Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-01-10
CHAPTER TX.

THE BUTTERFLY TAKES HER FIRST
FLIGHT.
In London I never knew what I'd be a.,
Enraptured with tits and enchanted wit h that !;
I'm wild with the sweet5 of variety plan
And life seems pleasing too happy for man.
All was hustle and joyful alacrity in
a smart little house in Mayfair.
It was a bright, fresh spring morn
ing, and though it was yet very early
in May, the mildness OF the season had
brought on leaf and blosso II to such an
extent that the parks, one and all,
showed blaze of rhOdOdendron and
azalea, glories, and the pink almond
worn out and faded, was shedding itself
in showers on every side. London was
full and busy, and a brilliant season
was prognosticated.
Mrs. Campbell had been lucky in
finding little house to suit her, and
she had now been in town for more
than fortnight. during which every
day had been fully occupied in prepa-
rations for the important time now at
hand. For Geraldine was Is, and was
to make her appearance in the world.
AS preliminary. she was of course
to make her courtSey, and kiss the
hand OF our most gracious Queen, and
it is on the eventual morning of her SO
doing that we catch our next glimpse
OF the wild little witch of Inchmarew.
Any greater contrast than this to
our first peep at her under the wealth
er-stained yellow oilsSin and sailor
cap cannot we'll be imagined and the
outer difference does but shadow forth
the still greater one Within.
Three years had done it's work, and
done it we'll for Geraldine
She was taller, gemtler, milCler than
of old - she was lovelier by far she
was no whit less truthful, honest, and
frank.
The governess had been q great sue
cess; if a governess had BEEN searched
for the whole world through to- suit
the place, the pupil, and he~ surreaand-
ings, better could not have: been
founC3 than the quiet, earnest, syEnpa-
thetic and large- hearted woman who
presently found for herself SO warm a
corner OF the litsle girls heart. Worry
quickly she had fathomed tie depths
and saallows Of 5he soil to be worked,
and haA gagged its valoe. There had
been no,rude measures no Eastv re-
forms such as wo Id have revisited Jer-
ry very soul, but. instead. there had
teen mach kindly appreciation, a fair
meeQ OF praise where praise was sse,
and above all. and it was this W hc h
had finally won the pupils entire q &C.
tions-a candid ignorance on many SOD
les as to, which Janry herself was well
qualified TO instl~act. 70 be asked to
teach when she had only expected to
learn! ALI the generosity ana nobility
Of the caild nat, re had been aroused
by the supplicataan. and no cause had
Miss Cosonna ever had to repent IT.
Once begun under. such auspices the
pursuit OF knowledge had tbsiven
apace.
Geraldine had actually eaalted dur
ING the brief. dull, winter days, when
there had been liutlesto tempt her from
her tasks. in the thought that the
hours which she had been wont to
while away in unproductive triyiali-
ties or dOlefuleomplaints had tee( now
hardly long enough for alls he hal had
to do. What with one thing and an
other the weeks had seemed to tiy, for
her eager spirit had set no bounds to
it's desires, until even her delighted
and almost equally enthusiastic pre-
ceptress had demurred. She had
hardly known how to be moderate. IN
the race.
fro BE CONTINUED.