Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-02-18


the ELMs-A MOMENruUs DECISION.
Youth has an enyiable kuack OF turning
its back upon the truublOus past so soon rts
a blink OF hope shines out OF the future
Next day had forgotten my woes and
was NJ snugly In conceit with myself, as
ardent, rs tnll Of prcpostorous schemes az
if, Instead OF being the football OF fortune,
! had been her iirat fnyorte aud grand VIZ.
Ter passed the day zeulously cultiyating
those aerial estates which make 80 fine u
show In the eye of imagination and prom
$50 10 raro hIeyenuo, and waited with i'm
patience Tor the evening Yet when the
hour came and found myself Mt The Fins
somehow my citation foraook me, and with
it my confidence and self possession Tho
ordeal Of the introduction to Miss Gordon
was trying 1t left me with hot gills md
an uneasy fopboding that was going to
make II fool VI myself,
When we sat down to dinner, was still
haunted by this fear, and consequently
very clustered. 10 would have been un-
Hpeakably grateful to sllulS into an obscure
corner whence / could watch without at
tracing attention, but pcrverse fate
placed me diacOucertingly close TO the RI
dlant being who presided "a hostess, 10
may seem az odd thing, but In the distress
OF the first 10 minutes, had there been
tho choice. would gladly have resigned
my seat beside the beautiful young mis-
tress Of The Films to charge upon a hlaziug
park OF artillery, and would sooner have
fought 10 men than address voluntary
remHrk to her No find her so much ms
looking at me was to be struck with ri
| dloulous palsy that sent nervous tremur
all through me, as II there were an electric
battery in her eyes, to bodirectly addressed
| by her was total overthrow OF the wits and
paralysis OF tho tongue
That WIS during the first half hour OF
our contact by degrees came TO feed II
waa good to DO nOar her and listen to her
wondrously vivacious and penetrative talk
and Witch the flying shadows OF Thought
on her superhly nodded and expressive
face, and the CLEAN OF her raven hair, and
the sunshine that rippled In dimnled cheek
and chin, and the sparkle Of her dark eyes
eyes which woro equally ready TO laugh IL
JOY or melt In pity or cash In stern indig
nation and rebuka
am not going to attempt description
of her surprising beauty, formal portrait
being TO me thing clean out OF the ques
ton, She was 10. a child OF tho sun an,
the peer OF any queen on earth-fair u
her whose faeo had launched THOUSAND
ships and burned the topless towers OF III
nm, md II she caused me u fiuttci' OF trigh
u was u species OF delirious ecstany, 4,
licious pain, that was the very essence Z
delight
Dinner had not long begun when m
business was introduced
IT Is not thing to be lightly decide
upon, said Sir Thomas seriously. "Yo
Rro ut time OF life now, Mir Andrew
when every act, every decision, Is momei
tous Onr aota and decisions indeed ~
. always momoutous, but they are PECULIAR
and particularly so in youth, when we lil
J the tone and bins TO our whole later life
hasty or an unwise decision in early year
too, often Involves lifelong regret. Tho,
you hgvo we'll considered with your faith
aud molhcr.n
AS TO that. Sir Thomas ohimed In N
1 father ere l could speak a word, I'll
/ mother and myself have come to no de,
/ eiou in the matter To be perfectly cRndl
a we have not boon consulted. but no Is II
4 To choose. II he thinks it will be to his a
vantage 20 40 TO India, let him so TO Ind
r He will be the llkelier to succeed II be d
/. cides Tor hln,selfN
a My sentiments exactly said Mr. CT
= plane emphatically. Il have u son Of Ii
h | OWL NNN nay AAitFt MY NNNs choose I
/. yourself We arc all endowed with ain,
cnt tastes and different faculties. thereto
4 choose for Yourself makono doubt tn
4 Andrew ia quite competent 20 select
rcer for himself"
, Probably no Is, - responded Sir Thorn
4 quietly. Yet most Of rs are wiser at
I, than az 30"
{. And India IS so dtoaaiully far away, I
/. Thomas, put 10 ,ny mother trcunulouxl,
'why, Az 20 that cousin, said the la
1 yer, with an uuotuods smile, ''coolup n
4 gnimum mniapt qul trans mare eurruu
"a crossing the seas does not change a ma
. nnture)
h No notice being taken OF this speech
stsmmcrcd what | nsgrct 20 have TO G
/, fess wxs hardly the tsutb-namrly. TIA
4 had given the matter careful cousiderati
q had was fully resolved 70 10 70 india
1, Ny mAher said Hotnlns, Int w5s eli
h the diiSes lall lp.s reiish. toe she q
b isabel ci, The ssssle early. 3a-n saa