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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1885-2-12, Page 6ZUE. SQUIRE'S MODEb. - bdr. Hayward. 1 hear, is going to execute >! splendid statue for the Bur- wecal exhibition in October, Gillen - Lam and I were joking him about t the other day. ani asking him who his model would be, and he blushed like a boy of eighteen. He would not tell us. but I think we know who it will be— eb, G:at't,t'.i dpr,",.. mad Lady Merely Iaiaghed er"pbie, as she burned to her younger sister, a superb beauty, fully aware of her own lovliness- "I wish you wohl4 not be so ready to couple my name with Cuthbert Hay - arena's," answered the Lady Gertrude, pettishly people will think we are engaged, and it will spoil all my charities for the season." ""Well, do as you please, dear. Only he is of old. though untitled family, and immensely rich; and the youngest daughter of a poor earl may live to rue the day she slighted him," was the el- der sister's plain-spoken reply. "Mamma does not agree with you. Mercia; she thinks 1 ought to certainly secure a title; if .1 fail. then I may, per- haps, accept Mr.. Hayward, as I should not care to itlitic another season," The fasters ware sitting it a pretty rustic arbor hi the grounds of Grey- stone reystone Hall. and tallying confidentially. Lady Gillingham and bier husband were guests for the present; the forraer, be- ing happily married was generously anxious to 500 the younger sister alma- larly circumstanced; but Gertrude was quite unlike the warm'bearted Morcia. She was cold-hearted, selfish, and cal- culating, and bad neither love per ad- reiratioa for any Yuan, except for his title and position. The sisters had thought themselves alone In the grounds, but as Gertrude finished speaking, a gentleman, tall. handsome, and more aristocratic in ap- pearauce than many a duke, arosefrom a little mound where stood 3 ,mar- ble fountain. close to, but hidden from the arbor. and with a bitter smile an his lips. walked quickly away. It was Cuthbert Iiayward. Ile was honesty and truly in lore. with Lady Gertrude, and her last speech, unin- tentionally overboard. was a cruel awakening from his dream of bappi new& He had intended her to bo his model; in .his youth he had been passlonately fond of the sculptor's art, and it was Still the favorite amusement of his leis- ure hours, and since he had met the earl's lovely daughter, a great desire to immortalize her perfect features in pure white marble had taken possess- ion of him, and be had resolved that. as the Burwood Exhibition was to bo held in the autumn, he would execute for it a beautiful statue of his love, and when it was closed, the statue would fill an honored plane in his ancestral gallery. And then. too, he fondly thought, its lovely ariginal might also find a Iasting home at Hayward Lodge, Now his damn was rudely shattered. He had come forth from his home that bright spring morning, a happy lover; he returned two hours later, a blighted, disappointed man. "So," he thought bitterly, "my Lady Gertrude will fiat, and dance, and hunt, with her worldly minded mother's aid, far a title through ono more Lon- don season, and then, if no noble lord or duke is caught, poor, insignificant Cuthbert Hayward may claim the prize! Thank you; but your ladyship may chance to find that you have but re- hearsed in reality the famous fable of the dog and the shadow. The statue shall be sculptured to the best of my poor ability, but the false face of Lady Gertrude will not be my model." So ho wrought at his block of mar- ble, and with every chip of the chisel, with every blow of his hammer, his bitterness of spirit increased, and bis determination never to marry, never again to look with love on the face of woman, became stern and fixed. "Elma," said Lady Gertrude, one day, to an orphan cousin who lived with them, "do you. know I used to think CuthbertHayward a perfect beau, no other gentleman was half so grace- fully attentive as he; now, he has quite altered, he is a worse boar than that old Churchill whom we all. hate." Elma's soft gray eyes opened wide with surprise. "How can you think so. Gertrude? Why, I always think him so kind, so thoughtful, and—" "Oh, of course I quite forg,ot you had set him up as your beau ideal, Elma. Perhaps you would like to marry him yourself, eh? Well, if an eligible suit- or comes my way when we go to Lon- don next month, I'll turn him over to you!" Elma's eyes tilled with tears, and a painful blush suffused her cheeks. "You are very cruel to talk so, Ger- trude, and you do not deserve the love of such a man as Mr. Hayward. He does love you, I know, and you play with him as if he were a toy, to be tak- en up and east aside at your pleas- ure." "There. that will do. Elma; you quite fatigue yourself with your ener- getic defense of my admirer; he is mine at present; please to remember I have not yet surrendered himil" Yet, though Lady Gertrude thus claimed him as her property, she some- times had an uneasy feeling that he was not now quite so much her slave as he had once been. Ono fine day in June Elma was re- turning from the town, and had taken a path across the fields, when she was overtaken by the squire himself. After the usual greetings he said: "So you have not gone to London, Miss Wentworth? Have you heard from your cousin lately?" "Oh, yes; I had a long letter this morning. She had just leen to the Duchess of Wurgrave's ball, and had enjoyed it immensely," answered El- ma. They talked then on different sub- jeetis unUi Greystone Hall was and Elms. felt a straugeflutter lag urc et her heart as she expressed au earnest hope that they soon might meet again. And Cuthbert went to his statue, and as be worked softer thoughts stole over him, and the hard lines of his face re- laxed. and a happierlight came into his eves, The London sewn . was over, and ottceimote ail.the (angle were at Grey- stone Hall. and Lady "therein and her sister wore in conversation, this time their mother malting a third. "You have come back disengaged, then, Gertrude? I thought when we left you for Vienna in June, that the Marquis of Cariston would certainly propose." "So he would have done, but mare - ma thought that the Duke of Brent- wood was so very attentive just then. and it would be a better chance," said Gertrude. "It was your own perversity, my dear child," said tate countess. "But it is useless now; 1 am not sure thatwe could even afford another season, and. you must accept Air. Hayward." "Has he proposed yet?" asked Lady Mercia, -ate; ne nes nae no opportunity o1 doing so, We only met him twice and Gertrude was so 0111y engaged, she could notive him oven QUO danooe SQ much the better; he will think the more of iter." "Well, I hope it will soon bo settled, and I think myself he will be anexcel- lent parli--a near neighbor and a fav- orite as he is with all. You Lad bet- ter lose no time, but ask him to come and stay here for the autumn. and that will settle the affair." concluded Lady Marcia, who, though she did not say so, lad great ntisgivins;s as to Cath- bert's intentions; she knew his diame- ter better than her mother did. So the invitation was cent, but was gratefully declined; the waster of Hay- ward had so much on his hands in the properatioe for the forthcoming Pot - tones Exhibition. Ile contrived. however, to be a groat deal at Greystone, and as his manner had resumed its aid graceful courtesy, Lady Groystone flattered herself things were in the proper tram. 'Ile evidently means to wait until his counterfeit presentment of you tells youhis love, Gertrude. she said amn- ia* Por her ladyship, in common with ail, made sure that whatever the stat- ue might represent. the face would be that of her lovelypdaughter. So the summer waned and faded, and when tbo fierce October blasts were scattering the leaves for the November rains to bury, tno statue and the exhi- bition were both ready. One person who had worked hard in helping to prepare for it, felt nothing but the bitterest pain at the thought of its opening Poor Etmat the summer had moon too happy; her constant meet- ings with Cuthbert had eanso4 her to live in Elysium, and almost without knowing it, she had grown to love hint. She awoke from her dreams of hap- piness when her .cousin returned, feel- ing sure that as Gertrude was free, he would marry her, and for three months a cruel struggle had been going on in her mind. She had avoided Cuthbert as much as possible, but her ladyship's determination to have him at Grey. stone as often as possible, made it very difficult to keep apart from him. At last the eventful day arrived. There was to be a private view for the entry, and on that oceassion Cuth- liert's statue was to be seen for the first time; ho had kept his studio care- fully locked, and had resolutely declin- ed to show it while in progress. There was to be a ball at Hayward Lodge in the evening. It was a bright October day; the great hall was quite full of people. and all the exhibits were duly admired, and Cuthbert's kindly interest in his townsmen praised as it deserved to be. "But your statue is still veiled. When are we to see it?" asked Lady Greystone, who with her party had clustered around the spot where it stood. "Will your ladyship condescend to unveil it?" asked the sculptor, bowing. "With pleasure," answered her lady- ship, and withdrew the cloth with her usual graceful movements. A murmur of admiration was heard around as the pure white marble glis- tened in the October sunlight. The figure was that of : the goddess Ceres. and corn and vines surrounded her, and her hands were full of fruit, which she seemed to be offering to the spectator. But the face was not the lovely, faultless, Grecian features of the Lady Gertrude, but the sweet and ten- der face of her cousin Elma. Not a feature of the countess's well- bred countenance changed as she grace- fully complimented the sculptor on bili work, although her surprise and cha- grin were only equalled by her daugh- ter's. But whatever they felt ,was nothing to the confusion and almost terror poor Elma experienced;. she wished the floor would open and swal- low her, and was thankful enough when the carriage was announced, and the party,lett,,: , ' At first lady Greystone had intend ad to scold Elms well, but reflecting that it would make no difference, she :ongratulated her instead,and when, with flaming cheeks .and, tear -stained eyes, Elma disclaimed all idea of be- ing Cuthbert's wife, her ladyship clos- ed her eyes and smiled as if her niece's assertion were simply amusing. That very afternoon, slipping away from the guests who demanded his at tendon, and leaving it to his house- keeper to attend to the preparations for the ball, the squire appeared at Greystone Hall, and after a short in- terview with the earl ho asked. for El - reae"hed, Gould scot be found, and he was walk- ing away ,disconsolate, feelingsure that she would:' not appear at bit • ball If he did not see her first, when he hoard tete rustle of a. dress near, and saw her, thinking tlho had escaped him, go into the very arbor Gertrude had sat In ons that eventful mopping in, the sp�g, �tt wee by her side, in a mo- ment, and had taken both her hands; "Darling, forgive me for reit asking your consent," a pleaded. ""It wars wrop& and 1 ought to have. told you before tlsis morning." "But Gertrude --yon lived her --T" begat Elma, striving vainly to with draw her hands, ""I'did; but found her heartless, and oh, my darling, she never had my heart as you `navel Be my wife, love, or I swear no woman shall ever be! 1 will be cement with my darling in marble, if 1 cannot have her real self." What could she say? Anyhow, they were married soon of-. ter, and. all Greystone, Hayward. and Burwood went wild with excitement. It wms so delightful that the squire had married that darling Miss Elora instead of the proud Lady Gertrude, who took slo more. interest in the poor than. if they had been so many machines. And Lady Gertrude is unmarried still, and wishes she had been less am- bitious, while Cuthbert is only too thankful that the gentle Elate, and not her proud ladyship, Was his ""model." Chinese shaving, Chinese shaving is a slow process. The customer seats lhimself ereeton it stool or beneb, with the kuowledge that an hour sheat pass before he is released. 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