The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-09-03

NM ~ Barkston's garden
SA"F party?" / inquired
MA of Miss Windram so
"NVO soon as / succeeded
in elbowing my way through the dead
wall of Mrs. Bennett Wyse's guests
who stood between us. The result OF
brief calculation, entered on the
next morning, was to convince me
that, during tho six minutes it took
me playing the part of n pick, in or
der to reach Miss Windram, / made as
many enemies as l had made during
tho thirty years Of my life preceding
Mrs. Bennett Wyse's "At Home"
"Have 1 avoided you. Mr.. Glyn J"
she asked, opening her eyes very wide
and (but this was doubtfuD very in
nocentlY.
"rhe question is not il you have
done it, but why you have done 1t, l
said with some measure of severity.
"Suppose l deny that that is the
question:" she suggested quite pleas
antly, though without quite such n
show OF innocence as had been asso-
ciated with her previous inquiry. 1t
is quite possible to speak pleasantly
without any particular exuberance Of
innocence.
"Suppose you deny it? Well. in
that case you will have-have denied
it," said |. "l,ut it so happens that
you won't deny it, Miss Windram."
"I'm not so sure of that. If any
one would make it worth my while
might"
"No one will make 1T worth your
while. There is nothing left tor you
but to speak the truth.
"Great heaveusl 1t is como to
that?"
"Why have you avoided me? We
were good friends up to that day
have put a blue mark opposite that
day in my diary"
"Yes, We we're good friends; good
friends are those who have a sound
quarrel every time they meet, sup
poser"
"Precisely; friends whose friend
ship is strong enough to survive
quarrel"
"Did we quarrel that day?"
ave certainly did not. Where
would society be if man and q young
woman quarrelled because, when he
asked her"
"Is there any need for you to tell
every one in this sitting room what
one problematically foolish young man
asked certainly idiotic young wo'
man?"
l felt that there was something III
her question. | had not, however,
been speaking louder than usual il
only seemed so because OF sudden
momentary diminution in the volume
OF sound proceeding from the 2OC
guests of Mrs. Bennett Wyse, who haC
all been speaking at the same moment.
i tried to explain this to her; ant
then she asked me what / thought o.
the Signorn Duse as an interpreter o.
emotion rs compared with Nine. Sarah
Bernhardt, and if / held that NJ
actress who was an admirable expo
nent of the strongest emotions nigh
be depended on to interpret the mos
powerful passions.
at is n nice question:" l felt bount
, to say. "Let us clear out from thii
ruck and l think I'll be able to tel
you oil that know regarding
the higher emotions. These peopl
are not to be depended on; one min
rte they are talking fortissimo; tn
next they are pianissimo."
"Would you have them rehearsed
Mr.. Glyn?"
= "Well, a good deal might be don
G by iudicious stage management.
i "And conductor with an ivor
Q baton? There's something IN that,
r admit. Your idea is that they shoul
: become forte when you are speaking
4 80 as to afford n sort of backgroun
I for your wisdom.
t "Wisdom? What man with th
r least pretence to wisdom would com
t into a crowd like this for the sake {
v talking to a girl who has PERSISTENT
q avoided him for the past year and
l. month";"
Il "What man indeed?"
IS "And this brings us back to IL
e original question. Why have You 1
e persistently avoided mel"
II / could see that she was trihe p,
n ont by my persistence in returning
8 the topic which had originated wit
J. me. She had apparently found son
i imperiection in the feather tips of h
Is fan, and thought that it would be VI
n wise TO neglect the opportunity
g pulling of all the uneven fluff
"a Some OF them settled upon my wais
n coat, where i allowed them to repo
u undisturbed. q few made bee line f.
3 the caverous nostrils of our neighbo
General Firebrace. He sneezed viii
considerable force of character.
\ swell, you see, SO many things ha'
r happened since May \the third la
/. year, Mr.. Glyn," said Miss Windrar
, when she had satisfied herself by Il
A repeated opening and closing OF h
y fun that she had remedied the defe