Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-04-06
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1.-The others are close behind now," he
said. shall we wait for them:"
He spoke almost coldly: Valerie simp
" wheeled her horse. and rode back toward
the advancing party, and Beauregard fol
lowed suit
'sWen. your two horses have got wings.'
cried Mrs. Dudley. addressing both, and
Max said, smiling:
s'They are both of them ready fc1 ano:h.
er gallop, and double the distance Zoe is
6 splendid slayer, and next to Prince, the
fieetest horse in the stable; and then Va
lerie weighs about as much as thistle
down"
brain and all." asked Valerie, wicked
w. They were all riding on now at a walk
ing pace, Beauregard on the girls right
hand.
Nay he answered, gravely; 81 only
spoke of physical weight"
She laughed.
Did you2 But it would be equally apt
the other way, wouldn't it,"
That comparison is yOurs-not miner'
said Beauregard, drily.
Thanks" was the retort, "for a neat
application of the old proverb about the
cap and the ftp
And she turned, laughingIy, to speak to
Lord WestbrOOk on her other side. She
knew she had forced a meaning never in
tended. Max Beauregard was far too
chiyalrOu5 for such a gibe; she knew she
had veXad and even wounded him; but he
should not think she was trying to win
him: yielding sometimes. as she had yield
ed little while ago, uncOnSciouSly, in
evitably TO his power over her, she recOiled
nfterward, and in a terror of being miSn-
terpreted rehuffsd him in some such man
ner as this Stung to reckleSSnesS by they
yer bitterness Of her own suffering.
She had been startled, too, by the look
that met hers when Max Beauregard first
rode up to her; his close clasp of her hand
later, and sudden release of it, as if, sur
rendering himself for one second to
warmer feeling for her, he had condemned
the instinct the next. Was it q blending
of past and present; the old tenderness liv-
ing still: the glamour of her beauty intlu-
cnciug him against his better judgment,
as all men are influenced by exceeding
beauty2
1t stung her to madness, that if she had
power to stir this mans heart at all il
should be to no deeper homage than this.
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