Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1895-05-24
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Don't finish the sentence" said
bitterly as rose from my devotional at
titude. Don't finish it, pray. I know
you will say that you love another, aud
that utterly precludes your taking los
sons under my instructions. OF course"
| went on, brutally enough, I'm sure,
cit would have been utterly impossible
for you to have prevented me from max
ing the fool Of myself | have, and | alb
solve YOU from any connivance in the
matter, May | ask as an epiloguc to
this comedy that you will tell me who
the happy man is that may congratu-
late him 2"
Her eyes blazod, and her checks red
dened, and how pretty she was as she
looked at me as an angry queen might
look upon an offending subject!
"Mr. Brytiug," she said scorufully.
81 had hoped to spare you pain and had
thought to say goodby to you after this
pleasant holiday by the sea as friends
say goodby, with sorrow in every note,
but now | shall say goodby with un-
fcigned pleasure, and in parting will
feel peculiar delight in telling you that
the happy man is your friend Mr.. Fos-
ter, and that he asked me only yester-
day to be his wife. and took this walk
with you to tell you SO and did not do so
because. as you are well aware. you took
up all the time at my disposal with the
absurdly important question you had to
ask me.
what further remarks she might have
made have no means OF knowing. but
they would no doubt have gone much
further, for IN an angry woman's game
with language she plays without limit.
but fortunately for my self-esteem we
T =. ere "a at that moment by the
s SUI 90. ,aC, s,d bv tho time we had
modo n ron;d change in our outward
show If temner tho crowd was anon us.
Thev had come ont in search of us to
;o;n n nortv for n anil and among the
soarohar, wore M Foster and Miss Nor.
bon ITndor tho c;rcumstances Il was not
= d;e6cnlt matter for Miss Alien and NV
solr ~ eject nm ;ntorchange of osoorts
and 7 ,coomnan;ed Miss Morton hack 10
~ no bo,ol leov;na Mas Alien n the
,e,dor merc;es NJ ber fiance
Az M;ss Merton and T followed in tho
wake If the returnino PROCESSION I made
m vself nort;cnlarlv CIV md sbe seemed
% annrao;a,o mo nor. than she had
ovor done
what n color Won have today. Mr..
nrv,;no % sho exclo;mod no abc looked
a, mo 9th odm;r;ng oves
CT WASN'T aware of Il ro.llv Ut re.
r,;od with culnahle lack Of trntb in NV
words for knew 7 must bc fluabod AZ.
ter what had inst como tbrougb not
w;,hs,and;ng ,be faet that 7 could feel
NV face burning as If I had been stand-
;n, in Tho ho, am h.reboadod
nWoll Won have" sbo continued
"opd il mikes Won bandsomer than [
ovor saw Won before f"
',poss;blv u sa;d sneak;no slovlv
and With ey;dont failing ";t IL bec,u:s
tbo fnll snn,hine Of vour kindliness has
nevor shono an mo before and given ma
its radiance
"Ob.n she exclaimed. "this ia nerfect-
lv delicions Won talk inst like = char
acter in \ novel !"
"Is Il novel for n man IN love i, boau.
tif,l woman 20 askod I,ok;oo sonarolv
into her eves and tbinkino how much
nrettior than Miss Alien she was
"Aro non In Iovo q" Ina osLoJ NTH
charming naivete.
Al tb;s moment we were n hund,e
Yards or more bobind The Marty and h
yus five minutes after II o'clock A. M.
"Ob MYRTLE" | said. with a fervor
7 did not think I WINS capable Of don't
Won know That 7 am in love and dom
von know with wbom2 Havcn't van
aeon every d,v for weeks lint von Leld
nv henri in tbrall and that Won were its