The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1886-01-21

sotal experience bad prompted
them. Amy Gray lifted her eyes.
"Duty is often unplearant," she
said, "put il is best fter all, 10
have settled plah aud purpose and
cling to them through everything.
Think what chaos would result if
we all followed our own inclina,icne,
aud, worse than that, whatever
might for tue moment be our ruling
passion"
Florence did not answer for
moment (; her eyes we're rowing
across tho wide sweep of the river,
where a white sail glimmered in the
afternoon sunshine.
20, yes there must be plans, of
course, and they must be carried
ont, or nothing would be accom-
plished. Jut take special cases.
There is cousin Dora. for instance.
Why must she give up her painting
to marry Fred Long, merely be-
cause sho promised to when mere
child aud didn't know what she
wanted OF course l don't say
anything against Fred lie is good
"a gold, but be can't appreciate her
t,lents. Why, be has begun to in
terfere with her plans already Says
she works too steady, and wants
hor to give up some work she had
undertaken in order to be married
sooner. She only laughed over it
OF course she wouldn't cay any
thing, but we can all see she doesu'
love him. How can she, when he
has no sympathy with her ON thai,
subject Now, why can't she say 30,
and be free =
"She feels her responsib lity,'
said Amy's soft voice. "She knows
how devoted Mr.. Long is to ber."
"Sh-h !! here she comes,' whisper
ed Edith Stanley as a bright-fnced
girl Auttered up from the garden
like dainty white butterfly, and
porched herself on the steps. A
dead silence fell on the group for T.
moment, and then Dora turned hei
lauSbiug face toward her cousin {:
Go on, Florry. You we're givinr
/, lecture, weren't youi 1 could
hear you 'oratius,' but couldn =
catch a word of the DISCOURSE
"It's ended now" said Florence
coJlly, mentally resolving pever to
be 30 careless again in mentioning
special cases." "and unless some
one has taken notes you can never
hope TO know anything about it, for
it was quite imprompiu." Aud,
taking her cousin 8 arm, she march
cd her up and down the piazza hum.
ming a gay air.
| Meanwhile, within the windows
the young man sat motionless, biz
finger still between the pages tha,
only few moments ago held him
spellbound, although his world haC
fallen in ruin around him since
Florence began her "lecture.' Out
side the breeze rang among th,
tlee-tops and ruflied the shining
bosom of the river. The Angus
sunshine lay mellow on the grass
but he heard nothing, saw nothing.
The tea bell rang suddenly ant
startled him out of his meditations
The girls disappeared with mucl
chatter and gay laughter, aud h
rose mechanically aud walked lik'
|
one in q dream down through the
garden and on into q little grow,
beyond, his one thought to be alon,
where no human eye could add t.
his torment with lis questioning
glance. There. under the trees
where he and Dora played in child
hood, he walked to aud fro, on,
sentence ringing 10 his ears like
sentence OF doom: "We can al
: see she doesn't love him" 1t wa
, heard to come down from the pin
U nacle where he had imagined him
: self crowned king Of one heart.
When Dora, only fifteen, had Civ
: en- him her hand so confdingly a
= they walked together 10 this very
grove-only it was morning then
] and spring time, and the air was fi
d ed with the scent of wild crab>appl
d blooms, aud she wore them at he
o throat how plainly he could se
her now, all 10 white, aud the pinl
}. Of her cheek 80 like the dainty bios
b soms-he had taken the gift IN