The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-18
L!da Rose McCabe in Galveston News)

you do not love me?"
Have not told you that was nev-
Is or In love q
..'Yes, and now believe YOU"
u tIttwas never intended in the original
n design that should marry. / should
81 make a wretched wife"
s''No. no; do not say that. You would
.&be the sweetest lin all the world-to the
i right man. I am not the one. Good
b bye. Dorothy. God grant when YOU
SRwaken-the right one may not be want
/. ing!''
Ss From window In her bachelor-maid-
81 den, sixth floor back. commanding an
81 outlook Of chimney pots and q misty
Y sky line, Dorothy, Lttchiield bit her red
n Alps in veXation. and wondered how this
Il man, or all men, had got thus far into
e her life.
a5E'.John WINTER" she said ut length.
= her eyes looking beyond HID into the
years stretching before her. in which
IS she beheld in fancy degenerate peo-
4 pie egenerateCIthrough her inspiring in
& fuence. II propose 10 live my life my
y own way"
$s55''Is this lrrevocaple?''
e4l "Irrevoca ble."
#3"Only for remembrance, only for re-
Y membrance," he said as he lifted her
& delicate, ringleSs hand to his lips. She
Z! listened until his heavy methodic step
Il had died upon the stairs that led down
the hustle and whirl Of Broadway.
\ The Step.was solike the man. She sigh
3 ed-to rest herself; John Winter al
ways fatigued her. Impatiently she
u brushed away his caress. and without
p emotion turned to the study his uneN-
q pected coming had interrupted. Miss
d Itchfield was in the advance class Of
4 domestic science in the normal college.
& She was about to give her first public
Z demonstration TO a class OF fellow stu
y dents and delegation from the Ragged
school. }2 She abhorred an Intrusion es-
y psctally when the intruder was q pro-
sale mantle last link in prosiac life,
A she thought to set aside for life.
IS AS money is counted in country towns
n the Litchfields was ut the top OF the
heap" when the higher education fever
d infected the community. Dorothy, the
Honly child, Succumbed. II was a bitter
trial to the doting parents-the four
Z years that Dorothy was at college. But
they solaced their loneliness in anticipate
4 Ing the pride, the pleasure that would
. be theirs when she came back to the old
4 home-a woman Of degree.
3E What life she would bring into the
n great. lonely house! How she would
II fill their hungry hearts and take the
whole town under her enlightened guild
ance. &,
e.
Z othy Of degree was not the Dorothy
II they had Conjured. In her absence she
r had outlived the old home life and all
the interests Of their contemporaries.
\ 1nsyain, she tried to enter into their joys
and sorrows. While she had been ac-
During culture for cultures sake" the
friends of her girlhood had married
Il She found them mistrcsses of their own
4 homes. Absorbed In the husbands and
4 babes, their conversation was restrict
n ed TO servants. soothing syrups, and the
" ldiosyncra sizes Of their lords and mas
tiers! They knew nothing Of the ologies
y and isms OF the day and cared less
u me great social uphenval through
q which the world Is passing. which filled
X the young a. B. with restless longings,
y was an undiscovered country to these
housekeeping women
W# As tor fthe men--well, at best, they
y We're tntolerable bores-wel fed well
/ dressed, Tor the mosttpart we'll behaved
e animals: nothing more. And the ami
q q mails. They were mortally afraid of
i this self-imposed. ideal young bachelor
N of arts.
# At college reformed movements had
4 not appealed particularly to Dorothy.
n She was more identified with 1.-THE dane
4 Ing. Set
When the unresponsiveness OF her
n nome environment, however, threaten
a5ed 70 make life uncomfortable she recall
s 60 the advance movements, and in self
y ae1ense- set about putting some Of them
SSySiin operation In her native town She
B$1naoe heroic efforts to rouse the wo-
4 mems interests in municipal reform
II Sne organized q debating society cs-
X taollshed a. street cleaning brigade md
III sci circulation library on its feet.
81 mere were so many safety valves for
& her superahundance Of physical energy
i ana Inc nameless yearnings that had
e taken possession of her soul--the yearn-
y ang TO be Of great service to numbers,
4 FREQUENT visits to college friends added
& Iuel to the unrest. She sighed for n
larger field Of action
ssn fIhe death OF her mother precipjtated
\ her resolve to locate in New,York. Your
8 happiness is mine. Dorothy, dear" her
u rather said as they parted at the sta.
II llon. %'Ihen alone with an acheing heart
#--she was all he had-he retraced his
steps to the great empty house.
III.
3fher degree. Meanwhile speciality had be-
i come the Watchword Of philanthropy no
less than the Industries. To master do
q mestic science, then devote her life to
u teaching the poor the economy OF good
S$tYing became the ruling passion Fit
3$tlng up q modest bachelor-maid apart.
s!!nent. she cut adrift from her girlhood
4 nome and enrolled in the normal COL
slege.
ss No sentimental woe prompted Doro.
my Litchf1eld's resolution to live her
4 ire on advanced lines. Her interest in
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