Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-05-20
ssIs that why YOU wish to break the

go against me about such thing
Do you think 1 want to marry a VIC
man with a disfigured face?'
"Oh, hush You speak as if tina
calamity was already certainty Tel
to one she may escape. and then yo
are not marrying her entirely for he
pretty face, are your"
''That enters somewhat into m,
thoughts ~ Edgar answered satirical
ly. SAT all events, will never mar
ry woman whose own self-will anC
obstinacy deprives her of her beauty ?
"She acted entirely from a sense
of duty, Edgar
Miserable cant Her duty il
You come to that, was plain enough
before her In this case, it was sim.
ply to obey my wishes"
"Indeed She certainly thought
otherwise ~
every well. She will never have
the chance to think otherwise again %
he said, hotly. "And that you may
tell her, if you choose !''
DR.. Gray stood on the hearth-rug
for some time after his brother had
left him, gnawing his moustache in
great perplexity of mind.
''Most people would say he was
right" he murmured, ''and yet /
can't but think that she was alto
gether and entirely so, under the
circumstances. Brave girl Poor,
poor child And she will be heart
broken for him -
Miss Lettie got well soon, but Miss
Nellie had very hard time indeed;
and had it not been for James assid-
uous care, watchfulness and untiring
devotion, she would hardly have re-
covered at all. The twin sisters al
most worshipped the noble girl who
had come to their relief at such per-
il to herself; and when she, too,
sickened with the disease Miss Lettie
thanked heaven that she was well
enough, with old Becky's assistance
to minister to her needs.
Norman Gray had watched the pa
tient, willing nurse with attentive
eyes, and had detected in her face
the first sign of approaching trouble.
He loved Jane Elverton with a deep
and tender affection, without her hav-
ing the least suspicion of the fact land
many time he had writhed and
chafed at his brothers arbitrary, i'm
peritive way, and her docile, sweet
tempered submission to his will. But
it was with a secret CONSERVATION
and dismay that he first heard her de-
cision with regard to going to the
house on the hill, and he more than
half wished that Edgar would have
carried his point and it was, there
fore, with a Notwithstanding alarm
and distress that he now saw the pen
atty of her action fall upon her, and
blamed himself a thousand times
day in spite of his reason that he had
not used his authority as physician
to forbid it. However, with the phil
osophy that comes with the expert
ence of his profession, he did not
seek to combat the inevitable, but
tried by every means in his power to
allay the severity of the disease.
The twin sisters were badly mark
ee; Jane, not at ALL When she re-
covered from the illness which had
showed such malignant unkindness to
her friends in their old age, her love
", youthful face was more beautiful,
soft and blooming than ever.
1t was six months after that she
stood in Mrs. Gray's parlor, looking
out of the window at the moonlight
glistening on the snow. 1t fell, too,
on her own graceful figure in the
warm, crimson dress, and on the silky
curls of chestnut hair dropped over
the forehead and around the little
shell-like ears, lying in thick mass
at the back of the pretty, dainty
head. She was charming. Even
Edgar might have thought that she
had sacrificed none of the beauty
requisite to a candidate for the posi-
ton of his wife.
He was not seen very often now in
his mothers house. His business de-
manded close attention, and he had
| found it convenient to take rooms in
town. They were expecting one of
these infrequent visits tonight.
Jane and he had often met since
her return to her aunt's house, but
nothing of their past relations had
been alluded to by either. She treat
ed him with perfect friendliness and
good-fellowship, as one entirely JUS
tilted in his line of conduct; but at
| the least hint of the old dictatorial
manner which previously she had lis
tened to with attention, she froze in
stantly, disregarding his opinion with
the most complete Indifference. Of
late, there was a certain air of pro-
prietorship in his manner towards her,
and even when it was shown in solic-
| tude for her comfort, she resented it
with pride and secret anger. She
was thinking of this when he entered
the room this evening.
"Ah, Jennie, is that your" He
said coming over to her, his hand
some face glowing from his rapid
walk through the frosty air. GLOW
very pretty you look. in that red
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