The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1892-06-23

leather man. lie burst into delight OF
laughter.
Peggy. when sre yen going to be mar
riedf be asked inconsfq quentiy when be
hsd enjoyed his fan and her discontinue
In April, answered she demurely.
Why, 1 didn't know. hadn't beard o.
your engagement even. Thst vas leap
10 the dark. Who IL the happy msnf fon
don't believe IN him snd you canno. ex
pect me TO DO 80,
His name IL Csveadish, Coi, Cavendish
He is an Enslishman. The engagement Is
ouly to be announced TO night at dioner
man ma is givins for the express purpose.
He ia much older than |, aud therefore, on
the verge Of an octosensriau's grave He
has pleuty Of money without mine, aud |
think be loves me for myself alone, zee.
meet him and like him thoroughly, and
dare say we shall get along very vel.
But
You are buttips me to many butts. my
dear Peggy.
Well, mean to be happy, said the lady.
eszipg on, u the bleak and dsrkened fields
flying by. Ce nest que Il premier MARI qai
come. ! dare say thst no Quo bas ever lived
quite the life he msppei out for himself at
In. ] shall be Caveudisb, and lhst is
enough. Only this afternoon have
| seemed to realize how much more mesnt
TO be--how different in many ways.
Hullol broke in Mr. Lindsey abruptly.
Dosent that old gentleman across the way
look like Prof. Long, that clever chap
who used 10 give lectures in Boston on
English literature. Why, you went with
me once, nov think of it. to hear him
cracking old Chaucer mp to the skies
or course. And on the way home you
we're Just telling me Artemus Wards Joke
about Chaucer being a great writer though
be couldn't spell, when your foot slipped
on bit OF ice, ard you iell down. sat
ON the wall aud laughed, while you made
the air blue. O. Tom, Tom, how 1t oil
comes back
And into both minds fitted the warm
memory of that walk homewsri in the
February night years and years ago.
The little hand outside her mu6,
| o. sculptor II on could but mould III
| 30 lightly touched my Jacket enf
To keep IL walm had to hold 1t.
Did Tom really murmur those words,
or did she only fancy them? Peggy never
knew. Her eyes we're filled with very
suspicious mistiness, and she looked out
steadily into the dusk OF the short winter
afternoon. She bad not one sing Lingering
thought Of love for that stout gentleman
at her side. Not for the loss Of bim she
prieved, but for the loss OF herself, to think
that she could never again feel that Wild
sweet thrill OF happiness which is as
revocabe as youth Perhaps, bis thoughts
we're something like. A long silence fell
upon them beth, from which they were
only reused by the hustle betokening The
approach to Boston.
Will you not come and dine with us al
eight? asked Peggy, as he helped her in,'
q costly wrap. furred and family scented
You will meet the colonel should like
to have your opinion of the hero who IL
spprop,ia,ng the sad, ungathersd rose OIL
our Ancestral tree. And mamma would en-
joy reminiscing with you. You have neve
. seen her since she had her new Paris Wig
| assure you she looks years younger.
Sorry, but I've already promised to din
with the governor and the common coun
Gil at seven, which would be rather rush
: inp 1.-TWO dinners 30 close together. Sem
me card for the wedding, fnd I'll com
with my wife and all the children. The
!. dote On wedding cake. Careful, now, ther
ia ice on that step Is your carriage here
A footman 10 long cream colored coal
fur cape and cockaded hat, steppe
briskly forward and took the bags Mi
Lindsay escorted his old friend to th
handsomely appointed coupe waiting oa'
> side in the swapping air, and pressing be
hand warmly, said good by. He wstche
the lights AZ they disappeared round CO
per. with q reflective smile upon his lipi
and az be turned into Park square mt
y ment afterward. q big pointed adertise
% ment loomed up before him. Try DnI
y cans pills. II is q queer world. be sal
y TO himself, but there's divinity th'
shapes our ends, and plunging into u
% mselstrom OF trucks and stree cars, W.
J. no time for eeDlImen'al musings mp
'e that caeusl encounter
re Peggy ran upstairs to her luxufio'
o. chamber, which wa' brilliantly liRhte
in A maid was busy laying out all the scce
er sories OF an evening toilet. eorgeo1
to pipk brocaded gown trailed hall its cost
BIT length across the foor. aud the warm Q
ns was heavy with the scept OF roses from
No hinge boquet reposing in pasteboard b.
We on the table near the fire.
We II is late. Miss Margaret, said the ma
be looking Of the clock. Shall get you
Id cup OF tea 'm2 Why you're all OF . shiv'
on No, Bring me glass of sherry al
dress me AZ quickly as possible J
must make me lock my very best to mig
US Parsons, you know, for after this my !
ey will really begin.
And Parsons lived mp to the emergens
en- for the Msrgsrst Duncan who sailed II
the drawing room bali an hour siterws
et, wss . vision OF ioveliness. in the spl'
on dor OF her attire and the excitement of
ed occasion only one perron noticed how p
d. she grew ~ The evening vent on aud vi
ie- sn unconscious pstbos stole into
eel smile. That sss Col Csvendisb. WI
ny be found an opp rtuoity be drew
OF aside.
-, Msroarat he said teudsrly Won are