The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-14

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l made your acquaintance, but now |
think you all that is most even and most
delightful"
"But had you heard OF us before you
saw us?''
81? no; at least in way had. How
well your brothers picture"
cob, no; you have said so much you
must tell us ALL"
Il accidentally heard the kilograms you
sent each other"
She laughed gaylv: eff you heard those,
l don't know what you must have thought
of us. The truth is I have quite spoiled
that boy Robin. | answer all his letters
for him, and now he can't be got to write
one, and that day l was in such difficulty,
for he told me the day before, when he
came to Selswyke Bay, that he would get
lodgings for US here and would write and
tell me as soon as he could and say what
train | was to come by; and he didn't
write and l didn't know that there was a
midday post from Selswyke, and thought
no letter was coming. | was obliged to
turn out of the rooms / was in at Wrag
borough and didn't know what to dol"
"Oh, the language was quite excusa-
ble," said the squire.
1.-The language excusable.' There's
nothing to excuse. That's the family
style when it sends kilograms. You can't
say dear or darling in a telegram"
Then you were not angry with each
other?''
eve never were that in our lives.
Here, Robin, take your coat-it's done.
Now have nothing to do.
The squire tore leaf out of his pocket
book and wrote: "Come to the end of
the first field with me; | want to ask you
to be my wife, and L can't speak before
your brother"
She turned pale, looked at him almost
tearfully. and shook her head.
(Which of my requests are you deny
ing?" be asked with an attempt at gayety,
while in his heart he felt alarm, and yet
he could not quite believe that she would
refuse him.
"Both," she answered, without looking
Not really?" he pleaded; he was not
man who was used to plead.
"If you are going 1 will walk part of the
way across the field with you," she said
after a silence.
He rose-her manner did not lessen his
uneasiness. He did not speak-his eyes
were irving so hard TO read hers.
~ have come so far" she said, because
if you really mean this, [ want to thank
you and to assure you that it is quite i'm
POSSIBLE"
Impossible for you to love me, do you
mean" She blushed and turned away.
Don't say that is impossible" he
pleaded.
II could never give up my happy life
with Robin; he would be so miserable
without me-"
81 might have known that you would
never care for me-" said the Squire, Bit
terlv.
Il never said l didn't care for you,"
said Miss Fairfax, now for the first time
seeming to give utterance to her real
mind, but know that never could bear
to enter any family which looked down
upon me-"
mo family could do that-if you did
but know what think of YOU"
Mrs. Rokewood looks down on me!
Do you think don't know? It's not the
first time that Robin and l have been
sketching near county family"
"Ah, you mean that other country
families have treated you better. Dear
Miss Fairfax, why think of my mother
Haven't 1 given you the greatest things 1
have to offer? l love you with all my
heart"
She wavered a moment, and he saw it.
DERBY. think of me, not OF my mother.
If you accept me she will soon love you
quite as much as she loves me; and you
do love me something tells you
that you ought to accept me"
ooh, but should do so wrong to listen
to it." she said, offering him her hand in
token of farewell.
Don't 90. Give me little longer"
accept this answer as final. / viii stay
with Robin"
81 assure you my mother is much too
fond of me to cross me long in anything
on which my heart is set"
al am as proud as your mother. Not
unless she herself came and asked me to
listen to you would | do it. | may be
wrong, but that's how / feel"
He tried to move her by every argument
in his power, but she only became more
rooted in her determination.
"Good-bye" she said. eve shall leave
Selswyke in day or two. We had better
say goodbye now"
''You surely don't want to tear your
brother away before his work is done ?"
al must" she answered sadly; and then
with half sob she said, 81 don't think L
could stay here. | must CO."
"You must do nothing of the kind. /
will 90. ] have long been wanting to 90
to America and l will start tomorrow.
Perhaps when l come back"
"Neverl" she exclaimed before he could
finish his speech.
"At any rate / shall love YOU Just the
same, said he, and wrung her hand and
went
"She is not playing tonight, then" said
Mrs. Rokewood, seeing her son in the
drawing room at the time when he usually
was in the garden.
"No, she is not playing, and she refused
me this morning because she knew that
you would oppose our marriage; and to-
morrow am going TO America"
you must please yourself, Godfrey"
said Mrs. Rokewood. ~ can't stop your
marrying Miss Fairfax, but 1 should never
| like it."
lie kept his word and went. Mrs Roke-
wood sadly patrolled the spacious rooms
and galleries of the manor house. Each
looked duller than the the other, and she
was dull, too. Her son, her only son,
was gone TO the other side of the world
and had said nothing about when he was
| likely to come back. Zone wants some
young creature with one," she said.
"The sight ofyoung life is good sight, but
even an old person would be better than
no one" Later in the day she saw from
| her carriage window the Fairfaxes return
ing home. He was carrying a skeleton
bag and easel; she had his sketching stool.
| He was holding his sisters hand in his;
and the old lady could not but think that