Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-20


motive power wzs madames daughter In
voluntarily pictured DER. since We always
picrur~ those uho appeal individually 70 Us IN
any way. a. e-sar-e featured woman. with
silver threads among the gold, face more
or sss wrtnkles, sharp voice, Dig rough
bands and geuius for snubblng the servants
and hargling With butcher and baker.
On entering uadanies RON ops day In
order 10 s.ttie ny account, aecor'iinS 10 the
custom OF the house. Oeboid slender being
t.-for, The ouen fre with one tiny hand Oh
the mantel. a lavender morning gown turned
the knot Of yellow nair at the LACE OF nef
hssld. from which some cure es-aFth INTO
mare gold There was an air VI luxury AND
leisure about her wnlcb Vas simply delicious
IN view OF ths facts
~My daughter" said madame presently
.Estelle. thus Is Mr. Van huysam you nave
ns.irl me speak OF him
Estelle turrleo a beautiful. naughty face IN
nv direction, bovei slightly. siifileu SaTueiy
.ln1s,-,d. ! might say | have beard you SPEAK
of no one else Plainly the old iaiy nad
,.,.n singing my PRAISES, and the young one
did pot fancy the tuna
dc NOT know what chord thrilled IN nv
heart at those words. IN that SOIL uilhor 'oiee'
catabls Of all melody. OF terse EXPRESSION MOI
how got myself out Of the room man
Who has reviewed q fatal bullet IN the breast
docs nut recognize the sensation Tor the fea
son that he has never experienced IL oeiofe'
he does not know It's import We met oiteh
after this always BY accident, It would seein'
On the staircase IN the ball, and niialiy one
night made - bold Us u knock at the door
al her music room She welcomed me with
her naughty cordiality. If haushtiness can b<
Cordial There were three or tour young
men already in pos.sssion but she placed hei
,.at u.s,r my own. and while she anon threw
oct javelins OF wit for the general behent,
r.,el, Ell the hons share Of attention ihis
was hatteriu2 70 my amour pfopra but
still. whenever ! repeated my call, l hah
ALWAYS to wrestle With q handiui OF
Younger men for the supremacy must
confess that before / reoched this point
1 mad been Obliged to wrestls With
myself to overcome a prejudice Van I
Huysap in love With mis- lsndladys daugh i
tel was an anomaly What would my family /
and friends say to such an afair' WIN
what eyee would they regard II, What
would Miss Douglass think, for whom had
been destined. but who had been hooblede
hoy girl of - when had last seep h"rs VI
course she could care nothing for me, II
would be a wound to her vanity at the most
had never intended 70 marry her. had
never consented, In fact; that bony. shy
school girl, with the big eyes and lank
figure, had never appealed to NE. had
never been able to forgive her for staminer
ing and blllshing Besides. there had been
some rumor that the Golfers OF the family
had suffered during their soJourn abroad,
and had lost sight Of them through their
II Il 10 Il |. f.Rt
The idea would wither all my acquaintance.
However, love not only laughs at locksmiths,
but at ones relations When ! summed myself
In Fsteles presence cared no more for the
worlds opinion. or for that of any Van Huy
sam but myself, than for the inhabitants o.
falkland. but once away from that subtle
magnetism, then my poles changed a~a
thousand reasons for giving her up--if one
can be said to give up what one does not pos
sess Such a thing as Van Huysam mar
ry-ing out OF his sphere had never been known
in the family annals Eut how did | know
TINT Estels would marry n,es To be sure, If
| had teen quite certain of that perhaps |
should have hesitated to proceed further
The far OIL, unattainable and dun is dear to
the soul of mau-Ht least till il Is his to take
or leave One day when We were reading a
Tel Mr. Chester that 1 am engaged and
cannot see him tonight" overheard her say
to the servant MIR Chester does not sp
preciate our author she apologized to Ms,
land am not self sacrificing enough to ac
cept him in exchange tor Browning" 1t &C
CURED to me at that time that there were
other young men belonging to aristocratic
families who had no fear of a mesalliance
with a iandiady's daughter. although to
be sure they might no simply anus
ing themselves as gilded youth were
wont to do Estelle would never go
out With me, she had no chaperon, she said
! wondered what my sster-in law would an
swer should write her TO chaperon my land
lady's daughter to Lohengrin, she who chap
eroned only the very elect, so to sTeak
One evening the conversation drIfted into
the subject Of marriage MIR Chester and
some others were present, and led the theme
II would marry the woman | loved" said
Mr. Chester, If she were a beggar, and my
father disnherited ma on the spot"
"Beggary signifies nothing" returned an
other lone would not ask has she a dot,
but has she blue blood"
An ancestral tree. in short. with more
roots than branches" spoke a third "As
for myself. confess should prefer my wife
to belong to the imI@cunious old families
rather than to the pouveau 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 espe
cIalyi But Bishop stood TO his guns it must
have taken a lot 1t pluck to weather ali he
did from friend and foe
You call tbaj plues e said Chester II
call II obstinacy in hrs case II Was such
all easy thing for Bishop to fall in love that
he might have pleased his mother and given
up The girl.
And what do you think, Mr. Van Huy
Samf askel Estelle
"Ii / think Bishop was fool that i'll
mean-there may he exceptional shop girls
who have all the refinement and culiiv alton.
ali the traditions Of good breeding III thu
world. but bishops choice vas not one nf
these, She vas simply teautiful and he
fool 70 allow himself. at his age to IL
hoodwinked. so to speak, by mere feSh and
blo6lr
II quite agree with you she said
could have bittsn my tongue OUT when
called Bishop fooi-in fact the whole con-
ver~ation had s-erne.i malaprnr-,- to TN. and |
~~nt away with q ~,hse Of defeat Hut l
how corld tell her that although / might
draw the line at the shop ,iri marrying a
landadvs daughter was quit. another AFFAIR."
Every day to le sure | made 90 NV n,Ind
that would -es Esiails no more thai the
ciniruti'~ 10 the case were too great to he
surrnounted tut every dav all the sama
found nle tesIde her without self Denial
enough to resign the infinite charm Of ner
pr'~enre. AMI yet too weak OF will to ancept
all the consequences Of such an alliance
You will say that II could thus Judge
and weigh circumstances | vas not III love
but what is IL, when all your -oui !. sat
urated with thoughts Of one being when VOC
seem TO be not 20 much yourself AZ auY,feri
The heroine in "Wuthering Heights asks.
DO love Hsathclitfet | am HeathehA.
and %, am sure, felt with regard To "a
seils am certain that in time / sboxA
nave overcome all obstacle> that the no4.,l
ity within me would have got the b-tter OF
any nleaner qualities, but every niass ua
ture or temperament IL in Q manner hss own
rate Had not been quite certain a, TIN.
time that | pleased Es:elie, in spite of b.r
gentle oauteur, perhaps ! should have h..
aoe 10 overcome my social scr1iples a,o~.r
fe~ weeks later | VIVA callesf svay ON bu.s-
ness' and 1t was mouth or more b..fors
found II convenient to return Dur1ns th.t
time had written tr EsteIe nor. than arr.
Without ho~ever. receiving any reply Ys
! As sore sht ~as mine. that l mad onlv 70
spesk and meant to speak at last-,o urar
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