Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-06

moved the dead weight Of her desolation.
Whereat the crowd cheered, and wept,
and yelled, and swore with excitement,
and blessed their stars that they were there
to see.
And then, in haze Of noise and excite
ment, they were led through the cheering
mob to where a carriage and pair were
standing, and were helped into it, Mrs.
Thomas being placed on the front seat and
Lady Holmhurst and Augusta on the
back, the former with the gasping Dick
upon her knee And now little Dick is
out Of the story.
Then another event occurred, which we
must go back little way to explain.
When Eustace Meeson had come to
town, after being formally disinherited. he
had managed to get billet as Latin.
French, and Old English reader in a pub
fishing house of repute. As it happened.
on this very afternoon he was stroIling
down the Strand, having finished a rather
stisT days work, and with a mind filed
with those idle and somewhat confused
odds and ends of speculation with which
most brain workers viii be acquainted.
He looked older and paler than when we
last met him, for sorrow and Misfortune
had laid their heavy hands upon him.
When Augusta had departed, he had dis
covered that he was head over heels in
love with her in that unfortunate way
for ninety-nine times out of hundred, it
is unfortunate which many men of
susceptibility do occasionally fall in love
in their youth-a way that brands the
heart for life in a fashion that can no more
be effaced than the stamp of a hot iron
can be effaced from the physical body.
Such an affection-which is not altogether
of the earth-wil, when it overcomes a
man, prove either the greatest blessing of
his life or one of the heaviest, most en-
during curses that a malignant fate can
heap upon his head. For if he achieves
his desire, even though he serve his seven
years, surely for him life will be robbed
of half its evils. But if he lose her, either
through misfortune or because he gave all
this to one who did not understand the
gift, or one who looked at love and on her
self as a currency wherewith
place and me I,.-l,:I5 81 G1lya, :::=.= he IL,
be OF all men au.O J the most miserable
For nothing can give hiia oacH that which
has gone er0@ him.
.1ust;ce had never seen AG.-us;,a but
twice il his l.ea but then passion does got
necessarily depend upon constant previous
Intercourse with is OBJECT. Love at first
si.-.:, : common ea0lSA, an III this in
Stance Hustaoe was not altogether dapan-
dent upon the sDoken words of his aciored,
or on MS reco, lection OF her very paIpab.e
beauty, for hs. .i,tl her boots To those
wi:o know something of their writer-suf
fc.ent, let rs say. 20 enable him to put so
approximate value on his or her senti-
ments, SO as to form more or less accur-
ate guess as to when he is speaking from
his own mind, when he is speaking from
the mind of the puppet in hand, and when
he is merely putting a Casa PERSONS
books are full of inform alton, and bring
that person into closer and more init
mate contact with the reader than any
amount of personal intercourse. For
whatever is best and whatever is worst
in an individual will be reflected in his
pages, seeing that, unless he is the poorest
of hack authors, he must of necessity set
down therein the images that pass across
the mirrors of his heart
ITO be oOuhinued1