The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-12-21
MRS. PARSONS, M. ID.

q MRS. PAKOUNO, III. U.
cbcre are SO many fools in the
q ,or,d that l do not mind confessing
4 ,hat was one of them for few
ncmal years, lot one of the COM
a olaccnt, happy ones either.
8 TO begin with, l took up medicine
4 .uonarntivcly late in life. They
q Nod I made an architect OF me, but
& CON s found myself kicking vigor-
3 ouslv against that honorable profes-
81 sou After deal of persuasion
uys allowed to enter as student at
81 p.r,s and for two years worked
"a hard
s5 read !; good deal at the British
q uuseu,,, like other fellows, from
s. jbc stL of August, 1855, always Mt
| the Il II seat.
81 Why, you ask, always ut that
a dace!
Well, because it was on that date
q ,he most charming little woman I
& aver saw first came and occupied the
$ seat marked B ~. IhOped she would
s. keen to that seat, and SO she did.
S The nile of hooks she used daily
8 Maaggered me, and of course it
would have been troublesome to
liter the indications'on all her ref
s. eence slips if she had changed OF
been oustcd from B IL.
= = From the 9th Of August. 18e-, it
3vas generally toss up which of us
3xas the first reader to appear in the
readng room. The assistants often
Smiled.
Her name was Bella Whitcombe.
ii learned that very soon. An Official
left ono of her slips on my table by
mistake. She had asked for Strauss
lsmous Lecture on Cardiac Trou-
sles." and the slip came to me
marked "In use." had the great
sst pleasure in the world in return
4 ng the slip to her with smile.
757s1hheu she smiled back at NE with
s')hosc sweet, brown eyes of hers and
Remarked: "What O nuisancei 1 did
40 want it.
= After this we often exchanged
s,Eords. trivial words. Any pretext
@ pas good enough for me that pro
kured mo glance or u smile from
Asr
S ! did not get on at all with studies.
3eG had not been a fool from the
3rofessional point Of view, should
have bolted to the w or Y part of
he room. But I had come to the
onyiction that it was more enjoy
ble to fail in my exams and see
Psslliia every day than pass with dis
at the cost of severance
pom her.
"a Blissful, lazy, heartbreaking, anx-
SS0us hours, day after day from half
asst 0 until 3, with an interval of
hrec quarters of an hour for lunch.
5 Bella was brought to the museum
37ery morning by a maid. The maid
||Sspok & her off for lunch, and the maid
M - as always waiting among the
geons under the portico from five
|SSnlnutes to 3 in the afternoon.
"a "a There was nc getting rid of that
recious abOminable domestic.
B When We had known each other a
=sPe Peath, | proposed {it was wild,
polish thing to dO) to accompany
4er toward Bayswater On an omni-
Us The maid was to go inside, she
Pd ! outside, but it was no go.
MY father wouldn't like it, Mr..
PARABLE" che said, with q sym
athletic smile. u
81 So tried whispering conversations
apout the weather, textbooks, exams
ga so on. But, to say nothing of
fe trowns I raised on other studi-
sps faces and a formal protest from
e gentleman on his throne in the
lddie of the room, Bella did not
eatIy encourage me. A..
s ! am here 20 wogl:, - she Nrofe
# slip at one time and pushed this
ward me.
It will hardly be credited, but I
entatiously put that slip to NY
y and then folded it and placed it
|sS my watch pocket, the heart pock-
how Sue looked at me when j did
lsl An ordinary girl would have
sgled. She did not giggle, and
eaceforward her smiles were not
Slle what they had been. The
uslve seriousness in them, how
er, made her more and moro dear
# me. Even when, for a joke, I
commended her. to ask for Spencer
shoulder Blades. |" q well known
surdity, she only gave me a little
laoving nod OF her pretty head
sathe bronze col0red hair and the
shell ears.
It went on until November,
aea ! could bear 1t no tonger. /
sw less about surgery and meai-
% =, than in July.
must speak TO yon as lunch
Whispered 10 her chat morn.
NY face impressed her.; Be
y y mere was another sessosl why
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