The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-29

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dSANS <Sky55 h haitian dna Island e. HE He
-:-SSgg-- day when he would
- visit the city, and
had formed plans
and itineraries for consuming such time rs he
hoped - have, changing them again and
again 10 conform olonger or shorter periods.
He was prepared 70 be an intelligent tourist,
to see only what was well worth being looked
- and t. study mpch that could not he seen
Ii ANY other place which he was ever likely
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=, last he WIS in New York, bis time
would be limited only by the expense of re-
manning at hotel or boarding house Yet he
found himself utterly without impulse to fol-
low sny of his carefully perfected plans. He
strolled about great deal, but in an utterly
aimless way. He passed public buildings
which he knew by sight as among those he
had intended 20 inspect, but he did not even
enter their doors; the great libraries in which
for years he had hoped to quench the literary
thirst that had been little more than tanta-
lied by the collective books in Haynton were
regarded with Impotence OF all he saw
while rambling about alone, nothing really
fixed his attention but the contents of shop
windows He could not pass a clothing store
without wondering if some of the goods he
saw within would not become him better
than what he was wearing: he spent hours in
looking at displays Of dress goods and imag-
ming how one or other pattern or fabric
would look ON Lucia; and he wasted many
hours more in day dreams of purchasing
F1t. Inr fI,a Of iaryo1rTr md or
s yIs5 with which some windows were
Loneliness increased the weakening effect
of his imaginings He knew absolutely mo
one in the city but the Tramlays and Marge,
and he had too much sense to impose himself
upon them; besides Marge was terribly I'M
interesting to him, except as material for a
study OF human natlre-material that was
peculiarly unattractive when such specimen
as Lucia was always in his minds eye and
insisting upon occupying his whole attention.
His loneliness soon became intolerable; after
II single day of it he hurried to the river, re
gardleSs of probable criticism and teasing
based on his new clothes, to chat with Sol
Mantring and the crew of the sloop. The in
terview was not entirely satisfactory, and
Phil cut his visit short, departing with a brow
fun of wrinkles and a heart full of wonder
ard Indignation at the persistency with which
Sol and both his men talked of Lucia Tram
lay and the regard in which they assumed
Phil held her How should they imagine
such a thing? He well knew-and detested-
the rural rage for prying into the affairs of
people, particularly young men and women
who seemed at all fond of one another; but
what had he ever done or said to make these
rough fellows think Lucia was TO him any
thiRg but a boarder in his fathers house? As
ne Wondered, there came to his mind a line
which he had often painfully followed in his
Acopy book at school: THE face of youth is an
open book 1t did not tend at all TO restore
composure to his own face.
Hour by hour he found himself worse COM
pauy. He had never before made such dis
covery. There had been hundreds and thou
sands of days in his life when from dawn TO
dark he had been alone on the farm, in the
woods or in h fishing boat, several miles Off
shore on the ocean, yet the companionship of
his thoughts had been satisfactory. He had
sung and whistled by the hour, recited to
himself favorite bits of poetry and prose, re-
hearsed old stories and jokes, and enjoyed
himself so well that sometimes he was am
noyed rather than pleased when an acquaint-
auce would appear and insist on diverting
his attention to some trivial personal or bust
ness affair. Why could he not cheer himself
now-he who always had been the life and
cheer of whatever society he found himself
ins
He tried to change the current Of his
thoughts by looking at other people; but the
result was dismal in the extreme. He loung-
ed about Broadway, strolled in Central park,
walked down Fifth avenue, and from most
that he saw he assumed that everybody who
was having a pleasant time, driving fine
horses. or living in handsome house, was
rich. He had been carefully trained in the
belief that "a MINIS life CONSISTENT not in the
abundance Of the things which he possesseth,n
but his observations of New York were
severely stluining his faith. he was entirely
orthodox in his belief Us to the prime source
Of riches but he suddenly became conscious
a pm unhappy, persistent questioning as to
4 hv he also he'd not been born rich, or had
riches thrust upon him. He understood now
the mad strife for wealth which he had often
heard alluded To as the prevailing sin of large
cities; he wished lie knew how to strive for
it Neutrality-suspicious., in any way, if only
he might always be one of the thousands or
people who seemed to wear new clothes all
the time, and spend their evenings in elegant
society, or in the gorgeous seclusion of pal
aces like that occupied by Marge's club.
For instance, there was Marge. Phil had
asked Tramlay what business Marge was in,
and the reply was, "None in particular lives
OBJ his income" What, asked Phil Of him
self was the reason that such a man, who
did not seem much interested in anything,
should nave plenty Of money and nothing to
do, when certain other person who could
keenly enjoy, and, he believed, honestly i'm
prove all of Marges privileges, should have
been doomed to spend his life in hard endeav-
or to wrest the plainestsfood from the jealous
earth and threatening sea, and have but
chance glimpse of the paradise that the rich
were enjoying-a glimpse which probably
would make his entire after life wretched
Could he ever again be what he had so long
,bsenl-a cheerful, contented young farmer
and fisherInanl He actually shivered as he
called up the picture of the long road, alter
nately dusty and muddy, that passed hts ia
tE9r's house, its sides of brown fence and
Struggling bushes and weeds conyerging in
the distance, an uncouth human figure or a
crawling horse and wagon its only sign Of
animation. and contrasted it with Fifth ave-