The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-11-17
CONTINUED from Last Issue)
Three

days" SO writes Sophy at later
date In regard TO her life at Morp-
ingham hall. To many OF us in our
youth IL has seemed impossible that
we should pass all our days in the hum
drum occupations and the mediocre po-
sitions in which we have In fact spent
them. Young ambitions are chronicled
only when they have been fulfilled
unless where born autobiographer
makes fame out OF his failures. But
Sophy had a double portion Of original
restlessness. This much the records of
Morpingham years. scanty as they are
render plain
The immediate result Of this DISPOSE
ton of hers was unhappy. and II Is not
hard TO sypipathize with the feelings OF
The Brownlows. Their benevolence was
rmple. but II was not unconscious.
Their benefits. which were very great.
appeared to them exhaustive. not only
above what Sophy might expect, but
also beyond what she could imagine.
They had picked her up from the road
side and set her on the way 10 that
sort OF kingdom with the prospect Of
which Basil Williamson had tried to
console her. The squire was an estima-
BILE man. but one Of small mind. He
moved among the little-the contented
lord Of pin point OF the earth. Mrs.
Brownlow was a profoundly pious wo-
man, to whom content was high duty,
to be won by the performance Of other
duties. II the squire detected in the
girl signs OF ingratitude TO himself his
wife laid equal blame ON rebellion
against heaven. Sophy knew-if not
then, yet on looking back-what they
felt Her references 70 them are charg.
ed with a remorse whose playful ex-
preston. obstinately touched with scorn
as 1t Is, does not hide its sincerity. She
soon perceived. anyhow, that she was
getting bad character. She, the cook
in posse. was at open war with Mrs.
Smilker, the cook in esse. though, 10
be sure, Smilker might have done some
thing 10 reconcile her TO Grouchl
Mrs. Brownlow naturally ranged her.
self on the side Of constituted authori
ty, of the superior rank In the domestic
hierarchy. Moreover, II Is likely that
Mrs. Smilker was right In nine cases
out OF ten. at all events. Sophy recog
nized that probability In after life
None the less, she allows herself more
than once to speak Of that beast Of q
Smilker."
For the greater part Of this time she
had no friends outside the hall TO turn
to. Julia Robins was pursuing hei
training I'm acting In London and. later
her profession In the country. Basi
| williamson, who amused her, was al
Cambridge and afterward at his hos
pital. A glimpse OF him she may have
caught now and then, but they had nc
further talk. Very probably he sought
no opportunity. sophy had passed
from the infants school TO the scullery
She had grown from a child into a biz
girl. II prudent Basil kept these trans
| formations In view, none can blam,
him--he was the son of the rector Of
the parish-so when hidden to the hal
he ate the potatoes sophy had peeled
but rocked no more OF the hand tina
peeled them. In the main the chill
was no doubt a solitary creature
So much is what scientific men ant
historians call ''reconstruction"-a haz
ardous process. at least when you ar
dealing with human beings. 1t hai
been kept within the strict limits Of lie
climate inference and accordingl.
yields meager results. The return o
Julia Robins enables us TO put man!
more OF the stones-or bones, or what
ever they may be called-in their ap
propriate places.
| 1t is the summer OF 1865, and Julia q
very gorgeous. Three years had passed