The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-02-22

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words had impressed her. She looked up
at him with u careless laugh.
Those are quaint pretty Words" she
said. "Do you know anything else by the
same author?"
Gan Interlude.' l will give you only two
verses again.
lyon came, and the sun came after,
And the green grew golden above,
And the flo flowers frightened with laugh,
ter,
And the meadow sweet shook with love.
"'Yonr feet in the full. grown grasses
Moved sGft'as a weak wind blowsl
You passed me as April passes,
w it'll a face made out of n rose.'"
Again there WAS a pause. His words
had stirred her heart with q strange new
sweetness, while her silence and her
bushes had given TO him q courage that
surprised even himself.
"Tlicse hours ut Ulversoroft will never
be forgotten by 1e,' he said. "Nothing
will ever be Hike them to me again. / NAV
visit stately mansions, L may see fair la
dies, but no place will ever be like Ul-
Serscroft to me. and no onc-oh, forgive
mc.-no one like you. l wonder il my
visit, an eternity of happiness in itself will
prove 4 blessing or curse to me-"
"Why should it prove a curse:" she
asked gently.
His face flushed and then grew deatlly
pale.
"Ah, il I dare tell your he said. "But
you must know-you who are so beautiful
that all men love you-you before whom
all men kneel, as the very queen Of beauty
and love you must knoww
"But indeed 1 do not" she replied with
averted face and dropping eyes.
"Gou know what happens to the moth
when the taper is bright-death in the
clear hot flame, p he said. "Tlle brighter
the light the more cruel the death. You
know what would happen if u moth loved
q star"
"I can imagine" she returned, remem.
bering the poets beautiful words about
the desire of the moth for the star.
"Ah, then, Lady Lilias, you know what
has happened to me. l die the same dealt,
as the moth. Will you forgive me if | tell
you how"
"fes"-with the dainty, rose-leaf flush
deepening. tSay t" me what you will.o
She had never given so much encourage
ment to prince Oh peer; and he almost
knew it,
"Nost men lose their wits at some time
brother OF their lives" he said. .sIhat is
any case now. Pray accept it as an ex.
euse for all that 1 may say. | shall be
sorry for nty words when / am sensible
again"
81 do NOT like to hear you speak SO de-
sparinsiy,' she remarked. "lou are gen.
orally SO br; sht and hopeful"
l can have no hope here" he said; "and
when you have heard the story OF my fol
ly, you viii say | deserve to have none;
yet, i'll tile long dark atter-years, /
snail like TO remember that 1 dciieG
my fate, dared it, bravcd everything,
and told you all. You are an Earl's
daughter, Lady hilias Audley, and L be-
long to what You call the professional
class. Yet l have been mad enough TO do
as the moth did. 1haye been mad enough
to dare to love you-you who, they tell
me, have sent away the noblest in tue
land. Oyerwhelm me with your scorn,
hate me for my daring; but remember it
is 4 mans heart you crush. l know all l
merit for my folly; yet l glory SO much in
my love that l would proclaim il to the
Whole world"
The passionate pride, love, and defiance
in his voice stirred her heart. a tuft of
m~eadow-sweet grew ut her feet. She gath
cred it and caressed it with her fingers US
she spoke.
'l do not know why you should be so
sure that l shall scoru you," she said gent
iN. 81 am not much given to scorn."
"Iou account me vastly your INTERIOR"
he rejoined. ..Iou would be angricr with
me ii L were more your equal"
She WAS silent, and he looked round
with n Sigh.
s,Ihe trees will grow white again with
May" he said, s.and the lines will bios
SOM; but l, with my miserable love-story,
shall never appear before You again. You
will laugh when YOU think OF me. sThe
foolish presumtuous man. you will say
siIe was here only Il few short days, he did
not speak to me II hundred times, he had
neither title nor fortune, he had Lot one
single thing to recommend him; and yet
he dared 10 love me. What was worse,
he dared TO tell me So"
81 shall say nothing of the kind" she
murmured, bending her head over the
meadow-swcet.
"fou will laugh at me. Lob, Heaven,
what am l, who am I, that I should dare to
even raise my eyes to your face-you, the
f%nirest, the sweetest u women, and l the
lowliest of mem"
She looked up at him then with bright
rcproacliful eyes.
t'You lrc not the l0wliest of men. will
not have you say that about yourself. You
are a genius, and that makes YOU q king
amongst men,"
"Not Il king who could WOO a queen like
you," he answered; 'but you will always
remember, Lady Lilias, that l knew my
tate, that never nursed myself on any
iaise hope. l never hoped for n kind
word, sud l never dreamed Of a smile. III
my widest moment l never even thought
of liberation where princes and peers have
failed. How could / hope?"
The m~euaow-swcet trcmbled in her
hands. Her head bent lower and lower
over it.
81 have never loved prince or peer" she
said.
'No; 1 know it. If l dare say what l
thought; / should say that you are one of
those happy beings w',o have 'never
ached with u heart l W more daring,
YOU see. Lady Lilias. ow already that
l have sinncd past forgiveness. l know
That, in telling you the story of my mad
passionate love, 1 have placed n barrier be-
tween us for ever. SO | will finish my sin,
and tell you that men lave loved you and
men will love you, but that no man in
The wide world has ever loved you or can
ever love YOU as I do. Remember always,
through the long blank years in which l
shall sec you no more, the greatest, deep
est, most passionate love that was ever
given to a III heart was laid at your
feet for you to trample on-uothing more;
and, If l had a hundred lives, n hundred
hearts, they should all lie laid there. The
knights of old were content il they might
die for tho ladies they loved. Lady Lii
las, | would ask lie greater favor from
Heaven than That | might give my life for
yotl"
She did not raise her face to his; but he
SAW that the white hands caressing the
meadow-sweet trembled.
81 have purchased y brief d%elirium," he
went on, "by u lifetime of pain. l shall
go from you branded with the fire of IL IA
tai love; aud yet l would rather, far ratll.
er, have loved you ii vain for u few short
days than be loved by any other woman
until DEATH
Ills voice died away in passionate MUIR.
murs, and he was silent. She looked at
him with infinite pity beaning in her soft
eyes.
IL am sorry" she faltered.
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