The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1898-12-02

may nave had in the past, l do not wish
to know. | ask only to be allowed the
same reserve. | have seen you" he said,
bowling and taking her hand, "about
your daily life, about your tasks, your
kindnesses, your charities. | recognize
a kindred soul. 1t seems TO me that l
may know a share OF happiness again in
your society,""
"But-but--you don't-you don't seem
to take into account that THAT you
that your wife-should be-shouid be,
you know, very different-that some
time you might want to go home, and
then you would be Observation-Disclosures
"This will be my home, If you are kind
enough to grant my request. shall have
no other. L shall never see France again.
And for the rest, should not know how
to b. ashamed of goodness and sweetness
| and gentle manners and womanly lowell
ness"
She laughed with a sort of delight in
spite of herself. "But-but," she ex-
Gained in last protest, II sm needle
woman, working for my daily bread
and you-the people say you are grand
what"
And never WILL" he said, gazing at
her steadily, and smiling serenely.
"And I'm just an ignoramus, a no
body!" twisting the ribbon at her waist
and quite running it.
"You are person that knows how to
make happy place! You suit me per-
fectly," he said. And he, also, took a
step nearer. But as he advanced she
retreated.
II feel" said she, ''that it is a-con-
descension. I-perhaps ought not to
accept it,"
II implore you to accept it!' he said.
"But believe-believe, it is you that con-
descend. L will give you an honorable
name that in five hundred years has never
had stain, slight, very slight COM
potency, enough to assure you the same
livelihood you now earn. And I will
give you sincere respect, cordial friend
ship-perhaps In time-who knows"
his voice faltered.
Whether that faltering came at thought
of his exile from all he had once valued,
and of his loneliness here, Or at the re-
membrance of some experience that had
been the one love of his life, she could
not know. She only knew that it made
her heart swell with strange feeling
that If it were pity only had strangely
involved In 1t a warm, heart-beating, dis
quieting sensation.
"You will have to let me think" she
said. II feel as though you have not
thought yourself. You do not seem to
think of marriage quite as I do,-you
think OF it as merely an-an arrange
ment,"
She was very pretty, she was very
womanly, in her white dress, with the
bunch of honeysuckle at her belt.
II think Of it as sacramento" he said
And she snatched her hand away and
turned and ran out Of the room.
But the next morning little woman
with singularly dignified air was pour
ing the coffee at pretty breakfast table,
to which q glass of flowers, dish Of
honey, pot of marmalade, bit OF old
Lowenstroft china gave degree of ele-
gance, and had sent the little maid, who
came in every morning to see IL there
were any errands to do, to ask Mr. Derlar
IL he would come in and have cup OF
coffee.
May presume, = be said, as he enter
ed the door and stood with his back
against 1t very grave, very pale, very
handsome III that moment If never before,
shat this means
Whatever you wish to have it, said
the pretty woman entrenched behind the
cups, but blushing and blushing till the
bushes were pain.
He came round and kissed her hand
he moved mis- chair to her side, he helped
her to the simple dishes, he praised the
coffee. And then at last he excused him.
self, and apparently he went down to
Interview the town clerk, for when he
came back he said: If now you will |
put on your bonnet and take walk with |
?" And they went down to the minis
terN and we're married. And II the act |