Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-03-09

HE WAS TRULY MAGNIFICENT.
disapproval from the eyes she loved
would make her utterly miserable. She
was living in n world OF feeling, and
only doing her part in the outer world
mechanically.
Uncle Wake glanced at her now and
then as they sat Mt breakfast. and there
was something i'm her face that sent his
thoughts straylng back into the past.
Some one else used To look Mt him with
brown eyes like Olives. When she
spoke her voice was an echo of another
voice that had been hushed for years.
The little wan woman who poured out
his coffee was almost forgotten; all the
light and color of his life had died out
with the death of his first love. the wife
of his youth. He had married his first
wife because he had need of her, and
had taken his second because she had
need of him.
Michael came in when breakfast was
over. And If in Olives eyes he had
seemed imposing on Saturday night, he
was truly magnificent on Sunday morn
ing. His clothes were fashionable and
Enthusiastically new, and he wore
dainty "buttonhole." Uncle Wake
surveyed him with quiet amusement,
and watched TO see the effect of all this
splcndor on Olive. The effect was GER
tainly depressing.
The girl looked at her lover doubt
fully and Shyly Samuel Wake knew.
almost as il she had told him in words.
what was passing in her mind. All his
life he had been intensely Interested in
other peoples lives, and now he under
stood what Olive was feeling, and what
Michael was not feeling. lie saw that
she went unwillingly upstairs TO get
ready for their walk, and he was sure
that she would return with an anxio as
look, afraid of being seen n second time
in that countrificd bonnet.
She came back with just the look that
he had expected 10 see, and Michael in
stantiy made an cNaspcrating remark.
Haven't you another bonnet. Olivc?''
he asked. That did very well in the
train, but it does not do for this morn
ing"
IL am sorry" she said gently. with a
deep blush. II am going to buy some
new things tomorrow"
IF were young man should not
look at the bonnet while that face was
inside it."
This observation came from Uncle
Wake. and Michael passed 1t over i'm
contcmptuous silence. A few minutes
later the young couple went out to-
gcthcr into the sunShiny street. and
Olive was utterly dispiritcd and disap-
pointed.
MY dear girl, said Michael, after a
pause. you must really begin TO study
your appearance. You ought to have
been better dressed for my sake We
may meet some Of the pcoplc | know
Sometimes on Sundays have even run
up against Edward Battcrsby himself
OF course he would expect me tn intro
ducc him 20 YOU, and wha: would he
think Of that bonnet and gown?"
~ am sorry" poor olive repeated.
but You know Michael. that YOU
wished me 90 come on a Saturday II
had arrived early in the week could
have got some new things ready for sun
day"
why not have bought some better
things before YOU stnrtcd?" he asked ir-
ritably
Michael. have You forgotten what
kind ~ place Eastmcon is?" Ills un-
reasonable words provoked her Have
YOU forgotten that ! have been living
miles away from any town."
tie had really forgotten IL for the mo.
mcnt They walked on together i'm
silence along The Strand. aud whom
they turned into Trafalgar s1uar,
Olive almost forgot her annovuucc She
stood still with % Frightening face ~
look nt Che grcnt stone lions asleep in
the sunlight. nn1 thc foam and sparkle
~ the fountains. other people looked
go her u.s. they went hy. and half smiled
ut the fresh delight that shonc i'm her
brown eyes Michael hurried hcr on.
"Du try Co take things calmly" be-
tmp.orcd That brute who has iu.t
passed u. was actually laughing at vou.
lu London, people don't go into rap.
lures in Gre streets"
There was mo- need Tor % second yyaru-
ing against rapturcs. with such % wet
blanket hanging over her Olive was not
likely to enjoy any more sights that
morning. She walked on dc ic,fcdlv hv
his side. and asked herself ID his WINS
the li'o shc bad dreamed off Must ,bc
alway, live in n drcnry state q sclf.rc-
preston forbidden to rcjoieq And
this was that FIRST walk together which
she bod longed Tor So blindly this was
'thc distant and the dim" tha she had
been SD "sick to greet
10 seemed 10 her an intrminabeI
walk and yet her limbs we're not
weary They got az last - On, Maqblc
/ Arch. md her heart revived little az
the sight 81 grass and trees. Michael
I led her % bench, and they So down.
We won't 60 % chu~ch tbs morn
/ ing be said. II confess In not a
shurch going taan. like fresi air. Il