The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-12

4 ldppeO Win the IrcSQ green
of young leaves like the bosses of a
/ shield. and on the right waved rosy
/ garlands Of the locust grove, and such
wonderful strong sweetness of honey
| came from it that we seemed to breast
| 1t like a wave and caught our breaths,
| and there was a mighty hum of bees
| like a hundred spinning wheels. But
| Mistress Mary and l regarded mostly
| that green stretch of tobacco, and each
| of US had our thoughts, and presently
| out came hers. Master Wingfield, I
pray you. whose tobacco may that be?'
she inquired in a sudden, fierce fashion.
Madam Cavendish's and yours and
your sisters said 1.
NAY" said she. "'tis the kings"
Then she tossed her head again and
rode nd said not another word. nor
I, but knew well what she meant.
Since the navigation act it was indeed
small profit any one had of his own to-
bacco. since it all went into the ex-
chequer of the king, and l did not
gainsay her.
When we had passed the negro huts.
swarming with black babies shining in
the sun as sleek as mahogany and all
turning toward us with a marvellous
flashing of white eyebaIls and opening
Of red mouths Of smiles, all at once,
like some garden bed Of black flowers
at the sight of our gay advance, we
reached the great house. and Mistress
Catherine stood in the door clad in a
green satin gown which caught the
light with smooth shimmers like the
green sheath of marsh lily.
Her bare, slender arms were clasped
before her. and her long, white neck
was bent into an arch OF watchful
grace. Her face was the gravest I ever
saw on maid. and not to be reconciled
with my first acquaintance with her,
thereby giving me always a slight
doubt as Of mask. but her every fea-
ture was as clear and fine as ivory, and
wealth of hair.
Catherine Cavendish was esteemed
great beauty by both men and women,
which shows perchance that her beau
ty awaited her little in some ways, else
it had not been SO freely admitted by
her own sex. However that may be,
Catherine Cavendish had had few low
ers as compared with many a maid less
fair and less lowered, and a this time
she seemed to have settled into an ex-
pectation and contentment of single
ness.
She stood looking at her sister and
me as we rode toward her, and the sun
was full On her face, which had the
cool glimmer OF a pearl in the golden
light, and her wide open eyes never
wayered. AS she stood there she might
have been the portrait of herself, such
a look had she of unchanging quiet,
and the wonder and incredulity which
always seized me at the sight of her to
reconcile what knew with what she
seemed was strong upon me.
When her young sister had dis
mounted and gone up the steps she
kissed her. and the two entered the
hall. clinging together in a way which
was pretty TO see. / never saw such
love betwixt two where there was not
full sympathy. and that was lacking
always and lacked more in the future,
through the difference in their two tenn
peraments got from different mothers.
Madam Cavendish was still in her
bedchamber. and the two sisters and I
dined together in the great hall. Then.
after the meal was over, I went forth
with my book of Sir William Dave
nant's plays and sought a favorite
place of mine in the woods and stayed
there till SHUTDOWN
Then. rising and going homeward
when the mist f1oated over the marsh
lands Ike wells OF silver gauze and the
frogs chorused through it in waves of
sound and birds were circling above II,
calling sweetly with nuting notes or
screaming with the harsh trumpet
clang Of the sea fowl, heard of a sud
den- fust as the sun sank below the