Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-02-01
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devotion. tenderness ana capabiiit
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I age 10 Ge sent eft 10 school. n woal1
not listen to s.,y suggestions CT net
being sent away. but taaght her h M
! self. with all the tenderness d s
mother and tie learning Of n schelar.
and that she might not lack yoins
aInnanioaship Is ENCOURAGED Us Ar
boys asid giyl % visit II II. ,nd
always took her q all gathering of
the young II one may Judge hy he
result, his system could nor have ben
excited.
Il vas an edlyGion 10 al tiat Mas
beautiful ard trup in life simply 10 see
them together; and of all my boz
hoods memories can rec.tll nome
me-. .eaut,fal and .oucsnrE than nat
III i tall, white haired oid man asd j
slender Young iirl, as ! san ten cls
Summer Euaniag waixins land ID
| aald through I<selya's repl-u,ed use
garden. the !asslY f;fca 81 lie girl
looking Up as Size held up ! at,Aea I
roses Evelyn nad Just eut Tar ltr
him 70 smell he stately white hqsd
OF the man benz over. looking down.
not at the cut riawers. bur 81 the Nv
ing one BY his SIZE with look Of
love. pride ans tenderness hides =.
able.
Her bes IL nds amoas flc young
people we're Arnold. Arthur and my.
self. though oil course she ktlcw III M
al, oo;n boys ana girls. an,i was a
favaritn with ti,,m all All q. ~
boys hai yalIea III loye with d ssle
time or another ana she sitt stugnHS
Lot as I'll ana aaazyei Us ID eAtst
saSirfeai Waf Lat curei lf atlsut
| leaving 4 s;ine bar | 10 n9i RENE M
Der ever heariha her quiz An SD, mi
was he ever 4 pariy In tho l5ang si.l-
gle combats faught among she ether
boys on her account
With All this. she was - unsaoilea
as flower and as natural as thu day.
and the pretty little mature airs the
came from carly sponsiblties, but
| ;dded to tla harm G. heai 4lS
grace she hail Inherited from her mo-
Their; and that she lacked neither
spirit nor wit. We all discovered in
our days Of pappy love.
Il was reails Bessie Wlso slariel rs
Io1l lG- co.lceea year earlier than had
/ been Intended: a happy resolution, %,
/ perhaps 1 had never gone at all. For
the quiet ard Hstlessness CT the air I
breathcd was stealing insidiousiy into
Fnly very blood, and lethargizing All
my faculties into torpid. unthinking
content with everything. Who knows.
perhaps another year OF such lotus
food had landed me TOO in that sleepy
hollow between a vanished past and
| unborn future. where so Efany Of m.
fellows are sleeping yet. There they
have rested. living on dreams OF
glofies plst, without ambition.
energy or ds8ira of change. and whefl
the wheels OF time rolled out q wave
! of progress over the land, it found
them sleeping still. and passed them
ny unknown. unworthy md anfit &c
rise
II was perhaps. from such Il fate
/ 3easies precocious wisdom saved me.
! We were laughing together ore day
over my late grand passion for her
ana she hid again dubbed me Don
Quixote--for my looks. rot deeds
/ when she ceased to laugh. and her
/ beautiful young face took On look d.
serious thought that would have been
ludicrons on any other face 50 young
Frank. she sait!. i, Is time TIA.
you left hoase: wenf ~ college; awe!
srom here anywhere
/ Tam going rext year ! answered
do not wait; go now Next year
may be too late | have been waich-
ing all yoR bo:s | ike mach. am
you all begin 70 think goa are sull
grown men, Bessie w.s $50 80 I
Younger than anu swaeeei
around as. snca. Yoa arr learning lis
lie now at school. ara only loai
around ard waste your time ii psns
races, cock tights and saah thihgr
Oh don't you know that you are Kill
/ ing all tha promiga d gaas ltes rha
you Will soon grow so that yae q -
care. hay. 40 deeire fsr any hing BE
yond your common needs, lose an am
| hifion aad be unfit for any work =
'.Bul ilave 40. lost II and am 50
Ing to wofk !" | protested Well e,
row, SIC answered. "or ii will be TO,
late. on Il we're boz. wouk
take giandfafleF and 80 far Away
where every hing was now and
would warg rntil ] had made nam
as great iefi glorious ~ Dir I'd Nam
here ha been, and not sit idliii;
arafad l.gsag On d-esI a.1s earnina
scarce enorgl. 70 kesp myself ID food
az SO nary oE our feya and youni
! ,aen arc doing hero to-day u wer.
lsoy. had rather have nega-- beer
. born than call myself 4 man and le
, things ~ by me In such 4 way,
vas 20 astonishel 81 this OUT
! burst OF HeS-ie's. knew not what t
| say or think. The energy and feelini
with which she-spoke showed that tn
thoughts were nothing aew to heE
though ahe had neYer spoken ID I'D
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