Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-07-10
MISS CLEvELAND's NOVEL.
The Plot Of Her story, s'The Long
Run"

| Rum"
The Philadelphia Times gives the following a.
the plot OF Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland's
summer novel, 1.-THE Long Run" as nearly as
possible I'm her own words.
| "Rufus Grosbeck is writing a letter." When
| 1t Is finished he throws II, "unsealed and IN
addressed" upon the table and leaves the
/ room. at is, perhaps. four hours before he re-
enters, picks up the letter, still unsealed and
unaddressed"-Miss Cleveland is precise-it
| might have sealed and addressed itself-"and
| puts it in his pocket" Then he "throws on his
head the hat that lies near and walks out Of the
| house." Soon "heis lost to the village and the
village s lost to him. His path stretches before
him into wide rural loneliness" In this wide
| rural loneliness "gleams the white and green OF
| little manse." In the manse "dwell the rector
| one visitor"
The visitor at the manse is Miss Loneworth,
nothing to make herself notorious. except to be
| born and bear her name, which later is the
notoriety, IT being that OF a wealthy and aristo-
cratic family time out of mind 'She Is now
woman in her thirties and somewhat settled IN
her ways" Miss Longworth's visits were in
had mo, a Mise a
ready had Sallie to visit her at her own home
| In the city and had not Sallie returned thence
| with certain delightful veneer of s1U0ir fare
over all her rustic fibre, which reflected rose
| wood lustre on the whole iamily?'-and even TO
only Rufus Grosbeck whose "interest had been
| circulating about the zero point until ten days
ago, although it is more than year now since
Miss Long worth has been periodical visitor at
| Stonewal Singular RUFUS! 'Grosbeck him
self Is thinking it all over now, as, with the
down the ieal.strewn n path "a Unhappy Rufus?
| with that trick which besets every man when
conscience draws all consciousness to the fiery
locus OF one time, with its electric light Of then
| and there he is cropping up and down the
heightened radii, back and forth, inspecting
| with needless, fruitless nicely, trying to
| divert the light from that focus and so dilute
! It's intensity" RUFUS is having a hard time OF
1t is necessary to go back with Rufus Gros-
beck zone year and some months, TO the SUM
mer0f Miss LOngwOrths advent to Stonewali."
"Ihe 0ccas ion is no less Than tina, OF the AN
nual church picnic, regular az the summer SOL
stlce, which at this return is gracea by the
presence OF the guest Oft rectOrs wife" Miss
Cleveland herself declares that "no occasion
could be contrived on which the graceful and
gracious demeanOr of SO fine lady could find
more generous scope among the Brown and
oiycomb constituency, not emitting the miser-
able Woolwiches.' The supreme moment was
at hand. 1.-The generous tables present now
but the lacerated remains of a prodigality of
rereshment." Fed 10 repletion are the Sunday
school children. lone and alI'-even the mi,er-
able w oOiwiches-"and out OF their misery for
the time being, gathered lazily about the church
melodeon, which has been cautiously removed
TO the grove for the purpose of accompanying
the rendition OF gospel hymns after refresh
ments." With colnnendabie sense OF Inc
fitness OF things, Miss Cievelands publish
ers prints the word "nursery" tor
"misery" in the foregoing sentence. The
supreme moment has arrived. ION, my! here
comes Mr.. Grosbeck, cries Mrs. Brown, las All
elderly lady and younger man are seen to ap.
last rector but one and is SO different from the
stonewall people, Mr.. Grosoeck us her
worth at first was not interested in Mir. eros
beck. His very best clothes never relieved
him hin from an air OF seedy REGULARITY in dress
and his efforts at small talk were at best but a
coun terIeit of conversations" His talk wearied
her and, although ''she seemed to him feeble
and fussy anu without beauty, although agree
able enough TO the senses ol sight and hearing
and there Was nothing about her to mold his
attention. he could not TAIL to see that he did
not hold hers. "At the instant OF discovery
that he was boring her with what he supposed
was the most savory pabuum that conId be
see what sort OF talk would interest her."
When his mother and Mrs. Brown afforded
him an opportunity to be alone with Miss
LongwOrth, Kuius lied the way to a little emf
hence where ferns waved untrodden, and
seated EIneline at the base of beech tree,
throwing himself down near her." "It was not
after the LOnSwOrth lady style TO 60 off by
themselves with strange men, and she was
never seen To sit with her back against any
tning.
II am devoured with curiosity to know how
you get through the days. Rufus said, after
":An, you have touched a sore spot there, Mr.
GrOsbecK,' answered kmeiine, with a sudden
responsive earnestness.'
Alter he had talked a good deal and said
nothing GrosDeck added kindly: But you
tainly cannot do any HARM
Iii occurred to him that this was very true,
he studied the aspect OF this gentle woman
sitting there SO easily and strOklng character
iessiy and gently the terms which he had been
laying Ill her lap as they talked. He, like all
men oil his nature and habits, had no concep-
ton of the seii-control and selt-reserve tina:
goes to make up this aspect OF characterless-
ness, the pillow ny when the woman OF the
world soitens all contact with others and
SinOti!ers herself
Miss Longworth was dissatisfied with her
Drln M al d
bodIes-in-partIcular, but no one OF them ever
seemed 10 see her." she was wearied with the
10 herself or anybody else" Sine Iongeu To es-
cape. The inanity OF LongwOrtb-,om mad
tortured her So long" "But spite of COM carlson,
ner a1enute are ever cropping Tor the wild, the
uuniuuercu, the Free!
Il see, Miss Lonsworth. But can nothing be
done about it,? ituIuS said. he did not wait
Tor reply, but fired Goethe at her and then
schiller. Nv mus. Jorge our liberty from our
letters themseives-Iou aud l." "GrosbecK
was nothing II not didactic and at home any
where except in me commonplace"
Miss EIneIine was pieascu. ''ohe exultngy
felt having al last Uecn recOs ulZed
a woman in distinction from LDngworth
That You and T. grew very big To her. land
u certain conferences ran aireauy through
THIS UNUSUAL Abstract and lett a vague but
Constant Impression upon her mind mat be-
tween her and ILLS Oiympan there was
dersis,nuIng, u klnu Oh ethical tutOinlent." she
Was transformed. Even aILer Mrs. GrOsbeck
claimed the attention OF her son home she Was
ainIaDe Ia all, "neNer So radiant, 80 gently ex-
Nouilch ilk as now. Oiu and young were
captivated by her atfecilOnate interest. silent
hurny-hanueu farmers ana bIlSk, critical far
increases We're and ali stOrmed anu Cab
tured by her SOFT seges. She einunateu about
her "a shower vi suDuued scinlliiaLIOns i'll winch
every body lit up
at would be vain to deny that the elegant
Miss Long worth mad great expectations vi Mr..
GrOsUeck. IAN intense admiration OF Tie be-
IiS VINO, II seems 10 her, u;tS calmly eX.
piored her soul has taken possession OF ner."
GrosDeck ieit nothing Oh this, for "he was en-
tITeiy without in zen lions CONCERNING Miss Long
WORTH Ihey We're not aione together until
the day beiore her departure. Then they met
Oh the spot where he mad preached her heart
into ms UNCONSCIOUS possessIOD In his diusltic
way, Dut aIlnleSSy enough, tie told her That
"iove con4uers III the long rum" al ever ones
dalmon'-maglne this word printed III Greek
cnsracters-"puL words into ones mouth, ne
certainly did then.
Aliss LOngwOrth fed on this phrase all winter
ana came back 10 Stonewail with it fresh in ner
heart The next summer. Her mOtuer came
with her. They were Ut church, but AIR. GrOs-
becN even Ia!ied " recognize them. He had
forgotten Miss LongWOr.n. Iney met, how
ever, ana RUFUS found her mucn I'm approved. He
discovered That sue was exceedingly cookbook.
ing.
after all thoroughbred city woman get
UP Is a comforting sight.
ho was still indifferent, but she chung to her
idol.
..tIer faith never fatered that the moment
would come Wnen anOthers recognition Ol this
something would transinute II from subjective
To obJectiNe possession.
IL The DAY before her departure from
StOnew wall the second time. No word had been
spoken by GrosDeck. 1ney met. lie again 1lred
Goethe AT her, LuiS time love song. tie be-
came CONSCIOUS AT last that she was IN Iove-in
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