News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
LOVE IN "THE LONG RUN"
Miss Clevelnnd's Novelistic Trial Trip-A
Sentimental Summer Plot.

The proof sheets of Miss Cleveland's
new novel have been read. The plot of
the story is laid in a small town, prob
ably not far from Philadelphia. The story
| Is called "The Long Run, and begins in
| the middle with letter written by the
! hero, Rufus GrOsbeck, in which he
heroically tells the heroine that he does
not love her. Miss Longworth, whom
he thus refuses. is a young lady brought
up in the straightest sect of blue blOOds
and has worn the Longworth name as a
garment. The idea that she should
fall in love with a young student who
has small liking for women of fashion
and position is naturally CALLING to her
sensitive nature, but she cannot help
| herself.
She succumbs at their first meeting at
church picnic, at which he quotes
German to her and breaches q small
sermon, which induces her to be not
only Lougworth but also woman.
Happy in her new resolution, she sees
him depart and then turns to the picnic
rabble and delights it by the gracious
ness of her manner and the tact which
she displays in amusing it. GrOsbeck
goes off and thinks no more of her,
but occupies himself with an essay in
which he proves to his own satisfaction
that the armament mentioned in Genesis
is the earth's crust.
At the second meeting, which was
also a-field, she suggests that his not being
society man may account for the fact
that he had not called on her, and he
replies: eff any one is to blame 1t must
be Rufus Grosbeck. He is bad fellow,
Miss Longworth, a person who makes
no more of a blunder than of a crime.
Yet, somehow, he always seems to stand
in his own light. What do you think
of him, anyhowp
How can l think anything of so
The next summer found her again in
StOnewall and again they took up the
thread OF their lovemaking under the
trees. They talked of Elaine, and in
the discussion he let drop the phrase,
'Love con9uers in the long run" To
that she clings. 80 these two talked
and walked in all the glorious harvest
days freely as boy and girl. She saw
Grosbeck every day of her stay In Stone
wall" 1t was in one of these rambles
that the thought came to him that she
might love HIM. "He opened his eyes
to meet hers. In an instant that hap
pened which he would an hour ago have
deemed as possible to occur as for the
sun to whirl into the earth-his lips
rested and fingered on hers"
''Do you love me, Emeline?" he said.
The voice sounded out clear and
solemn, as if before the marriage altar
and before world of Longworths, 81
do" Then he writes the letter with
which the book opens and she returns
to her city home. He prudently does
not send the letter.
After she goes away he finds his love
beginning to grow, and follows her to
her city home, where the luxury of the
so overcomes him that he can
no more assert his independence. She
has him at her mercy; but she has
learned from him to be a woman before
being Longworth, and Glove conquers
in the long run"
The story occupies only thirteen short
and is occupied almost entirely
with the duet above described. No at
tempt has been made to do more than
sketch Mrs. Longworth the rector and
his wife and the others who come into
the story. No time is spent in describ-
ing the dress and appearance of the
heroine, nor is her beauty extolIed
The love passages are quiet and filled
with German. Miss Cleveland herself
dips into Greek and Latin and develops
her characters with a wealth of SMILES.
There are many passages which abound
in the philosophical diction of which
the writer is so fond.