see. What
have done with my gloves? l knoaO l
brought them in here. Oh, there they
are, under that chair. What plaques
things are!- Coming, Annette, COM
hgn'
"Did she say who the old man WASP"
But the words were spoken to empty
air, for the heroine of the gloves was
already flying down stairs in the best
approved costume for the fashionable
promenade.
Her great-aunt, Miss Dorothy Field
Ing, bent back, meditating in her chair.
She was a cripple of many years stand
inc from rheumatism and Sciatica, and
could move but little without assist
ance.
She was very old; but although her
face had many wrinkles, there was
abundant play of expression about
it yet, and living evidence that
she had by no means outliyed
her faculties. An ordinary face it
never had been, although, equally, she
had never been beautiful. In her youth
some had called her plain, some good
looking, some pretty; but full of life and
expression that face had always been;
full of character, and that no ordinary
one, full of viyacity, the light of which
after four-score years was even yet un-
quenched.
Her eyes were dark brown, sensible,
true and very kindly. Any one with Il
degree of Imagination in their brains
would have felt certain her companions
ship even now would not be dull; so
sympathetic, bright, and, in the evening"
time of life, so placidly content was the
cOuntcnance that lookedfOrth under the
matronly cap and thick grey hair. She
had been full of love and lovers with
the brightest. once upon time; she
had dreamt many a waking dream, had
been attractive and popular; but she
had never married. She was Miss
Fielding now, rs she had been at the
beginning OF the chapter
The young people around her were
on the whole a selfish, preoccupied set,
who had few thoughts to spare from
dress and gaiety, and who would as
soon have thought of giving up one Of
their pleasures to sit for an hour with
Aunt Dorothy as of being hospital
nurses. When she had come amongst
them some months previously, she had
looked forward to being their confidante
on various points. All her soul kindled
vet over a real love affair, and she could
sympathize also with minor matters of
small Irritation and girlish fun. But even
she could make little of these great
nieces of hers. Her innate good taste
recoied from their fastness, with UNI
scrupulous stratagcms, their loud
spoken Immature toward other girls,
and the utter absence of all love,
worthy the name, from their scheming
worldly, and unwomanly love affairs.
Their father had taken this house,
which was large and handsome for the
four months season at Fairbeach, and
as he was very fond of his aunt and
rooms could be spared for her use, he
had asked her to come to them for that
period. Old Miss Fielding, being very
comfortably off, had never sunk into
the immovable habits that might have
been expected from her age and intrm-
tiles, and she accepted the invitation
and enjoyed the change. She had long
ago made her intentions plain as re-
garded the money she had to leave; ii
was all to 60 to this, her only nephew,
with the exception only of few lega-
cies to old servants, friends, and God
children. One of these last was heI
niece Laura; and whether it is that peO-
pie are by nature like their God-parents
or not, Laura was very much the incest
of the four Miss feelings. She had q
happv disposition, and could bear a dis.
appointment without going into depth;
of despair or getting thoroughly cross
until the next diversion dawned, a!
her sisters did. 1t was, alas, very
uneducated character, for Mr. Field
inc was easy-going and over-indul
gent TO his children, while theil
mother was a worldly woman o
ladv-like exterior, and very comfort
able principles as regarded coarse
minded schemes for marrying he
DAUGHTERS well
Laura, therefore, as might have besl