The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-11

nor, but no one yenturcd TO question her
since Mrs Reffold's defeat. Mrs. Reffold
herself rather avoided her, having always
vague sue. icion that Bcrnardine tried to
make fun Of her. But whether out Of per.
versity or not Bernardine never would be
avoided by her, never let her pass by with
out a few words of conversation, and al
ways went To her for information, much
to the amusement Of Mrs. RefSoid's faithS',
full attendants. zn< Prs
There was always twinkle irI Bernaes.
dimes eye when she spoke with Mrs. Ref
fold. She never fastened herself onto any
one. No one could say she intruded AS
time went on there was vague sort OF
feeling that sho did not intrude enough
She was ready TO speak If any one cared to
speak with her, but she never began a con-
versation except with Mrs. RofIoid. When
people did talk 20 her, they found her gen
ial Then the sad face would smile kind.
ly and the sad eyes speak kind sympathy
or some bit OF fun would fash forth and
"a peal Of young laughter ring out IL
scented strange that such fun could come
from her
Those who noticed her said She appeared
always TO be thinking
She was thinking and learning.
Some few remarks roughly made by the
Disagreeable Man had Impressed her deep
ly.
"You have come TO new world, T" he
said, 'the world of suffering You are in
fury because your career has been checked
and because you have been put on the
shelf--you OF all people. Now you will
learn how many quite as able as yourself,
and abler, have been put on the shelf, too,
and have 10 stay there. You are only a
pupil i'm suffering. What about the pro
fessorsY. If your wonderful wisdom hts
left you with any sense AT all, look about
you and learn. +"
So she was looking and thinking and
learning. And as the days went by per-
haps a softer ight came into her eyes
All her lfitilofix her standard OF judging
people had farr an intellectual standard
oran artistic standard--what people had
done gish oatwad ana visible signs, how
far shqy bad contributed To thought, how
far they had influenced any great move
inent or originated it, how much OF a
benefit they had been TO their century or
their country, how much social or polit-
ical activity, how much educational ener-
gy they had devoted TO the pressing need
of the times
She was undoubtedly clever cultured
young woman The great work OF her ll1e
had been self culture. To know and un-
derstand she had spared neither herself
nor any one else To know and 10 use
her acquired knowledge intellectually as
teacher, perhaps, too, as writer, had been
the great aim Of her life. Everything that
furthcrca this aim won her instant attcn-
tion 1t never struck her that she was
selfish. One docs not think OF that until
tho great check comes. One goes on and
would so on. But barrier rises up
Then. finding one cnn advance no farther,
one turns round, and what does one seeg
Bernardine saw that she had come "a long
journey. She saw what the Traveller saw.
That was all she saw ut first. Then she
remembered that she had done the journey
entirely for her own sake Perhaps it
might not have looked SO dreary If it had
been undertaken for sense- -osse else.
Continued Monday)