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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1888-1-6, Page 24 F_I_E T j!)Lir Tli L 44 N E OR THE FOES OF 4 HOUSEHOLD. 1,^ CEIAPTIER 1I—Oemeinone. TALE OP ENGLISH LIFE. Thom was eseseibing bible tese which esylmil her to infuse* little assemed estrolissome Yoko hers Is she replied, "With rery NW. deseer,if ass stud- ies the med.& little, sod Noakes dr al - besets for their posher shifting ober- 1/4011%. Foe a mossest be did sot .peak, awn he said, "I shook% never have a nioneest's poses, I should sever be able to beer yoo oat Wary sight if I thought It possible yes meld attempt to do such a titian Reis. Prentiss was that you Dom will." He wished partly in asking this to limbs a bead blastula them, so that if e ke refused that other request there would still b. that promise between Awn. Wbss she warded to do one thisshe mita kayo to think sod des, herself b his tacit in - loose* over her os that ose poiat. Her voids hod been wiry caramel as he made his "'quest, and he looked straight info bee face as he waited for her reply. It it after a short passe. "Why should I do so 1 I do sot like making provokes." There was swim a little defiance in her tom She bed as instinctive wish to do whatever Percival told her, sod promise all he asked. It wart to resist this tempt- atioa, a kat attempt to keep her freedom sod be her own law that mode bur eek the question. Perhaps Percival guessed that It was mt. Theis was no jesting io his voice or swum as hs said— . "Boeings whim pm 00 thee* things you risk your own safety, and your safe- ty is very dear to me." She did not weak. She had when asking her question summoned .11 her resolution to bee aid and lifted her eyes to his. Now she lowered them,and there Cagle an almost imperceptible catch in her breath. "I wool, try to tell you," he west on, "what I fele when I hoard where you had gone last night. 1 *mild not pit it into words ; one feels more than talks shout such things, I think. But when I tiered and almost, thought 1 had Met you-- when it kept looming across me that, perhaps, I had seen you and heard you spool for the last time—then 1 knew how dear you were to me, and bow I love ycu. When I found you,and know that you were alive and safe—when 1 held you in my wino and saw what a small creature you are, wanting some out to take care ti Toe, and see you don't got burt, I felt—so, I can't toll you what I felt. But I made up my mind to wait DO longer, bet to speak at once, and ask you to be my wife." She did not answer ; she lay still upon the couch, her hoe turned from him, her odour coming ard going, and trembling has head to fool. Her silence lasted so long that Moors lmgas to speak again, saying — "Helen, say something, or I shall think you are angry." She pot out her hand, and he clasped it firmly in his, u though to give her courage. "Tell toe something, he said again, "I am waiting to hear your voice. - "I cannot speak.- she said. coasting aside bit .raps. as though they weighed upon tier, and 'odd's', sitting up. "You said yourself just now that people cannot talk about such things, and I minuet tell you what I feel." "Won't poo try ? Not everything, jest a little to give me an idea. - He was smiling and speaking softly tad persuasively. Helen went ou— "I have boss so unhappy here, and I think 1 was like • princess io a fairy tile, always looking for a deliverer. I thought woutisses someone would be o we to emu, most Come; it could tiot go on for ever. Sometimes things wen BO bad 1 feared that if they went on I should become hard and reckless, and take the first person who came, whether 1 cared for Minor not, just to get away from here. But 1 oould not. Last summer • aim same and wanted to marry ate, sad I tried to accept him, but I could not. When it came to the point my mem. failed, I could not do it, thoub both papa and mamma were an- gry with me. Then it was worse ho. Owes I kasw that, unless some Win ter whom I oared enough, I should ituftleglkaway. and it 'meld hot all 1111/1110. • All the hiss w ho came here 111111114lies best, though neither did 1 elosi for them I began to think it woad Gluey" be ego Mud— She pawed. her lips trembling, bee oiomeheseirsir. Peraival, who had kept kid kohl rei her hand. pressed it gently te sumer* bet. avail' ho otill sad gietdise. He wasted km to asy GU that was in her misisti. OM els mid nethism end 10 .1 last repesheil "Asa ..,r But AS ems Idlellti Ills WI let. lowed her first impales and spoken out of the 'slues of au overeumise heart ; sow she was sehanied and redcoat She woad lay no more, though as Percival emationed lo urge her she turned away, smerker, "1 don't koow. ' "Well, 1 SDI going to imagist,; you must StopsIS d I am nosing 'moss. 1 shall suppose that after the rejection of that unwelcome suitor, who, I daresay, wee an exceedingly worthy yens( nasa— 1 us going wrong already r be sair Heion's Ims trembling into a smile, "He was not young, ' she whispered. "As I was saying, • very estimable elderly gentleman, you het all bops until fate throw is your way an indi- vidual who. thotigh oeithee handsome nor brilliant, nor In any way • favorite with nature, was fortunate enough to possess something in cowmen with your- self - eomettnag which harmonized with your own nature. That will do, will it not, unless you cars to add anything yourself r "Only that this earns person was original elmegh to prefer • girl for whoa& noose else oared. I 01171 hardly believe my owe good fortune. - "Is it so very great r' "Issniuma I ain only twenty. How am I to behove that to the end of my life, which may be • very long one, I am gulag to be perfectly happy? ' "Don't say that, Helen. When you 0.7 yoo moil believe it, it seems to im- ply that your put unhappiness has been eis great se to kill in you all belief in a beigbter future. I asset bear to thisk of it. You must consider that you have aright to hairpieces," "I thought we agreed only the ther clay that people's righte were very limit- ed, sad that happiness was altogether a matter of cooquest. However some people get what they bare no right to and why shoold sot we T "That is bet ter." Never in all Helen's after life did she They were silent for some time, sod forget the month following the day cm thou Helen spoke, slowly and hesitating- which she had promised to be Percivai's ly. wife. Each day formed a separated "I am afraid, after all, we have been item in her memory, and yet the whole rather hasty. ' month seemed like • long, happy dream "How hasty ?" from which she acircely wished to wake. "You have not seen Alice. Suppose, No one could fail to notice the change is when you do see her, you like her better 1 her now. Some attributed it to her ac- seppose bie is. - a basely WI Sas may mg, whisk does out miry SIG fiTV IIIMe attsselliews limps of itself, to admire. very muck as, streueeetromme, oboist ebbe 1 amid be maul has bees sold, sod which has hoes looked spurs by ol1 eyes and witesseed by all magus ; or • beau, whisk I myself have called forth, which bebop to tn. alone, sod whisk so cue er. perhaps woold evw autism became it would isie waist for them—whisk beauty du yore suppose I should value -num 1" She was coaqsarod, 10 'meld sot doebt it, Wary feature is her hips show- ed it. Ellie weld resist au Wager, she w as 5411 proof against such e dully. Hee whole being west out is rumour* to hiss. Her love was parrot as the sae in the clear September sky. °Will you trust SIs ouw I" be asked after • posse. "With my whole life," she replied, earusetly. He had boot down and kissed her gently, and she received and returned kis kiss gladly and proudly. "When may I speak to year father 1 "Nut yet, please. Let it have • little time to ourselves, before people begin to oongratulate us and watch how we behave to one another in public. Acid then, I wool anytkiog inure about Alice eines you hate it so, bot I should like her to here whoa it is to be made known ; it is a little bit of femi- n ine weakest's, whish you must allow OHL Promise you will my nothing about it till I tell yea." He promised. but they agreed that Haslitt ought to be told. So Percival told him on his way back to Brantwood, and the old gentleman received the news just as Percival had expected he would. He did not say much ; little more than— " You have woo • tremors, lad, and see you keep it. Trust Helms entirely. She is se true as time, and will never fail you, ' And to Helen he said-- - "It is not to every man by a long way that I would have let yeu go; but pie may trust Moore. He will oever any woman but yourself." ;CHAPTER VI. • FAIRY TALL than IDS.' Percival' face was both grave sod • little WT4111144 he mid — "You speak without reflection, Helen. Do you suppose I do not know my own mind, or that I have no More respect for yoe than to ask you to be my wife before 1 ans certain if I love yo.? If you do not trust me it is a different thing, only you should have spoke be- fore you told me you accepted and re- turned my love. Her cheeks were crimson as she re - "You say hard things, and you think you hare a richt to say them. You think I ant jealous, and I am only speaking from experience. You have sever seen people pay roe attention, and ss soon as Alice cruse into the room, make sumo excuse for leaving me to go eident, which they mid, by keeping ber • prisoner in the house for • fortnight, helped her complexion to recover from Its summer tan. Others said she was at last learning to be reaeonable, and to take pings as they were meant.. No one pot it down to the right cause, of course. As before said, Helen was uot strictly beautiful, and with reputation for posseesing an• uncomfortable temper was not likely to he accredited with a e uperluity of lovers, and,as for Percival, it was not generally supposed that a man of Mr Lafone•s pride of birth would allow bis daughters to marry the sons of wealthy manufacturers, though he might make them welcome to his house. Be- sides, Percival ani Helen were discre- tion itaelf. Never, in the preseoce et oven the most insignificant third person, they fall into the familiarity of emplor- to bor. I do not grade, Alice b many ing their Christian names. It would lovers. She may have a World full, so have been impossible to detect in their loom u she leaves me my one. Bet I manner anything warmer than a dose could never Lear to hear the words that friendship. had once been said to me repeated to Heleu was happy perfectly happy. another woman. Rather than that, I would go through life without having • single such w .rd spoken to me You cannot understand it of course; you have newer seen hog ; you do rot know how, sooner or later, *very sum falls in love with her.' Paneled 104 .10. from his cher, and was milking ep sad down the room. All that liaise said showed so clearly what her trails; and Ids had been, sod beer bar doubts and fears of her Her happiness overshadowed, ..allowed up all the daily worries of house life. They or; longer existed for her. She saw them not; her eyes were fixed upon an object so bathed and Brooded in golden light that they were blind to rose* earth- ly things. She was accustoming herself to look up, and the first result of her up - laced gaze was that she lost sight of these kw impediments to her content which had formerly occupied all her at tention. If dm had newer before been eat had hese created and fostered. His really beautiful, she was so now. There Nue imbed for hor, ; how he could seemed a glory and splendour in the soft getwoos to her that her fears were un- fire of her glance and the haunting founded. Elie herself opened the way sweetness of her smile. Percival saw for him. "tithe i.io beautiful, she s.jd, hair 10 herself ; "and 1 know you admire bd.*. orlid one over call you beautiful r forth st his call, and at the all of DO he ask abruptly, pausing in front of ons else. They had not been engaged • bar week bef no he thanked Helen fur bee disking her head, with a wisdom in keeping tbe engagement a li- jI "I have been called "niee look- ere between themselves. Isitereaid "essentially ladyhks." and • During this month, ton, Helen's yovotheer 'binge ot the same kind, but doubts and fears seemed to vanish. Oho besailieL" obeyed Dr. Huhn and he own instinct ou ere quits ser.; never even late- and trusted Percival. la the warmth of ly his love and the pesos of the thought really sow yes isestion it, I that bit life at „home might be ended rellieseber two Of three potpie bate told whenever she shoes. she grey to have Res that I sm ..proves,; 11 sassed me emsfidence la Imola It was impossible the beauty and rejoiced in it ; beauty created by him, born of the power of his being, kept alive by the attraction of his individuality , beauty which flashed piry assek." "Well, dotal you know whet Monett the taper/women! sheet I Deal you to feel Pereira" depesdenes on her in many Clomp sad the peitieet syeagiath, between them without entskag to • sense saw it tame hawses you were hopper. that else, too, bed I Plisse is her world and you were happier hewers Feu had s she owls fagot Jibes or Ifi zhe:tholieht Fe" wafts he all•I .s1 Now age of her it wee as apart hem herself; the our aim juagweat. Whisk do you seemed la believe that Allae would have 4ar N wittiest uMd .14— s.10 pleas se partway, he grew to foil every day Wale depseassi eyes her. Her Welle•Se• wit wines is so oftes jest where hes solid sesames wow • ; her lemelit este Ammeter was eo balsa, he felt he might &leaps trust bit imiguteat livery de, 10 1011 atom ems - rinsed tbat winsing Heise he had woo a treeoure. mad ono day atter • long dismission me sumo point es whisk they had thoaght differwitly Percival m4, half gravely, holt jestingly "Did it ever moor to you, Helen, 1) look Wow the surface of the utd myths sod fairy tales, sod to seek for their real meaning 1" "1 don't sobers they had any. You are bitten with the spirit of the nine- teenth century, Percival, you want to bad a meaning in everything. You are Oyler to auks out that thou sample minded ancients were just as mash both- ered sad worried as we latter day sta- men. You will Deese do it." "W. will keep the diseession cf that problem until we are marriorL It will do nicely to fill up ooe of the long twis- ter evenings when we are beginning to grow tired of ooe soother, and hav• ex- hausted all oar subjects oat converts - Won." "I We convinced they had no mean- ing," persisted Helm'. "Tbey were simply petty fancies, invented to while away the mooing hours, when people wore too tired or too laxy to think of anything mild or serious. I shall al- ways look at them in that light." "One at any rate had more titan sur- face weaning," mid Percival, '•and that was *10 001 aboot the Water of Life. nibs* do you suppose they meant by the Water of Life, of which whoa you had mice token a draught, yoe never ffeW old, or ugly or illdempered r "An impossibility, I should think," said Bit.., who chose at that mossest to appear unsympathetic and matter of fut." "No," replied her companion. "they ; they sessotibussan love, Lis- , and I will tell you a fairy tale. Imagine that soinewhere—Do one louvre where, but somewhere—is a toaataia containing the Water of Life, an stersel spring that DeWitt' fails. It W quite s small fountain to look .t, bet deeper that. the imagination coo picture ; it con- tains • whole • whole ocean of the Water of 14o—nay, it is infinite ; its depth cannot be sounded. Whoever lioda the Water of Life and drinks of it, knows after that no real sorrow or troubles whatever disasters threaten to over- whelm him, hs can defy them all : he is possessed of a strength which will pre- vail against everything. Now, it is a fact that onos every man sod woman feels a desire to drink of the Water of Life and sooner or later everyone goes in search of it. It is rather a dangerous search, for it may only be undertakes once, and if anyone fails to fiod it he must abandon the search for ever; and very few people do find it. For one thing, no one knows exactly where it is, and it happen" sometimes that those who set out haphazard, or don't set out at all, stumble upon it straight away; while others who have elaborately ex- plored the ground and made particulsr ioquiry of others who have been success- ful in the search never find it at all. Now than two people, • man and • wo- man, nowt .t the fountain, and if only Ib. impulse to stoop down and drink moves them at the same moment, from that time their souls are bound together, and they live happily every afterwards, for they hav• drunk of the Water of Life, and the strength which it gives shall never fail them." "How come so few to find it r asked Helen thoughtfully. "For macy maroons. thus is that them are other fountains scattered up and down ao closely resembling die real one that only thou whose instincts are true sod pure can distinguiah the right from the wrong. Most people drink at these fountains, the water of which is neither so pare nor so cold as that or the true on.; but their taste is vitiated—they don't know the difference. Some knew from the very first that they were wrosig, and console themselves by trying to be- lieve that the real fountain le a myth, and that those who goin search of It are wasting their lives in running after the rainbow. Others drink is good faith, and only biter find out their mistake, and feel that their lives u• spoilt be- cause they may not sot not in their search again; they usual abide by their fint choice. Others, again, go cm to the end of their lives and never Lid it out— sever to find it oat; they are content with what they have got -say, they soot at those who seek the tree fountain. The pure, odd water hos no taste for them" "Asa these are the worst off of mad He10 rather dreamily, as he paused ageia, "basses thole natness must be wane sad law. lib. better to die with louring for heaves, Insole* we aro es the mirth, than to rest stupidly cestest with earth frees inability to raise we g usto house." "taiti kers potpie WOW hal you pest eat "LM1' VW be to the lest* see miss • few Nisi "Not ealy d"• "like everribbil I cod*, thus Who Water of Lobito* iag • merits* i gh some pmt really or seemed te erase as if 1 ins their whole Walt,/ ethers it come eMto - mums. No us smog j i„,„„ top who tied Uos 1 -- the very asters of the aelli parent sod best is their na their Worm are not so strusg, everybody 0.500* stake this iog to remain unchanged they De the tree tousdation." Toe, were both silest whom be iniabed "peaking, mail he said, "Now .bat do you think of my tub tale f' "It is true enough." she asewersill. smiling, "very tom." Tim," were oo the island. They had rowed across the by jest alms the Wit tamed, sod nue ha/ te wait for it t• sorry them beer gala. It 1/1111 • still, autumn day, really satswa, with a pita rent smell d faded leaves mil frost, ant • teepees in the air which boosted 1 as 0010‘ late Holies abseils. lad ow sowosted brilliancy int* hat eyes. They were silent for soros time. Ev- scything amend them owned to limits them to silence. Th. sir was so edit there was scarcely s rustle among the trees; the son was shining softly throe* • golden has., mart lay all storied es the horizon, only above their head" nu the sky dear and blue. The retreeligg ass ha i left the sands wet and glistening. and their twat lay there heiples unclip ths tide SIMS up again. Al kat Pies. sal iyek0.." Nubs NB 1 Womb tet yssi labor, Nsiiim—r- "Nst yet,- die said, "do De/ weak yet. We are au happy in this way, at least I ant; what about you r' "I .m right enough, too, oak this privacy doss not *ad my vulg. I want erseyone to know of my gull foto tune and oongratulate BO epos b." "Do not build upon Wax °mewl:aim- ed with congratuletions. I .1011 151 far more than you. People will wonder what has made you choose me set of all t is "iris in the place. "We mast rionsole ourselves With the Ithought of the unhappy posit* of the prophet in his own countryg but, ser- iously, Helen. I do expect .111 envy me, and 1 want to b% "I will not be fiattwdl iato act* tattiest my jedgenent," she said, frows- ier. "I will those my own time." ''Have you any maroon for septiosiel he will not cement !" "Oh, no, don't have any fears on that head, they are quite groundless. Papa will be glad enough and mamma will be delighted. By the way, she beard from Alice this morning. She is semis( home the day after tomorrow." "la not that rather sweet them you r • expected ?" "Yea, we did notbier kw a weak, but Mrs HerturrCeraunt, was to come boom wooer ; they will get to London tomorrow, and Mr Horford 100 bring Alice Imre the any atter." Percival said not g ; perhaps neith- er h. nor Helen w prepared to rive Alice s very warm w4o.s when Immo come. "You will gee a after Alice COMM, gently, "she cannot at home with just marry people will oo the whole house peace and qui•tness "I did not know alt - "1 am not a hermit mow people I like, but unfortunately I assmoi get ow with everybody. 1 newer oen rot os with Altos's (needs." roo es coirmooto.) 90 strictly 1.1. N. Y.; have walisea Ism " Armes aligifeastsd. They sad t sod that tis mem esestal dears. They Mt* Pilis Image" pspolor ben. it mest be long blame say he made test will Mal then. Those who buy yew yills ball value for their messy.* elfish, pleasant, sad emit is that" adios," is the comets* of Dr. George Z. Walker, of 411e, Virginia. "Ayer's 7111. outsell all assilsr matter. 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