Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-05-23
whero lay his mortal part lay fresh flowers
were strewn BY some tender and untofget-
ting hand.
CHAPTER V.

phiA and PerCiyal parted, and time had lef,
its marks upon other personages OF our
story besides Its heroine. Without any
question Sibyl had grest'v advanced in
personal E;tractivenesS. ne7 dSrk superb
style was developsd and heightened ga che
drew nearer TO the meridian OF life. No
doubt the early bloom OF youth was gone;
but her form had become more finely
rounded, aud her carriage had become
more stately. Shs WAS beautiful woman
of the world; no man ever looked at her
once only. But her manner had become
more reticeut than ever. She relied on
her beauty for place among her sex, and
was at no pains 10 cultivate conversation,
letters or any branch OF the art of pleasing,
except the setting forth oil personal charms.
Had her manner and her talk been what
she might easily have made them, she
would hsve showed out as beauty, indeed,
in the prime of her wousnhood. For 81.
byl had no lack of sense nor of education
either; but proudly reposing on her incon-
testible loveliness, she rather withdrew than
put forward her other attractions. Still she
could display herself when she pleased;
one occasion | we'll remember. when she
met in company g vivacious Italian. who
was extremely struck with her appearance,
and paid her profusion of gay compli-
ments. at last his English failing, he
tried to enhance his polite speeches By some
poeticSl quotation in his own language,
adding that he was afraid she would hard
" understand what he had said On the
instant Slbyl answered him with a return
quotation. as understood from the same
author Not knowing Italian, could not
appreciate her readiness; but thst the re-
tort was lively and happy was sufficiently
proved By the foreigners delight. His
eyes sparkled with pleasure.
You know more than do" be ex.
claimed, olapping his hands. You are q
woudsr--s wonder, my dear lady"
But Sibyl relsFsed into silence, and treat
ed her success with a sincerity Of inditfe-
renee which showed how lightly she regard
ed any mental achievement.
Car meanwhile charged in q way the
very opposite. She had grown thinner;
and her frame, which was large oue, was
more prominent. Cn- had gone in for in
teIlectusl ideas, aud was improving her
mind diligently, and was fast obtaining in
our little town q reputation OF being what
is called q woman srights woman. She had
become rather 100 fond Of talking in mixed
companies on high subj and so fell into
the very error her lively little mother had
foreseen ten years before
AS to Cav" said Mrs, Barbara one day.
"she is turning schoolmistresS. She takes
lectures. wonder she does not few los
sons in action" the little satiriSt; 1T
would become her drawing room and din
ner table finely Any actor or popular
preacher could tell her how to arrange hor
elbows whom abe ia discourSing. | can't;
for nv education, dears, was neglected.
in that particular department We only
danced and sang and fitted when was a
girl. Why | remember once nesting q
man who talked OF Peru, and, | assure you,
dears, thought it was somewhere in Ger
manyl But what mstter2 The world
was oars, aud we had only to live and en-
iov and make Others enjoy. Aud we did
II, girls; we did IT, o, that ! was young
sgain"
Caroline Doolittle, however, was not very
popular in Kettlewell; aud this was un,
doubtedly owing, not to her sound mental
ultiga'ion-whch was as genuine as it
WAS laudsble--hut to the nisohiOVous 'ha'
hit she had OF bringing her AttGinments in
to prominence. | suppose she aid it to
m ,nifest her superiority over the rest Of the
women: out, unfortunately, the
result was that, while she yeXad the wo-
men which she did not mind. she repelled
the me1 which she dil mind very much.
One man, however, aid her the tribute
of q homage which WIS unceasing as the
voce of a waterfall Morning, noon and
night Eyerton sounded the praises of his
wife. He had grown stout and healthy
looking, and be Was as great a sinpleton
as ever. Indeed, his gikgle had got new
notes OF imbeeility in 1t, and was nov a
perfect wonder of vscuity in unarticulated
sound He had slight drop in his lower
lp TOO, and fixed Rmile which might
have made his very dog understand what
mental weakness ia in mankind But Bg'
erton adored biz wife. They had three
children nov, and tom infancy he pointed
these children to their mamma Os the sole
model OF excellence ani strength. Eyer
ton was very iond OF nursing his children,
and would walk up and down with them by
the hour, telling them at brief intervals to
look at their mamma.
"Trem endously gifted woman. he would
sometimes say to his friends Then, drop,
ping his voice like Guy Fawkes in TIE con-
spira,ors' room. Sometimes | zee her
reading TOR two hours at n stretch. | have
timed her by my thermometer. What
wonld have become Of NE ii had not mar
ried that woman ! don't like 10 say. |
hnL," IGgsriou wonld add, solemnly, 81
hiRL. with ny disposition and my way OIL
looking al thinga, you knoS should have
gone to the bad
Egerton had slao given himself up greatly
to the study Of cooking, and had q little
room fted ny with \ stove, and hung
round with po's and pans ! think this
must have baeI aho"t tue sine when tie
great Sever was teaching Us Eaglish peo-
Die how to work wonders with soup and fish
and fowl. Ia this room i,geton you'd con-
coct rare dishsy, generally coming out with
q very red face, and nov and then upset
ting a boiling sauce pan down his thighs;
on which occasions he would rush from the
room shriekiDg, and declare that it was
really too bad and he you'd give the whole
thing N E2erion tad qn ijaH Of work.
ing a reform in the present way Of cooking
red mullet
"A delicious FISH," ne would say: "but
under the present system it is sent up in
paper; treated. in fact. as il it was pack
age. 1t is intoiersble the; delicious 6sh
should be treated as if it were package"
Time, which vas writing its record on
our younger people, hsd rot forgot to pen
Gil deeper lines on Archibald Goldmore.
Visible signs Of aiVancingyears we're upon
him, and the elephaniue frmness Of his
tread was going. he stopped; his hair
not 81 gray az once it had been. Goldmore,
the wise, the sensible, the millionaire, was
dyeins his bsir to keep up the appearance
of youth beside bic lovely wife. All lovely
young women. what fools you make Of US
whitening. elderly menl
And even the little mother, go long Un-
DYING in hsr energy, began to show symp-
toms Of decline The light step was tall,