Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-01-17
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stand, and had not when writing taken
the pains to put another face upon the
matter.
/ All had been clearly conveyed, and
the very bitterness of the conviction
that it had been SO, had kept the child
woman from betraying herself
No note in her voice, no tear in her
eye, nothing but deep flush upon her
cheek had been visible to others. She
had endured her wound in silence, and
had felt it throb and sting without a
moan.
But for time all the sunlight had
died out OF her day-dreams, and what
had before been full OF ever deepening
interest, these pursuits and occupa-
tiOns which had been growing ever
more engrossjng as the hour had
seemed to draw near when the harvest
was to be reaped, all of these had be-
come straightway almost loathsome.
She had not been i'll. She had been
too hardy and too healthy for that
But she had dropped and tagged, and
at length fond eyes had seen, and
there had been change Of air and
scene, and the young girl had been
spirited about from place to place, I'M
til the results of such delightful medi-
cine had been all that might have been
expected.
Miss Corunna had been princess of
travelling companions, and the kindest
and most judicious of nurses. Jerry
had not only been shown this and that.
and allowed to follow the bent of her
own ardent spirit in seeing the things
she really cared for, and doing what
she really wished, but another sort Of
machinery had also been set a-going
She had tasted something of the pleas
ures of being rich, had been set on to
by mum Oers Of nice new things, new
adornments for her own modest little
chamber, new carpet and writing
table for the school-room, books, draw
ing materials, music. Miss Corunna
had superintendent the purchase of
vast piece Of gorgeous silk embroid-
cry, whereWitE to beguile the winter
evenings; and altogether there had
been a complete restoration to cheer
fulness; and if the studies had not been
resumed presently with quite so much
vlvaClty at the very first, it had been,
perhaps still more satisfactory to the
preceptreSS to feel that now it had not
been the mere novelty of the thing
which had actuated the youthful dis
ciple, but that there had sprCng up
steady resolution to progress, not I'M
mixed with genuine taste for some
branches of knowledge.
But Rellenden had never been quite
forgotten nor forgiven.
True, he had been from that time
regarded in q different light, namely,
as one who had sighted and deceived.
1t had been no longer to please him
that Geraldine had strained her utmost
in mental toll. That had gone by.
But his image had still ftfully haunted
her, and she had not been able all at
once to rid herself of it.
He had, she had told herself. DELHI
erately pro Bised that which he had
never intended to perform.
In this, we may observe, Bellenden
had been done injustice to: but Jerry
could hardly be expected to understand
as much. With all her brightness and
gaiety she was, as may have been seen,
of very tenacious, downright, and
steadfast nature, and with her, as with
lightly, Il will' do this or that, i'm
piled promise, and a promise to be
sa@redly kept. This is, perhaps, lit
tie hard upon the facile.
Bellenden, when he had said II will
come again to Inchmarew," had GER
tainly dreamed Of nothing less than of
imposing upon himself a solemn VOW to
do So. He had equally certainly meant
to come all winds being favorable: but
to have known that fireworks as spoken
were sinking deep down into the breast
of the listener at his side. to be regis
tered there at the end of time, would,
indeed, have taken his breath away.
He had now, in the eyes of his WOr
shipper, disgraced himself and her who
had believed in him.
He had broken his pledge, and broken
it in the easy fashion of one to whoma
pledge is nothing Her IDOL had fallen
with crash into thousand pieces.
She would think of him no more.
She would never breathe his name to
human ear The little casket of treas
ures, each of which spoke of him and
coniured his presence up? She would
fling them to the winds Even the
most precious of all, the sketch ofInch-
marew from the Kincraig nights the
pretty, dainty marvel OF skill and
beauty, set such infinite store by hith
orto 1T should go with the rest: and
with ruthless, / assionate fingers it had
first been torn in many pieces.
And thus had ended the daydrean1,
with an awakening sharp and bitter
enough.
But even that period had now gone
by. and the peaceful routine of her i'm
proved and altered life with all its new
occupations and aspirations, had COM
pleted the cure which her own dawn
ing womanly pride and resolution had
began.
The next summer she had only oc-
casionally wondered at times whether
ANYTHING would be heard of the recre-
ant or not? She had scarcely known
whether or no she had even wished
him to come. If she had wished it. it
had been with new object in view,
namely. to make it clear that Sir red
ericl< Rellenden, changed as he might
have himself proved to be, should find
an equal, if not a still greater change
in the little friend from whom he
had parted two years before. His
little friend.' She had felt she could
never forgive him that.
Had he come after these two years,
he would have been met by a tall and
graceful girl, whose stately greeting
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