Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-08-16

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speech!'
II was trying to select the right adjective y
"Wel, you need not shower down a basket
full, merely to pick out onen
"But, confess, now, you are merely the
least captivatedp
"Not the least
"No little palpitations at the sound of her
namel No short breath or upturned eyesl
No vague longings or billowy unrestg"
"Nonen
"You slept well last night@
Perfectly"
"No dreams of a sea-green palace, with an
Undine in wavy hair, and big brother with
fan-coral plumes, who afterwards turned
into a sea tlogP
"No, cut the suppers You tempt mo with,
and preserve my digestion.
"A great mistakel One good dream in a
nightmare viii give you more poetical IDEAS
than you can paint in a month; mean a
reasonable nightmare, that you can ride
not one that rides you The imagination
that seems to scintilate nothing but beautiful
images"
81 don't care to become a red-hot iron for
the sake of seeing the sparks might radi-
ate.n
"Prosaic againl Now sin and sorrow have
their advantages; the law of compensation,
you see. Poets, according to Shelley, learn
in suffering what they teach in song. And,
if noyelists were always scrupulous, what do
you think they would write? Only milk-and-
water propreties, tamely virtuous plati-
tudes. Do you think that Dickens never
saw a tap-room, or a thief's denl-or that
Thackerayiis unacquainted with the Cave of
Harmonyl Ho,-all the piquancy of like
comes from the slight soupcon of yeickedness
wherewithal we season it,
II like amazingly to have you wander of
this way; you are always entertaining
whether your ethics are sound or notln
Don't trouble yourself about ethics You
and l are artists; we want effects, contrasts;
we must have our enthusiasm, our raptures,
and our despair"
lyon ride theory wells
"Now, my dear Oakhurst, listen Kindly
say it, but you are triac too Innocent too
placid, lin short too youthful. To paint.
you must be intense; to be intense, you must
feel; and-you see come back on the sweep
of the circle--to feel, one must have incen-
tives, objects"
$50, you will roast your own liver to make
pate"
"Better so than to have the Promethean
vulture peck it out for you"
"Well, if am what you say, what am to
doc l am docile to-day"
"Fall in love-
a have tried the experiment"
ut must have been with some insipid girl.
not out Of her teens, odorous Of bread and
butter, innocent of wiles, and ignorant OF her
capabilities and your own"
I,,,L ,t;n
and ann
"Bless mel that was a sight The sleeping
waters did not show dimple, Why man,
you talk about love with that smooth, shep-
herds face Of yours, that contented air, that
smoothly sonorous volcel Corydon and
Phyllisl You should be like a grand piano
after Satter has Numbered out all its chords,
tremulous with harmonies verging so near
to discord that pain would be mixed with
pleasure in the divinest proportions"
0akhurst clapped his hands. "Bravo,
Palettoi You have mistaken your vocation;
you should turn musical critic"
II think ! can put together the various
parts Of your lecture for you, said Oakhurst
"You think | see nature in her gentler
moods, ard reproduce only her placid feat
ures. You think / have feeling-though
latent-undeveoped My nerves need a
banging, just enough not to wholly unstring
them. For that pleasant experience 1 am to fall
in love. The woman who has the nature to
magnetic, overpower, transport me is Miss
Irene Norcross / am, therefore, to make
myself as uncomfortable as possible, in pur-
suit of pleasure | know beforehand l can
never obtain. Then from the rather prosaic
level Of Scumble. | shall rise to the
I'D ,ly.
Salvador Rosa. VOLTA toutl"
"An admirable summary. You have lis
tened well But tell me now, what do you
Think Or do you wander like little bro,'k,
without any will Of your own, between such
banks as Fate may hem you in withal"
II will be frank with you. Until last
reason never had serious, definite purpose
IN life. fell in love then with the most
charming Of country girls"
al know" interrupted Palette, in a denser
cloud than usual, "a village Luey-a violet
heath a messy stone, fair as a star when
only one, you know the rest Of it. She
was fair because there was only one"
"Silence, Mephistophelesl 1t is my turn;
let me finish my story. Ineyer told her my
love-
"But let concealment-"
"Attend TO your pipe; it is going out.
did look, however. The language of the eyes
needs no translation. l often walked,
sketched, talked with the girl, and felt that
there was the completest sympathy between
us. knew her feelings towards rue, as well,
/ am persuaded, as she knew mine. l gave
her no pledge, no keepsake; only managed,
by an artifce, to get her tintype at travel
ing saloon
Palette laughed, "Let me see it, most
modest of lovers!n
You shan't. Your evil eye shall not fall
upon it. After | came to New York, took
a room and began working up my sketches"
"Where l found you brushing away for
dear life"
Il meant to earn enough to 60 abroad, if it
were only for one look at the great pict-
ures of which 1 have so often dreamed.
Then meant to come back"
"To find your Lucy married to a school
master, and with five sickly children"
"No she is but seventeen; she viii not
marry till l see her"
Il admire your confidence, Oakhurst; it is
an amiable weakness"
| "After had been here month or two,
/ was filed with an unutterable sense OF
uneasiness. Something was wrong, | felt
assured l daily kissed the sweet lips"
@Of ten cent tintype." Norcross did not
notice the interruption. II thought the eyes
looked troubled; they even seemed to re-
/ proach me, yet the soul that beamed in them
was as tender as ever
"Diableriel believe that you are spirit
ualist.n
"At last l could bear it no longer. shut
up my room and took the cars for Ralston. "
II remember; that was when you gave out
that you had gone TO see your aunt"
/ II found Agnes seriously i'll. / won't de
tain you longer than to say | did not leave
her until she was completely restored-until
my long-cherished feelings had found utter
ance, and we were bound by ties that moth.
ing but death VIII divide"
@Really, you are growing sentimental The
waters verify are moved
THAT is because an angel has troubled
them, You viii mock, ! know, hut it !: