Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-26

az don't believe he win Lave business
anywhere" says tho Duchess in an ng-
grieved tone. 81 don't believe he existsI
or that shall ever get as far as even q pos
sible husband 4"
''How can you say that" exclaims no,
almost roughly. "Have you already for
gotten KilgarriffY'
"Ohp coloring holly from chin TO brow.
"You mean Othol Did dad tell you about
that? Very mean of him, call it
You forget 1t was only In me he con-
nded ! am nothing. A cousin would nat
urally be told anything of that sort and
the nows could not, OF course, concern or
hurt me in any way"
''No; OF course not" slowly.
well, at Ventry, as you say, or rather
as your father says, you viii perhaps fad
some one who"
'At Ventry," with little frown, ''You
won't know me. certainly shall not be
attractive
''But whyS" impatiently.
For one thing shall be afraid 60 speak.
shall, recovering herself a little-suffi-
GENTLY to allow an irrepressible laugh to
fall from her liPs-"be lost in a desire to
conduct myself with propriety. shall be
lonely, too, with touch of prospective
misery. ''No one will call me Norah
there. Not soul will think of me as tho
Duchess l shall be Miss Delaney Oh,
how unfriendly it sounds''
mot worse than Miss anything else.o
Ear worse to me. But know what
shall do, " Frightening 'The very instant
/ begin 10 know any one a little better I
shall entreat him to call me Norah."
II hope you won't, hastily turning to
her a face full of an angry fear.
Hope in vain, then," gayly. II shall,
indeed. ] shall never feel at home until
every one calls me by my first name"
'And is that your idea of conducting
yourself with propriety?" with ill-sup-
pressed wrath. IF you persist in thae
course, Norah-if you permit every man
you meet to call you, after "a few days
acquaintance, by your Christian name, it 10
my duty to warn you that there is vet nm
other name by which you will infallibly be
called"
There is perhaps rather too much vehc-
mence in his manner.
"And that!" questions she, IN a tone
that should have warned him that she in
making ready for battle.
"a hirt a coquetten'
He has grown very pale, and there 10 q
frown upon his brow. A frown, however,,
that sinks into insignjflcancs. beside tho one
that she now makes him present Of.
"A hirt a coquetter' Not all the italics
OF notes OF admiration in the printers
power could give an adequate idea OF tho
concentrated Indignation she throws into
her repetition. al Well, must say you
haven't improved in your manners since
last 1 saw you So that is what you CALI
mep' The fragrant injustice Of this accusa-
ton is evidently apparent even to herself,
because she hurries on as il TO forbid the
49, l. IL III
events" contemptuously, you have moth
| ing to complain Of on that score. / have
never iirted or coquetted with youl''
Certainly not, " angrily. "You forget
am your cousin''-he clings TO this fact
with melancholy strength, as though de-
sirous Of receiving moral backbone from 10
land cousin, we all know, is quite the
same as
''No IL isn't It isn't the least bit in the,
world like a brother,n interrupts tho
| Duchess truculently. az know all about
that. There was Kitty French-Lily's Hs-
| ter-and she had cousin who came down
here and called himself her brother, and
made violent love to her notwithstanding,
and when he went away at last they found
he was engaged to another girl all the time,
and he married her, and Kitty was quito
broken hearted for months and months at
|
see; and therefore they have no right to bo
rude and-interfering.
There is much righteous anger in her
tone, and the glance she deigns to cast al
him is full of triumph. As for Denis, 10
seems to him as though a small, cold, re-
| morseless hand has fastened on his heart.
| How that story had come home to hiuii
| But in mis- case the tables are indeed turned
| He is the one who will suffer, not this
| clear-eyed, impetuous child. Suffer, not
for months only, but forever. Well, thank
! Heaven, the pain will DO all on his side,
and-no one the wiser.
They have come to a wide stream, shall.
low in parts, but always deep enough To
| give the unlucky crosser who should miss
the stepping stones a severe wettiug. These
stones lie across the bed Of the river at very
unequal distances, and are for tie mosf
part wabbly and abominably unreliable
| Denis, planting foot firmly ON the first OF
them, holds out his hind in dignilled silence
TO the Duchess.
Her Grace, however, rejects his advances
with q scorn unbounded.
| "No, thank YOU" says she, picking up
her skirts and preparing TO do or die. az
can get across quite well by mysef. i feel
sure," with a terrible look, 'it would be
more than tiny one could expect of you
that you should give a helping hand to a.
Ilcoquettew
~ didn't call you that!" Indignantly.
'No? quite thought heard you usu
the word. Well, at all events, to look az
| YOU -severey-'it is easy to sec that at
this very ms ant you are calling me all sorts
of secretly. Pray cross ovds..
Deais. Don't mind me-"
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