The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-12-18
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,,oos now # will be forever. With touch
If desperation in his manner he gets before
her and places his back against the door
DO not 20 like this, says he, his lace
rs white as her own. LET me say worn
or two Just hear me After all what
was il? Lillian. let me speak
He has put out both hi hands and tfied
totake hers. but with asliarp little gesture
she repulses him. and their-all at once as
if were-she covers her lace ana breaks
into = wild and bitter fit Of crying; not
loud sobs. but slow and heavy, that shake
all her slender frame Turning abruptly
fran him. as though ashamed OF this uh-
c.,ntrollable outburst. she hurries behind
the curtains of the window, ana leaning
aoainst the wood cries as despalnngly
AS broken hearted child.
lis it worth such grief as this? says
Dugdale miserably, following her into the
embrasure of the window. 1t was only
= mistake. when all is told Mlne-ahd
al inexcnsabIe one. if you will-but not
worth one ii these cruel tears can
think how it happened; how was 50
stupid. but
Don speak of it. ca" bear It,
cries she. with stamp Of her small loot.
Far better speak of it and be done
with if forever. says Dugdale. ~ on
have been making mountain out al /"
mere mole hill, and if y"n won lei me
show il 80 Won as ii really is you will ." ON
-. II,
Very we'll; I'd rather be miserable,
says Miss Englethorpe from behind her
handkerchief. though with another
sob-'if | am to be as miserable as tins
ALWAYS. | shall soon die: that : one com
fort
Not to me. says Dugdale Have
YOU no pity for me? Do you think |
have suffered nothing? That every ner-
yous glance of yours has not been an agony
TO me? If deserved punishment for my
oAence-whch truly was an innocent
One-why | have endured it thousand
times. If you could forgive me now
oh! if it had been any one but you
SAWS she 50 naively. with such an uncon-
scious betrayal of her real feeling for him.
that Duedale heart beats high. En-
boldcned by this yelled admission he very
gently takes her in his arms and presses
her head down upon his shoulder.
Why. if it had been. 50 much the
worse. says he quickly You and |
can keep the secret to ourselves. can we
not? Lillian, may tell you now, what
YOU surely know already. but what | want
50 badly to put into words? | love YOU !.
Darling-darling do You think You can
like me-enough marry me?
We'll. if it hadn' been for that.
SAYS she despondently; but considering she
tulns to him instead of from him as she
nakeS this disheartening speech. Dugdale
is not 50 much crushed by it as he ought
to have been
If it hadn hecn-you could have
liked me- asks he gently.
.:Oh what 5 the good of talking Of it
BOW :? says she with heavy sigh
Not much.' says Dugdale mournttlly.
But just for arguments sake, answer
me
..Well-yes. reluctantly.
Then" says bugdale with Il base de
scent into ordinary giadnesS. II shall insist
on your liking me now. too. in spite Of
that unfortunate--
..Oh = cries she hastily. don mind
that. She lifts one hand and lays it on
his lips 1t is. something else | want /"
talk to YOU about Do you think. a-that
is-that one person could ever love another
person, when those two persons have only
seen each other for ten days?
IF you and are those tw" persons
YES. says Dugdale with deep conviction.
1t is Il very short time. says she
doubtfully.
The man who could see You for ten
days and be still insenSible To. Well.
never mind him. he would be beneath con
tempt. SAYS Dugdale AS for me. the
very first time ever saw you--
..Oh, dontr says she. hiding her face
on his breast. ..
.:On our very first introduction
Dick if you insist on talking about
that--T--I won marry YOU, says she
Indignantly.
And if | don you will
..Oh! you know it. says she 80 shyly,
50 sweetly, that he feels earth has no more
to offer him.
And now not another tear. says he
presently, when their raptwes and explain
atoms and all the blessed vows that lovers
from time immemorial have given and
taken have been gone through. Here.
take my handkerchief; yours is wet
through. Bless me, what ridiculous
things girls use. to be sure y Not another
tear shall YOU she'd all your life through il
! can prevent it. But there is one thing
that has always puzzled me. May ask
You about it ??
Isis it abGut-that ? neryously.
Yes. | want to know why both the
rooms were blue :?
That was Augusta fault. She liked
the old room SO much, yours, that she had
another done up like it-mine 3! II
wish she hadn t.
well, | don't. says Dugdale One
of the sweetest recollections of my life
will be of little soft, brown curly head
lying--
Here Miss Englethorpe makes such a
desperate effort to escape from his encir-
cling arms that he has to break off in the
middle Of his enthusiastic memories to cir
cumvent her.
We'll. | won tt swear it declares
he. Not another word on the subject
shall pass my lips until we are such an
ancient Darby and Joan that it will seem
like dream to us.
Nov, you promise, mind, says she
and then pauses, so evidently full of a de-
sire to say something else, that instinctively
he says:
.'Well p
There is just one thing that has
troubled me most of all confesses she,
a