San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-10

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young people first met. Tulips had
Haunted their day and gone to green
seed vessels with a little ruffle at the
top and cabbage roses were in young
bud when the first act of the drama
ended
The lady was hardly as coy as Galatea
IN the eclOgue. The lover might have
been repealed by the large share she took
in the courtship. But he was true,
blind, eager young lover, utterly alb
sorbed in fanaticism of affection. In
deed, if in the tumult of his own bliss
he had perceived that the lady was
reaching beyond her line to beckon him,
this would have seemed another proof
that she and he were both obeying a
divine mandate. What young lover
disputes his mistress right to share the
passion?
Il knew it." he said to her by and by
Il knew from the first moment we
met that we must love one another.
We are perfect counterparts-theh halves
of a perfect whole. But you the nobler.
felt from the nor lent that pleasant in
cident of the portrait had brought us
together that we were to be united.
hardly dared give my hope words. But
l knew in my heart that the benign
powers would not let me love SO earn
estly and yet desperately"
These fine feryors seemed to her lit
tie ridiculous, but very pretty. She
looked in the glass where the little
cupids in the onion wreaths were listen
ing, amused with Edwin's rhapsodies,
smiled to herself, then smiled to him,
and said, Matches are made in heaven"
Il told you" he said, THAT l had
erased the word perhaps from my
future. Now that am in the way to
prosperity and distinction for myself,
and that you smile, success offers itself
to me drolly. The great lawyer pro-
poses TO me a quadruple salary and
quarters the time in which am to be-
come Hortensius. The great merchant
offers me three hundred year at once.
a certain partnership, and promises to
grant business"
They laughed merrny over this. Small
wit wakes lovers glee.
Il like you better in public life" she
said. You must be a great man imme-
diately."
Love me and | will be what you
love"
Il am so glad am rich. Such fine
things can be done with money"
Il should be terribly afraid Of your
wealth if was not sure of success on
my side. AS it is, we have the power Of
large usefulness"
Yes" she said carelessly.
He did not notice her Indifferent
manner, for he had dashed into decla-
nation of his high hopes for his country
and his time. Those were the days
when ardent youths were foreseeing
revolution and independence.
She did not seem much interested in
this rhapsody.
81 love to hear you talk of England
and the great people you knew there"
said she. SIS not BrothertOft manor
house very much like an English country
| seat?"
Yes; but if it were well kept up, there
would be no place so beautiful in Eng
land-nOne so grand by nature, mean"
Here followed another rhapsody from
this poetic youth on the manor and its
people, the river and the Highlands.
She was proud of her lovers eloQuence,
although she did not sympathize much
in his enthusiasts. She had heard rivers
talked of as water power or roads for
water carriage. Mountains had been
! generally abused in the BillOp establish
lnent as ungainly squatters on good soil.
Forests were so many feet of timber.
| Tenants We're serfs, who could be
squeezed to pay higher rents and ought
to be the slaves of their landlords.
But she listened andfelt complimented
while Edwin painted the scenery of her
new piece of property with glowing
fancy, and while he made each of the
tenants the hero of a pastoral idyl. A
manor that could be so commended must
be worth more money than she had sup
posed