The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-04-02
CContinued.)


Does my poor portrait OF her. my fond'
patient labor OF long and happy days
show me these things? All, how few OF
them are In the dim mechanical DRAWING
and how many in the mind with whieh
regard Il! A fair. delicate girl, In
pretty light dress, trifiing with the leaves
OF a sketch book, while she looks UP
from Il with truthful innocent blue eyes
that is all the drawing can say: all per
haps that even the deeper reach Oh
thought and pen can say IN theH IAN
guage. either. The woman VINO nrst
gives life, light, and form 20 our shaooWy
conceptions OF beauty, fills voN IN our
spiritual nature that has remained un-
known 10 ls till she appeared. sympa-
thies that lie too deep for words, TOO oeep
almost for the thoughts, are toucheu'
at such times, by other charms tnan
those which the senses feel ana -~hlch
the resources OF expression can realize
The mystery which underlies the beauty
OF women is never raised above the reach
of all expression until IL has claimed KIN
dred with the deeper mystery In our own
souls Then. and then only, has IL pass
ed beyond the narrow region on whicn
/ light falls, I'm this world, from the pencil
and the pen.
/ Think OF her as you thought OF the first
L
1 you that The rest OF her sex had no art
! 10 stir Let the kind. candid, blue eyes
/ meet yours, they met mine, with the
! one matchless look which we both re-
member so well Let her voice speak
the music that you once loved best. at
tuned as sweetly 10 your ear as 10 mine.
Let her footstep as she comes and goes.
In these pages. be ike that other foot
steps to whose airy fall your own heart
once beat time Take her the vision
airy nursing OF your own fancy; and she
! will grow upon you all the more clearly,
as the living woman who dwells In mine.
Among the sensations that crowded on
me. when my eyes first looked upon her
familiar sensations which we all know
which spring to life in most OF our hearts
die again in so many, and renew theii
bright existence In so few-there was one
that troubled and perplexed me- one tha'
seemed strangely Inconsistent and unac'
countably out OF place In Miss Fairle' 4
ss~presence.
Mingling with the vivid impression pro
duced by the charm OF her fair race anC
head her sweet expression. and her win
ming simplicity of manner, was anothe
impression, which. In a shadowy way
suggested to me the idea or somethinl
wanting. At one time II seemed lik
something wanting. At one time ]
seemed like something wanting In ner
| "A
self. which hindered me from understand
ing her as ! ought. The impression wa
always strongest. I'm the most contradic
tory manner when she looked at me; o
in other words when j was most con
scious OF the harmony and charm or ne
face. and yet. at the same time. mos
troubled by the sense OF an incofnpiet'
ness which IL was impossible TO discove
Something wanting, something wanting
uha
! could not say.
! THE effect OF this curious caprice
fancy (ss 1 Thought Il them was not
a nature to set me at my ease, during
first interview with Miss Fairiie. ~
few Kind words OF welcome which NJ
g spoke found me hardly self-possess'
, enough to thank her In the custofhai
phrases OF reply. Observing my hesi,
= zion and no doubt attributing II, ma
: uraIly enough, TO some momentary sn.
" ness on my part Miss Halcombe TOOK u
l. business of talking. as easily and reaoi
l. as usual. into her own hands.
N Look there Mr.. Hartright, she sai
s. poInting TO the sketch-book on the tapl
and 10 the little delicate wandering hai
ID that was still trifing with II. sure
" Won will acknowledge that your moo
Ia nunil Ia found at last? The moment ~
re hears that you are In the house'
s. seIzes her inestimable sketch book 100
universal nature straight In the race d.
80 longs TO begin! ro
o. Miss Fairlie laughed with READY go
o. bumor. which broke out as brigntiy as
g ., hsd been a part OF thesunshine apo
" us. over her lovely face.
= ,,I must not take credit TO myseu Wnt
>, no credit IL due she SAID, her eie'
VI truthful blue eyes looking alternately
Ia Miss Halcombe and at me. fohu a-
~ am of drawing. I am 80 CONSCIOUS Oh
"A
a ! anxao,s to begin. Now j know you
here Mr.. Hartright find myself iooki
-, over my sketches as / used 70 look ON
r. nv Lessons when | was little girl
hv when | was sadly afraid thst
7Ie should fuTn out NOT mt ~ f,-- ~
H. She made the confession very pret'
h and simply, and with quaint chllu
he earnestnsss. drew the sketch oovA as y,
he close 10 her own side or the tspie. &"
lid ualcomhe cut the knot Of the little 9
d. tarr,ssment forthwith, In her resolu
downright way. - =.
IN Good bad, or Indifferent she "a
ed "the pupils sketches must pass tnrol
'cd the bery ordeal OF the master junsm
and there's an end OF IT, ouPP1s.
OF take them with US In the csrriase' l,s'u
he and let Mr. Hart1ght see them, TOT
res arst time under circumstances OF
rt- ms,nal iolting and interruption? "
ng "a, only confuse him all through
IRE drive. between nature as II is. when
di- looks up at the view and nature as
OF no, when he looks down again Al
nd sketch books. we shall drive nun in'o
ers last desperate refuge OF payns us =
elr ri,,nen,s and shall slip through his
ers s'.s,o,al fingers with our pet featt
ere OF vanity all unrufied.
eir II hope Mr.. Hartright Will pay me
lso co,rnllments," said Miss Fairlle' as
ent ali left the summer house.
ges MAY venture 90 Inquire why
hat express that hope ] asked -.
Of Because shall believe oil thht
re- 80, 90 r,s she answered simply
Ing In those few words che unconsolo'
ing yave mo tho key 20 her whole charac
No. that generous trust in others which
eX- h.r nature. grew innocently out OF
rye sense OF her own truth. only kne'
ter inuitively then. | know u oy eNpeTi'
~ now. ,
= IL "a n good