Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-12
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( hts the fault of there being such
[ge family, dear, that is all"
IAnd a very bad fault, too
Dick! Don you like the family?"
Not as [ like you, child, and not
1 Oh to like them to monopolize
j and take up all your time and
4lghts and interests, so that I,
I'M YOU are going to marry, can
lily get so much as a word or look
you -,
+ Hes, for three minutes at the gar
aate, because if I come inside
zTiII be surrounded by the whole
m them the next moment, and for
HING we want to say to one an
, we might as we'll be at opposite
You mayn't mind it, Cecily-
= don't seem to do so, at any rate
BIT, upon my soul, it's hard lines
man who loves you. ="
n is an evening in April. The land
aAush with the pink blossoms
h. almond and the white blossoms
be pear.
is rather handsome always,
& er angry now, my lover, but I
y h that the anger comes from love,
" SO | think more of the first fact
the second as I look up smiling
Ito the brave blue eyes, bright
n a passionate CLEAN, and mark
we'll the broad, square cut
u blders and shapely head stand out
n nst the golden glory of that even
Fky
And pray, Sir, do you expect me
L always at your beck and call?"
i I'm sure you get your fair
6 |e of attention. "
Do T." he says gravely. "When
II a whole week for the chance of
walk with you, and when the
81 nised day comes you coolly send
l. ford that you've got something
to do, and are too busy even to
= he. | might have claimed your
lise to marry me two Summers
and again last Autumn, when I
offered the making of that new
Pdian line. | refused it, only be-
ie knew you wouldn't leave home
loon after your mothers death,
| could not bear to go away with
you; but now there is this other
cf the same sort in Perthshire,
they say | can have it for the ask
The works are to begin in July,
lt We are married in June-dear
y, my own darling love, do say
we shall be; do give me what I
Ihluk how long [ have waited
Fou already and how badly 1 want
and come to me. Cecily, dear
lfyou love me say you will. Say
n june" I repeat, my eyes wide
dlsmay, and drawing myself still
Per back. Dick, you promised
to be in q hurry"
never promised anything of the
but If | had done so I should
Kept my promise over and over
Cecily, will you ever find a
VINO has waited as long as [ have
already? And yet you talk of my
nS on for another year still! If
owed me IN the least you would
tired of these delays as I am;
you don't, and [ see it only too
y You don't even know what
is. You"
1HaouIlero, hullabullooi Cecily,
where are you?" shouts a boys
'Fom the laburnum bushes be-
'ol I be silly, Dick. Let me go.
let NE co. | stammered out
guy; but | have no need to re-
.ne request. At the first sound
nroush-tongued little brothers
a nlGh has dropped my hands and
:. you so? Oh, certainly" he
WIN a strange, bitter accent in
we For good, if you like. I
NV ~ W." =. come to that some day.
Aye I'e' and off he goes, striding
r rLe 0ewy grass and under the
". 4t'e blossoms of the thorn trees
!; u' another word or look.
J, 700 bad. OF course the chill
~ really mean to hurt me;
: 100 bad; and the worst of it
!, : n HaEe not show my vexation.
p a13 squirt of temper is for
llIns ~" Tea proceeds without fur
h 1 IO to him. I cannot bear
he H. angry with me; Dick, who
as s'S quick, fiery nature, is as
he Io'| woman in general with
/ and 5V YES and who has been so
/ tjma u9e to me all these years,
xea 4es n ms very generosity makes
nsb. 'naS those who give much
bpp 9 an 10 expect much in return.
o'ss,nent is a very irving