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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLucknow Sentinel, 1892-11-25, Page 2• r - Above Her Station. • - . Ettadsome r she repeated, sorrowfully kautle that he titry fuming' 'bk.-that *SI bettillis-Theat she eemeakome *Unna etUt-Nneeglectit every duty?" " foilelea, my dear," he replied, aiiiithe; you. must not think too much of She folded he e hands, and they lay list- s toady on her dress. " Littlefaibles, papa? If then call those thinga.littre foibles, I should like to know what they consider great sans ? " "We will waive that, my dear -it is not a matter for discussion," said the lavryer, almost wishing that he had not called on that particular mond* But she was not to be silenced. "Did you know what he was when you allowed me to marry him ? " she continued- " I knew that he was Lord Caraven--and surely that was enough -a peer of the realm, a man of ancient descent."' "Did you know that he lilted gambling and. betting better than anything eke in the world ?" she asked. " Mire foibles. All men have their weak- nesaOs--those are hiv. Yon must have patience, my dear." "Did you know," she continued. " that he does not even like me, and never did? " "Nonsense, Hildred! You have all that you require," he said hastily. "And a dead- heart, she murmured - "a dead heart !" Papa, did yon remember that I was yoceg, and that youth lives on love?" "Nonsense !" he replied. Yon have grown sentimental through having nothing to do, Hildred." "It waits cruel thing,, this mareage. I was so young -I might have been spared. It was a cruel deed." "My dear Hildred," said Arley Ransoms growing alarmed, " I did not deceive you. I never told you that Lord Caraven loved you. He asked you to be his wife; there was nothing said about love." "You told me that I could live without it," she said in a low voice. "1 did,P he &wonted. She struck her hands together with paa- aionate fervor. "I cannot !" she cried. "Heaven help me, I cannot! •, My heart is einpty, my heart is dea&my life is vain. You deceived , - when you toid me that. You, my father, who ahould have saved Me -who should have.taught me better -you deceived me, and I wish tbat I were dead !" " You are very unreasonabie, Hildred," he said slowly. "What have to live for ?» she cried. "I have no one to love. My husband a a atirangft, to me! he values me him "%lat has is that to do with it ? Do you 4,* he Vendshie days nights playing "Von must not, Hildred. I am ware he il very lovable" • But then, you see, papa," she objected, "ho does not love me. "Ke will do so in time. Every one likes Lord Caraven. -He called The handsome Earl.' I assure you, Hildred, that there is not a womin London who would have refused him --bot one." " I we* that I had refused him," ahe said dreamily. - "-Papa, lt am so frightitheil at inyseit. Do you knots, that I do not want him to iove me now? I am beginning to dialike him -the sound of his police is posi- tively unpleasant to me. I would far rather be broken-hearted,longing for his love, than be what I am now. I should be a better woman it I wept for his love, instead of feeling as I do now that it is not worth hav- ing. My better self is dead." My dear Hildred, all this is most absurd. You do not know what you want. Yon tell me that your husband does not love you -yon make that the groundwork of your complaint --and then you tell me you cannot regret his want of love. The fact is, my dear, you are not yourself -you are over -tired. After your quiet life at St. Roche all this excitement is too much for von. I should advise you to keep quiet for few days, and then you will he all right." • The tragedy of sorrow seemed to pass from her face. " Thank you, papa," she replied. Her hands fell liatlesaly. "Von speak as you think. It is not your fanit that.you do not understand me. We will say no more about it;" "That is right," mid .Arley Ransome, looking greatly relieved. Now you speak like a reasonable woman. Phitosophers say that women have impulse bat no reason -I shall begin to think that they are wrong." He talked with his usual brisk cheerful- ness about many indifferent subjects, and then took his leave. But, although he had silenced his daughter, he was ries disposed to allow this kind of thing to continue, if he could help it. It world end badly -his own knowledge of the world told him that. So he called at the Earl's club, and there he found him as usual. " I have just been to Halby House," he said, "and have been spendinghalf an hour with Hildred." The Earl raised his eyebrows, which was the only mark of interest he thought it worth his while to bestow. " I do not think that she looked very well, and, what was worse, she did not appear haPPY- " Women never do ode= they have new diamonds ; every day," declared the Earl. • " I do not think that Hildred requires new diamonds, but I think perhaps that if you---" • " 1," interrupted the Earl-" I have nothing to do with it. I -have a ner- vous dread of people who do not look happy. Pray do not appeal to me. Hil is all right -I see nothing to CODI- kin of." I should not like to see anything that for complaint," said Arley Ranaome, rnly. Speak frankly," cried Lord Caraven-- . his tome or his dog; he would not miss died me if 1 died to -morrow; my money, P he does not want me. Ther- is no one in all this wide work' ao forlorn, so desolate aS called ate "You forget that I loveyou, Hildred." " "No, yon never loved me, papa,» she" I am quite—"' " am sure, interrupted Arley Rename,' "that Lord Caraven always seems kind to you." "Kind ! " she repeated. "Re does not beat me; he is just as kind his favorite dog as he is to me. Kind! That isnot the relationship that ehotdcl be between hus- band and wife- he does not love me, and he *ever will. Think of that -remember F how ymmg I ant, hovr lonely. How am I to to • live through the stretch of years? My • husbana, papa, rarely speaks to me; he wri never takes the /east interest in me. I do • not believe that if I fell dead at his feet he ts-oidd attempt to raise me from the grrid-Yon"exaggerate. my dear; it will all come right in time, he said soothingly. "It will never come right for me, papa- • and you know it" With a passionate gesture she rose from her seat. She went over to him and laid her hen& on his shouiders. She raised her • sadt, beautiful face to hie. " Father," she said, "1 am frightened at• qui myeelf I cannot tell -I_ dare, not think - how it will end. I was indiabrae. t at fine; but now,' ahe continued 13a low tone, "a I begin to dislike him." " Oh, my dear, that is very wrong -very hear wrong indeed! A womanshould never die- Lad like her husband." plam Enghah. Has your daTighter been complaining about me l" • She has not," was the reply. " So much the better for her," said the Earl, " and ao much the better for me." Arley Ransome owned to himself that the events of that day had not been altogether pleasant. CHAPTER XVIIL " Hildred," said Lord Caraven, "Captain ane will dine 'with us this evening. Try get someone else to meet him' She was in the hbrary, busily engaged in tang letters to St. Roche, and tier hue - band's anditen entrance 'startled her. It was a bright morning. and the sun shone on her graceful head. She wore a pretty morning costume, dainty white lace encircling the te throat, and arras. A 1/130'S heart t have warmed to her with exceeding t love -Lord Carmen's did not ; he tier even stopped to look at her, to make enquiries about her, or to speak a few rda of kindly greeting.. I do not like Captain Fane," ahe said ckly. " Paanhly-but then, you see, that hes thing to do with the matter." e -spoke quite good humoredly, but his saw a alight flush on his face. Captain Fane, you may be surprised to , was rade to me when I saw him at Redeltey's balL" I have never heard any - against him of that kind If he 11, was rade, you must have annoyed whi /nigh great ne any wo no wife ould a husband ever dialilre his thin wife2" she asked. "Because my husband mall hate hint -hate him for his indolence„ his she r does dislike me. I am frightened at myaelf, him. • • for if I were to he here much iongerI should a trellinclulgenee. his weakness of character.- 1 n hate him, becauae through him my whole I " life is spoiled. " disheli "Hush, muted ! 1 will not listen' to - dines you. You are unreasonable, You have r " everything that a woman's • heart can " I wish for; you • have petition ; yon are Fane surrounded with luxury; you have dinin boundless .wealth.. What more can you 'a T want r abeen " I have all that, and I am an uniciveci • be re P wife. I have alt that, yet I would change .. "1 laces with the poorest peasant -woman • Gaeta •• whose husband loves her." 1 '-‘ 1 "That sounds well, my dear, but were , they you to try it yon would aeon range your a limi • opinion. Now, be reasonable, Hildred. Be ' abuse contented with what yen have; do not stain F Lon g fol what you have not. I wonder at 'N your.want of reason -your want of Berme. : Garay You are like a child drying for the moon. , that C' How many girls in talglendwould have r of som glad of ,the 'chance to be Countess of Cara- ; be von!- . .1;741 "r hate the title !" she said,withastamp "rt is of the foot " It "Von are in a passion, Mildred. Yon ' told ni are not ,youreeif to -day. I am sorry that I to kno called.' I did no thingof the kind,LordCeraven," eolied quietly. What did he do or say?" he asked. I decline to tell you. Yon evidently eve whit I ray ; but, if Captain Fane here, I shall not." That is as you wish," he reptiedl. mean it, Lord Caraven. If Captain dines here, I shall not enter the g-roone" hen I must make an apokigy for your ce, and say that you haves headache," plied. will give no orders for dinner for in Fane," said Hildred. think you will,- Lady Caravan; if not, will be given for you. Mind, there is t to my patience --you meat not often it. It is plain that you dislike Cap - ane because I like him." o, it is not so, I assure you, Lord en. I was told not many days since aptain Fane was strongly suspected e unfair dealings at cards, and would nested at leave your club." co not believe it," he mid, abruptly. mere gossip -jt is not true." is true, for the Duchess of Morley e. She said she would tell me whom w and whom not to k ElOW • &III 0 "She shall see," he thrght, "that those airs will not do with me. !Eldred had .gone to her room. She Would not permit the servants to know that there was anything wrong. Her only rissource was to *hut herself up in her room and leave them to imagine that she had a bad headache. Shut up thre, she heard all that passed. She heard aaistaire Fawns. arrival, and- dinner being seaved. Sha heard the sound of laugh- ter -then came a silence, and, she knew, jut as though she had been present, that the Earl and his guest were playing at cards. Captain Fane did not leave the house until after two in the morning, and then Hildred heard her husband go to his own roota. She was deeply mSrtified. Of how little use, of how little value she was in that house after alt! She expressed decided dis- approbation of a person, and he was re- ceived with honor. She had said she would not enter the room it he were there; he came, and she was compeled to remain away. She , had no influence, no command - he was merely a cipher. She walked quickly up and down the room, her beauti- ful face all flushed, her eyes bright with anger, her fingers interlaced- " I cannot bear it much longer," she said. "1 am beginningio hate him - heaven hel4me, to hate him! What shall I do V' That night ho sleep, no rest came to her. She was thinking honeafter hear what she was to do. The prospect before her fright- ened her. She saw no light in the dark donde, no hope, no help -the years stretched out dark and dreary; and she wept the silent hours away. She felt half nervous on meeting her husband again ; although there was no love, no affection be- tween them, stilt it was not often that they had angry words. It was the close of the afternoon when he came in, and he went at once in search of her. "Hildred," he said, " I have come to apologias to you -to beg your pardonformy want of civility yesterday. I am afraid that I lost my temper." She bowed with cold politeness. "Now, Hildred," he cried, "I will not be put off with a ceremonious bow. Do you know that the fact of quarrelling and mak- ing friends with you again makes 'me feel that we ought to be on the best of terms ? Do not bow to me ; say that you accept my apology." I accept it," she replied, "and beg your pardon if I have displeased you." That is asaafactory. Now I have to tell you that you were right and that I was wrong. Captain Fane is a cheat and a rogue. I won a hundred pounds from him last evening. I have returned it to -day -I would not soil my fingers with his money. What the Duchess told you was quite true, -he was detected cheating at cards. A long farewell to Captain Fane! He was not worth quarrelling about --was he Hildreci " " No," she replied; and something of happiness, to which she had long been a stranger, sprung up in her heart because he spoke so kindly to her." For a day or two after that little in- cident matters were more pleasant -be- tween them. Then the old indifferen ca came back, and the young wife's misery withit. May was drawing to a close, when Lord Ceraven one eyenmg received a letter which appeared to give him keenest delight He read it, and then went with it to his wife. Hildred, here is good news ; but I am too hasty-l•perhaps you will not think it good news." " If it pleases you so much I shalt," she replied gently. "You have heard me speak of 'my cousin, Sir Raoul Lanreston, the hero of a hun- dred fights ' r "No," replied Hildred. " I have never heard bis name." ° "Thatseems strange," said the EarL Not at all," sae replied quietly. "Von f • orgo that you have never spoken major, of your family to me at all. I do not Rana. know the name of a aiogle relative that you have. the boy He looked incredulously at her. thisthe bLozz " I man very careless," he said; " I .. aa did not think that I was so bad as that. I The onl will make amends now by telling yon about her wed Sir Ramat Laureaton." "Raoul," repeated Hildred. "Is he- Pe°..Pnleia no, he cannot be a Frenchman, Lord Cara- vaadan von, if he is a relatiye of yours." 11.1110111.1.48Emp...,,,,p1111 smiles on -me, where no friendly voice ever retain my ear, where no one war for me or takes tae least interest in me, be happi- ness, then I must be very happy," she said, bitterly. "Is it so bad as that?" he asked-suid there was a shadow of pain on his face. " It is wore," she replied. Only a few short weeks since her heart would have beaten hest witV-Maipiness to hear words spoken so kindly now she turned away, and from her heart to her lips moo the un- spoken prayer. "Heaven lielp me, for I am beginning to hate him a' CHAPTER )(TX The name of Raoul Laureston was known through the land ; he had proved himsett to be a hero. It was not merely in Govern- ment despatches and neves-paper paragraphs that he was praised; his name was on men's lips when they gathered togetherand talked of Old England's glory and of her gallant sons; when they told how English soldiers fought and died, with the strength of lions, the bravery of heroes, they always znen- tioaed the brave Colonel Raoul Inureston- It had been a terrible grief to him to have to give up hia profession and live abroad. He said to his doctors-- " While I have life I Wall hope; ,the health and the strength I have lost may return to me -I may hold' a sword again. Heaven is kind." e It was with positive incredulity that he heard of the marriage. When Major Vail- dalear told him the news the brave soldier refused to believe it. Caravan would never have married with- out telling me," he said. "He has not written to me for years, but he would have written if that had been the case." '1 assure you," declared Meter Van- daleur, " that I was present at 'the cere- mony. He was married at St. George's, Hanover Square." " must not dispute what you eaw with your own eyes," said Sir Raoul. " That granted then, whom has he married ?" "A Miss &femme," was the brief reply. " ,Ransome ? I do not remember, the name." Major Vandalenr laughed. " No, you have probably never heard it -though there are few young men in the army who could say as much. Ransom° is a lawyer and a money -lender." The soldier's face fell. "A mc nay -lender! Yon cannot be serious? Caraven marry a money -lender's daughter! I cannot believe its" " It's tette. I remember the h.dy's name -Hildred Ransom°. I did not see her, although I was in the church during the marriage; the crnah vote so great I could not. The bridegroom's tall head towered 114 above the crowd; I saw vision of white and eilver, but not the bride's face or figura" "A money -lender's daughter ! Is she beautiful, Vandaleur ? " " I cannot say I have never seen her. Caravan did say that she was an unformed schoolgirl It was a queer marriage for our handsome friend." "Rad she a feature ! Dal she fall in love with him, or what V' "Of couree she bad a fortune -a very large one. I believe -same say two hundred thousand pounds. I know one thing- Caraven was utterly rained ; he had nob a shilling to fall back upon ; and after his marriage he appeared in fell feather. Halby House has ben the house of the aeason ; and I am told that Ravensmere in its mag- nificence ie equal to a palace. , He must have had alarge fortune with the lady." inclined to ask where is the stainy-faeed boy whom I loved so dearly?" " 'The truth in Raoul, I have not bused ou Very• well. I may have been a good boy, but I have scarcely made a good re.an. "A fanit acknowledged is often half amended," said falroRaouL " Yes," admitted the Earl carelessly ; " hutileel mo. great desire- to .amend -.4 wish that I da,! " I hear wondrous news, Ulric -that you. are married. . it true2» The E41's face darkened, as it generally did when any menticui was made of bit wife. " Yes," he replied gloomily, " I am mar- ried." "And your wife, I have been told, had a large fortune." " That is true ,» he said. "Have they told you anything else ?" "No, except that she was Mies Ifildred Ransome, the great lawyer's/daughter.' "The great money lender and sch daughter " corrected the Earl. " She 'will not be answerable for father's faults. What is she like, Ulric, this young wife of yours? I never hada sister, and my mother died when I was a boy. It will be quite a novelty to me to claim kin manship with a lady." "All novelties are not agreeable onea," was the moody reply. q " This one will be, I am sere. I shall he uite proud to address "My cousin, Lady Caraven." "Von are a preiex chevalier, Raoul -yon believe in the sex," said the Earl. "And do not you, Ulric ? " " No, not in one of them. The fact is, feel quite certain that you will not like my wife, and it annoys me." Like her ? " echoed Sir Raoul " How strangely yon speak! Certainly I shall do moresthan like her, your wifeand my cousin; I tell you that the thought of seeing her an positive pleasure to me." With hasty stem Lord Caraven walked up and down the room. He seemed as though about to speak, but then stopped coabrungin.ptly. He stood at last in front of his " Raoul," he said, " I am not good at keeping a secret. The troth is, I do not like my wife." sure," Notylike her, Ulric ! Yon are jesting, "1 wiah to Heaven that I were! I know I am a prodigal, a spendthrift ; but I think sometimes, now that I am a little older, • t I might have been a better man had been happily married." CHAPTER XXL The Earl entered Sir Raonl'a room early in the morning. Raoul," he said, I have just come tosay that everything mast go on as usuaL DJ as you like ; go out when you like; order dinner, luncheon, breakfasteat any timeyo will. Yon must not make any difference between this visit and those youused I am not much at home myself." Sir Raoul laid his hand on the young man's arm. " lbw• is that?" he asked earnestly. " Ulric is not home pleasant to you l'a "To tell you the truth, it is not -not very pleasant. I may be fan'ciful, but to me there seems always a look of re- proach on my wife's face. That ie not the only reason; I scorn to make false excusea. I find more attraction away from homethan in it. Now you will be happy, Raoul?' "Yea," he replied; and long after his cousin had left him Sir Raoul lay thinking what he could do to make matters pleas- anter between husband and- wife. He little knew with what pride, indiffex- am; contempt and dislike he would have • to do battle. He knew too that, as a rule, all interference between.husband and wife was worse than useless -that, if they quar- relled. themsehes, they would allow no one else to interfere in the quarrel. Bat this ties not a.quarrel-it was far worse. " I would give something," he thought, "to metre harmony ; but of course alt depends on what she is like."• What was she like! After being at the opera she would not rise until late, he felt sure. He himself went dovrintaire early - Sir Raoul liked the fresh morning air. The first sound that fell upon hisears was the ranging of a bird, and the next the fall- ing spray of a fountain. He looked around. then what improvements had been Halby House. A conservatory had hilt out from the breakfast room, long e -s conservatory that was almost ryeso fall was it of bright -plumaged a fountain stood in the midst, of brilliant bloom glowed upon the' was a welcome for the bridee- Sir ReouL "Perhaps, however, not much taste for flowers." e seemed to be about; the breakfast prepared, bat there was no one to Sir Raoul looked round; he he would go through the conserve- d perhaps by that time there would news ot breakfast. He opened the r and walked through a fairy -land blossoms; the spray/of the form - with melodious umiak inteethe clear ow. " I hope that he married her a little from love," said Sir Raoul. Major Vandaleur looked at him. "Lord Caraven has 'ewer going steadily to the bad for many years past," here - marked. I do not think that you would recognise him -his character, I mean; he has not carried out the promise of his boy- hood.' "Ile has had great temptations," said the soldier, " and no occupation ; in those few words you have the cause of man - rumed lives. If *tat you ray be the case, I shall hesitate aboutgoing to Halby I have always made my home with because I loved him; but a wife in e alters matters. What is she like, y Caravel'?" snot tell yon; I have not met her. y time I heardher discuesedatas on dins.; day ; she was only just 18, and said she looked very unhappy." ' y 18 ! And when was he minima ar "Last year, Leureston.." o, the name has Fizzled many I " Then she is only 19 now; that is very peopte. His mother was French lady of young," said Sir Raoul 'Musingly; " am noble birth, and one of her, .cestors, 1 afraid I should be an interloper. And I named Raoul de Ceurmlles, aims ngumned should not feel at home. Caraven is very himself greatly in the French Wars; it was fond of her, 1 should sa I d • nt- her fancy to name her boy after him." . Ril like the slowly. "And repeated the word " RaotiL" " I that I shall go to Halby Horne." e, Lord Caraven," ahe said " Yon have plenty of money," returned j the major brusquely -.44 why not buy a lace the name," he- told her. place of your own like better than Raoul. Yet he gives him - do not kno any one m the world whom I done so long ago, but that I am uncertain " I would do so -that is, I would have self great airs with me. He is- wiliyou about my own life it has hung upon a laugh when you hear it -he is my master- thread so long that 'I have never dreamed at feast used to be in years gone b3,. But of anything for myaelf." . ing back to England, and he has always what I want to tell yon is this -he is corn_ " I ought to be judge," said the major ; "and I prophesy from your appearance lived anywhere but at Halby House or made hie home at my house ; he hal never that you will grow better -not worse." Ravenamere--never-and I hope never th%Theter-rilvac°1 onfvaenanoteti°fuorwrir ted. by vrill." .. It yen, h She looked at him vronderingiy. i hastily broke the eeaL " I understand. Bat what has that to ! As he read it, his w do with me ?" a light cam • to as he e face brightened, Ye - He looked somewhat confused., • 1 " I knew the boy s heart was in the right the chatelaine, end I ahotdd not like to ask : "After all, you are mistress of the house, , Place," he remarked. " There could not be a kinder letter than that. He will not hear any one to "make their home with ns who would be at all -now let me see how to ex- : ain°1 togoregomainingto HalbbyereEfoorugseoingat elsewoumliewre.hereI press myseu diplumatienmy_wha would be . everything is at my service, and his wife dis-pleatong to you." ; joins in begging me to go. The boy is not " Thank you„" she said briefly. ' changed, you see. His heart is good." : the latter was Captain Fane." ."Alter all, home --whether it be happy , And the Major, having some little respect • With an imploring gesture she held out "It is all nonsense," he said, but he began ! not like to make yours really uncomfortable. rumor said about the handsome Earl and her hands to him. ..1 or iniseralde-is always home, and I should tor Sir Raoul, forbore to tell him what "Car you do nothing to help me, papa- . story. i to fear there might be something in Abe If you say that Sir Raoul will be in vonr his , heart. nothing? ' way at all, I will not ask him -If you " I shall go," said Sir Raoul-" this has •" You are at liberty to believe or to dia- think you will be as happy without him, quite decided.me. You think I am right He looked embarrassed and perplexed. ' believe," returned hiri wife, haughtily. "1 ' then I shall be p/essed to see him in his old -do you not ?" he added, seeing a strange "That can I do, my dear? I can speak will say no more -Only that I refuse dis- place" to Lord Caraven, but I have grave doubtes tinctly to meet Captain Fane." ' i 'mule on the Major's face. an to whether that 4111 improve matters. "I thank you for your coneideration" 1 The Earl was at home expecting Sir It in never a_ wise thing to interfere between last He was naturally of an even temper. ing could possibly make what you call -here in a few momenta he was found' by Illie Earl quitted the room really an at she replied, with dignity ; "but, as noth- ' RaouL He was shown into the librery,and huaband and/We. I could ask him to take Ile was perhaps too indolent to be of t home ' more unhappy for me, and the corn- • is kinsman., They met with outstretched an" inst.& little more interest in you, if you any other, but he was really angry this ing of & tentage?, who may prove A friend ands and warm words of gree • . brit the time. " No 1" !he cried vehementdy. " You '' A schoolgial like that to defy me in tatingly, Yes.' " .ce. will be some little comfort. I say unhesi- looked sorrowfully into his • 'a , do not understand. I mean help me that I my own house." he maid-" it is quite unen- He looked at her hall sadly: may be more patient. If I hated himI 'durable.'"Von have suffered very mucle Raoul," "Ase yogi really py-really not In said quietiy. should he e.ompelled to leave tiara -end I Re rang for the housekeeper and gays happy 1" he asked. tuthats orders for a ree.herche dilater. '" Yea, and mart thought to see yea The A am drawing near it fast." " If living where no friendly face ever 'gain- Von are cbiLnged too, Ulric. I feel drinker' in He eaw 'made in been,b and wid an avia birds; masses walla. "This thought she haa No on table wa preside. thought tory, an be some glass doe of sweet twin fell basin bel "Row soldier." He wa struck him servlitory the green and again Rabaul had wards for beautiful" thought the aimple lked on until he saw a vision that dumb. At the end of the con - was a large vine -wreathed door; leaves formed a perfect screen, at them stood a figure such as Sir never seen beforeand never after- got -s tall, graceful, girlish figure -a figure that was all aymmetay1 with slender, graceful neck, white as snow, lovely shoulders, round white arms draped m 30 elegant morning dress. The lady was standing with her face avert, so that he coaltheot at first see it He beheld a -queenly head, covered with mamas of blackeshining hair. He atood for some minutes lest m admiration, and then, with a deep sigh, she turned slowly rou If he had thought the figure bean he was even more eechanted with the -face. He saw dark starslike eyes fringed with long lashes, and an imperial brow; he saw a month that was like apomegranate bud, freah, red and indescribably lovely; he saw splendid face, oval in contour, and with the exquisite coloring that lintel; gives in his pictures dainty and brilliant. Yet over the beauty of the face sadness hung like a veil. He saw the glow of a scarlet geranium in the bodice of her dress and one in the duaky dere:heel her jet -blear hair. • 4. To be Ca/Ahmed.) ustralians are tbe greatest tea - the worfa.