Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-04-03

ent brothers had redeemed ignoble liv
ing by most noble dying. She had en-
larged upon the theme, pleased with the
pleasure she gave him in the descrlp
ton of Qualities and conduct he coulo
so thoroughly appreciate and under
stand.
She had not thought of herself at all,
only of him. and now she was doubling
if she had done wisely. Not that she
regretted her impulse, or even her man
ner OF showing it, but she feared be was
not sufficiently fine of fiber to under
stand what she had done and would
simply regard her conduct as woman's
acceptance of a mans advances.
Already he was showing her that he
recognized no barrier between them,
nor any reason why he should not come
to her as a man comes to the woman he
loves. Nor did she wish to set up bar
riers in his case, highly as she regarded
them generally. He had lifted himself
above his class-more, had elevated his
class itself by the strength Of his man
hood, the worth of his endeayors. In
him were still faVors Of the parent
stock, and they were disagreeable to
her, but she was not weak and narrow
minded enough to think that because
nature and circumstance had finished
her class little more finely than his,
therefore she had right to exalt her
self and abase him.
What she desired was no acknowl-
edgment of superiority, but to be un-
loved. She did not care for him, nor
for anything he had, and as she was not
the kind OF woman that Graves pro-
miscuous incense burning she objected
strongly to his caring for her. 1t put
her at a disadvantage. She was re-
ceiving something she did not want and
could not reciprocate and as yet ha no
way of Kidding herself Of, for
Anthony had not spoken and APP
peared in no hurry to speak, al
though there was no disguise OF
his intentions. She tried to make him
understand how very distasteful he was
to her in the quiet inciSive ways well
bred woman always has at command,
but she might as well have saved her.
self the trouble. Ned's lack OF percep-
tiveness was great, and his knowledge
of women-to say nothing OF ladies-so
small that it would have required a
powerful lens to enable one to analyze
and describe it, and of sensibility he
had not one grain.
When little Ran rushed in for the sec
ond time within one month and rap
turously told his mother Of great bas-
ket Of provisions which had been sent
to her old pensioners by Mr.. Anthony's
orders, Mary felt as though she
would 60 distracted. If he had
liked the poor old people, or felt
human, or even philanthropic
interest in them, Mary could
have reconciled herself to both his
bounty and old Aunt Kitty's senile
pleasure in it. But be made ho secret
of his dislike OF negroes, and she knew
still considered her the victim Of cum
ming imposition, and thought that her
pensioners ought TO be in the poorhouse.
No! humiliation of humiliations! he was
not doing il for sweet charity's sake,
nor entirely for loves sake-although
he wished 10 please her too-but rather
because he was "better able to stand
being gouged than she was.
When she had thanked him after the
first donation very prettily in her old
servants names, and said that they APP
preciated his Kindness, he had laughed
right out and replied at once:
mo, they don't. They like the things,
not me. Bless your soul, Mrs. Beverley,
that old negro hates me worse than a
rattlesnake. He'll eat my -four and
bacon, though, and my coffee will go
down all right, even il he curses me be-
tween swallows. l don't blame him;
the things taste good, and you ought not
to have the whole burden on you. You
won't let the county help, you know, so
III stand in the county's place. l don't
mind it, | assure YOU"
Mrs. Beverley did; she minded 1t hor-
ribly, and would fain have had old Pat
rick recla the aid thus given. She found
him quite content, however; the pro-
visions had been sent by another negro,
and there had been some excitement
and Importance in unpacking and in
specting the things, and some vain-glo-
rious enjoyment in the distribution OF
bounty in their turn &c other negroes
less fortunate; there had been no I'M.
pleasant contact with the donor, and
old age, like childhood, forgets easily.
Mary forbore to disturb the old mans
peace of mind, or to reawaken a grudge
that apparently was laid TO rest.
But she felt that she had fine, stall
wart grudge OF her own, and that it was
capable OF growing. Both his consid-
Grafton for her and his method Of show
ing it annoyed her inexpressibly.