The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-08-10

] Agnes was angry, very angry Cht hAA
been most cavalierly treated as she oonsid.
cred. and louged for some one on whom
( % vent her ire.
! What did be mean by running away
without even a word Of thanks for the
civiliiy they had shown him. He must
have Thought she was making eyes at him
just as If she cared a tig about him, or
I looked upon him from any other point Of
view than that Of guide TO the East Of
! London. How horribly conceited men
were-oh. there comes Gus; he might have
I left US alone for one day, aud she went TO
open the door and quarrel with her visitor
T IL possible. Gus was a little BIT CrOss too,
F for Florrie had had to join her relations in
+ Normandy. and he and the Oldhams were
F left alone, aud things were Tat in eonse-
queuce, though be fsneied be should ike It.
Its very nice being together again, lsn
il, Asgie ?" be said a. he entered
Il dou't think SO at all, she answered,
promptly II dare say You dou't miss Mr..
Nugent, but | am very dell without Fiorrie,
and 50 are you, should think, she pro
ceeded, rather spitefully.
Il only want you, As You know, he said
not as pleasantly as usual. "Nugeut has
promised TO come and marry as, and | really
think you might make up your mind to It
soon.
Marry vou-ucver have told you
so = dozen times al least which vas an
exaggcratioal, and now after flirting With
FiOTris sll the summer, you have the i'm
pertinence TO ask me again, and 10 ask Mr.
Nurent TO marry us, just a. IL We were eu-
gagged don't wondsr he went away. I'm
not surprised at al now, aud Agnes sud
denlv flung herself on the sofa and burst
into tears
A. 20 Gus. be stood and gaEed al her
opcn Inou,hed. For one thing he had
never seen her cry since she was Tiny
child, for another, new idea had pene-
,raie,i his slow brain. and the world seemed
inside siowa "Florrie-had he atrted
with her No. be had oHly becn blind
lie had a strange Rcw feeling for some
time. which had alternately made HIM
happy and miserable, asd which must have
beea-' Here his oscillations we're in-
terrupied by Agnes, Who had lcii of crying
and recovered ber tempeT.
Don't stand there with yosF noatt
opeB, Gus, she cried, '.yoa DO look 50 silly.
just make up your mind, once and for all,
which of Us you really care tor. and take
the next boat for Disppe The Marshes
will be there till the eud Of the week.
T Mr. Bartlett took her advice, and lev
DAYS later Mr. Nugent, who was trying to
T work of his bitter disappointment, got
letter from Dieppe with the astonishing
. intelligence that Gus and Florrie we're en-
gagged. aud that his friends affection for
+ Agnes Was Of = totally different kind to
what be had been led To believe. In
I fact" the letter concluded, Agnes knew
me better than did myself, aud was per
fecsly night when she brought dear Flo
down to stay with her Don't forget that
+ YOU have promised 20 marry Us.
Hard work was very pleasant TO Mr..
Nugent that winter; he threw himself into
( All the multifarious duties Of town parson,
with an energy that Lad its root in happy
heart. To be sure nothing had been said
or settled but for all that be knew well
enough that he would not be working alone
/ for long, and then there was Gus wedding
to look forward 10. Before the wedding
came off his prospects had a very satisfae-
/ tory change, and it was as vicar instead OF
curate that he asked Agnes to be his wife.
I'VE shall have work enough, and to
spare. he told her, when the momentous
I question had been answered, "but you will
not fear that, will you, my darling !?
To which Agnes answered something
about working with him, which cannot be
publicly repeated