The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-03-19
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1t was some minutes before Captain Lang
ton collected himself sufficiently to cross the
room and speak to Miss Hastings. She look
cd up at him with a smile.
81 am afraid you have not had a very
pleasant time Of it at that end of the room,
Captain Langton," she said;"I was Just on
the point of interfering"
your pupil is n most extraordinary young
lady, Miss Hastings" he returned; II have
never met with any one more So"
Miss Hastings laughed: there. was an ex-
preston of great amusement on her face.
.'Slle is certainly very original, Captain
Langton; quite different from the pattern
young lady Of the present day"
"She is magniicently handsome" he con-
tinled; but her manners are simply start
ling"
"Shc has very grand qualities" said Miss
Hastings; 'she has a noble disposition and a
generous heart, but the want OF. early train
ing, the mixing entirely with one class Of So
ciety, has made her very strange"
%"StrangeW cried the captain. II have
never met with any one so blunt, so out
spoken, SO abrupt, in all my life. She has
no notion Of rcpose or polish. l have never
been SO surprised. I hear Sir Oswald COM
ing, and really, Miss Hastings, l feel that /
cannot see him. am not equal to it-that
extraordinary girl has quite unsettled me.
You might mention that 1 have gone out,in
the grounds to smoke my cigar cannot talk
to any one"
Miss Hastings laughed as he passed out
through the open French window into the
grounds. Sir Oswald came in, smiling and
contented; he talked for a few minutes with
Miss Hastings, and heard that the captain
was smoking his cigar. He expressed to
Miss Hastings his very favorable opinion of
the young man, and then babe her good
night.
"how will 1t end2" said the governess to
herself. "Slie will never marry him, l am
sure. Those proud, clear, dark eyes of hers
look through all his little airs and gTaces;
her grand soul seems to understand all the
narrowless and seilishness OF his. She will
never marry him. Oh. II she would but be
civilized! Sir Oswald is quite capable Of
leaving all he has to the captain, and then
what would become of Pauline?"
BY this time the gentle, graceful governess
had become warmly attached to the beauti-
full. Maynard, willful girl who persisted so
obstinately in refusing what she chose TO
call polish"
"Iiow will it end?' said the governess. II
would give all nave to see Pauline mistress
Of Darrell Court; but l fear the future"
Some of the scenes that took place between
amusing. She had the utmost contempt for
his somewhat dandiied airs, his graces, and
affections.
II like a grand, rugged, noble man, with
the head of q hero, and the brow OF a poet,
tho 1,oor+ oF n 1io,, mi thu c,,i1a oF n ,1,tLl u
she said to him one day; II cannot endure a
coxcomb."
81 hope you may find such a man, Miss
DARRELL he returned, quietly. II lave been
sone time in the world, but / have never
met with such a character"
II think your world has been a very limit
ed one,n she replied, and the captain looked
angry.
He had certainly hoped and intended to
dazzle her with his worldly knowledge, If
nothing else. Yet how she despised his
knowledge, and with what contempt she
heard him speak of his various experiences!
Nothing seemed to Jar upon her and to ir-
ritate her rs did his nffcctations. She was
looking one morning at q very beautifully
veincd leaf, which she passed oycr to Miss
Hastings.
sIs It not wonderful?' she asked; and the
captain, with his ~eye-glass, came to look at
1t.
Are you short-slghted?" she asked him,
abruptly.
Not In the least" he replied.
rs your sight defectlveY' she continued.
mo, not in the least degree
''Then why do you use that cyc-glass, Cap
tain Langton?"
"I-ah-why, because everybody uses oae,"'
he replied.
II thought it was only women who did
that kind of thing-followed q fashion for
fashions sake" she said with some little
contempt.
The next morning the captain descended
without his eye-glass, and Miss Hastings
smiled Us she noticed it
Another Of his affectations was a pretended
inability to pronounce his "ts'' and ''r's.p
Can you really not speak plainly?" she
said to him one day.
Most decidedly l cam" he replied, won
dering what was coming next.
.Then, why do sou call rove ''wove' in