Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-11-10

for toe OF things I never get any pleas
ure out off, her husband had said to
her. 'I've kept you in your little box
in Mayfair quite long enough, Gerty,
and you've had your fun and your Hlrta-
tons, and your frocks and your JeWeiry,
till / am sure you must be getting tlred
OF it all. You are no longer SO young
as you WERE" continued her spouse with
that unpleasant outspokenness which only
husband dare use to woman VINO
is still handsome and attractive; ana
it's time, I think, that you should con-
slider my comfort and settle down Dill;
and I can't live where it's all dress ana
show and keeping up of appearances.
Give me free life in a fine, open coun-
try and plenty of sport; that's What
want. And that is why | have bough1
the incest little property in South caro-,
lima for mere song, snug mouse anu
all included; and I'm going to take you
there, right away; so pack up your traps
and make no more fuss about 1t.
So, amidst torrents of angry but TO-
tally unavailing tears, Gertrude ulu
"pack up her traps" The tall footman
was sent away, the smart lady S malo
handed on to another situation, and the
little bijou-housc IN Mayfair let as 1t
stood, furniture a d all, to an enterprls-
ing young widow in search OF sultaDle
number two. And the very day a1ter
Felicia's wedding, Mr.. and Mrs. Ialoot
set sail from the shores of England; ana
her bold, handsome face and tree tongue
and mischief-loving eyes were seen no
more in her familiar haunts.
But Sir Roy Grantley never married.
AS the years went on he stayed more
and more at the White Cottage with his
sister, going over to Frierly daily, super
intending the shooting, looking after the
keepers and keeping his hunters up at the
big house He is on the best OF terms
with his tenants, and a very strong ana
solid friendship has grown up between
himself and his cousins husband. But
he will never marry; he is still faithful
to the love of his youth, and when he
dies the name and property will pass
away to distant cousin, who is a stran-
ger to him.
The lesson of his young wife's death
was not entirely thrown away upon
Brian Desmond; love for him was over,
but he schooled himself to believe that
there was something in life still left
IOr MIN TO 90. he never SAY Aeood
mond Trefusis again; their lives ran far
apart Nevertheless her parting words
were often in his mind and her parting
injunction in time bore it's fruit in his
life
To live for others, and to learn I'M
selfishness, that had been .Rosamond's
lesson; and Brian did not forget it.
He went into Parliament, where he
soon made for himself an honorable
name for the deep interest he took in
all schemes of philanthropy. He was
an ardent champion of the wrongs Of
seamen, an advocate for the improved
dwellings of the poor. A Jealous reform
er of all abuses that weigh hardly upon
the weak and friendless. His whole soul
after a time, became absorbed in these
matters, so that new interests, new occu-
pations, a new life arose out of them
from the ruins of his past and a nobler,
better existence opened out by degrees
to him. But love never touched him
again. In Kittens grave, in the last
sad touch Of Rosamond's hand, and the
last glance of her compassionate eyes,
lay all the withered romance of Brian
Desmond's Dead Past.
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