The New Era, 1882-08-31, Page 8August 31, 1882.
Ilettrothed. ,
I have a, secret, a secret,
A secret I dare not tell,
Vot event) you, my dear little pet,
. Though I know you would keep it well t
• 'Tie a tale with an ancient ineaning,
A song with an old refrain,
rhyme,which the marvellous soul of man
Sings ence-and never again.,
The manifold voices of evening
Are echoing round me here -
The sigh of the waves, and the langh of the leaves.
" And, the moan of the autumn air.
But the laugh and the. sigh, -and the moaning
Haven, nmaning you cannot know;
And I catch a solemn undertone
In the rhythnani ebb aucl flaw.
Two tides ot the infinite ocean
That chafetla the shores of time -
Two waves of the passionate sea of life -
Have mingled their wondrous rhyme
And the holy strain goes echoieg
To the peacaut cants` alacvb
And the song is a song with an old refrain.
And the rhyme is the rhyme of loye.
•
And, loving him ever and alwaYs,
And holding him close to my heart. -
The world maygo Mite ceaseless march
Times' billows may heave and dart -
We two shall walk life's twilight fieldsa.
In paths by the angels trod;
Till all wars cease imthe infinite peace •
That crowns the sons of God.
-Barton Grey.
1.ei.fe5g' MVSterV•
BOOM 'VII.
• CLEAR OF THE ,BREATCPBS.
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CHAPTER XXVII.
13 moonlight deep and tender!
A year and more agone,
Thy mist of golden splendor
Round my betrothal shone.
0 elm -trees dark and dewy!
The very same ye seem; •
The low wind whispers through yo
Ye rammur in my dream I.
0 river dim with delta:ice
Flow thus for ever byl
A part of my existence •
Within thy, banks cloth fie •
The season is neither spring nor Burn
mer, but the lovely mingling of the beauties
of both in the transition stage, lovely as the
. sunrise that fellows the cleae_gray _dawn
- for the rosy morn-,
ing, lovely -as the tender mellow hour,
golden with the western glow,
• That ownes.between the day-fau- and the night
The place -is -not London, hat sufficiently
near it for the great iron horse, the " match-
less steed of the strongnew world;" to bear
you, before the hour -glass has run One
course, from thegreentrees and the fair
flower gardens into the • pmoke . and stir.
of the great city. And thus,
Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite
Beyond it, blooms the garden --
-where the Glencairns now spend their
leisure hours under the blue, soft sky of
early summer.
•___. They had taken for the season the villa
. called " The , Challet," a cognomen which
exeroises the village postman's peonuncia-
tion as he exPerimentalizes onit two syl-
lables with an ingenuity worthy of a better
cause. • They have taken it, furnished,
including the live -stook -item, a watch -dog,
two cote a hedge -hog, and. a dozen fowls,
• which are supposed to suPply them with
eggsen.d spring'ohickens, but which ati wit
afford _much ground for the supposition.
A pony was not included in the -list ;. but
Glencairn has hired a steady and manage-
• able old pony and a low baeket.chaise, that
Luli may drive about the neighborhood
_andenjoy-fresh-eair-wilheut-thelatigneof_
walking. For communication With the'
railway -station, this vehicle is not a neces-
sity, as the station isbut a little distance
off, -and -Glencairn---always-walka-to-atid• -
from it ; thus- pony andchaise are left
almost entirely at Luli's disposal.
In the dining-roona this evening are sit-
ting Glencairn and an -old friend of hi,
Martin Griffiths, who has latelYreappeared
after some ten or dozen years of absence
in Australia. They have dined, and Luli
has left them to linger over their dessert.
Since the autumn that bereft Luli of, her
over and out a gulf across her life to sepa-
rate her from her happy girlhoo&for ever,
another autun2i2 • has ;come and gone, and
the second spring is blOSSOrtling into the
second ;enamor. : ,
Glencairn seems,- however, in -no way
altered, save that the dark in his hair ie
now fast yielding to the gray. More than
ever now Glencairn would Biggest to a
student of psychology the impression of a,
man who lives to himself &lone.
Martin Griffiths, however, is no psycholo-
gist ; .he looks but seldom beneath the sur-
face, and has' seen hut little of Glezicairn
in this recent renewal of their long ago ,
intimacy, This old comrade of Glencairn's
is about as unlike Glenoairn as a man well
can be, except that he too has the look of a
roan Who has lived and fought battles- Only
his, battles have not been wrestlinga of good
and evil, but material conflicts with the
winds and waves, with the wolf at the door,
• with the craft of humanity, and with the
force of circumotances. He is a fair, big,
broad -Shouldered, travelled Englishman,
with an honest, pleasant simile and frank
blue eyes that do not look as if they could -
keep a secret. Ile is not handsome; he is
bearded and bronzed and weather-beaten,
and past the prime of life.; but alace with,
that expression of strength and truth and
kindliness cannot be wholly unattractive.
They have talked over old times and
new times, and given each other hastily
outlined eketches of the way the world has
been using themthese many years. Then,
during a silence, Martin Griffiths ,glances
out into the garden through the folding
French windows, which are thrown open.
Alongthe gravel -path, beyond the veraudah
and the flow er-border, a figure is Fearing
slowly by -a tall slender graceful female
figure, her black dress sweeping softly and
lightly over the pebbly path; a black lace
scarf flung over her head and falling on
her shoulders. '
" YouJaave_a_ lovely daughter, old fel-
low," observes Griffiths, following the
dark, graceful, shadowy form with his
"She is better than she looks," the other
replies briefly. .• ' -
" It is a beatitiftillace-coritinues-Mar
tin Griffiths, "but so pale, so delicate Is
she well in health ?" ' ,
"She is never very strong; ' but she is
not ill. I hope she will be all right some
day; it seems to me tkat she is gradually
growing stronger." '
Griffiths mut another look at Luli, then
looked back at his friend, curiously, and
so,mewhat hesitatingly. ,
"Pardon my asking, Glenoairn," he said
at last, "but -is the in mourning for any
one ?" and hie tone implied another ques-
tion beyond his mere words. "
Glencairn looked for once a little eur-
prised, and his keen eyes shot one quick
look under their brows at Griffiths. ,
"How did you gnus ?" , he ma very
/ quietly. " She had a loss; it is long ago
now. She has got into the habit of wear-
ing black, and I have not chosen to thWart
her."
Martin Griffiths asked no more, . and
Glencaien told no more. '
"It is getting too late for her to be out,"
E
he said, and turning to the window celled
Luli in.
She came in obediently from the dusky
'garden into the lighted room. _
Lull is changed, sadly changed, laut ie
beautiftilstill;onlYnow it is DI, beauty pain -
fel in its fragility and transparent delicacy.
She look e all the :paler for the unrelieved
black of her attire; the eye rests with
'relief on the Onegleam of color, the still
'bright luxuriance a her golden hair shin-
ing beneath the -1 black lace- scarf.. Her
cheeks are hollower than of old; her eyes
have a dreamy, fax -away, yearning look;
and over her whole face, figure, and expres-
sion', even when she smiles, lies thetinde.
finable shadow that is never cast by 'physi-
cal suffering alone, and that 'beam witness
mutely "TJn grandinallieur a paw par la."
• ." Are you net foolish' to etay out in the
night air, child ?" '
"It is not cold, dear," she says, and her
•voice -ie -as sweet and caressing &Bain the
past, but hae, •a adder intonation., "You
are not tired yet Of your wine and walnuts
surely?" .she adds with asmile, the tender
light of which -beams .firetnpon her father,
but a ray -of it passeson, to Martin Grif-
Atha before it fades away, and her lips set-
tle inte their habitual pensiveness.. •
"We have had.enongla wine and walnuts ;
We are coining, into the drawing -room with
you.now," they reply, rising together with:
anornmendable unity of opinion.
So.they-parie froth the dining -room inte
the little library adjoining, and lift aside
,tliihes.vy curtain -6T t ,hang across the
arch where the folding &Mee shouldlaa,
and pass on from the library into the draw-
ing -room. • •
. There is a piano there; but sorcie instinct
of delicacy withholds Mr._ Griffiths froro
asking if Luli plays or sings. It is 'Glen -
cairn who bids ,her go to the piano and
give them a little. music; andLuli theys
promptly"ae-ever.
It pleases her father to bear her.; and so
although musie - is asfull, of memories to
• her as -to ,every ,sensitive nature, and she
can never' play or sing without feeling a
_flow. of recollections rise -if . a tide' can be
said to rise. that never ebbs 17-sti1l for his
Pleasure -She,wakes.the old melodies again.
. -She Siege rnodern.hallads and simple Italian
-airs. -, Only eltl, English ballads eher is never
heard to singnow. . The -old English ballads •
which Duke Meyburne loved and taught her
•to love too, are silent for 'eVer so -far as
Luli's lips are concerned. - • _
.net long, for singing -is an exertion., and she
is not equal -to --any fatigue..they talk,'and
in. the general ',con, versation, all three take
.part Dili is not shy,, and tam and Martin
Griffithe are. scarcely on the tirdinarYternis •
of a gentleman- and lady meeting 'for .the
first time: He is an old.' friend 'of, her
father's;. so they are quite' at borne together;
they diseuse society, theories, Eogland and-
-Australia, and . a little ehallovi general' peli
tics, not getting out of Luli's depth ; it is Mar-
tin. Griffiths who chiefly, takes care- notto
steer beyond the ehallaws of the uneultivated
ferninffie intellect.' Luli • gets intereetedin,
the diseussion, and manifests,her interest ;.
Crlenceirri'S Oyes -brighten gravely as he
noteher, animation • and when 'Martio
Griffiths at parting Bays, .
" Wellrfeam-everat' The Cedars, you
. know, I dare Bey 1, shall look you no. to-
morrow." • • . -
,Glencairn replies with unusual warmth,'
:• " Do,,old felIow. Ve shall expect yeu to
'breakfast, lunch, dinner, or
Itis -a year and a half since Duke May-
butne's.tragici and Still, mysterious, death.
Thais net -forgotten even in the large circle
of those friends who gave,. him -hut light
liking And superficial,-,Carelees adMiration '
during his life. ,. Now • his Memory' endures
_arimogst ,thero:,haloe& erottrid, With' More_
his; oresenee.
ever ,.,wee. They tell the story still to
strangers of hoW. he ',left England • for a
„pleiretripauLtheaull.he_yede.y....of-youth-
an& happiness and %prosperity, never to
return; and how the next season whenlais
place. was 'vacant it cast a damp' and •- a
shadow over , them all. - ,They indulge in
.surmises'as to his' fate, and the- popular
idea, especially'. among the" gentler sex, is
"brigands." There are so many relics,
left.- of hind • in 'the, magazines., and „illus-
.trated, papers- of the , past 'Seasons; that
memories , of him are,„ elwayti staring his
friends, in; the 'facie Wheneverthey'. turn !alit'
odd corners et...their libraries. HnijRern--
• brandt.ohadowed lanclicapee, 'his clasalo
fa/nate' Aguree, whose features: during, that
last seaoon one. and all !absidined a _certain
.likeneee, to Luli' Glehesline-how vividsy
these recall him' now! and • hOw.„far more ,
'brilliant promise people discern: in. them,
now that the 'premise ie blighted than in
• the &aye when it Was .a living power
amengst them, ineturing anddeveloping
month by month!„ -
:And for,Luli, when her eve's fallby chance.
on theme mendorialo-,alr, that are -lett to.
remind the - World of -him-this '‘ Thamee'
by Moonlight," with the coarseengraving
of whichhe was se Wroth, this' "'On Board'
the'Invincihle,",at:Whibli he workedinsueh ,
hot haste by night and day;this, " Medorit"
that has her eyes and her expression, -Whet
feelingernsh over her and blind her.to pre-
sent and future,' who shall say ?
'
• ' Forrecollections are ae seas;•
• That chine and go in tides, and these
• : Are flood -tides to the eyeth," '
:On the question as ti how far Dili has
recovered fromher bereavement, andrallied
from the aback that„ nearly was her death,
there exiete a wide :difference. Of Opinion
among.iter friende. Scene decide that she has
quite got .aver it-" why!' she Birdies, and.
even latigho. and never talke .ebout hint,
poor fellow!, iaoW"-and •that Any -altera-
tion in her is attributable purely and solel§
to ill -health. Others shake their heads,'
anddeclare that she never Will get, over -it.
One woman only-=-Wellnighas,ritre among .
her Sex as a blue,dahlia arteeng the garden
flowers !-acknowledges that it is ,difficult
to, decide On such • points, and. holds -the
unorthodoX•. creed 'that_ to . interpret .the
cipher of another . human heart- froin
casual stranger's view of the face, to fathom
. with the Conventional line and plummet
of ordinary acquaintance the exact depth
of another's sorrow, isnot quite So easy as
to Commit to memory the, A B C ordiew-
ing-ioom etiquette.„
But this lady's vievv ie.eXceptionel. Half
of the world (Of the Glencairns' little'
world), say that ” he who runs May read"'
that Luli Glenoairn- is not fretting . at all,
-now---Phe-other-halt--declare eqeallyposi-
tiVely that sheis-breakingher-heart.
Her father' watches her and says nothing.
He knows that ,Luli has proved' herself
stronger thanhe had dared at, . first to
expect her to be; he kimisrs that she is- the
best of daughters; but he, scarcely .realizes
how match her affection for him, and her
anxiety not to grieve him, have to do with
her strength in enduring, her patience in
concealing.' She knows well that she is the
oneidel of his, heart, andit is her constant
effoet to give .to, hini,not gratitude and
_love, for they need no effort, -but -all the
happiness, Or thealley that passes current
for the rare gold of -happiness, that it is in
her power to bestow. , She keeps her teare
to herself, her smiles tor hina.
• Thus, • although these two seem so
closely united, and are- so nearly allied, his
dark soul is scarcely' more utterly unknown
to her than is her pure and' ePetless soul to
bind. :Their spirits are • strangere to each
other, and °atilt walks Eta path alone.
She smiles on him and obeys .hio wishes,.
and in a thousand little daily duties is the
householder:0 now. "All the while elie is
living in e dream; the' dreamis reality to
her, and earth and all earth's belongings
seem the dream. Truly in this she sees
net with blinded, but with cleared eyes.
•Shall not 'all earth melt from us one, day,'
melt as a cloud from the 'face of the einn-?
Shall not the world in 'which we have liyed,
our inner life, the 'life unknown to even our
dearest, endure when earth has Bunk away
from our feet?
Glencairn only sees that Lull is fair and
young and beautiful, and still in the spring -
tithe of her life; he trusts that before he
summer of her beauty shall each its
zenith her sorrow shall be forgotten, and
the sun of new hopes' shall shine in the
future, and the shadow of her first love lie
behind her in the past.: .
, He watches her when she smiles and the
Sun slants on her fair hair andlends
.reflectedglow to her cheek; and he says -
in his heart, rebuking his own past fear,
"She will be • strbeg one clay ;. One is
growing 'stronger. I shall see my darling
- •
web and happy yet." •
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CHAPTER
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Bhame fa' the hand that I should take
It twinned me and My 'nano
Your cherry cheeks and your yellow hair
.Gar'd me gang maiden evermair t •
• -ota
,
•,
• It Seeras impossible, while looking on the
surging-snow-of7the-cataract dashing 'itself
in_triunder on. the rooks, to realize that a.
few •-miles further it runs a enatoth, and
"rapid nippling .river between fair. green:
banks. So -it is inatiossible at the time of a
tragedyof life and death to realize that.
the currents of the surviving lives will but
brief.while hence run smooth and Wave -
leas again. Yet look, how, from 'the whirl -
p001 of., the cataract, the litream struggles
fre,e at last from the ciraling eddies' and
bursts over and through the rocks until it
gains:the channel where it flows on, swift
and smooth, a purling meadow -stream
„
'
Glenoairn and hie daughter are in ealm.
waters- now. They have weathered', :the
storm,. and. he deems that 'they are clear
of the breakers, and safe from the sunken
reeks:
1...ife at the little Swiss -named villa With
the 'green verandah '• and the six fir -trees
flows onin an unruffled current that is even
dull and sluggish in its 'utter peace Lull
wishes vaguely, languidly sometimes,that
ititoWed with a trifle lesslevel-monotony.
.Site has no girl friends indeed,no intimate
friends at all inthe neighborhood ; and sheas
left a great deal alone, as Glencairn, topay
nothing of the frequent solitary rambles, on
whiCh he does not invite her to accompany'
him, Often goes up to the town for,the day,
,on business bent, and spends a fair portion
of his tirne in..being whirled at express
speed over the railef by , the fleetest, of the
iron -eteeds. that rush !alerting' smoke on
.their way rierdes the fields., within view of
the temporary- hOrne where Luli watches
'them -from the window as, they bettrher,
father to, and foe. • - • •
Sometimes he takes !her with hircilaut
not often ; pertly because he says it is a.
useless fatigue for her, and she' hi -better in
. the garden areopg the trees or in the draw-
ing -room with her books and embroidery;
ready togreet him, fair, and smiling, when
he 0013208 home -and partly because when
.in.Londonshe will never be content With-
out visiting the Cravens. And the Cravens,
although Glencairn likee them personally,
-stand between Lull and • forgetfulness,
between himself and peace; and then at One fine morning they aregoing up to -
their house there• is alwaystheposeibility townto see the . Royal Academy, and Grif-.
of meeting Zera, Brown.. , • • • utile has 'come over early, immediately
The very cause that -leads ...Glencairn alter breakfast, from the Cedare.(the.road
lo._eliun_the--Craveneis_the . cense •that, from. the 'Cedars', to the Chalet is BO fre-
draws Dili toward therditli- an Unfailing- ---quentlytrodden ,by 'bine thatthe lady of
.magnetisin that neither time per . absence :the Cedara. remarks with mild pleasantry
seems to have any power to -weaken. She that she enteeteta,,Pee_pe.rmaneratimprese
eleyesell-thelfeWleb-are a`-'—.'imiated with her sloop of hie footprints. in -the beaten track).
happy : days ;. and to. Visit the d'raverie, and He is going in accompany .iliern; of Cohrse,
'there ,to. run thechance of ,.meeting Zora , and as they , have time • before the train
is one -�f the fetv .things. thatever starts, they are lingering , on the Is.wn; and
stir and interest her now. •Btit.the charades • Martin 'Griffiths is 'left to catalogue the.
of meeting Zora. are fewand lar between'; ' beauties of -Nature; while 'Lull. /111:1830 put
the 'pathethett crossed once so fatally have on her het. . Coining, beck, .she liode
diverged wide • apart. rZora; -after, drifting •.Griffithe_occupied,intbe_seeminglyainchar-
aboat as B,Waif and etraY,for sorne.mOnths, aeteristic bustnese Of arranging a nosegay.
11as drifted. irate eharbor,' and obtained a- He haanithleseliplueked the fairest White
home as ,octimPaiiion and amanuensis to a. early.Devonshire rose, from its parent tree,
blind lady hVing in tlae':cionntiy, and huts hasgrouped with' it a sprigg or tvvo of belie -
rarely sees even the'CraVens. • ,trope, Of. feria,•and a bunch, Of ,hearta-ease,
:This is well for Gleneeirn. The sight of har,. arid „del, employed in. binding the Whole.
, ,
. ,
,the mention Other, is always to him as a; together •with a twist of long'g.iaes.-
"Why, .Dir. Griffithe,'I tlidn' t ;:know. the
touth. On • ahidden Wound that stings end
•
derts 1.111BeeII as, Sharply nIgttira, ,00 the day , arrangement of:bouquets :was in your line."
when. theeteel first flashed and fell. his not • `! You .thoughtney.dlumS,y.fingers weren't
lieciuse she, and she .alone, could .set ' up ' to this kind of thing," -observes Mr.
in
Motion.. investigatione that „might' .weave- Griffith.f3,, regarding hie. handiwork- With
together straY, floating threads of simpicion .eimple and naive , approval. • '" But -when I
and evidence Into a net whose meshes was Young.' had Tether a gilt of,arrenging
. bouquets.' . He ponies 'to an abrtipt stop
ehoUld °loge round • him- and drag him even
to the scaffold. :This is en -unlikely .contin- 10 they/ay:poop:lei 'do when they have not
gently, a fate the never :eonternPlatee, and draithedell they .were.going to 8E43%
thus 'of whieh he has no fear. It is pot_ .." So I should fancy. . It is very prettily
becauselaer band might set,tliimachinery -arranged," says Luli in her gentle coorte"
's
. ,
inniotien that his •soul.recoils at sight or, eus way. , ,
mention of her. It is becense a word of Mr. Griffiths' methodof; presenting -he
hers,'conld cell down the, thunderbolt that offering is brusque and might by some
should slay at once his already drooping ladies accustomed to. refined petits wins.
'flower,Whose brightness he trust re the Bum- have' been deeme&uncOuth. • , •
mer sun may restore. • For ;day after day • "You take it; please," he Bay's, soinewhat
she tells him that, she is stronger, and Will abruptly pushing it 'into her hand.. "
be blooming when the summer is Milts full -Made it ,for. you," And the big,. broad --
bloom. -- ' • , .'„ • ,shouldered, -sunlrenzed Man, . With • the
grizzled threads in his heir,. fairly ,colours,
, If loving care can cure her, Luli will live
'
and be well, Will be strong • and happy yetwith the incongruous flush of middleage
,
Ile keeps. her to hithseif as.:,:ateh as p0138i. as:the girlfer a moment 'is silent. j:31,1t it
,
me now; guards her to the utmost Of his ie moment's partly
silence. of a .
power from all old associations ; he even • ISI*tered and gentlyamused surprise that
. '
'pushes this' exclusiveness to 'the extent et Only onedegree rendoved from indiffer-
placing ohiteolesin the 'way of her being' enee; although -she smiles 'Arery gratefully
ard sweetly, and the flitting ghost 'Of a
too mud" or too long with her bind old
blush vvarnas up.her paleness, as Bhe looks
aunts. There is Seldom any bright young
presence to cheer -up the ".Ariciente" now. t1P,at ihirn and takes' the "bouquet" With
thanks. f She . hesitates another moment,
Miss Priscilla grieves at tine Christi -
and then,' looeening the • jet breech that
ana resents .it. Both. alike take a gloorny
•.fitstens her Scarf upon her breast,' she pies
view of Luli's state of health. • • - •
the flower there. 11 is done on a slight
" suppose' you think hite,a fit guardian
says Bilisg tinconsaious impules of gra-ceful. girlishness;
for a-delidate .child like that?"
carelessly and without thought. .'iBut both
Christiana, who -regards Luli still as, .
child. Wei:maimstill as a very thinly die- Oriffithe and. Glettottiria, who standing by
guise& wolf..
_them notice only the surface, the emilethe
,
"As fit as any Man Can bel" responds faintftheting ±Meh' the -gentle dreamy eyes
Priscilla,:
her sister's downcast upon the hand's fastening the
opinions as to thwho shares. e general helplesiziese of flowers; and e ',brighter orcile ttaslies'unctin.e
teaakine; though Christiana gees- a step soiously, 'eoross' both 'facee. It is e glad
ta hope- that yeti dareenot
r
further, and thinks the nobler sex are nee-
enderness, epdtriumph too seen, that lightens .Glenoairn's
less excrescences on the Iface of humanity.
" He is perfectly -devoted to her,.ifever stern features; thOugh,eVen in his -gladdest
saw devotien in a man 1" . and tenderest look there is ever an after-
:
_ you -never; did 1"- „,rejehis.. ,thoughtthat„iarather Of_defiancethau,sad,
other -sister •dritlY;', contirming-with . much
.
deeision,' "She's ' afrald.. of him 1 °. She "Io* Ohild of mine, if your toilet is
daren't say her Boil's her own beforelriml 'finished, it • is 'nearly tune w_e should be
She seems -perfectly crushed." .• _ ..moving,"- he obsertes in a tone' se much,
This is an obstinate 'delusion Of 'Miss lighter and heartier, than usual that Luli's
Christiana's; and Miss 'Priscilla • rephea. mobile face reflects a sympathetio brighttrulyenough, • ., •, nees as they cross the lawn together; and
"411, poor dear 1 it's not the.t, she's she load pretty enough to melt acelder
afraid to speak, it'a that she doeSn't care. heart than Martin Griffiths', , with the
She hasn't the strength or the spirit to take, • hundh.of floWeee nestling on the bosom of
thiaright interest ineverytlaing 'that Bite b9.r., black dress, and a soft, loii-g. black
•used,to do." : ". •• . '„ feather trailing:from her hat down over 'her
" We are the most nettartil guardians, to ' fair braided hair. „ •
.take care of her now her health is so poor. TIM -flake the train to Damien and drive
WhY, doesn't he bring her to us ?" .derns.rids to the Royal Academy, where 'theydo as
Aliso Christiena. • • . „ ninety nine mit Of a hundred . de, divide
• "1 raise the poor dearchild as much as their attention between the piotures ,and
You :can do; but I can ' understand, poor the people, obeying the call of duty ,reiffi-,
fellow, his reltietance to pert from her ciently to devote the -greater part of their
even for a day 1 He knows that she may attention'to the former object. • . ,
not:be very long for thia world: She Itas One old geptlemau ,Luli neticee espedially ;
the look on her face her-poer Mother had he is bent double, with an eyeglaSs.peering
before she died. . • into thelace ef the principal female ftgure
• Then the two old ladies sighed a plain.,
tive duet of regrets knd forebodings.
Loh never, in her secret heart, objected
to the loneliness of their trresent hie ; but
it was an indisputable fact that it , was
lonely, and she knew it, without caring to
change -it. Their quiet pretty home was
sufficiently in the country for the residents
in the neighborhood to form a clique, into
which admission on intimate terms was
not easy. 4
It was a coneervative and conventional
clique; Glencairn was something new and
strange to it; he startled and half shooked
it; he uttered heterodox sentiments calcu-
lated to turn society topsy:tuevy ; he would
be capriciously gold and stiff 'when they
expected him. to be expansive; and rough
and reserved when they they deemed he
should be most genial. The very servants
of the house spread anecdotes of,Mr. Glen -
cairn's "queerness." Why did he never
sleep 'without locking his,door ? why did he
• sit up to unorthodox hours of/the-night
with no valid reason or excuse for SO doing ?
why did he eometito es pass the night in
pacing up and dowu without sleeping at
all? Why, above all, did he absent him-
self for boars, and even 'days, without a
word of warning, and return without a
word of explanation? And why was. his
temper so fitful that on some days the ser-
vants would declare they "' knewlrom his
look at breakfast that 1,e would be hector-
ing at them about one thing "and another
with or without reason, from ,morning to
night 1"
So it happen& that the Glencairns lead a
far more isolated life. than their neighbors
to the immediate north and south and east -
and West; and that the visits of Martin
.
Griffiths are proportionately welcome.
By degrees -that are riot slow, thatare,
indeed, as rapid -as they can be, he becornes
a frequent visitor there -the only frequent
-
visitor that they receive. Two men more
utterly opposite an reanner arid character
than Crriffiths and Glencairn, it would be
hard to find ; yet they have an honest, if
superficial, liking for each other. There is
besides the strong tie of old comradeship
between them. They have prospected.for
gold in riew Mexico together, and after
parting on the Pacific coast, have found
thernselves.tbrown together again upon the
South Sea. Islands. The bond Of fraternity
between two rovers who have roved the
world through, and whew!. eratic paths have
crossed and parted and inet again. is no
frail one. Still it is not very difficult to
perceive that now Glencairn, although he
may b_e an vattraction, and even a etrong
one -is not the only attraction that draws
Martin Griffiths so often to the Chalet.
Glenoairn has not thriven remarkably
_well. in his • ventures in business lately,
though he has not lost sufficiently to be
obliged to curtail his personal expenditure,
or to deprive Luli of her last winter at
Nice, or he,r previous summer on the English
lakes. ' She is provided for, too; he has
long ago secured her against all future eon.
tingencies as regards pecuniary lose; and
thus, knowing that the provision for her is
safe and tuitouched, he has been playing
rather rashly"in the financial game of late.
• He is more reckless and mere obstinate than
of old Never very apt to follow advice he
now seems to delight in defying it. Indeed,
in the eyes,of perfect strangers and busi-
nesi3 acquaintances, he seems more changed
than either to Martin- Griffiths, who sees
him for the first time after many years;
• and elwaye thought hirn "a queer fellow,"
brio Lull, whose world is all changed; and
to whom no thing„nor place „nor, person
.etruis the Same as a ye iir and a half ago.'
closely that he cannot possibly gee anything
in her beauty but blotches and ridges of
flesh color; his nose all but touches the
canvas. Having for some minutes been,
by his exclu.sive devotion to the lady's
forehead, the cynosure of a good deal of
amused attention, he traesfers his inspeo-
tion to the tip of a pretty foot that is peep -
out below her robe as she reolines on her
couch. He has almost to kneel on the
ground to bring his eye -glass on a level with
this, but he is not deterred; and cramped
into a kind of note of interrogotion, he
glues his ,nose and his eye -glass to the
lady's foot. "
"Is he bent on making an exact copy
of the flesh -tints?" conjectures Luli, "or
is he a moralist drawing some kind of les;„
son from the effect of proximity in proving
the beautiful to be ugly ?"
"He evidently doesn't think that dis-
tance lends enchantment to the vieweL"-
suggests _Glencairn. _
Griffithe. only opines that he is a "rum
old fellow"; and then observe, regarding
Lint, "I think it would take a good deal of
proximity to make a pretty living face look
ugly, however it may be in paint 1"
Luli has got a catalogue and pencil, and
'has been busily -marking out the pictures
she especially desires to criticise or admire.
Before she has got half through the list,
however, she is rather tired-; and as Mr.
Griffiths evidently prefers her seciety to
the neasterpieces, Glencairn leaves them
comfortably -seated -on -one of -the-broad-
sof t ottomans which a beneficent committee
provides for the weary devotees' of art,
while he exploresfurther.
(To be contnittod.)
FANNIE C0111A1VS: 11.11/BOISITI.
_
Boldly Plunging into the floerlem River
and Bescuinga firovrning Companion.
A' Nev York despatch says: Fannie
Coman, 14 yeare of age, and her little Play-
mate, Jessie Renton, 8 years old, were
standing near the end of the boat house
wharf at the foot' of 119th street,' Harlem
River, on Thursday afternoon. Fannie,
who had her back turned t� her comparil
ion, was suddenly startled by a cry and a
• splash. She ran to the end of- the wharf
and saw Jessie struggling in the water.
The tide was high, theourrent strong and
the water fifteen feet deep. Fannie
ran back half the length of the -
pier and called for help. She then
returned to where her playmate had
fallen off. Jessie was just disappearing
for the third time. Without divesting
herself of even her slippers the Older girl
•dived headleng from the dock. When she -
appeared above the water she had the forrn
of Jessie, who was half conscious, upon her
left arm. With her right she struck out
vigorously for a rowboat twenty feet away.
The tide was with her and she soon
reached the boat. She lifted her playmate
into the bowef the heat, and, taking hold
a the boat line, Which was attached to the
pier, she drew the boat towards the wharf.
Jessie's brother carried the frightened child,
home. As.she 'dived from the dock Fannie
dropped `one of her elipperic.and it was
carried a. considerable distaoce by the
'Strong current, but not out ,01 reach.of the
energetic little swimmer, Who, soon recavered
it. Me younger girl resides at 526 East
119th street. Fannie is the daughter of
John M. Coman, the lawyer, and resides
next door to, her friend, at 524 East -119th
Street. Fannie is a slim- and prettyblue-
eyed girl.
Advice to Consumptives.
On the appearance of the first symptoms
•
-as general debility, loss of appetite,
-pallor, chilly sensations, followed by night-
sweats and cough -prompt measures for
relief should be taken. ,COnSUndption is
a scrofulous disease of the lungs :--therefore
-use-the-great-anti-serofularerbloodpurifier,
and strength restorer, ---Dr. Pierce's "Gold-
en Medical Discovery." ' Superior ' to Cod
liver oil as a nutritive and unsurpassed as
a pectoral. For weals lungs, spitting of
blood, and kindred affections, it, has no
equal. Sold by druggists the world over.
For Dr. Pierce's pamphlet on Consumption,
send -two -stamps Ltoe-Woorn'e- DisreNsnev-
MnincAr Assocreeforii Buffalo, N. Y.
-Benzine will answer 'much better to
exterminate roaches, moths, etc., than any-
• thing else. It will not hurt furniture in
the least, and can be eaBily applied.
'caneers and OtherTanners
are treated with unusual succese by World's
Dispensary. Medical Association ..Buffalo,
N. Y. Send stamp for pamphlet.
"1 declare, mother," said a pretty little
girl in a -pretty little. way, "'lis too bad I
You always semi Me to bed when I am not
sleepy; and you always make me get up
when I am sleepy."
successfully trreiatte:blyt8'WOirtld's Dispensary
Medical Association. • Address with stamp
Lor pamphlet, Buffalo, N. Y.
Prince Henry of Prussia will start on 'a
voyage around the world next October.
He will probably be away a year and a
half, add spend Most 01 the tirne cruising
American coast. -
in the West Indies and round the South
Every Illeart linowetialt4 own Sorrow.
heart of a nasty little corn, which. though
This statement appears to contain much
truth. In ...some cases, however, it is the
small, is capable of Pinch feeling. This
forrn of heart -ache is very common, and can
be reinedietl. Perisam's PAINUSS CORN Ex-
TRAcTon gives peace Jo the throbbing corn.
Don't forget that.. Sold by druggists every.
• where.
Ring Alfonso is about to send to England
a number of costly presents for the Prince
of Wales, Lord Northampton and the
other members of the mission which con-
veyed the Garter to Madrid last year.
The tapestries for the Prince' of Wales are
worthuver £6,000, and are perfect imita-
tions of old Spanish and Flenarshart. The
other members of the naissien, Garter
Eingatarres, and the heralds receive
eplendid specimens of Toledo arme, with
incrustations of gold. For Lord North-
ampton there is an admirable sword of
-Toledo make -with--a hilt -of -great beauty.
Queen Christina sends an exquisite fan to
Lady Compton.
In all chronic) kidney troubles we have
evidence of errors in nutrition, is in,
Bright's dieetute from over stiinulation ar-
reefing repair and hastening -degeneration,
diabetes from functional liver derange-
ment& secondary to impaired digestion,
irritation and pain in the back from uric
acid or brick (lust deposit in, the urine, a
sequence of malassimalation and a common
cause of nenralgia and rheumatism. By
securing the perfect Conversion of food into
healthy blood to maintain the constructive
work of the organs and tisFmes, we have in
Wheeler's Phosphates and Caliaaya the
most certain cure of these ailments.
Meat that has 'gathered moigture in the
refrigerator should be dried in the oven. -
before being sent to the table, even if it is
to be eaten cold. Meat is often wa'sted
IsITEST CIIIJRCH NEWS,
Doing* et irreactiete nett 1,e'eeple Tateemh.
'out Christendom.
Sweden wants the gvangehado Allianc
in.48h6e3list of the English olergy Oontaine-
26,000names.• .
' Canip-meetings were held in this county,'
..as early as 1770. „
Father Gayazzi is in England lecturing
on Italian evangelism.
A South Carolina preacher has a wife
who
obje8 EIR0ot'rYn Rome (Ga.) e,BY'nei/aertiBno.lda.ssetts that -
Rev. S. Jones chews tobacco -while in the
pulpit.
Over 2,000,000 Bibles Were distribute&
last year by the British and I'afeign Bible-.
Society. . '
Kentucky ----
Evangelist," is e men of eduCation and,.
culture about fifty years old.
Nagoya, the, fourth largeet city in the
Japanese Empire -population 825,000 -
has only one Protestant evangelist.
. Patent. medicines are „advertised the.,
church newspapers of China by enterpris-
ing American manufacturers.
The Chr.istian Advocate declares that " the- .
theourity of style which some ministers-.
SLOW is plainly amatternf .affeetation "
The American people .spend about 175
000,000 annually for the maintenance of
the churehes, less than 53.50 for each per. -
s)n. • ' '
An old 'man living near Pittsburg, Pa.,..
believing that the earth hi soon to be visited .
, with, another flood, is bhilding an ark. He -
looks for the flood 'bythe middle of Octo-
Rev. J. S. Inskip, of Philadelphis,, has
"impatience with ministers whe constantly
preach about , the dress of women and not •
that of men," .He ,despises- flashily dressed
, The pastors of the three Methodist.Epis-
copal churches at York, Pa., refuse to attend
camp meetings, chiefly, on the , ground that
the camp meeting associatiOns " decline to,
• olds(' the gates'on Sunday." . "
• Milton's 'Paradise Lost' was better -
than his 'Paradise Regaitied,!'' Was .the
significant' remark' of one: minister- to
-another when the. former mentioned the
fact that he was entertaining propositions •
Iojoin another religious body.
'Thaqicrixiation Of, the 'Free Church of -
Scotland in 1843 has carried forward
Evangelicalism with immense strides, and,
the revival spirit has been.upperzno.st for--
many.years, Malting. Scotland a rich field.
•for -Mr. Moody,and his coadjutor. •
The venerable Het% •Stephen H.. Tyng,..
D. D., of New York, now past 80 years of .
-age, nen talk by the, hour of mem dead -
twenty or thirty years' ago, but itotconcern-.•
ing anything that has occurecrin `the last
twerity years. -
; The American Israelite does not approve -
of: the scheme of the return of the Jews
Palestine. • It says: "Werether believe it-
is
God-'s thatthe, habitable. world Shall
become one -Hely Len&an'd the hurnan race-.•
one hely People. '
Bishop Paddeck, of Massaelansetts, dis-
bourages the-'confirrnat io n very young --
children .'s He thinkc chitdren 'should not.,
be ctinfirnied until they reach the 'age of • '
14, though he will not, refuse these ef 12,
•" our blessed . Lord's age it his first,Passe •
over ?
- The Bishop etHong ICOng _says he as -
been repeatedly stoppedwhilepreaChing;
and asked if he is not an Englishmen and
,from the country that .sends opium ,to.
China. •'Wffer-a he admitted-thc--fact7they----
told him to go- back and stop the opium :
'itraffie7and-then-112-ey-would-tallr'Vaout,
Christienity. • •
_
•The, Wealeyen Conference at "Leeds has • •
taken a step which will .removeit still fur-
therlrom the 'Chrirch, of England. By
majerity of two to one it . has revised its.
baptismal aervice in such a manner as to
exclude any suspicion of'a, leaning towards,
-the: -doctrine --nfeebaptismale-regeneratiorn:
-Those, w,ho prefer the, old 'form, hovzever,.
Will still have the right to use it. . • '
• Itqei not generally known that t here is
.Sytidd thcePreabyterianChueoll SPain...'
Tliie Synod, Which reCently held its annual.
,seesion in Ma.dridt comprises upward of
twenty churches or missions which adopted -
a Presbyterian organization. • By reason of• . '
dietgnce, or for want at - pastors' in some ,
cases, only twelve MinistersWere present, ,
Jour ofwhom were formerly priests in the.
• Reiman Catholic Church. . A., liturgioal
for,m of serviee, prepared .by the . PresbY-
tery of :Madrid,- was. sent • dawn' to the
churches for examination'.
A lady of experience gives advice on kiss
ing to a younger lady friend as follows: "Be
frugal in your bestowal.of such favors. In
the first place, I would cut off all uncles,
cousins and brothers-in-law; and I would'
not kiss the minister or the doctor Or the
lawyer who gets you &divorce."
A clock was exhibited some time ago -
at Paris which fired a ehot every hour.
Somebody says that its great practical
utility was " to kill time."
MCO3P310 SSAlk.e.
olioNnaRAzg_.)
The kew Compound, its won.
clerful affinity to the Digestive
Apparatus and the Liver, increas-
ing the dis.s caving jy_tees, .••_
ing-alinost £12-67 dreadful
results of Dyspepsia Indigestion
1
and the TORRID .L.rv.E.F1, makes
Zope.sa an every day necessty ixn
.9VO.rjr o use.
.It acts gently, and speedily in
B.il.iousness, Cost.iveness, Head-
ache, Sick Headache, Distress af -
>sr Eating,VVind- on the Stomach.
Heartburn, .F'ains hi he Side and
Back, Want of Appetite, Want al
Energy, Low Spirit, Foul Stom-
ach. It invigorates Me Liver, car-
ries off all surplus 'bile, regulates
the Bowels,„and• gives tone to the
'whole system.
Cut this out and take it to you2
D.ruggist and get a l() cent Saniple
0 g , or cents, an
ill a oertaitt celebrated painter's work, so juSt from a lack of this care. • , *az ,vour neili...hboxaboitt it.
r a lar e bottle f