The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-02-25
PART III.

ed offer. 1t was a minute before she
fully took in what he meant. Then she
looked nt him quizzicaly. "Sou intend
this for u proposal?" she asked, Gu
Iriously.
He aeized her hand. "Yes, Monica"
he cried. ''Say yes 70 me-"
Che disVngaged him.gently, yet firmly
and decisfvely. "Oh, no." she cried;
"Mr. Pelew. you are quite mistaken.
never even d,eamt of it,
"But why?" he cried. "oh. why?
,You--you have meant so much to me.
You have given me such fresh hopes.
You have revoluti0nzed Fife for me-"
She looked hack at him with kind eyes,
''Because," she said. first, ~ have-my
book TO finish"
He pleaded with her eloopently. He
would help her with the book. He
would learn all she wished. He would
toll and slave. He would become
pillar of Etruscan learning. He begged
his very best. At last Miss Frewen wos
fain TO speak the truth. Because, Mr..
Pelew. you--you do notattract me-"
absolutely"
( absolutely"
/ He let her hand drop---for he had
seized it again. He was stone sar-
cophagus. She rose gently and with
drew. When he got back to his room he
found little note; after what has oc-
CURED / think we had better not meet
again. And feel 1 must leave Llanf-
hangel tomorrow.
.Mo.IcA. FREwEN.."
When an athletic young Englishman
Is refused po;nt-blanls by the lady of his
choice lie does not blow his brains out;
he works il Off in boating. SO Arthur
Pelew took fisherman's boat at once
and retired into the bay, where the
wind was rising.
He had only known Monica Frewen
for three short weeks. but three weeks
are more than enough to change the cur
rent of life or TO color future. And
Arthur Pelew was very much in love
with Miss Frewen. He could hardly
himself have analyzed his feelings
toward her. Three weeks before. he was
merely the average Young man Of
SCIENCE. With a dog'matic conviction OF
the sufiiciency of matter, motion and
energy. and "A somewhat ignorant con-
tempt Of all arts and graces. Save as a
school OF science. oxford had fallen fiat
upon him. 1t had not given him ex-,
pansive culture. But Monica Frewen
was a different sort of university. He
had never looked Ut an EtJuscan sar-'
copf agus before-though his outer
eye had many times lighted upon one;
but now, when Miss Frewen unfolded
her delicate drawings and expounded.
their meaning to him with glowing en-
shusiasm--a young girls enthusiasm
lie was fairly carried away by her i'm
pulsive eloqucnce. For n young girl Is
q young girl still, even when she dilates
upon Polynices and Eteocles. You may
think Polynices and Etocles dry, but
that is your narrowness; remember
Low much depends upon the Polynices-
nd-Eteocles-monger From Miss Fre-
>sen's lips. Greek accents would have
taen charming, and Sanskirt itself
would have flowed like an Italian mel
ody.
She made Arthur Pelew dinily aware
OF certain deficiency In his own cul-
t,re- And the form the conviction took
with him WINS this--when she talked 10
him with all the force of her magnetic
personality. he felt quite assured that
the only thing in life worth a young
1nan's while To- do was to marry Monica
Frewen. and pass his days with her in
tile study Of Etruscan sarcophagi.
So Arthur Pelew rowed on and on,
thinking only OF the hard work OF
breasting the breakers-which, FORUM
utcly. ran Highland OF the way he had
come oIsnow Monica Frewen.
ii WAS quaint little idyll, peculiar to
our time. and impossible twenty years
ago--that idyll OF the Cambridge girl
and the Oxford man, thrown together
by accident in Mrs. Griiiith's lodgings,
and flung into conversation by dint of
sheer proximity. She had asked him
one day: "Oh. would YOU mind my ask
ing-do you happen 10 have such
thing rs a Liddell and Scott with you?"
land lie had ! een forced 90 explain.
with deep regret, that Liddell and Scott
was closed book with him, he being
wholly devoted TO the science OF organic
arl inorganic nature. Thence lose a
gradual friendship. reluctant on Miss
Frewen's part, very eager on Pelcw's
For, from the first moment he saw her,
a mighty wave came over him, and he
said 10 himself: There stands Wom-
iani"
In the midst OF which reflections. a
sen breaking over the boat suggested
The desirsbility OF returning 90 harbor.
Nevertheless, for a minute or two,
Arthur Pclcw persisted. lie was not
going 10 turn back Tor drop OF wet on
ills jersey. lie rowed on for few
strokes without making much progress.
Then n couple more seas. half drench-
ing the cobbe. made it clearer than be-
fore that the wind was rising.
lie turned ard rowed back, the break
DTS still mounting.
Ntss Frewcn sat Icy her window and
Eassl out IL was warm summer
<rvrnfro fut tho cloud, roo1-o1 ..o....