Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-02-17

Mrs. Stuart, meanwhile, kept her lead |
cool, admired all that she was expected to |
admire, and did it we'll, and never forgot
that the carriage was waiting for
them, and that Mrs. Bretheiton was
not to be tired. 1t was she who took
charge of the other two. piloted them safe
ly into the fly, carried them down the
High street, sternly refused to make q
stop at Msgdalen, and finally landed them
in triumph 10 the minute at the great gate |
Of Christ church. Then they strOlled into
the quiet cathedral, delighted themselves
with its irregular bizarre beauty, itg un-
expected turns and corners, which gave it !
a capricious fanciful air for all solidity |
snd business like strength of IFS Norman |
framework, and as they rambled out |
again Forbes made them pause over a |
wirdow in the northern aisle-a window by |
some Flemish artist of the Fifteenth CEN |
tury, who seems to have embodied |
in it at once ali his knowledge and all his |
dreams. In front sat Jonah under his |
golden tinted gourd-an i'll tempered |
Flemish peasant-While behind him the
indented roofs OF the Flemish town climbed
the whole height of the background. 1t
was probably the artists native town;
some roof among those carefully outlined
gables sheltered his own household LaTes
Bat on the hill on which the town stood,
and the mountain background and the
purple sea, were the hills and the sea not
of Belgian, but OF dream country of
Italy, perhaps, the medieval artists para
disc.
"Happy man" ssid Forbes, turning TO
Miss Bretherton; "look, he put it together
four centuries ago, sll he knew and all he
dreamed Of And there it is to this day.
and beyond the spirit of thst window there
is nc getting. For all our work, if We do
it honestly, is a compound of what we
know and what we dream"
Miss Bretherton looked at him cuIious-
". 1t was as though TOR the first time
she connected the man himself with mis-
reputation and his pictures, that the
great artist in him was mora than a
name TO her. She listened to him SYM
psthetically, and locked of the window
closely, az though trying to follow all be
had been saying. Bat it struck Mrs
Stuart that there was often bswilderment
in her manner which had been strange TO il
on her first entrance into London. Those
strong emphatic ways Kendall had first NO
ticod in her wer less frequent. Sometimes
she struck Mrs. Stuart ss having the air of
half blindfold person trying to find her
way along strange roads.
They passed out into the cool and dark
ness of the oloisters, and through the new
buildings, and sool they were in the
Broad Walk, trees as old as the common
wealth bending overhead, and in front the
dazzling green of the June meadows, the
shining river ia the distance, and the
sweep Of cloud Aecked blue archiDg in the
whole
The gentlemen were waiting for them,
metamOrphosed in boating clothes, and the
two boats were ready. A knot OF idlers and
lookers-on watched the embarkation, for
on Sunday the river is forsaken, and they
were the only adventurers of its blue ex
parse. OF they pushed, Miss Brothertoa,
kendall, Mrs. Stuart and Forbes in one boat,
the remaining members Of the party in the
other. Isabel Bretherton had thrown off
the wrap which she always carried with
her, and which she had gathered round
her in the cathedral, and it lay about her
in green fur-edged folds, bringing her
white dress into relief, the shapely fall Of
the shoulders and all the round siimness
of her form. As Kendall took tie stroke !
or, after he had arranged everything for
her comfort, he asked her If Oxford was
what she had expected.
"a thousand times better" she said
eagerly.
lyon have wonderful power of enjoy
ment. O1e would think your London life
would have spoiled it q little"
II don't think anything ever could.
was always laughed at for it as 4 child. l
enjoy everything"
'Including such day rs you had ye3ter
day? How can you play the White Lady |
twice in one day? It's enough to wear you
outn
"Oh, everybody does it. was bound
to give a matinee 10 the profession, some
time, and yesterday had been fixed for II
for ages. Bat have only given three mat
inees altogether, and shan't give another
before my time is up"
THAT'S good hearing" said Kendall.
"Do You get tired of the White Lady?'"
Yes" she said emphaticllly; II am
sick Of her. But" she added, bending
forward with her hand clasped on her
knee. so that what she said could be hesri
by Kendall only, "have you heard, woa-
der, what have in my head for the Gu
tumL? On, well, We must not talk OF il
row; have no right 10 make it pablo yet
But l should like to tell you when We got
to Nuneham, if there's an opportunity
We will make one, said Kendall, with
an inward qualm And she fell back again
with nod and smile.
On they pissed, il the blazing sunshine,
through lflsy lock and under the green
hill crowned with Ihlsy village snd its
Norman church. The hay was out IN the
fields. and the air was full of it. Childen
il tidy Sunday frocks ran along the tow
ing path to look at them; q reflected
heaven smiled upon them from the river
depths; wild rose bushes oyerhuDg the
water, and here and there stray pOplars
rose like landmarks into the sky. The
heat after O time, desdened conversation.
Forbes every now and then would break
ont with some comment on the moving
landscape. which showed the delicacy and
truth of his painters eense, or set the boat
alive with laughter by some story of the
unrefene-ated Oxford of his own under
graduate days; but there were long
stretches of silence when, except TO the
rowers. tie world seemed asleep, and the |
regular fall of the OARS ike the pulslng OF
a hot dream.
II was past before they steered into the
shadow of the Nuneham woods. The
mesdogs lust ahead were golden b'aze OF
light, but here the shade lag deep and
green on .he still water, s2anned by rus
tic bridge, and broken every now and then
by the stately whitenes9 Of the SWAMI
Rich steeply rising woods shut IN the left
hand bank, and foliage, grass and Wild
flowers seemed suddenly 10 have sprung
into fuller luxuriauce than elsewhere,
otis too early for tea" said Mrs Stu
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