Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-11-11
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cLrATTLE Il. , w
ChAl, VIII. What nonsense! We
'No, .s yS in a church.
rae mar, NV dear; but it seems one can
Just 50, 50, ~ ~ q church and yet illegally.
na5 re not t of age. I was only twenty
Re we're 5n NV and you were seventeen.
yoa NI noIIed us minors. and minors
L1e ia Eo , I married without the con-
EaaGot oe ~ rarpnts or guardians. Then,
|eat Oh una married you under an assumed
Esa2' Nh not your husband, and you
FaD' nv wife. We have never been
al'''' ,,or forsool her blooming face
la[ md left it deadly pale,
5Z r, 1I~ she said imp,oringly; 1T can
HA' .r,o 4 few words cannot make
9t !, os J difference as that. Why, lots of
leD u, .ro married as young as we were.
5.S a. mean to say that their marriages
=. y" Illegal as well as ours"
.y -. + their parents consented to
-, -" or if no one has taken the trouble
D'DI ~ +bpm aside. But don't look SO
S..nod lane. 1t is not an irremedia-
2 s{Is. -;,+oEe We can easily be married
/ pn. ,boso two years?" she said, with
r "Ior don't be silly and make a fuss
~ Won have too much good sense
,bs+ Mr.. Parftt certainly surprised
= Fttlp by declaring our marriage to
/ ;,ragnlar. and in fact no marriage at
/ Is. ond felt | wanted little time to
ill., + over before l met you again. But
- rotRng TO grizzle at, though it will
/, better. perhaps, for us not to see each
E.Aor 90 often until the ceremony can be
Frncs!y performed"
| vnrt why should there be any delay"
| died ,be Girl, brcathlessly.
/ well. as we have waited two years,
L,a Sir Wilfrid, with a slight laugh, L
[rrE We may wait a little longer. You
T.. lane, it would look very queer for
h. TO marry you in such a hurry, and
Enst as 7 have come into this fortune.
pa,nh might say there had been pressure
Eompwbere. Don't YOU think it will be
riscr to 90 on quietly as we have done
Eor few weeks longer, and then, when
he season is over. we will be married
h lnq folm. and go abroad for little
rbile before | introduce you at Lambs
co,e%
60 on for weeks longer" repeated
Dane: go on living with the load you
have civen ne to bear tonight for five
Or six weeks longer, feeling that all this
tine have never been your wife, that
hare only been Oh, I dare not think
bit. No, no, Will. it cannot be. l will
hot consent to it. You must marry me at
Oacc-Io you hear?-at once! 1t will be
h3nl enough even then to look back on the
last two years, and remember how we
Laye passed them. Oh! how I wish I had
never known it. l feel as if it had taken
Ill the pleasure out of being Lady Ewell,
Of Iambscote, or-or-anything," and
here Jane took out her handkerchief and
BEGAN 10 cry.
Now, look here, JAMIE" said Sir Will
trd, If you're going to make row l
shall 90 back to town. Give me a kiss,
and think 10 more about it. It's done and
can't be undOne. Least said, soonest
nenIed."
She shrank from his embraces, as if
they even had become wrong, under ex-
sting circumstances, until Sir Wilfrid
;eT really angry, and declared his de
termination to return to town that night.
lie thought that Jane would repent of
her disposition then and implore him to
e%ain, but she did no such thing. She
ct him go, almost without a word, and
wandered about the garden for the re-
handler of the evening, brooding over
What he had told her.