Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-10-04
CHAPTER TX

II caught her that time, ne SAID 20 aim
self, ''she eau do good deal 10 the way Of
deceit. but size can't Keep the blood out Of
her cheeks when hears that fellows name
But she Us a clever woman, Belle Is, how well
she managed that little business Of the
luncheon. and how well she fought her cas-
when once She got in cleft stick about
Edith and that money Of hers, and made
good terms too All, that's the worst Of u.
she has the whip hand Of mo there, IL could
ruin n she could ruin me- and it's no uP
cutting OIL ones NOSE 20 spite your face
Well. my dne lady" he went on, with AN .
ominous fash OF his gray eyes. II shall he .
even with You yet Give you enough rope +
and you will bang yourself You love TINS 4
fellow, know that, and II will 20 hard u ! I
cant make him break your heart for you
Ban you don't know the sort Of stuff men
are made o. IL only did not happen TO be
In love with you myself | should not caro-
lf-ahl here am at the church."
The human animal In a very complicated
machine, ani can conduct the working OF HI
extraordinary number Of different interests
and sets Of ideas, almost, u not entirely.
simultaneously For instance, Mr. Quest
seated at the right hand Of the rector in the
vestry room Of the beautiful old Boisingham
church, and engaged in animated ami
even warm discussion with the senior curate
ON the details OF Fourteenth century church
work, IN which he clearly took lively in
tcTest and understood far better than did the
curate--would have been exceedingly difficult
to identify with the scheining, vindictive
creature whom We have Just followed up the
church path. But, after nll, that Is the way
OF human nature, although it may not be the
way Of those who try TO draw It and who
love TO paint the Villain black tho evil one
and the vir uous heroine radiant that we
begin TO fancy we can hear the whispering
Of her wings Few people are altogether
sood or altogether bad. indeed, IL is prob
bile that the vast ina jority are neither good
aor bad-they have not the strength to be
the one or the other Here and there, how
ever, We do meet spir, with sufficient will
aud originality to press the scale down this
way or that, though even then the opposing
force, he Il good or evil, Is constantly striv
ing 10 bring the balance equal. Even the
H,ost wicked men have their redeeming
points aud their rights aud their righteous
I instincts, nor are their thoughts continually
/ tixed upon niquity. air Quest, for instance.
\ one Of tho ey.l genitIses OF this history, was.
where his plots and passions were no, inlme
dintely concerned, man Of emuently genrr
Gus and refined tendencies Many were the
good turns contradictory 1t mas seem,
that he had done To hts poorer neighbors. lie
had even boon known - fOrego his bills Of
costs, which is about the highest aud rarest
exhibition OF earthly virtue that can be 90
pected from a lawyer lie was, moreover,
eminently cultured man, reader 81 the
classics, IA TRANSACTIONS Il not IA the originals.
a man with fine taste IN fiction AMI poetry,
aud "A really sound aud rips archaeological
Gnowiedge especially where sacred LuIid
ings were concerned All has instincts,
moreover, were toward respectabilIty
His most burning ambition was 70 secure
which he lived, aud 10 TO Chased
among the resident gentry, lie hated Ills
lawyers work, and longed TO accumulate
sufficient means Ia Ice able togiNe " the good
by aud TO indulge himself IA an existence OF
luxurious and learned leisure Such as hs
was he had made himself. Tor he was the son
Of Il poor ami inferior country dentist, anti
had begun life with good education, Il
Is true, which no chiefly owed TO hts own
exertions tut with nothing else Had
hIs nature been temperate nature, with
balance Of good 20 IT'S credit 10 draw
upon, INSTEAD OF baiaHee Of evil, rs
was man who might nave gone very
tar, indeed, for IN addition To his natural
ability lac had great power of work. But
unfortunately tins was not tue case his IN
stinets ON the whole were eNii Instincts anu
his passions whether 81 hate, or love- or
greed-when they seized hinl, aid 81 with ex
} 'raordinary violence, rendering Tor tue Time
ocing utterly calioas !" tue rights OF leeiiiiss