Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-11-11

ing accompaniments, since their
neighbor had begun to come in some
times for an hour in the evening while
| his wife was sleeping.
'lou bring a great pleasure into a
life that is ended, Miss Violet" lie
would say, as the worn and troubled
look which had passed into his face
\ with the days exercise of patience
and sympathy would melt into placid
peace under the influence of harmo-
| nious sound.
Don't spoil the child with fiat
terry, the rector generally added.
| Mrs. Merrick had died at Violet's
birth; her father was kind and affec,
tionate, but apart. The girl was
solitary at heart, and lived more in
her thoughts and dreams than in her
deeds. Practical and alert in daily
duties, not even the gossips of Coombe
| had ever called the rector's daughter
romantic, yet the very care she exer-
cised to avoid any appearance of SEN
timent was dictated by the sacred
ness in which she held her ideals.
| Naturally these tendencies seized
upon congenial food, aud the rever-
end regard she bestowed upon a pro-
sale, middle-aged gentleman was more
akin to love than the innocent maiden
knew.
"What is Mrs. Karslake like?' she
| asked one day, as her father returned
from visiting the invalid
81 suppose she was pretty once, ="
| answered the rector, not disinclined to
talk over his neighbors, and after Il
pause went on, ''Karslake said she had
lovely complexion when he fell in
love with her at some suburban dance,
but | expect that was sign Of sick
ness. She is wreck now. The foolish
fellow married while still in the tute-
lage of an army coach, and ] fancy
they had rough time OF it Mt first.
The children all died, except the one
daughter, who is married.
Violet sighed in responce.
Mr.. Merrick might have added that
the struggles of Il subaltcrn' S wife had
not been calculated to develop Mrs.
karslakes intellectual powers, which
were never large. She was hard and
peevish, accepted her husbands dovo-
tion as right, and was inclined tc
despise him for his limitless patience
and attention. She vented on him the
disappointment of an unsatiated cray
ing for gayety, forever thwarted by
illness, and in his great compassion
for her suffering he accepted the claim
to martyrdom without n thought OF
his own voluntary sacrifice.
When her worn out frame at length
succumbed to the complication of dis
easeg which had tormented it so long,
the husbands grief was desperate. His
daughters flying visit gave him little
consolation. She had inherited from
her mother the blush rose skin and lis
attendant drawback of delicacy, com
binlng with it a feather brain and an
egotistic heart entirely occupied with
her own pretty SELF
''Dear papa looked after mamma so
well! He was miserable il anybody
else did anything for her" 50
naturally Ethel did nothing but amuse
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stineHJ that foyeian travail ;s " nrmon ''',yno
siye and lhat the Sraiar was too E IrpT" nIo,d
to accent oLIirotionc fro,o III, t san1in' O',n
Inv even If The latter bnJ ~, noJo a." tho -l-
snogostion Roccr bod disnlaraJ VAL so,no
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