Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-02-06

perfect order. some like the walls of an
Gent Troy, some Like steps of stairs.
Little doors are opened through them.
and passing in and out one walks on
for mile almost, until one loses ones
way and grows puzzled how to extricate
ones self from so charming maze.
Here and there are basins of water on
which lilies can lie and sleep dreamily
through a warm and sunny day. a sun
dial, old and green with honorable age,
uprears itself upon chilly bit of sward.
Near 1t lie two gaudy peacoeks fast
asleep All seems far from the world,
drowsy. careless, Indifferent to the
Weals and woes of suffering humanity.
1T is like the garden of the palace
where the Sleeping Beauty dwelt,"
whispers Mona to Molly: she is delight
ed charmed lost in admiration
on are DONG IL DeauuTuIIv: Keep
1t up, whispers he back; shell give
you something nice if you sustain that
look for five minutes longer. Nowl-
she is looking; hurry-make haste-put
it on againl''
Il am not pretending says Mona,
Indignantly; II am delighted. 1t is the
most enchanting place L ever saw.
Really lovely"
Il didn't think it was in you.n de-
clares Mr.. Darling, with wild but sup
pressed admiration. You would make
your fortune on the stage. Keep it up,
l tell you: it couldn't be better"
is it possible you see nothing to adj
mire:" says Mona, with intense disgust.
Il do. More than | can express. [
see you," retorts he; at which they both
give way to merTiment. causing Geof-
frey. who is walking with Lady Iilias,
to dodge behind her back and bestow
upon them an annihilating glance that
Molly afterwards describes as ''lurid
glare"
The hound stalks on before them; the
peacOcks wake up and rend the air with
a discordant scream. Lady Lilias, COM
ing to the sun-dial, leans her arm upon
it, and puts her head in the right posi-
ton. A snail slowly travelling across a
broad iVy-leaf attracts her attention:
she lifts it slowly, leaf and all, and di-
reefs attention to the silvery trail it has
left behind it.
How tenderl how touching,7 she
says, with pensive smile, raising her
luminous eyes to Godfrey; whether it
is the snail, or the leaf, or the slime,
that is tender and touching, nobody
knows; and nobody dares ask, lest he
shall betray his ignorance. Molly, re-
gret to say, gives way to emotion of
frivolous kind, and to cover it blows
his nose generously. Whereupon Geof-
frey, who is systematically grave, asks
Lady Lilias if she will walk with him as
far as the grOtto.
How could you laugh?" says Mona,
reprOachfully.
!'How couldn't II" replies he. "Come.
let us follow it up to the bitter end"
Il never saw anything so clean as the
walks 6s - SAYS Mona; presently; there
Is not leaI 70 weed TO ne seen. YET
we have gone through so many of them.
How does she manage it?''
Don't you know" says Mr.. Darling,
mysteriOuSly. ut is a secret, but |
know you can be trusted. Every morn
ing early she has them carefully swept
with tea-leaves to keep down the dust,
and if the tea is strong it kills the
weeds.n
Then they do the grotto, and then La
dy Lilias once more leads the way in
doors.
II want you to see my own work"
she says, going up markedly to Mona.
Il am glad my garden has pleased you.
appreciated it. To see the beautiful in
everything, that is the only true re-
llgiOn." She smiles her careful absent
smile again as she says this, and gaZeS
earnestly at Mona. Perhaps, being true
to her religion, she is noting 1.-THE beau
fuln in her Irish guest.
With Philippa they have some tea,
and then again follow their indefatiga-
bic hostess to a distant apartment that
seems more or less to jut out from the
house, and was in Olden days a tiny
chapel or OTatOry.
1t is an OctagOn chamber of the most
uncomfortable description, but no dOuh.
artistic, and above all praise. ACCORDING
To Comm ljrbtC To D1,f,iJD,,o
curious appearance, and might bv the
unlearned be regarded as a tumble of
all ages, makeup of Objectionable
bits from different centuries: but to
Lady Lilias and her sympathiZerS it is
simply perfection.
The furniture is composed of oak of
the hardest and most severe. To sit
down would be labor of anything but
love. The chairs are strictly Gothic.
The table Is a marvel within itself for
uglineSs and inutility.
There are no windows: but in their
place are four unpleasant Sits about
two yards in length, let into the thick
walls at studiOusly unequal distances.
These are filled up with an Opaque sub
stance that perhaps in the Middle Ages
was called glass.
There is no CRATE, and the fire. which
J'i'tAillN iiAtt'tN u L ITO HllIiN IlOU ~
light, is composed Of Yule-logs. The
floor is shining with sand, rushes hay
ing palled on Lady Lilias.
Mona is quite pleased. All is new,
which in itself is pleasure to her, and
the sanded floor carries her back on
the instant to the old parlOr at home.
which was their chest" at the Farm.
This is nicer than anything" size
says, turr ing in a state of childish en-
thusiasm to Lady Lilias. 1T is just
like the floor i'll my uncle's house at
home"
"Ahl indeed! How interestingly saws
Lady LiliaS, rousing into something
that very nearly borders or animation,
81 did not think there was in England
another room like this
Not in England, perhaps When [
spoke l was thinking of Ireland" says
Mona.
"Yes," with calm surprise. I'll
have heard of Ireland, of course. In
deed, regard the older accounts of it
as very deserving of thought; but l had
no idea the more elevated aspirations of
modern times had spread so far. So
this room reminds YOU of vour unc!e'S2''
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