Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-06-07
CHAPTER /.

unpleasant people, she usually gets her
own way. Her present idea Is to mar
ny her only son, Sebastian, to her
niece, Barbara Saville, an arrangement
perfectly agreeable to every one ex-
cept Barbara Observation-Disclosures. with
her rare. witching Irish beauty, the
beauty Of a fair skin and blue eyes,
with very dark lashes and dark hair,
face at once charming and provok-
ing.
But Barbara's sweet-cut mouth Is a
little bit too firm for her aunt. and Sc
bastian has felt his cold blood grow
warm beneath the disdainful smile of
his cousin.
Sebastian is not a pleasant looking
man-tall and dark, with a heavy,
cynical face and eyes that look cruel.
In the whole of Leinster there is not
such pretty girl as Barbara Saville.
She lives at the Court with her aunt,
and has done so for several years. Lat
terly Mrs. Saville has put on the screw
a little, for Barbara is twenty, and 1t
Is time Sebastian married and settled
down; but Barbara tip-tilts her pretty
chin and losses her dusky head, and
says that to live at the Court all her
life would kill her.
1t is. indeed, a gloomy spot, falling
into decay, surrounded by dark, neg
lected woods, and dark, sullen river
running through the park.
Mrs Saville's husband has lived hard
In his day, driven coach with eight
horses, and generally made havoc of
his patrimony. Card playing ended
what his eight horses had begun, and
his only son, Sebastian, is poor man.
Barbara is an only child, too. Her
father has an appointment in Tasma-
MIA, and Barbara is supposed to have
fortune. Mr.. Saville had sent her
home to be educated in England, and
then to live at the Court. where the
charming family arrangement OF a
marriage between the cousins was an
open secret.
The time is November, when all day
long the trees drip moisture, and the
fields are soaking and sodden, while
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is one sea Of mud.
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