Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-02-13
have been lucky in your day. 1t is not

the right sort OF pcopIe. I don. t know
when have seen the place fuller"
looking rom complacently.
"Yes | think it is delightful" ex-
/ claimed she, with animation. SIT is
delightful altogether. The sunlight
AMI the shade, and the people and the
horses. 1 am afraid l shall want to
come here every day, though,
Ce i'll
We'll, of course; that is what people
do. 1t is the correct thing to do that.
To come only now and then is nonse nse.
You don't get seen. nor known, nor
anything. You will soon begin to
notice the most part of the riders who
them all by sight they come reg yularly.
1t is quite the thing to do"
''How glad am l have got my feau-
tiful Sir L anceiot pat ing his neck
SAY, he is quite the right horse to
have. dare say he has been very much
admired. y our horse is scarcely less
looked at than yourself in the Row."
81 should hope great deal more.
said Geraldine, laughing, eff Sir Ian
celot' is only to be less looked at
AMI then she stopped suddenly, and
bent over her saddle, and was too bus
lily arranging the bunch OF foverets in
her buttOn-hOle tOproceed further.
'There is Bellenden over there"
observed Cecil. all unconsciously,
''shal. we ride up to him? L dare say
he is come to have look at you.
''N ot likely. And he is speaking to
seen us, so we need not trouble about
him, and am tired of the corner
10Th his companion, turning her
horses head round; Il should like to
take another turn up and down, Cecil.
liz you do not mind Let us go the
whole length o, the ride once more
ust once more before we go in to
luncheon. Come" and she had set of
ere he replied.
Nothing loath, Cecil followed.
He had been W ling to speak to Bel
ienden. it was true. as he always was
willing to be seen in company with a
well-knOwn presentable acquaintance
but he was more than pleased that
Geraldine should not care about it, and
should prefer another turn up and
down" with himself. They walked
past Sir Frederick-tolerably close
past, too chatting gaily together, as
nOugh neither perceived him: and
presently he could see their horses
break into a canter, and the two fig
He almost felt as ii he had been in
'ulted.
He had come there, as Cecil had
said, to see Geraldine.
He did not frequent the ride at that
hour, for the scene had long ago palled
upon him, and he had not his horses in
behold the little horsewoman OF Inch
"
should he not?
She had been quite civil to him, anG
there was nc possible reason why the
two should not De good friends, or, at
any rate. polite, sociable acluaintances
n future.
1t was not to be expected that she
should be as demonstrative and open
hearted as when she was a child-nay,
it was hardly perhaps to be expected
that she should think as highly Of him
even in her secret soul as she had once
cared not to hide that she had done:
but he did not think he had himself
altered. or, at least, so altered Is that
Geraldine should withdraw from him
vi ordinary liking.
She had certainly not been warm IL
her greeting the day before. but
neither had she been frigid. Had she
cen one or other he would have
known what TO make of il. But, as ii
" 3. he had thanks to Cecil been
ba ed. and the only solution of the
nroh1em which had at first occurred to
b;,n had been too disaoreea ble to have
been long contemplated. But it now
occurred with renewed force.
Her Indifference could mean nothing
else than that he was now powerless
either to attract or to repel; and
whetber that nowerlessness were the
result NJ anv change in himself, OF
" whether It 9roceeded from the ascend
oncy Of a rival IL did not greatly sic.
1ify. Either way was bad enough.