The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-02-03

AAfit So fNtitttht0 .fAln' f2NAAANf 49,
all my heart She has been very depressed
often these inst weeks, AMI certainly on the
whole, people have been harder upon heI
than they were at first. | a,n SO glad that
she and Your sister viii meet ia Venice
Nine lie Chateauyicux Is just the friend she
wants"
Kendall walked homo feeling tho ranking
Of a fresh pin point. Sho hadas4ed for him,
aad he had not been there. What mus sAo
think, apparently, but that, from a souri,
niorosc consistency, h5 had refused to boa
witness of her triumph!
Oh. hostile fatcs.
\ week later Eustaco was settled in the
Surrey farm house which had sheltered the
Sunday League on It's FIRST expedition. Tho
Surrey country was in is fun glory; the first
purple heather was fully out and the distant
bills rose blue and yaporous across stretches
Of vivid crimson. broken here and taero by
the dim gray greens II the furze or tho
sharper color OF the tracEen. Tho chorus
OF birds had died away, but the nests were
not yet teuantless The great sand pit near The
farm house was still vocal with inuuneraole
brooIs of sand martins, still cnliycnel boy tho
constant skimmng 10 and FRO OF the parent
birds. And under Kcndals sitting room
window a uair of t0mtlts, which the party
had watched that May Sunday, wero just
launching their young family on the world.
One of hls first walks was 10 that spot beyond
tho pond where they had made their after
noon camping ground The nut matches had
led--iel, Kendall hoped, some time before,
for tire hand Of tBe sp0Aeg had been near
their dwelling, All rs fragments lay scat
tered on the ground lie presently learned
70 notice that be never heard the sharp sound
OF the birds tapping beas among the woods
without little start OK recollection.
Outside his walks, his days were spent ia
continuous literary effort lis book was in
a condition which called Tor all bis energies,
and lac threw himself vigorously into &C. Tho
FIRST weeks were taken up with n long review
Of Victor Hugos prose and poetry, with q
view 70 a final critical result l. seemed 90
him that there was stuff Ia the great French
man T. suit all wcatheri and an skies There
wers somber, wind swept days when tho
stretches OF brown ling not yet IN flower, tho
hurrylng clouds and the bending trees were
in harmony with all the fierce tempcstuous
,lle Of tho great romantic There wero
lLlGln MLHu AAt HAAAlHANr ANAA-NA AsttttNaNtr
aspect Of the country formed sort OF frame
work and accompaniment % the simpler
patrlarchal clements ia the books which Ken
,al had about ham. Thea when tie pages on
Victor Hugo were written, those already
printed on Chateaubriaud began TO dissat-
.ssy him, and be stepped himself Cnce more
~ the rolling artificial barmolIes, thc mingled
beauty aud talslry Ok one Oh the most wonder
ill OF STYLES, that be might draw from 1t is
secrets and say last just word about &c.
H. knew "a few families IN the ncighb0r-
hood. hut DO kept away from them, and al
most h.s only connection wiki tue outer
world during his first month IN the country
was his correspondence with Nine dc
Chateauyieux, who was 40 Etretat with her
husband. Sho wrote her bother very lively
characteristic accounts OF tue life there, till
ing her letters with amusing sketches OK tue
politics. or artistic celebrities with whom the
little Norman town swarms IN tho season.
After the third or fourth letter, however,
Kendall began 10 look restlessly at the
Etretat postmark, 20 reflect that Mario lad
been there a long time, and 10 wonder she
was not already tired OF such public sor, Ok
existence as tho EIretat lie. The bathing
scenes, ard tho FIRE eating, deputy, and tie
literary woman With mission for the spread
Of naturGlism, became very tat 70 him Ho
was astonished that bis sister was not as
anxious 70 start for Italy Is hs was 10 hear
that she had done 50.
This temper OK his was connected with the
TACT that after the first Of August he began
to develop q curious impaIlenco on the sub
ject OF the daily post. At Old House farm
tho post was taken Us ieisurely as everything
else, there was no regular delivery, and Ken
dal generally was content % trust ~ tlo
casual mercies OF the butcher or baker Tor his
lette,s. But after the date mentioned 10 Oc-
curred 70 hln that his letters reached him
With an abominable irregularity, and that IL
would 10 his WORK no harm, but, on the con-
trary, much good, IL b. took daily constitu-
ti0ual IN the direction Of the pOstollice, which
cave a touch OF official dignity 70 the wasp
filled precincts OF a grocer's shop IN the vii
age, some two miles OF.
For some considerable number Of days,
however, bis walks only furnished him with
food for reelection on the common dispropof-
tion of means 70 ends ia this life. dis sisters
persistence III sticking 10 the soil OF France
began to seem 70 BIN extraordinary How
ever, a. last -no mOnOtony Ur tho LLretaJ
postmarks was broken by a post card from
Lyons I'VE are here for the night on some
business Of Pauls; tomorrow We hope 70 be
40 Turin, and two or three days later at
| Venice. Blythe way, where will the BFether-
| tons bel 1 must trust 70 my native wits,
suppose, when I get there She Is not the
sort Of light to he hidden under a bushel.'
.lfatrnisa.t l-.utllL d
little. and he felt irritably that somebody
bad nismanagel matters. To had supposed,
| and Indeed suggested, that Miss Brethefton
should uclOse his noto la one OF her own %
as sisters Paris address, giving, al the same
! time, some indication OF place OF meeting
~ Venice But II Sue had not done this, &c
was very possible that the two wGmen might
miss each other after all Sometimes, when
be had been contemplating this possibility
with disgust he would, with great effort,
make himself reflect why it was that be
cared about the matter 30 disproportionate.y
Why was he So deeply Interested in Isabel
BrethertOn's movements abroad and IN tho
meeting which would bring her, 50 % speak,
once more into his own wOridi Whyi be-
cause It was impossible, he would answer
himself Indignantly, not 70 feel = profound
! interest IN any woman Who bad ever shared
a. much emotion with you gs she had with
him IA those momeuts at Nuueham, VINO had
received a wound at your hands, had WINGED
Under it and still hal remained gracious
and kind and wOmanly II should be a hard
hearted brute he said 70 himself, IL did
not feel very deep and peculiar interest IN
ber-lf did not desire that Maries friend
ship should abuudantiy make up to her for
my laundering"
Did he ever really deceive himself into i'm
agining that this was ALI It is difficult 10
,ay. The mind Of man no longer young,
and trained IN all the subtlet.es OF thought,
does not deal with al invading sentiment
exactly as youth would do with all his ex-
perience - come. II steals upon him more
slowly, be is capable OF Disgusting It 10 HIM
self longer, Of escaping from it into other IL
terests. Passion Is in its ultimate essence the
same, wherever It appears and under what
ever conditions, but It possesses itself u
+ human life IN different ways. Slowly an 1
certainly the old primeyal fire, tho com
mouest, fatalest, divnest force Of life, was
| MAXIM It's way into kendlls nature But