The Brussels Post, 1888-3-2, Page 7t
MARCH la, 1 `5.
JEST 10
By La. P..I OE,
Arr(ton OP
" nkn717111(H m11RNl;) swoop i1OPENINa
A ('lll•:aTNG'r Immo,' lira..
tho nurany ; and 3,e silo stepped o z
0 ace
n fader inthe 0 1 of
• id fu g ) ! c
i'arthaz nog
dlhoro of her 1ifc,silrrouncli0g influences
id not improve.
II°x extieluo beauty and grace, and
the couscquont admiration and flattery,
developed nil unusual tlegreo of vanity,
which had strengthened' with years;
though now she had too much souse and
refiu0mont to display it publicly. While
gonoi'Oue nal naturally warin•Ilearted,
the elements of g0ntIOnoas and patient
self-tlenlai for this rialto of edam's, at
t11i8 time could scarcely have been die•
covered in her character.
Indeed this beautiful girl, nurtured. in
1t Christian laud, 11 regular att0ndent
upon chnreh, was a pagan and belonged
to a pagan family. Not true of hor
household worshipped God, Mr, and
Mrs, afarsdeu would have been exceed-
ingly shocked and angered if they had
bowl told they W000 heatheu1. 13ut al
the time Paul found among the multi-
tudinous altars at Athens one dedicated
to the " Unknown Gott," there were
many Grecian 111011 101a women more
highly cultivated than those two a015tu
pitta of to -day, But in spite a external
(lovontness at church, it could easily foe
',l:owu allot to this o'_rl's parents t.',o empty boort on learning the ymintees
trod of the Bible was as"tinknawn"aII, l of hie pnssi011.
,booted as the mysterious owl et)• " Ila Voris me' mora intereetiug than
named deity concerningwhose claims Homo ,1u.trinos,' indeed! I'll put all pial
the Apostle 140 startlethe luxurious dr,, u •trin0s to rout in less than a
Athenians. Like the ancient Grooka, 00, ek. 111 drive text•boolcs and pro
all had their favorite shrines, that, to a L1,,sors out of his 11ea4, and everythioo
greater or loss degree, absorbed Mart 'Myself), ••tot of him heart, for n
and brain. o.. • »,fv, But altar hu gets backs k
Lottie was a votress of pleasure, and Michigan, the doctrines willeome creep.
the first, and about the only artiolo of ing back into their old place, and bo
nor creed was to make everything and will go comfoetably over it like the zest,
everybody minister to her enjoyment. In rho meanwhile, as substantial awl
Sim rarely entered on a day with a useful results, I will have my rose bit
more definite purpose than to have a
" good time;" and in the attainment of
this end we !save seen that mho was by
no means scrupulous.
She was as cruel a little pagan too, as
' 'cal oncost
ora
di
Dr ,
Druidical any
of her remote
y
and at various shrines of vanity, plea-
sure and excitement, delighted in offer-
ing human sacrifices. She had become
accustomed to the writhing of nor vic-
tims, and soothed herself with the
belief that it did not hurt them so very
ranch after all. She considered no fur-
ther than that flirtation was ono of the
recognized amusements of the fashion-
able. What the " ton " did was law and i her roommate, Belle Parton. stead of all mtruslon. dstoail ?"
gospel to her mother ; and the same to I ,1 In truth, it was a sweet thought,' " And do I seem to you 111co a snow- „ I cannot s3, that I have. I have was another thin ,andshe was rovoken
Lottie, if agreeable. If not, there was said Lottio,bor laugh awakening sudden flake -as pure and as cold?" sho asked, „cad and thosaht about ft far more than suongh ab Hemetead for having =-
victim
law and Gospel for her. n echoes in the stillhouse, and aounigh ben, ing Not as cold,on • I trust, and if yher brilliant ou were I have seen. On account of my Booted, eons0iously given that aspect to her
She had no more scruple in making a as oddly as a bird's song at nigadmoans and student life, my excursions action and character, and still more an -
victim of Hemotead, than a P111 paten- "I'm glad Prank Hemet -cid doesn't ns pure you would not he human. But have Mien fete and far between. I have toyed and perplexedthat her conscience
tato would in ordering a broaltfast ac- , 181, If he did, S should appal in- your beauty seamed to me as marvellous Alread roved 11 ie what 0 awkward should so positively side with him.
cording to his depraved and barbarous I stead of fasoi•iatiug him." as that of the scene I had been wonder• stranger' t o e to society. But to thought Thus it will be aeon that her conscience
taste. And whole 0V0n society man had , " 1 thick your plot against him la ing at. I am not versed in society's and fancy I have been a eat rambler, was awakened, rather than seared and
succumbed to her wiles, and in abjoot very wrong -wicked, indeed. He is disguises, Miss Marsden, and eau better and like to future boon
nm mgr all kinds of deadened•
helplessness had permittod her to plane ' such a sincere, good young man, that I express my thoughts than hide them. and hs, past and resent aid to analyse As ..she came to lalow Iiomstead
her imperious foot upon their necks, liko it less and loss. I couldn't do such You know you are very beautiful. Why P bettor, she found that ho was different
what chance had e, waraa•hoaxted, nn. should Inst say so as wall es involuu• all lcfnds of 011araotor." , from what she had expected. `Che
a thing," it ex cess the fact iu my face 3,e 1 Tho a you won't analyse mice, sL•u conventional idea of a theological atu
sophisticated follow, .with the most ; „ Still you can look on and n' rho Adz y P said, fan] ' n at him rather distrustfully. dont had dwelt in hoz mind; and she
chivalric ideas of womanhood? fan, and that is all you have to do. aid , moment ago, and as ovary one „ I w01, not like to bo df5500 011 boforo
fad and hear Lottie, on seeing Hera- pool Bolin, you aro always it) used of does, I suppose, who moots you. There I was dead." had expected to find a rather nar-
stoad 1111 hearing his table talk, had 1 au kI.D•'s or a D.D.'s care. I havo for• is nothing brought ti your attention , T w03 3,A wore as able to oudur0 row and spiritually conceited man, full
modified Addie 2,inrehmont's suggestion sworn both." i aro often, and more .reseed upon you. analysis as ourself, Miss Marsden. In
of the clerical mannerisms whish she
in her own mind. She saw that, ' So spoke Lottie in the arrogauco of It must be. so. Does not your beauty Y y had often hoard at. Piot 5110
though unsuspicious and trustingm his 'abounding causeyou much anxiety ?" any case, you have no reason to fear a sawtften her tead,s laughed at.dnesu t she
her perfect health and seonfY woar away, through familiarity with
uld
nature, to by b o intelligent to be im- beauty, and then (such are the seeming " What a funny question!" laughed severe critic in me.'
posed. upon by broad farce. Therefore, Lottie. " Your fraulrness is certainly " Why not ?" society, and that when at ease he was
contradictions of character) she knelt, as transparent as those snow -crystals " Because you have been so lenient simple and manly in manner. She also
a religious mask would soon be known and appeared as a white -robed saint at P Y ma. I have resolved more kind• pexaoaved that his seclusion from the
theas such. Her aunt, also, would detect hoz devotions. But the parrot -like thorn• I cannot s3, that it aoest W Saimaa m you, a have
re 00. dean re kind. misehievious plot against sox prayer that she hastilymumhid. rues of should it, even granting that it exists ksadrenl•„ world, which was the canes of bis di i -
nephew and guest, and thwart the no possible value to any one. Sho had independently of yre(r• (Ytt1Ii ed boa- ,. You aro vary grateful." dance, had been employed in training
mholo thing. By appearing as a boll I continued tiro habitfrom childhood, and $1p It n ?' oil to a te..0 stal•,pn very "$bakspeare doclaree iugratitudo a to onerichly
sol necustomed this o the ms neo ind. Moreover,
y
�,xquiailo and budding flower growing
oto a coarse, rank weed, wee r,rvoltitrt
10 his mind.
There is a phase of depravity fibra
leads some to delight in alluring and
debasing the innocent and puro. The
rovermo of tnio m&hgu spfrit was the
motive that led lem•tead toward the
ministry, that ho might employ til hie
energies in fostering every germ of
pod In s0'rring the mad of tr21113 w ere
eth•rvrl0e allies eenld be hopeless bar-
00ttno5n.
CHAPTER V.
1'0.118 '1•Al.10.
Lb last tbo email of mirth and
langhtor ceased, awl the hgur.e became
quiet.
lk01ti0 sat warming her foot at the.
glueing coals in her roan, before rotir-
mg. A. dreamy smile played upon her
lace, coming and going with passing
thonghts,evwn as tbo firelight flickorod
upon 1t.
Silo was in an nluaually amiable
od ro-
moud,for this affair with I-Tumstut pro-
mised richly. If ho bad boon an or-
diunry mid polished society man, the
flirtation would have been humdrum -
like a metro of others. But he was so
delightfully fresh and honest, and yet so
clover withal, that her eyes sparkled
with cultl0ipating mirth as she saw him
110 various attitudes of awkward love-
maltln,:, and then dropping helplessly
into tho abyss of his own great, but
•r a' 1 1 ' ,'.Ls POSE
•
woronow that, oucasedovar twig, limb, drawls, and won by beauty, and to 114
and Spray. 'Tho more la looked, filo bsautiful,1110 most aired thoughts and
.more the beauty and the wonder of the feelings of the heart aro continually in.
'8,000 pew u50n him- The sun ryas trusted. Hl1tory and biography allow
dispersing filo olouds and adding rho that bnautiftll womont,, i£ true, gentle,
element of splendour 10 that of beauty. amttheir ow usox, had almost t Punbou wer itch.
ft became olio of the supreme =moots their oo 0\'011 mon. Your power, there.
of his lift when in the vanishing beauty influfort, is sulrtl0, penetrating, and reachoo
of 1111 earthly crenae world
0l an 4180110141 the tenor life, filo very warp and woof
of the more porfeet world beyond. of oharacter. If a beautiful statue can
" With the eh option 0E the brand
dark river," be thought, "this might be ennoble and refine, a beautiful woman
tat Itillenntal morn, and motor° standing can ban e const ntlish infinitely
luspirl tionore. Sho
suglgeil.
docks 1 ' 1 spotless sceusion robes
w • gin breathless gas expec encs. earnest of it. All power brings tampon.
Bet his mntsinga wort uuoxpectodly i ilia even that which a rtes achieves
to ler ape es a ' tion of the perfect life beyond ant au
elfin 1 11 expectancy."
intor4'uptccl, for just at this moment m b y,
or buys; but surely, if ono receives
Louie Marsden p0b her hand lightly on Heaven's most exquisite gifts, bestowed
his atom mud said as direct. am t1ns marvellous beauty
Cousin Frank - pardon mo - Mr. without, and so is made pre•eminont hi
loot Oferal, what is the matter? you pow0x aud infinene0, she 114 01100 a
look Os rapt aif you saw a vtsfot.•' double responsibility to use that power:
He turned and seemed as startled ° for good. 'Ibat a woman can take the
ff be 113,11, for standingby him and look. g
in '^auiringly into his taco was a being royal
000y Eager one of n own of two most sig ohtire
that, with her brilliant eyes and ex• relics of Eden still loft among us, au(1
quit `sly clear and delicato complexion, daily sacrifice 16 on the poorest rad
toes as as band readyl, and at the samo Ineanost of altars -her own vanity, is to
time as frail and to vanish, as rho me hard re understand. It is scarcely
muShe sa aths without. respectable heathenism. But to 1150 her
P
and r ' m i n
• the o almir t o a
She t strong beauty as a lure le far worse, Do w°
almost wonder seemed
odd ou his open face, condemn wreckers, who place false,
though she seemor so innocently ab- misleading lights upon a dangerous
undos of it, and for a moment loft 11!10 coast? What is every grace of a
under the spoil, and thou said- co uotte but a false light loading often
" Are you so resentful at my desertion to more sad and hopeless titizeck 2" cause, cannot lin wrong."
last"Look t ere,'hat h replied,dandto ?" No lean had ever told Lottie more She looked at his earnest face awl
"Look tileri he wil,o and he plainly that she was beautiful than i eyes, that thorned to glow with hidden
pointed tos two fairylandrandwithout. Homstead, and yet she disliked his conn- fire, almost wistfully ; and saki with a
Lottequ wonder and delight were al- alim0nts wofully. Her face fairly grew , tinge of sadness :
most equal to his own, for she had 1
n0vor witnessed such a steno before. pale under his words. Had he learned I "You will tool very differently,
"I am 140 glad I moo," she said, " we of her plot? Had he read her thoughts, 1 fear, twenty years ]fence. Enthusiasm
see nothing like this in the city. Look and boon informed of her past life ? is a rare thing in the city,and I imagine
at those snowy mountains. How vast Was there quiet satire and denunciation ; it is soon qucncli0d everywhere."
ander this seeming franlmess? She was " lie it is; it needs constant rekind-
and whit() lookkay are 1" for the moment porp.exed and troubled. ting.
" And at that gain tree with its Worse still, he , compelled her to s0o just the -04m Malehnlent and M.
roil berries gloaming against the yaws these things in a new Light, and her 1 Dilunierly appeared,and soon after they
foil. They took like those ruby oar- conscience echoed his words. all eat down to a late breakfast.
ring, against rho whitoneaa o% Mir But her first impulse was to learn
1180 ." But
he was speaking generally, or
She asking athire quick and humor- pointedly3t her • so she asked, in some
ouHly, asking, ' Whose did you !Darn the . '
not of complimenting?" halo trepidation:
" 1-Tas may naughty girl tried to treat
I pari no thought of trivial oomph- ,, so badly, diet yon speak eo
uomillee, and unless you inland to preach
out in rho backwoods, you must modify
your style."
' That is tv110re I do intend to pr0aeh.
At least upon tlio %rotators of onr great
West."
"Oil! how dismal!" s110 exclaim0d;
"aud east you, a young, sod, I suppose,
ambitions man, look forward to being
Mullet alive, (Ls it were, 1110 diose 1•enaote
region34 j"
" 1 assort) yore 1 do not 50050so to be
buried alias (1t tho West, or spiritually
i fashion. ] intrad n a
tr'o a o1i 1
•mot 111 s ,
h t
Y
able church at the 'Past t think the
extreme West, where States and seciuty
are forming with such murvullowe
rapidity, 114 just this plane fora young,
nal certainly for au ambitious plan.
1s it nothing to have a part in !melding
and shaping an empire ?"
"You ar11)111 that you are ambitious,
then ?"
" Yes."
"Is that right?"
"I think so."
" Our minister inveighs aphid am-
bition, as if it were one of the asedly
sins."
" He moans the ambition that in ctif
for melt. That is as wrong and coo-
fvi r•
i 140
that s
able as the beauty y
able without a looking glass. Au 0r
dent desire to obtain my Diviuo alas.
ter's approval, aud to bo worthy of it,
to be su0cessful in serving a noble
t m0nt10 the re50116e 0f 3 scone lilts
of sport, and he will know more abort „ P strongly ?" T,ottie assumed an unusual de ret of
this, he ansvvexod gravely '"I was He laughed outright at this uestio". degreo
B and•b he will inert m No one has a a gaiety dining, the early part of the meal,
p, Y• Y Y too um:.1.1w of.pirits seenzmd unequal,
pious tion is
ggitantess,• whose worst
and will of n a rift' soul hor. I tbh to Dell your a work,
h l the who soma take it. Moreover, I fm„ ill 1 to ti . ; toward; the last. She had
and will often petrify her soul with sox- truth that, like all His work, the leant that one of your proud belles wow.. ...hien .sol mistrial= 610x!05 which
• contracted
into lin-
"
•- -1' ,0brotts .lint
That little tree Tha
i isperfect.
tl m
pthat g 'th s eon
ror and wonder by describing its rad barrios fa beautiful as well as the cs'en conlioacend to Birt wi p .t,;,,n t ,was,
awful little pagan, Lottie nveryt Marsden." rkward follow like me. Bob I em not " Aed a heathen a am in neededed truth. come,
mountain. I now am glad, too, that you 11 1 ti::al. joke did not ',rootlet' as
Where are missionaries more came, thongs I dreaded any one's tom- a croaking philosopher, and look on the ., ,� „' , ,,,,;, „ve,riu5 boforo. That
than in F1thAvenue 2 They had bettor lug before, and the necessity of xeturu- b11ght side me of the 'World. It we.l as Ideserved.s always
• • talk had 5lshkw t
not come though; fox if we would not ing to commonplace life. But, suddenly,q''•• ,. •: Lia'''' l did
eat them, wo would freeze them." and as silently as one of those snow• I often think the world is not as bad as not mind doing wicked things that had
"What are youthinking about, Lottie, lakes, You appear, and. I am startled to described, and that it would be Vetter, L spice of hardihood and venturesome-
that you aro smiling so sweetly 2" asked find you in keeping with the scone in- if ., hail a ohanoo" Ga55 in them. lint to do what had been
> 13avo you soon much of ft, hIx. Hem, venturesome -
node to a ear mean and dishonorable
CHAPTER V .
A ALEION-1110E AND 001.1110)1I881(038.
the wicked world against which he is to
awed b the beauty I saw, au d it scan-
"No
'iytl Great Artist t b near.
1 had chance," ho sal" :
"
o as i the tea . r is musta „drill do not think there ore tom
q ria
Hooded and W131104a I saes something the h ld resist.
t the re".ox : oas Te or. 'r
moaning, unguided girl, who !both , it was mainly habit. Tho other motive exposes y 1 . ail e•hmartod fiend "'
t n advisor oho h fooling of a careless bard to reslat. Such hoax: as year ¢, You evidentlyaro not 'marble- of society, his r waPerfect frankness of
might mote safely keep this modern Catholic, who Or0aaea hntnself, though son „ spaces and manner was a, novelty, in
Samson biinclly malting sport for her be cannot explain what good it does I once saw, in an art gallery of Now 11 ot1.' in-
teresting if not always, pleasing. She
and rho others, aud at tho same time
York, a marble face so white, pure, mud Though possibly a fiend. Thank road his thoughts as she would an open
not awaken the troublesome suspicions • A moment later sho might hove b0en sweet that it has ever remained in my You-" wish tllcra were no worse to fear." page, and saw kid and w flet y,
of her aunt and undo. In the °havoc• I taken as 3, model of sicopzuitg innocence. Memory as an ,emblem of 'spiritual „ You tel not have occasion f %o3," as
p true, and.
ssawre thatgirl, kind and womanly,
ter of Ono tvh0 was full of good. fm- • This world is oviclontly sadly out of beauty. Suppose ovary ono that cams and that be Uad for her the strongest
pulses -who erred throe,' t fgn0ranes, ' joint. We all know of the moat gentle, in should touch that face, and 5o1541 11111'„toR, 1 ora"! say that T do very respect. She foar0cl that whoa ho dis-
radwho t0dshod co be tea anti helped lovely, unselfish spirits, beautiful to with ooarso and grimy fingers, what w nota T,e ps ft would be batter fox covered her true Boll, he would scorn
to bettor tlrin5s, she was nearer the IToaven's vo, that aro enshrined in s0ut011011 and tawdrylook at would soon mo 114. I did.'herr to loathing. Not that she cared, ex -
truth, and cords; aft Otte (1,rt more par- painfully,, o:11 caskets. In the instance have. You cannot help the admirtog
f lances, flattering words, and the hon•
fectly. of Dottie Marsden, the casket was o
But what geoid Front; IIentstoacl, naturo's most ems -delta workmanship, a„o that over watts on beauty, any moos
coming from 1t home it yr :ah lie had but it hold a taanishod jowel. that tho marble face the soiling touch
breathed the vory atmosphoro of truth It was with seam misgivings that of any Vandal hand; 'but you on pre -
and purity, know of all this 2 To him Tlomstoad looked forward to mooting vont your soul from being stained and
Lottie was the most boautiftd o his " consiu," ou the following morning. 14mirch0't with vanity and pride."
ho had (Wal: 55011, and in his crystal. creator.n- Woulct slip be as radiantly boantiiul, ties "1 110900 hall any ono to talk to mo
togrity to would 121180 deemed it 1t foul piquant, and withal as lcmcll and frank in this way," said Lottio, loolcing de•
insult to llor to have doubted that sho 1,,s on th0 pravione ovcmiug 2 E9011 his muscly down. P01'.lia g 1 would Imre
teas jns11 what sho seemed. To his limitnc1 oxp01'iouco of rho world llud boon bettor if I had. I fear you think
straightforward uaturn, believing 11 51101811 him that in the utatt00-0f-fact 1110 vory vain and conceited.'
women th0 upposi10 of what silo seam0d and 140ar011i11" light of tho morning, "I should think it very strange if you
woe like saying to her : luau of tato aollusions of rho night 8au• 1.01.0 1101 0`00tt 1131 vain. And yet you
" Madam, you aro a liar. islsod ;[Io had noted with no little do slot acv e if J 011 w000:
'Sha world would b0 bettor if womon sm:p1'iHo that ladles s00tnin;;ly young " Su11111) '1,l,,1[-aam no oho 'uo vsiG r-
slid more to presorvothis chivalric trust. tool bloc, slug hail collo do 0:1 to bleak- onc0 (10 11 s
" Past praying few 1" 11134 431'(10111 fast looking ton years oleloi ; so ho had slut aelool niwul:tiv.
taught 1117m to pray for all filo world, said to himself : " Thais are 11O-aatip -always I',1121
and ah:eady a subtle, unree0111izmd ins- " She dazzled mo last night. I shall know it."
pole° of ]ifs heart led him to plead boforo son hor as s110 is to•day., " Who ?-
the Divine Father for one who 1(001110(1, Bei11€+, au early risO1 lie outored the "God and 7001.0llf. and by-and-by
in outward grace, alveady :fitted for oheerfui breakfast -room cons(letably all invoke gust b.. dropped, and ail the
heavenly sru•ronndinga. boforo the others, and in a momout was leak' s00ous31fc911 that 2" oho ask°rl, n
13 NO 540.
Wheat a black of uxutsnaliy perfect entre-mod by tho vfoty from tho Y
marble .falls under lino Oyu of a true wfudews. little sbartled at flan thought.
sculptor, he is conscious of a 5100115 incl• Tho savor° north -oast storm 1aad ox• " I know it," ha replied, in n tone of oltOn laugh at me, aud any that I litor.
ulso to beteg out the exgnielte statue paudod itself during th0 night, and its quit oonfidonco that carries more con- ally oboy 311(1, tho Soaiptuto, and am' instant
that is distinctly visible to ins mad. fine, sharp, crystals had changed Ian vi0linn than 100(1 assertion. " Moro- ill 5085011
5011 18 101° out
zo for as lnln homilies
11.Onist016(1 was an 0ntlrnsitat in tate snowflakes. As an angry man after over, your Maltby hivolvos a heavy bur- Ica best 3,p, og o for my to ghomi os
highest form of mot and human effort, man hold cutting words x°lents memo. den of responsibility." artist is in tr,s best mood, . wishes 11
and wets (10801051115, 335 thOruliagmtive what and spooks calmly if still coldly, "Bally, Mr. }Iomstead, if you keep
of his lift), a aaslon for moulding tho 5ona1t100, tliathadboon stinginglysevero on you svi1l prove beauty a groat mho ho is Due doe'something same
ms rue o
more enduring material of o1iarantor bho evening boforo, Watt now quietly lot- fortune, whether 1 possess it or not." every
I saw who
es twoxlvl imam
into moral aymm°try aud loveliness. ting fall a few final hints of the h3ra11 • "(i ax from it,' your morning ft was loco sa gined, tett lzaas
• Idurnaui1y in its most forbidding guise snood that was passing away. Even Grouting, too am I sake. q • of t' tuuc With re-' von, and-"
ivtooes1ed hint, for his heart was warm while to looked, the sou broke 'through oe",(1111 1L 1nLllghty little sinner cote 710
and largo ncl avorflowetl.With mgreat a rift over tiro oastoru mountains and Sponsibility ?" list at diet moment, and of fila'hellcat
it for tho vie1i11ns oflziril. fu 11110 re• li Yhtocl up bho landscape as with gonial "Would it not almost Moak your j g
poet lot was liko lyea limbos, who had smilos. It shone, not on an. ordinary haart, if. your honorable father wort of your lueed," into1r1pted Lottie.
"compassion on tame to itit3r1to." Hi and irosaic World, but rather dna that misappropriating innuev..ioujsuat;rd to nndrund l no 1115 andtltLl somorotilnai
anticipation of 11111 lifework wa.a as non- had boon tonohotl by magic during 1110 11114 cam ?" I' can say of turn I acarol. It 000 ,hay
professiooa1 185 that of .e m0fuulr who night and transfolanod into Ilia wonder- , „ Only
forthosnob a thing." ir5tration: was pointed, and many
tinted at mo,
lwlpover rho children tam &ntot land ()savorous, Y
11011 lovilr;. Lottio appeared srron;l The trees that in alto dusk of rho pro- ,'+nppoao 111 fieri the gnalftire pmt po14i• and 1. hove hoard it said that it is proof
1' vel t nature' Itsem red tis ht , had •wr1t11ed and •moose Linn which Ied a great many to ;)leen of a goad sermon for each ono to "Ls
1llia lk yl vfous ruck g
h; . _�qq r struck touches t I their moans in Nis ends t wnrticl tont away; fooling that ho has bean tlistluctiy
that ,,e11uoed, yet still ting. and truck filen. frozen U P000411011 at. 11uLpormitxn0.,asmfr01111,
imago tf 41(1°41cl rod ngg}on 1ho , _ s. ;;other ns tespaflnng tLrigufsll night; lint it) sOase cis reslrouslbihty 1 1\Ir 7.lotnsteail; to 5ng est that this will
bore muse dttttfnctl •dealt 3,e„ had K"".n tie11l1Lt (0 note 51001 ltoroltor aud "Toa, if 110 aeeept0' such triode." trot ,:0'304'1' in onr al 1 that this 113'
sect a,aewhn0e. Soho ono of }'1 ,, •rt., i ;solo daintily than Juno would Aro thorn tat MOTO 831.115.113.0 pmscs• y'
t, . Whiter oven111013 tho pial • cions thaw dollars, stn, l s, tool bo ace•.? little foroteetc, that people will not ha
nmo""o 1Je0ona'or 1 -°'' ' U110111ed ie e . , ,,,: ; l;.' 101110 to sit comfortably under your!
''."1"""s".tad hr e�n•-�-c1P. 'ttz:l :r^.t,indn'<0 „•,oto�i "F "!Iay, witis the rirtit 1'.t'axyalto i;t tnr`xe or 1. ,•t fi,esc•iu . cl.
' Why so 4' sho feared au most man's verdict." Thou I world lit more afraid to doBut 50ou her old r0oltl°ss soli
wrong, kf0111 i (11 111 cannot a„.„114;triumphal. " Of coast) tvlla1 I sou
volts any coru4ort at alk'' dein Ilam," sho
r ell, that would be n queer religion will scoa awft4 to thought; "I knew that boforo I com-
wh}olf ccitsisted only of befog afraid of
the devil nuc. his imps." mencod. Ho will not preach mo out of
nay full in ono half hour. If .I could
"What is religion? I am foolish in m01110 haul loco ma 1111 spite of what ant
asking such a question, however, for l 100 ib would bo m groat triumph. 'After all, i
suppose ,t would twill you n year a
to m onlygirls MY set
anac,.r it, and they will all 1.10 clown to do wheaeting as all the gahoy g0t a ammo, It's net as
brea}IO1 in a few moments." had as ho mwlces 011 t•"
" 13111,, sso ; I eau =owes 1 It it) losers.Still that was an eventful 1,a11 -hour,
tont. True ooligionis 0toreliii uif \i'lle11 they looked arson w trufhUgured
in leas 1)1 £11111.2, and. mime)1 13m world tots -tattoo and while they ,1118'
Is that all ?" exclnUua'1 .Lo1•ae, m nature it) her 1ar0mt auci laud:," lisouty,
tint ' lied astonishment: she.tad also b0en given a 51111 11 0 auto
' 1w1 is a groat clow.' the mora beautiful world. of trutll,wherc
" P(11:11111351it is, You theologians laevo God dwells.
a way of preanhiug awfully long and Bobas the morning ailvatood, goal
d fiiclflt sermons from Himpplo texts. But
baptiser.] mists nod bettor fooliuga and
I no, or ,rot as simple an idea of religion thoughts vanishod, ovou as the =ow-
es; 411at from our minister." wr0at115 were dropping from branch and
•' 1'ftar you thick have been preach• splay, leaving thein as baro Hud tn-
ielg for to last half hour. My friends
sept that her hide would be hurt. But
sightly as before. By tho, time the
sleigh drove tip to the door alio was as
bent - as over upon victimizing tho
" wostera giant," as the conspirators
had named hitt. She was hor old de-
oidod, resolut0 so1f; 1611 tho more ream'
foto because facing to hor, a um bin-
rlranct-hor own eOnseieoco, which
T•Iomstead had unavittiOgly 16wak0ued ;
and it said to its uncomfortable posses-
sor 501110. rather 809000 1.1111tgs that
day.
tf Lntt10 29000 Bello Parton, she
would boot) 1133011 in a miserably =do -
Ailed stato. Ilut it was her nation to
carry out what she had tiepin, if for no
0t1101 1'085011. that. that sho had 11057111
it, and she was not ono to giv0 up a
frolic at any o1no's scolding; not c 1'011
hor 0111.
As 14h011:pped down the broad stairs
111 a rich cloak tl'inu 1-:l with fin oho 1
reminded .110111stttad cd seine r,10O tropi-
cal bird, awl 1111 hottest induig,vt lu 1
a1r111y Motes of atll,liwati0n, Oolitic, re- i
ie etrotesosoo,
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