The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-02-21

tho program he mad laiu
carried out. The 80
Co,inna acknowledged by Lady Edger-
rnnd. he would return to clalm heI'
and thew would live together ever al
fer. OF course, he SAID, there iiiish'
be among his fathers papers SOME
diving request which he must eNel
regard as a command, which Wouio
prevent his making Corlnne MS WE.
But in that case he would return "
| italy and dwell forever near her.
SO Oswald departed n Corlnne
felt in her heart that she had lost MIN
forever. Her first attack OF frantlc
grief now gave place to settled mel
ancholy which rapidly undermlneo
her health. She no longer appeared
in public and her old arts of poetry
and improvisation were abandoned.
| The Prince Castle Forte came to her
| and renewed his car OF her, Corlnne
accepting his fatherly attentions with
a sweet but sorrowful gratitude. Be-
fore leaving Italy Oswald had given
COrinne a ring and sworn that as iOnS
as she kept it he should consider her
as his.
Meanwhile Oswald. upon stepping
again upon his native shore, upon be-
ing again surrounded by those Gus
toms, habits of thought and scenes
which had been familiar to his youth.
began to feel the witchery of Italy
drop from him. He still loved CO.
rinne with an intense affection, but
every week which he remained in
England seemed to make her appear
to him in a light different from that
in which he had viewed her While
in Italy. It frequently came across
him with a pang that Corinne was
lily adapted to make a housewife
such as vas the conventional English
woman, and which not to be in Eng
land would expose a woman to mis-
understanding and social ostracism.
He felt that England and COTinne
were not made for each other; bu,
there was. of course, always the pos
sibility of his settling down with her
as his wife in Italy, where she would
be understood. He sought out Lady
Edgermond and told her Of his re,
latiOns with Corinne, beseeching her
at the same time to acknowledge he:
as her stepdaughter.
But Lady Edgermond was ada
mant to his pleas. He might marry
Lucille or not-that had been her wisl,
and his fathers. But upon that point
she would not press him. That he
should marry Corinne was, however.
out Of b question. When ,Corinnc
had first been brought to the Edger-
mond seat IN Northumberland. Os.
wald's father had made a visit there.
and it was at first his intention IT,
arrange a match between the half
- III S1I oIlu HIS SUI. ouL dIlCI
!, watching her closely he had become
convinced that she was no of a char
acter to make Oswald happy as a wife
! and had chosen Lucille.
, His conclusions in regard to Co
!, rinne and the facts upon which he
based them had been set forth a,
length in a letter to Lord Edgermond
I which letter was now in the posses
sion Of Mr.. Dixon, the business mar
n attorney of the late Lord Nevil
r Deeply distressed Oswald sought oul
Dixon, who showed him the letter
1t was as Lady Edgermond had sale
u From a close study of the characte.
e of Corinne, Lord Nevil had concluded
: that she was untitled to be the wifi
: OF an Englishrnan, and had pro.
nounced his flat against his son mar
u rying her.
/ Oswald felt that he could not under
these circumstances make Corinne hi:
d wife. But he resolved to marry M
one else; he would return after tn,
war to Italy. and there resume hi.
relations with the poetess where h,
G had left them of-at least they coult
q Ih1s decision, however, he did not a
n once communicate to Corinne. II
fact. Corinne, from the tone of Os
e "aldS letters, had seen only too clear
~ that which she had feared wa.
coming about-that England was WOO
n ing him from Italy and it's loves
and had, in a measure, dropped a cor
/. respondence which had become mos
painful to her.
Blu now Oswald must soon go GU
with his regiment to III West Indies
n and he wrote a long letter to Primo,
o Castle Forte explaining to him in de
d tail just how the situation stood wit,
J. regard to himself and Corinne. Thi
a letter ne Intended the Prince to shoy
n tCOrinne. He wrote to Castle Fort
: instead Of to her direct, in order tina
n the Prince might be with her an,
advise and soothe her when she learn
e ed the whole truth. But so deIicat
t. was Corinne's health when the lette
Is arrived that the Prince decided no
rs to show it to her or mention its cor
II tents-1t was better, he thought, tina
ut she be spared the excitement an,
to grief which it wa likely to occ.s;ar