The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-02-23


mined to be reserved-a talkativeness which means
to produce the effect of profound silence. Who
nexH les, young fellow, twenty year old boy
with fresh face and delighted eyes, | say
delighted eyes because 1t seemed that everything
delighted that boy. Everything amused him. He
broke out in genuine laughter over anecdotes which
should have sneered at and even in his noisness
there was spOntaneity of good feeling that would
have been ill-timed among men who had seen any
thing of life.
speak with caution. Why? Because | do not
wish to set mysef down, at the very opening of a
recital, as a weak minded fool Lucille. What a
name! cannot-rather, | will not-undertake TO
describe that girl. oh, what eyes, and was
fool, do not deny that What a month! She
was not tall, but there was a condensed grace about
her. She was not beautiful, but there was a thrill
In her movements. Not beautiful Yes, but
there was something more than beauty. When
she looked at me, l trembled; when she spoke
to me, which she did occasionally during that
evening, l actually shook, so powerful an in
huence had she upon me- | called myself fool,
and Uttered to myself a simpleton.
announced myself as q Ounce, but felt an intel
lectual quickening in contemplation of her
beauty Yet she was not beautiful, and knew it.
but scorning beauty, she surpassed it. She did not
like me- saw that. Did she take stock of her
uncultivated grace and laugh at me because could
not help but gaze upon her with a yearning eve?
No, she did not like me, for she found interest in
q
witticism, and in trying to reply, made my self
Ounce. Then she laughed, and even the old colonel
w no had shown himself to be so courteous host,
chuckled with q prideful litter and changed the
subject. Never before had acknowledged myself
hopeless fool | tried to reason with myself /
tried to recall the many times had met brilliant
women, but my efforts fell dry as sticks amid a
shower of luminous display. Bedtime came A
fool went up the stairs. | know that he was fool
He could have been nothing else. In room of
til A. =
because found so much bodily ease and so much
mental disquiet,-I lay thinking of that face. This
is neither the record OF wise nor the effort
of literary aspirant so l may be excused for an
expression of foolshness. l lay there,-quite a nat
ural performance, thinking of what might befall
me. Should | tall in love with that girl-why
mention thing so palpable Why, hang ii, was
already in love with her. To what extent? To
the extent that was fool that's ALL Why do |
recall these details? That wish TO make this sim
pie statement what ii should not be- a sensational
recitaR No, am far from that. / do not know
why have made this statement-in fact do not
know any thing. i do not know why | thought OF
many things-of that Louisville detective, espec-
cially. What mark that fellow was destined to
make on my life Do | wish now that had not
met him? Perhaps the fever of recollection has too
much OF an influence upon what should be a quiet
recital. l lay looking at the moon that gazed
through the window. l thought of the change
that had recently come unto me-of many faces
that had seen,-of one face, in particular Yes
of thrilling particular 81 will cease to think
said as pulled up the covers that night. 81 wonder
if that girl-but will not wonder. l will compose
myself to sleep. l will not be a fool" Yet, /
could not help but think, ''shall l influence that
girl? / was a romancer remembers romancer to
the extent that thought certain fate lay in every
smile am a wiser man now. But what has this
to do with my experience in that neghborhood.
cannot write this story except be quiet"
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