Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-07-17
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bright young blue eyes looking up
with the old dainty smile, at the lovely
face Of the elder sister.
ooh. no, there is no one IN the
world like May" said Carrie, one day
RI Mr.. Gordan. "Of course you don't
know her as we'll as | do. and you
think that she is rather quiet ana re-
served: but, ah!" and she draws
breath OF vast significance; IL you
saw her as | do sometimes you would
say that she is the cleverest, bright
est. most beautiful creature in exist
ence."
Il daresay / should, Miss Carrie"
he had answered., looking down the
valley on this spring evenlng-the
voices of the children on the green
mingling with the lowing of the COWS;
anu a quiet, dreamy feeling Oh peace
seems to fail upon her.
The world is so far away beyond
those hills, the past has glided from
her so noiselessly that on such even
ings as this she can almost persuade
erself that there are no such places
as Letchford Void and Gresham House
and that Sir Heron Letchford is the
phantom of a dream. Suddenly from
below rises the clear treble of Car
rie's voice:
"a damsel from her window looked
Looked down,
Upon her lov-yer below,
she sings, with her sleek yellow head
stuck on one side, and her eyes cast
up sentimentally.
May laughs, and pulling bunch OF
wistaria, throws it at her.
That's not the way to give your
lover a flower. miss" exclaims Car
RE; you should lean down and drop
it with smile. May, that nearly hit
me on the nose!"
May laughs.
Come up" she says.
Come down. retorts Carrie. "Step
down, sweet picture. from thy frame!
Come down, May want to ask you
something"
ASK away" said May, leaning out.
I'm in the mood tog rant requests;
child could play with me tonight"
Il should be sorry for the poor,
con1ding infant!" retorts Carrie.
well, look here, May, Mrs. Baldwin
wants me to go down and try over the
new songs they have sent down. Shall
go?"
Shall you go!" says May, with
smile. "Of course you can go-you
know that"
"But l don't like leaving you," says
Carrie, reluctantly.
Nonsense! You will not be gone
long. suppose? And if you promise
to be a good girl l will come across
the fields and meet you"
Really? Very we'll, then. I'll stop
an hour, or longer. Goodbye"
Stop" said May, as she disap-
pears. Take this shawl with you,"
and she throws her own cape down:
and mind you put it on; don't carry
it Oh your arm, as you did the other
night"
Very we'll, grandmother" comes up
the light voice. SIN an hour then.
Don't eat all the chocolate while I'm
gone Oh, by the way, Mrs. Baldwin
asked me to ask you if you would
come ALSO"
May shakes her head.
NO. Thank her for me. Run along,
or the time will be up
Carrie goes off, and stiffness reigns
again.
May stays until the last COW has
disappeared into the farmyard; then
she goes downstairs into the little sit
tiIg-room and roams to and fro, col
lecting the books, pieces of fancy
work, drawing materials, and other
items with which Carrie has managed
to litter the room during the day.
Then she puts on her hat and jacket,
and gees slowly out.
There remains still a good half of
the stipulated hour, and she turns
aside from the Manor Field and strolls
into one of the lanes, which Carrie
calls the Maidens Walk, from the fact
that May is given to wandering in it,
Halfway up this line there is a
gate opening into a field, and reveal
ing a view of the distant hills.
Upon this gate May has got into a
habit of leaning, not to see the VIEW
as Carrie declares, "but to enjoy a
good moon.
1t is just the evening for incoming"
and May stops as usual and leans with
folded hands and rapt eyes, gazing
Ireamilv at the hills, already gather
ing their faint, misty robes of night
around their shoulders.
Poughmen, trudging homeward
gance aside and give her a respectful
goodnight; the shepherds dog turns
aside and pulls up to wag his tail
and rub his nose against her hand; not
a passer-by but nows and respects her,
and gives her a good even
Bat tonight the salutations come
with faint dreaminess upon May, for
there ring in her ears the words of
paragraph which she happened to read