Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-09-13

"Aii Ho uetpIy Indebted
to her that ought not to speak ono
word against her. She does not undas
stand youth or happiness. She has ~.
one aim and end in life, that Is 49,
| performance of what she consider,
be a duty. My aunt is tan ava
angular. She would not make a goos
subject for picture, for there is M,
graceful line about her Neither eorls
you fancy her crying or laughing a,
kissing a child, or singing a soog
She is always prim and precise Va,
she is good at heart"
Many strictly good people are vary
| disagreeable. he remarked
She looked up with an expression a,
relie.
Have you found out that?" She n
quired. 81 am so glad; | thought
was quite alone in entertaining such an
unorthodox idea. l can just remembsr
how beautiful my fathers religion NO,
all love and charity; whereas evsrv
disagreeable word she speaks l.
disagreeablc word she spehes IL
| 81 ""'' ''I'i touteu 10 hef religious
views"
The life must be a duh one for
you" he remarked looking down at he,
beautiful face
1T would be-" she said. did not
| find so much pleasure in my surround
ings."
You love nature so much?" he IN
| CURED.
Yes, she replied. 81 am ms,
eighteen, and have never been beyond
the sound of the rush of the river vet
You see, it runs just at the end of the
garden; the acacia-trees grow quite
down to the waters edge"
You have never been away from
this place in all your life?" he said
wonderingly.
NO, not for a day" she REPLIED
Warwick is not very far away; but I
have never seen the grand old castle
| there"
And T." he said, though am only
a few years older than you are. have
been almost all over the world
Il long to see the world" she CON
| fessed, looking at him with a Wistfu
expression. 81 love st. Byno's: but
should like to see the grand palaces
nave read about. But then life Is
long"
He sighed when he heard the words,
for he knew that poets an. philoso-
piers said just the opposite. She was
young, beautiful, quite innocent ana
| ignorant Of the ways of life. He was
like man with a new picture to look
at, new book to read; he was en-
raptured and fascinated; he could have
sat on the trunk of the fallen tree and
listened to her forever.
Tell me about yourself" he said.
Il have nothing to tell" she replied
You can understand how quiet and
uneyentfui my life has been, for have
never left st. Byno's."
Il can understand how pleasant and
simple it has been" he said.
> Yes she answered, shade of sad.
hess coming over her face. "If my
parents had lived, it would have been
all that is most delightful. But my
aunt has no sympathy with the young
neither has she any love for the beauti.
ful, and consequently she is apt to re-
gard ne and my amusements with con-
tempt. She Well, | cannot well ex-
plain myself; but am not happy with
her.
There was something Of repressei
feeling in the girlsh face which touch
ed the listener.
My aunt, she continued. docs not
even like the singing OF the birds She
destroys the butterflies, but she let's the \
bees live because they make honey
which she sells. Every one is eager TO 4
buy it; they say it is the finest honey /
in Warwickshire. Things that arch
beautiful and of use she tolerates; butt
be they ever so beautiful and useless
she dislkes them"
Under what category does she PLACED
you2' he asked.
Under neither" was the reply. In
Aunt Alice's mind ! hold a positions
quite different from anything else in
creation. She often says that WI
born for her special annoyance to ba
her especial cross; and, though she
very kind to ne in essential things.
believe it is true that am a tormen 4
to her"
Why" he asked. slowly. Tel n
why"
Because l cannot fall in completed
with all her views. She would like II
to get up at a certain hour in the morrf
ing II the sun is shining rise yer
early-I cannot wait for the regulauof
| hour and then my aunt is not please
| She says that the dew DESTROYS II
shoes and dresses, that | should wa
until the day is aired; and. when
attempt to argue the point with he
She grows angry Do you see wae
the water falls over the rock there an
runs back into the stream the
| asked, after a brief pause.
To be continued
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