The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-06-15

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been destined, but who had been a
hobbedehoy girl Of thirteen when | had
last seen her? OF course she could
care nothing for me; it would be a
wound to her vanity at the most;
had never intended to marry her; Ihad
never consented, in fact; that bony,
shy schoolgirl, with the big eyes and
lank figure, had never appealed to me;
had never been able to forgive hel
for stammering and blushing. Besides,
there had been some rumor that the
Golfers of the family had suffered dur
ing their sojurn abroad, and / had lost
sight of them through their own neg
ligence. But a landlady's daughter!
The idea would wither all my &C
quaintances.
However, love not only laughs at
locksmiths, but at ones relations.
When Isunned myself in Estelle's pres
ence / cared no more for the world s
opinion, or for that of any Van Huy-
san. but myself, than for the inhabit.
ants of Flatland; but once away from
that subtle magnetism, then my poles
changed. saw thousand reasons
for giving her up-if one can be said
to give up what one does not possess.
Such thing as a Van Huysam marry
ing out of his sphere had never been
known in the family annals. But how
did know that Estelle would marry
me? To be sure, if l had been quite
certain of that, perhaps | should have
hesitated to proceed further The far
off, unattainable, and dim is dear to
the soul of man-at least till it is to
take or leave.
One day, when we were reading a
new poem together, card was brought
in. "Tell Mr.. Chester that am en-
gagged, and can not see him tonight, "
| overheard her say to the servant.
"Mr. Chester does not appreciate our
author" she apologized to me, "and
| asl not self-sacrificing enough to ac-
cept him in exchange for Browning. "
1t occurred to me at that time that
there were other young men belongin g
to ar;stocratic families who had no fear
OF mes05liance with a landlady' S
daughter, although, to be sure, they
might be simply amusing themselves
as gilded youth were wont to do. Es-
telle would never go out with me; she
had no chaperon, she said, / wondered
what my sister-in-law would answer
should | write her to chaperon my land
lady's daughter to .'Lohengrin." she
who chaperoned only the very elect, so
TO speak.
One evening the conversation drifted
into the subject of marriage. Mr..
Chester and some others were present,
and led the, theme. Il would marry
the woman loved" said Mr.. Chester,
eff she were a beggar, and my father
disinherited me on the spot. ;"
"Beggary signifies nothing" re-
turned another. Zone would not ask
has she dot, but has she blue blood. y
can ancestral tree, in short, with
more roots than branches" spoke a
third. "As for myself, | confess !
should prefer my wife to belong to the
impecunious old families rather than
to the m0uveau richie Poor Bishop,
how his world came down upon him
when he fell in love with a shop-girl,
with neither blood nor bullion, his
mother especially! but Bishop stood to
his guns; it must have taken lot OF
pluck to weather all he did from friend
and foe"
"You call that pluckp" said Ches.
ter. II call it obstinacy, in his case.
1t was such an easy thing ior Bishop
to fall in love that he might have
pleased his mother and given up the
girl"
"And what do you think, Mr.. Van
HuysamP" asked Estelle.
ZIP 1 think Bishop was fool; that
isl mean-there may be exceptional
shop-girls, who have all the refinement
and cultivation, all the traditions 0.
good-breeding, in the world; but
Bishops choice was not one of these.
She was simply beautiful, and he was
a fool to allow himself, at his age, te
be hoodwinked, SO to speak, by mere
flesh and blood"
Il quite agree with you," she said.
l could have bitten my tongue out
when | called Bishop a fool-in fac
the whole convers alton had seemed
malapropos to me, and | went away
with sense of defeat. But how coulC
| tell her that although l might draw
the line at the shop-girl, marrying {
landlady's daughter was quite another
AFFAIR." Every day, to be sure, made
up my mind that I would seek Els
telle no more, that the difficulties ir
the case were too great to be sur
mounted; but every day, all the same
found me beside her, without self
denial enough to resign the infinite
charm of her presence, and yet too
weak of will to accept all the conse
| quences of such an alliance.
You will say that if could thus
Judge and weigh circumstances | was
not in love. But what is it, when al
your soul is saturated with thought
of one being, when you seem to be no
so much yourself as another. The he
roine in Wuthering Heights asks
DO love Heathcliffe? am Heath
cliffe;" and so, am sure, l felt will
regard to Estelle. / am certain tina
in time l should have overcome al
obstacles, that the nobility within m,
would have got the better of any mean
er qualities; but every mans nature
or temperament is in manner hi
own fate. Had not been quite Ger
tain at this time that | pleased Estelle
in spite of her gentle hauteur, per
haps should have been able to over
come my social scruples sooner. 4
few weeks later | was called away Oh
business, and it was month or NOR
before found it convenient to return
During that time had written to Is