Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-08-21
CHAPTER VI.
THE ONE WOMAN.

Day break on the following morning
found the gas blazing in ROb'S lodgings.
Rob was seated i'm an armchair, his feet
on the cold hearth. "The ScOrn OF
Scornsn lay on the mantel-piece care
fully done up in brown paper, lest
speck Of dust fall on it, and he had been
staring at the ribs OF the fireplace for
the last three hours without seeing
them. He had not thought OF the gas.
His bed was unsleDt on. His damp boots
had dried on his feet. He did not feel
cold. All night he had sat there, man
mesmerized. For the only time, in his
life he had forgotten TO wind up his
watch.
At times his lips moved as II he we're
speaking 10 himself, and smile lit up
his face. Then a change OF mood came,
and he would beat the fender with his
feet till the fre-irOnS ratified. Thinking
over these remarks brought the rapture
60 his face:
DOW do you do, Mr.. Angus?"
'You must not take 10 heart what
Miss Meredith said. ."
please don't say any more about It.
] am quite sure you gave your honest
opinion about my book"
II am so glad you think this like
P Scotland, because, OF course, that is the
highest compliment q Scotchman can
pay"
"Good night, Mr.. Angus"
That is all she had said 20 him, but
the more Rob thought over her remarks
the more ne liked them. II was not so
much the words themselves that thrilled
him as the way they were said. Other
people had asked: How do you do, Mr..
Apgus?" without making On impression,
but her greeting was q revelation OF
character, for il showed that though she
knew who he was she wanted 20 put him
A. his ease. This is a delightful! at
tribute IN woman, and was worth
thinking about
just before Miss AbinGer said: "How
doyou do, Mr.. AngUs?" Rob had realized
what people meant by calling her proud.
She was holding her head very high aS
she appeared in the path, and when
Nell told her who Rob was she nuShed.
He looked hopelesSly az her, berett OF
speech, as he saw a tear gliSten on ner
eyelid, aud as their eyes met she read
into the agony that he was suffering be-
cause he had hurt her. 1t was then
that Mary made that memorable ooser-
walton, How do you DO, Mr.. Angus"
They turned toward the castle doors,
Nell and the barOnet in front, ana Rob
blurred oGt some self-reproaches In sem
tepceS that had neither beginning no
end. Mary had told him not 70 take II
so terribly to heart, but her voice trem-
bled a little, for this had been a night
OF incident TO her. Rob knew that II
was for his sake she had checked that
tear. and IS he sat in his lodgings
through the night he saw that she had
nut aside her own troubles to lessen his.
when he thought Of that he drew q
great breath. The next moment his
whole body shuddered 20 think what
brute be had been, and then she seemed
70 touch his elbow again, and he hall
rose from his chair in a transport.
AS soon as he reached his lodgings
Rob had taken up the "Scorn OF Scorns,
which be had not yet returned 20 Mr..
Iicouorish, and re-read IL In q daZe.
There were things in IL so beautiful now
that they caught IN his throat and
stopped his reading; they took him so
far into the thoughts Of q girl that TO
20 further seemed like eayeSdropping.
when he read IL first The Scorn Of
Scorns" had been written in tongue
Rob did not know, but now be had the
kev ia his hands. There IS universal
language that comes upon young people
suddenly, and enables an English girl,
for instatce, To understand what
Chinaman means when he looks twice at
her. Rob mad mastered II so suddenly
that he WIS only its slave at present.
His horse had run away with him
Had the sritie OF "Scorn OF Seorns"