Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-27
,0s by the Auth or.l

.,alets. queer cooked hat,
 ada.p piters, ponderous cartridge
 Y sboes and what not, would
 " ], and 'n barbarous now. Ideas
 es.d. invention has followed
 soldiers were monumental
 .,s A divinity still hedged
 md there, and war was con
 ',Irious thing.
 g0ld manor houses and ham ssrayines and hollows among
 ] wbere a stranger had hardly
 ,asn till the king chose to take ypsrly at the seaside watering
 rmiies to the south, as a con
 4 which battalions descended
 sDou the open country around.
 mary to add that the echoes of
 '.dc tales, dating from that
 \, time, still finger about here
 less fragmentary form, to be
 rtbe attentive ear. Some of iTe repeated; most of them l
 rtten; one have never repeat
 sursdly can never forget.
 tald me the story with her Co yas then an old lady of
 r auditor a lad of It. She en- siIsce as to her share in the incl
 she should be dead, buried
 stten. Her life was prolonged
 ster the day of her narration,
 has now been dead nearly 20.
 rIon which in her modesty and
 r she eourted for herself has 3|g gislly fallen upon her, with the .ste result of inhieting an in- @ rpon her memory, since such zss of her story as got abroad at < and have been kept alive ever
 precisely those which are most
 nSle to her character.
 began with the arrival of the
 aaars, one of the foreign regi- lNve alluded to. Before that day yasoul had been seen near her T bouse for weeks. When a noise
 bushing skirt of a visitor was nths doorstep, it proved to be aag leaf, when a carriage seemed zsring the door it was her father I bis sickle on the stone in the
 for his fayorite relaxation of g the box tree borders to the 1 sound like luggage thrown nm the coach was a gun far #asea, and what looked like a tall SFhe gate at dusk was a yew bush Sbaquaint and attenuated shape. $hno such solitude in country #lw as there was ill those old Fll the while King George and Int were at Weymouth, not more |iRmiles off.
 daughter's seclusion was great, ||Emd the seclusion of the girl lay Fauson of the father. If her social |An was twilight, his was dark set he enjoyed his darkness, while might oppressed her. Dr. Grove Aa professional man whose taste asly meditation over metaphysical las had diminished his practice 'D longer paid him to keep it go- aef which he had relinquished it .aM at a nominal rent the small, 'a'ed manor house of this obscure aa0ok, to make a sufficiency of an sWnlch in a town would have aaOequate for their maintenance. aa m his garden the greater part a' growing more and more irri- sl'a tue lapse of time and the in- Y perception that he had wasted alhe pursuit of illusions. He ', trends less and less frequently. Oecame so shy that if she met a q 'a anywhere in her short rambles ~ VI, ssnamed at his gaze, walked auly nl and blushed to her shoulders. :, inyllls was discovered even here ~ sui'llfer and her hand most unex- Y asked in marriage.
 Alng' as aforesaid, was at Wey- ,. eaere ", he had taken up his Y 1" uioucester ~ lodge, and his pres z .o, ale town naturally brought ;sl' syun'y people thither. Among y of whom professed =. .OOlihechons and interests with s was one Humphrey Gould, a \, ,,s . parsonage neither young nor Tasr pas good looking nor positively | Ioo ~, steady going to be "a buck" < ts si'u Unmarried men were then " ss was all approximately fash ,uan sa or a mild type. This bach ,o,, ~ iound his way to the village Van- beheld Phyllis, made her sa a,oqualntance in order to make ,4 s4,s y some means or other she G ths. lhnaned his heart to lead ,ms a,a' direction almost daily, till |'' bs engaged to marry her.
 Y was of all old local family, l, .aose z, members were held in n < sue county, Phyllis, ill bring ls. :" ner feet, had accomplished a :. soasldered Q brilliant move Iba T her constrained position. taIpa,, a''a done it was not quite l ayiils herself. In those days at;sIs z ages were regarded rather il'I sae laws of nature than as ss cement of convention. the
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