The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-01-24

'indifferentism, and wonder even now
me. My old friends laughed at my airs
and my reformed accent, secretly dislik-
ing and envying me. naturally found
it much pleasanter to spend my vaca-
tions in the soothing atmosphere of be-
ings like myself, after a brief visit to my
mother.
During these occasions I saw Mar.
garet only once or twice, and always
carried away the disturbing impression
that she was in no way impressed either
by my superior manners or, talents. This
was slightly annoying, as she was far
and away prettier than any girl of my
acquaintance, east or west. To be sure,
had made her blush--such an exquisite
red-but it was with vexation. Upon
my first departure we had written one
another quite regularly, but about the
middle of my first year / received let.
ter from her, in which she professed
hunIbly to believe that her western ways
were but burden to such an exalted
! being as / had become-and wrote no
more. Her letters wero SO fresh and in.
dividual that I missed them, but / was
simple hearted tribute to my worth. !
say, Sawyer, when man is fool how
many different ways he finds to slrew itw
'.Or when he is in lovet' added Saw.
yer ruefully.
That stage was to come soon
enough. Along the last months of the
year had canght winged words here
and there regarding some not impos.
sible she, spending a year In Boston,
who had become a creator of contention
between various givers of college,
spreads You We're in 80 and OF
course not interested. Would this she
accept one or all of the invitations show
cred upon her? Would she like Van
Rensselaer's rooms best, filled as they
were with old colonial furniture and
silver, or would she prefer to linger at
Tarrey's, in purely Bohemian atmos-
phere, with boxing gloves and burrings:
The affair promised to be interesting,
and was bent upon being witness
possibly myself not wholly unnoticed.
Ii was therefore with very bad grace
that | read in a letter from my mother
that Margaret Burton was i'll Boston,
and asking me TO see that she was suit
ably initiated into the preciousness of
things Harvardian. And yet ! was
piqued enough when in answer to my
formal note-I had dispensed with tho
needful CALL received closely worded
little note saying that she had already
accepted for spreads at Weeds and
Halworthy. / had of course supposed
that she knew nobody, and had been by
no means ayerse to act the modern
mentor to fair Telemacha OF course
you've guessed the end Even an expert
detective would have clew by this.
''i3ut was as unsuspicious as only
foregone conclusion can make one, and
when | sauntered into Whites rooms at
Halworthy and saw Margaret sur
rounded by the superlatiyes, as We
call them, smiling, gracious, witty and
wholly at ease, / was dumfounded,
overcome, ecrase. Whether it was that
my nativity spoke for me, or as | think
now, from pure womanly kindness, Mar
garet neither scorned me, as / deserved,
nor froze me, as she well knew how.
She gave me her hand in its long yellow
glove, made place beside her, and then
seemed to quite forget me.
I've made a lengthy preamble, but
the denouement is at hand. Suffice 1t
1Sgt the next year l was her slavish
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