Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-03-03

ouiyi uue training OF Miss BrethertOn, anC
ne Is man of forty eight, with an i'm
mense experience, and she girl of twenty
one, with everything to learn, and as east
~ excited as he is capable Of exciting her
really must keep him in check.
MT. Wallace, when we had sent hel
home across the canal-their apartment /,
on the other side, further up towards the
railway statiOn-could not say enough tC
me OF his amszement at the change in
her.
What have you done to her?' be
asked: I can hardly recognize the old
Miss BrethertOn at all. Is it really not
yet four months since your brother and !
went 10 see her in the white Lady?'i
Why, you have bewitched herr
we have done something, admit, !
said, but the power you see developed in
her now was reused in her when months
ago she trst came in contact with the new
world and the new ideal which Won and
Eustace represented to her.
There, my dear Euatace, have I given
you your due? On, Miss Bretherton SAYS
so many kind things about YOU III
take especial pains to tell you some Of
them next time write.
WALLACE TO kendall.
VENICE, August 81.
my DEAR KENDAL:-This has been q
day OF events which, believe, will inter
est Jou as much as they did me. I told
Nine. de Chateauvieux that | should writ =
to you tonight, and my letter, she says,
must do in p'sce Of one from her for d4y
or two. We have been to To-cello TO-DAY
your sister, NJ. de Chateauvieux. Mis-,
Bretherton and I. The expedition itself
was delightful, but that l have no time to
descibe. l only want to tell you what
happened when we got to Torcsllo.
But first yOu will, of course. know
from Your sisters letter-she tells me she
writes. TO you twice q week-how absorbed
we have all been in the artietic progress of
Miss Bretherton. I myselfnever saw such
a change, such an extraordinary develop
ment in any one. How was it that you
and did not see further into hei? l see
now, as l look back upon her old self, that
the new self was there in germ. But l
think perhaps it may have been the vast
disproportion Of her celebrity to her per-
Torrance that blinded Us to the promise
in her; 1t was irritation with the public
that made Us deliver an over nasty verdict
On her.
However that may be, I have been
making mp my mind for some DAYS past
that the embassy on behalf Of Elvira,
which thrust upon you, and which You
so generously undertook, was blunder on
my part which it would be delightful to
repair, and which no artistic cOnsidera-
tons whatever need prevent me from re-
pairing. You cannot think how divine
she was in Juliet the other night. I'm
perfect and harsh, Of course, here and
there, but still a creature to build
many and great hopes upon, if ever
there was one. She is shaking of
trick after trick; your brother-in-law
is merciless to them whenever they
appear, and she is forever working with a
view to his approval, and also, l think,
from two or three things she has said, with
a memory of that distant standard Of criti-
cism which she believes to be embodied in
you!
an. de Chateauvieux has devoted him
self to her; it is pretty sight to see them
together. Your sister and che, too, are in
separable, and Nine. de Chateauvieux' IS
quiet, Cquible refinement makes a good
contrast to Miss BTetheItOn's mobility.
She will never lose the imprint OF her
friendship with these two people; it was a
happy thought which led you to bring
them together.
"Well, we went 70 TOcellO, and watch
ed for "a opportunity Of getting her alone.
At last Nine. de Chateauyieux gave me
one; she carried eff her husband, Ruskin
in hand, to study the mosaics, and Miss
Brethe1ton and were left sitting under the
outer wall of San Fosca till they ehOuld
come back. We had been talking of a
hundred things-not Of acting at all; Of
the pOmeqranates, of which she had a scar
let mass in her lap; of the gray slum-
berous warmth Of the day, or the ragged
children who pestered us for coppers-and
taen, suddenly, asked her whether she
would answer me a personal question:
Was there any grudge in her mind toward
me for anything had said and done in
London or caused others to say and do for
mt?
"She was much startled, and colored a
good deal, bat she said very steadily L
feel no sort of grudge; I never had any
cluse.' Well, then, l went on, throwing
myself down on the grass before her that 1
night really see her expression, If you
bear me no grudgo, if you feel kindly to-
wards me, will you help me to undo a
great mistake OF mine
''She looked at me with parted lips and
eyes which seemed to be trying to find
ont from my face what l meant. viii
vou.' | said, hurrying on, will you take
from me "Elvira," and do what you like
with it? And then, do you know what
bsppaned? Her lips quivered and /
Thought she was on the point Of teais, but
suddenly the nervousness Of each Of us
seemed 10 strike the other, and we both
laughe1-she long and helpleesly, as II she
could not help herself.
Presently she looked up, with her
great ewes swimming in tears, and tried to
imnress on me thai WAS speaking hastily
that I had an ideal for that play she could
never promise to reach; that it was my
friendship for her that made me change
nv mind; that there might be practical
difficulties now that so many arrangement
bsd been made, and so on. But
would not listen to her. had it al
ready: had an actor to propose to hel
for Msciss. and even the costumes in my
mind, ready to sketch for her, if neeC
were. Forbes, 1 suggested, might anC
would direct the setting OF the piece; Nc
one could do it with more perfect knowl
edge or more exquisite taste; and for her
as We bath knew, he would turn fcen,
painter, if necessary. And so ramblet
on. soothing her shaken feelings and my
own until she had let me beguile her out o
her attitude of reluctance and shrinking
into one at least of common interest.
"But by the time the Others cam
back had not got direc
consent out Of her aud all tn
wav back home she was very silent. !
of course cot anxious. and began TO thinl