Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-10
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| a moonlight night; they met for the
second time on sultry summer after
noon, when the whole world seemed
| full of love. LIE birds were singing
of love in the trees, the butterflies
were making love to the flowers, the
wind was whispering of love to the
trees, the sun was kissing the earth
that lay silent in it's embrace.
Leone" he cried; and then he
flushed crimson. Il beg your par
don," he said, "but ought to say Miss
Noel; but have been thinking of you
all night as Leone. | did not think of
it before l spoke.
She laughed at the long apology.
'Say it all over again." she said :.
Begin at Good afternoon, Mis- Noel
He repeated it after her, then added.
II think my kind and good fortune
sent me this way. / was longing for
some one to speak to-and of all hap
piness to meet you; but perhaps you
are busy"
mo; I have done all that I had TO
do. I am never busy" she added,
with regal calm.
He smiled again.
mo; I could not fancy you busy,
he said, amy more than I could fancy
| the goddess Juno in a hurry. To
some fair women there belongs by
birthright a calm that is almost di-
Vine"
"My calm covers Storm she re-
l
piled. my life has been brief and
dull; neither my heart nor my soul has
really lived; but l feel in myself ca
pability of power that sometimes
frightens me"
He did not doubt it as he looked at
the beautiful, passionate face; it was
even more lovely in the CLEAN of the
sunlight than in the soft, sweet Light
of the moon.
| F'You cannot stand in the sunshine,
he said. eff you are not busy will
you go with me through Leigh woods
[ shall remember the way this time. .
She hesitated one half minute, and
he saw it; he raised his hat and stood
headed, waiting for her answer.
eyes, I will co. she said, at length
"Why should I not?"
They went together to Leigh Woods.
where the great oak trees made a
pleasant shade, and the ground was a
mass of wild flowers; great streams OF
bluebells that stirred SO gently in the
wind, violets that hid themselves I'M
der their leaves, cowslips like little tips
of gold, wild strawberry blossoms that
| looked like snowfakes.
How fair it was. The sunbeams fell
through the great green boughs
throwing long shadows on the grass
1t was a beautiful, silent world. all
perfume and light. The poetry of it
| touched both of them.
| Lord Chandos was the first to speak;
he had been watching the proud, beau
tiful face of Leone; and suddenly he
said:
"You look out of place here, Miss
Noel; I can hardly tell you why. :"
"That is what my uncle says; he is
always asking me if I cannot make
myself more like the girls of Rash
leigh"
81 hope you never will" he cried,
warmly.
II do not know how" she said. "I
must always be what God and nature
made me-"
''They made you fair enough" he
whispered.
She drew back proudly, swiftly; no
smile came to her lips, no laughing
light to her eyes.
Speak to me as you would to one
in your own rank, my lord she said,
haughtily. Though fate has made
me a farmers niece, nature made me
"a queen" he interrupted.
And she was satisfied with the ac-
acknowledgements They sat down under
one of the great oak trees, great
carpet of bluebe1ls under their feet.
Leone looked thoughtful; she gath
cred some sprays of bluebell, and held
them in her hands; then she spoke:
81 know" she said, "that no lady
for instances, in your own rank of life
would walk through this wood with
you on summers afternoon"
A laugh came over his handsome,
happy young face.
ct do not know am inclined to
think the opposite.
ST do not understand what you would
call etiquette; but I am quite sure you
would never ask one. 5"
''I am not sure. If / had met one
in what you are pleased to call my
rank of life last night by the mill
stream, looking as you looked, am
quite sure that I should ask her to
walk with me and talk with me at any
time"
81 should like to see your world" she
said. 81 know the world of the poor
and the middle class, but do not know
yours"
"You will know some day. he said,