Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-08-07

Lady Ianthc did not meet him as she
went to her room--he would have
Jared III. She was cruelty unjust ana
unlfind to him. She was irrita,ed
against him with passionate anger be
cause he had dared to think OF her as
his wife. That he should have dared,
lccause Of the mere vulgar accident
Of wealth, to ask her to marry him,
That he should have been so blind as
to overlook the difference between
them, That he should have imagined
anything could bring her, Lady Carrc,
to his level!
! "To talk Of loving me-" she cried,
haughtily "fO call his boyish i'm.
pcrtIncnco love, aud to tell my father!
70 talk Of his constancy to me!
Does he think that / am white slave,
to be purchased by 50 much gold--to
be bought because my father needs
money!"
with claspcd hands ana angry Ayos
she walked rapmly " and fro.
! 1T is so like u commercial transac-
ton" she said bitterly. "Hc looks
upon 1t as such. My father Is ruined
he Is I'm urgent need of so much
4 money This man comes and says he
| shall have it; but my athcr's daugh-
ter shall be the price. A nobeman
would have given the money--lenL it
without such condition. or would
+ have rctrained from offering It, He
AXIS It's value, Could anything be
= more plcboian! Could anything mark
/ more strongly the difference between
| the two races, He offers, In fact. to
buy meme, IanthC Care. Will not
marry him. would rather die, |
would rather suffer poverty, hunger or
anything else, than marry him, lowly
born, IowIy bred"
1t was quite decided, She would
! pleasure of showing him how woman
Of rank could bear anything better
| than u marriage Hike that She would
have the triumph of showing nm
that she valued nobility of birth far
more than the gittcring baublc of
wealth, She rehearsod over and over
again to herself the bitter cutting,
sarcastic words in which she would
tell him ths--the naughty dismissal
she would give him this man VINO
had insulted her with his love and
his money.
He would go then. He would leave
Croomho, and, In all probability, they
would never sec him again. Her
! father would miss him would mics
his kindly services, his constant care;
! and she herself would feel perhaps
certain kind of loss He had been so
kind and useful; but then he had
i marrcd all by his unboundcd prcsump,
! ton
Il should really have begun to like
HIM in certain kind of way" she
said to herself III he had not done
this; but this | shall never pardon"
Sho did not even feel a woman s
= natural vanity in the idea that suCN 4
man loved her and wished to marry
her She could not understand the
! compliment coming from him it was
an insult
she went on with her musings He
|
| HE forever, and then the thunderhult
would fall then would come shame,
disgrace, ruin, Croombe would pass
into his hands, Wyndham would learn
that his money had all been spent;
there would be shame and sorrow I'M
utterable Thus would end the noble
, aud ancient race whose glory had been
SO dear to her
/ Never mind-sh would have had
her triumph She would have dis
missed the man who had humillatcd
her tie would be master at Groom.
be, but he would have found some
one who despised his money and his
low birth
Suddenly she saw, as in a dream, a
white head bent before hcr-hcr
father kneeling to her with outstrctCh-
cd hands praying her. for Heaven s.
sake, to help him, to save him. She
who protcssrd to love him SO dearly
had refused to save him. She would
enjoy hcr triumph, but what OF him?
Then she remembered his joy child.
like in It's excess. He did not seem to
have doubted her acceptance of the
terms, and she had refused them.
. How he had suffered What agony
of mind he must have endured! Now
that the only CLEAN of light had de,
parted what might not happen
She grew trightcncd Sorrow and
( despair such as his had led to suicide
q OF course tt was a Cowardly action
d every one knew that HUT her father
was old and feeble, trouble had worn
; away the strength of his mind and his
intellect; he was confused In his
, ideas
5 What could she doo Watch over
. him necessarily? Yes She had Nj,
life in her hands, and she was rcfus
/, ing to cave It, with one word-cnh
= one word-she might make him happ,
beyond all measure beyond an words
" She miyht restore him to amuca,c. {,
over, to happiness TO peace anl self
e respect She might give to him tn
u reality of his dream, length OF day
aud ppaCCful grave