Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-01-08


| that trembling, frightened, as she was,
| her Indignation was greater. She walked
straight up to him.
How dare you use such words to me.
she cried How dare You utter your
base-minded suspicious before me! /
would not lower myself so much in my
own eyes as to attempt to justify my
conduct. You are a poor, miserable
! tyrant with whom it is impossible for
! woman to live and retain her self-re-
spect. | will not stop under the same
roof with You another hour. From this
moment | leave YOU" aud she swept to-
ward the door. But he was there before
| her, and stood with his back against 1t,
| to prevent her egress.
II forbid you to leave this house.
"Heneeforward you have no authority
over my actions" his wife replied. colby.
Il leave Paris tonight"
"Then you so without servants or
clothes"
"Bc it so! care not how, but go
will
He saw that she was resolved, and he
was afraid of her. He tried to justify
hmself--to make up the quarrel; she
would not hear o word. Then he apollo
gized, humbly, abjactly; and at last she
consented TO receive his amende. Their
misery was sealed from that hour How
could man with a mind like Clayton's
ever pardon a woman who had so hui
inflated him?
The Champions were perhaps not the
most united family in the world. Mr..
Champion was proverbially Indifferent to
his wife; Sir Howard and his grand
children had perpetual alterations; and.
latterly, Mrs. Champion and her daugh-
ter seemed far less alta he'd to each 9th
er than formerly. FL Champion was
unhappy and disconnected. Her aim in
life was to make brilliant marriage. and
she failed.
Scenes between her and Sir Howard
were of frequent occurrence. She qua.
relied constantly with her brother, and the
last and browning part OF her mortifca-
ton was that he had fallen desperately
in love with Winifred Eyre When Mr..
Eyre died, Sir Howard had gone to the
Farm and offered to take Winifred to the
Manor But she refused-not bitterly,
not angrily, but firmly. Thank you"
she sdEus AN sure Sou AtdH hlhuiy.
You despised and e''~''ted my dear, dear
father when he was = and ! will not
accept anything at y, Ids now. And
Sir Howard, instead of being displeased
and offended, was rather graJifed by an
independence of spirit which he consider
ed due to the blue blood she inherited
from the Champions,
Meantime Winifred very gratefully ac-
cepted another offer that was made to
her. The moment kind Lady Grace heard
of her young friends trouble she came to
her and wanted to take her away to En-
don Vale AT once. But no persuasion
could induce Wiuifred to leave the Farm
until after the funeral, and even then she
chung to her old friend. Madame de Mon
tolieu. and could not bear the thought
of leaving her. But Lady Grace was
bent on having the girl, whom she had
come to care for very dearly. SO she
finally persuaded Madame de MontoIieu
to give up her cottage and go with Wiui-
fred to Endou Vale.
To return to Flora Champion. The
retrihution which her conduct toward Mr..
Vane deserved had overtaken her. He
was Lord Lancing now; his father had
been dead six months, and he was as
Indifferent to her as she had formerly
been to him. And, worse than ALL their
positions were reversed and she was in
love with him, to her own bitterness and
modification. She tried first to win him
back. and when that failed. she stroye,
with an her strength of will, to master
her unreqntted attachment. Lord Lam
cling never sighted her-he was far too
generous minded for that; he paid her the
same attention in public that he had al
ways done. But he never, as long as he
lived. uttered another word Of love 10 her.
He was kind and tender to her. for the
sake OF oiden times but a brave. gener-
Gus heart like his could never again love
woman who had been capable Of cold
ness and cruelty.
Il will marry" Flora vowed to her
SELF. land marry well. | shall never love
any one but Evelyn. aud he does not care
for ne now. II man as old as my grand
fat er asks me to be his wife. ii he has
DIX and wealth, l will take HIN. Surely
/ have still beauty enough to buy lover
and Flora Champion looked proudly into
! the long mirror before which she was
I standing.