The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1894-01-13
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her finer feelings like false note in
music.
She had had a slight distrust of
him before during their acquain-
lance, and this chance expression
seemed to furnish another clew to
his character.
In his most earnest conversation
there seemed over to run hooking
undertone that displeased Dorothy,
whose life had been passed in the
refined and moral atmosphere of
good home whose inmates regarded
language solely as vehicle for con.
veying their thoughts simply and
honestly.
She had been taught from child
hood motherlcss childhood
regard all attempts at equiyocation
with horror, and she had acquired a
habit Of speaking with an earnest
ness and directness that was some
times embarrassing to her friends,
and she had trick of gazing into
the face of whoever she was address
ing, with fearless and searching ex-
preston in her clear gray eyes, that
seemed to penetrate through all the
spccious outward seeming, in search
OF the truth, clear into the inner
temple of the heart, and tn real each
tablet bearing the recorded sins or
secrets in that Westminster Abbey.
For all this Dorothy was q favor
ito with Young and old. Her ready
sympathy her candnr- her willing
ness tu assist in any task however
irksonc, and her never failing tact
that always seemed 10 leave the i'm
preston in the minds of her friends
that they had conferred a favor upon
Dorothy by allowing her to assist or
entertain them, made her eD rdppoH
with all her acquaintance.
These traits and idiosyucrasios
were partly Inherent and partly due
To her fathers care and training.
lie had taught her To come Ia him
every night after the lamps were
lighted. tO talk over unreservelly
the events OF the day. To him as to
q confessor, Dorothy went at even
tide and seating herself on u stool al
his feet in the ruddy glow Of tho
hearth fire. poured out her childish
troubles her little piccadillos-her
hopes AMI fears and surely never
had frail human, faltering out q
plant for pardon or plea for coun.
sci at the feet OF cuwlpd mrrce.
nary 80 wise or sympathetic q conf,
dant ~ Dorothy. for the old iller
whose sole interest in life conferred
in his children after his wife's death
had adopted a moral code that com.
priscd the sum total Of all that is OF
worth in the creeds Of Christian ol
pagan propagamdists; To listen to nc
speech that would sully tho purity
OF his daughters, 10 utter no word
unit for them to hear, to do no nc
ton that no would feel ashamed e
/ have them sec, and never to visit
any place where they could no,
enter without being contaminated
The village matrons. fond OF Cos
sip and matchmaking as most ma
irons are, declared that young
Huburt Ingram, the local banker,
son, was going to marry Dora
Knowlton, and they invariably add
ed, she is sight too good for hin
with his harum-scarum ways"
Burt, as his friends familiarl,
called him, was attracted to Doroth,
by her pretty face, her innocent
truthfulncss, and originality. II,
had lately returned from a term a
college and was surprised to fine
that Dorothy had emerged from tn,
short dress ora Of girlhood into ;
very charming young woman, tn,