Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-05-02

constrsint, which was the sign Of nature
reconciled to life in the best sense. / am
going to mention trivial occurrence, but
to me il ia significant / saw her one morn.
ing greatly interested in an account OF q
wedding robe, its color, trimmings, and the
usual seuuels-just as seriously interested
az the most dressy of her sex could have
been. A little while after, when piece of
poetry was read aloud BY somebody in the
company-one of Tom Hoods | think, Just
published, little fragrant written in that
note Of mingled humor and sadness which
was so much his OWL saw Sophis's face
with a ripple of fun on it passing, with the
poem, into seriousness. 1t seemed as il
the soul of the poet, in its double mood Of
| laughter and tears, were expressing itself
in her lovely f,s,ures. 1t is q small mat
ter to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, perhsps-but
il impressed me, and it was indeed dis
closure of her character. She had frank
spontaneous sympathy with life all round
and in every part, such as never met IN
any one beside herself By reason of this
virtue she was always interested in what
was going on, and the very quality which
subdued her individuality in one way made
her character fresh and delightful in an
other. Sophia charmed, By her constella.
ton of charms, the grouping of virtues
and graces of body and mind, which seem
ed to make her sympathetic with the most
opposite persons, and at home in the most
various scenes.
Was there key to ell thisf or was she
q Pho nix in muslin, paragon, Admirable
and inexplicsbls2 1t Is my conviction
that her mothers constant lectures on the
subj ct women making themselves fasci
ua,ing-lectures which fell on ears tina,
interpreted every word into new and higher
language than the originsl-gave bent tc
her disposition which made her what she
was The ht,ls morning room DISGUST
tons, with ball rooms and lawns and
dinner tables for texts, concerning dresse.
and marriages and carriages and fortunes
and smiles and pastures and witty answers
and omplaissncy-these all Sophia car
ried up to higher level of idea and aapi
ration. She resolved to charm Others with
happiness and goodness Of view, not mer'
society couques,s. Mrs Barbara Temple
reflections were delivered in the spirit o.
Lord Chesterfield, low and selfish under q
thin disguise OF good humor. Sophia. BY
the instict of lofty nature, resolved Il
2 use the means her mother recommended
but with different end in view. Aue
; here was the pleasing originality Of be-
character; she used worldly methods fel
III oct unworldy ends The polish, the grsc
the social, attractions. the accomplishment.
Q literature aud wit which saints ELMER de
epise or at best only tolerate, she used a
the very m aterisl out of which her nobl
purpose must be- woven. And so she re
manned rather worldly than otherwise Of
: the face Of her life, and serious people de
clsred she nee!ed conversion. But in tn
secret interior Of her intentions she wa
truly devoted, trying, by the spell OF
:. beautiful wom snhood, to make those will
+ whom she lived better aud happier. Ger
8 tain wise men explain the miracle of Pente
r cost as having lain in the ears that heard
not in the tongues that spoke,ths listener
, clothing the speech with q sense of thei
8 own. SO worldly, good humored Mrs
: Barbara Temple said her shrewd say; bu
= the words as they battered from her lips
D caught from the daughters finer ear |
L. music and q meaning which the speake
; never understood.
With SLOW delight with many a blush
with stolen glapces and few shy words, to-
courtship OF Perciyai and Sophia progress
ed, and each had commended the other i
; their Utmost souls loug before any love wa
expressed. Brent ssnior had quite recov
cred his spirits in the presence OF Mrs
Barbara Temple, aud his easy moving
laughter wss heard in dining room anc
drawing room "a Of cid. Accordingly, Il
and fro, from house to house the tsmiIie
went; and the young people had plenty o
OCCASION Of pski & love. though it was .
yet q love uuspokeu.
There are, then, two schools OF lover
those who plunge, and those who ioch; ant
those who plunge are wise, but those whit
inch are wiser.
Percival, either By foresight or simpl
. through circumstances, was an 'incher.
] Pleasant wor6 he tJuni 1t Bat 10 a grave
history like mine to detail every nod glance
blush, smile, sigh, and 60 gu. o: are gray,
students like my reSdsEs to he 60 trihe,
q with2 Let 10. vita wise reserve, be con
tent, lar this chapter at least, with on
closing scene.
End Of January. Wsslsss, much rail-
| and windy; time, 1.l5 D. u scene, diniDI
room ct Mts Barbara remplea; perss~
. present, Percival aud Sophia.
, reader, hey have been hesa G4s.> -Iar
| rose from lunch. tsl+iaG ~ . inc re
or nothing, but grow .'ut anytnit
r wsrme7-At lGsGt p g warmer 81
sarmer-eyer. erclyal was GROWN
49, boe 80 -loment He believes Il
: w;ndow Ae. SO stands the two at II
a. watching the drops that cour
" d the panes, and IDLY racing drc
i aeeinst drop. Sophia wins three droI
. running.
"Ah," Percival remarks with q sigh, "
j 10 no use. / can never stand against you
y Sophia thinks she understands this. ar
3 signs, too, family, bushes about the tho
sandth part of tint, drops her head sboI
! the milllon'h part OF an inch, He sees al
:. What q stormy day" he says next
y Very stormy"
\ "And yet it does not seem dull. not !
here. does itr' Artful young mani he loy
cred his voice toward lhs'end of the Sci
tence. as if the very walls must not hea
bat abe only.
Job, no; it does not seem q bit dull
. here shs responds. There 10 q reauli
; lovers way Of saying the sAne thing
and fro, the siVpletons mean TO iutims'
their entire oneness IN all tbisgs, spoke
or thought.
Sophia looked very lovely just at tbs
moment with the fear that 10 joy hoverip
over her, casting lights on her eyes. flasher
on her cheek, And ma King her every sligh
est motion teudes end gentle. He feel