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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1885-10-16, Page 22 THE BRUSSELS POST, Otte, 113, 1886. DICK'S SWEETHEART, By the Author of "Mienann Timex:nee," Lore, Lone Bggt 800110," "ranters," "aloxar BAwe," Ewe. The bridge is passed, and under the dark myrtles they saunter slowly by grinning farms and leering satyrs and woed.uympbs slim and coy. And now they have come to another little stream that no bridge rcpaus, a ambling merry baby of a river that divides them from a fairylike spot which, be'auea unattain- able, soot's to them even nioro thwir•tblo than thus) t11reegh 0,hil.lt they have been weedy.: ie. "I wish wo could get 100x011." says Dolores, hesitatalg, an the Vigil bank to look longingly over to where the great amber roses are nodding drowsily be. (oath Dittua s mystio rays. "'shore is a walk that will take ns round to the other Bido, but it is a good (deal higher up," says L'unverio ; ' and it isn't worth while our trying, to find it when ono siring would laud us where we would be. If you will giro we your hand, I think it oan be deme." She has gathered up the tail of her white gown fwd thrown it over it, here soft arm that is even whiter; hoe (Alloy arm she stretches out to Bouverio. " But what if I were to jump short?" she says nervously, glancing downwards somewhat fearful..at the swift stream dauciug so blithely% iu the moonlight. " Trust yourself to me," answers Bou- verie asocringiy. The stems, as ho says thorn, aro sim- ple ones, anti really meso nothing ; but, when they aro laid, it seems as though an echo of theta comes back to hue fraught with deepest intent. In the strange future that lies bet„ru her, to whom will silo trust hereeil ? and, if perchance to tome one like ]tiw- Him in I - how will lin discharge his trust : Sud, if to another Ili, linger, clam with sudden half -angry vohonawace over hers. " (Antic!" he nay's: and to hinl,cif his voice 10,01(11 hermit. She leans towel:tie hien, stall with her eyes upon tLe mad littln river 1,r1e,w1. " Ch, it Ls farther than I thLela Lt I" site says, drawing back a little. Lightly, but with a certain lister• minattou, he slip( his arm r0m el h,•r waist and Melillo:: her towards tae stream. " Now spring 1" he Says. And thea, iu another motmo'tt, she finds herself standing beside L;ul un the opposite bank, untouched by spray or ruining water. " Well, you see, sol slid trust yourself to me •" he is saying, a certain irrepres- sible gaiety in hi, tone. Ho is hide: d feeling unaccountably, foolishly glad that ae the last moment she has not elsrnnl0 from him. " So I did. And, after ell, there was no cause for fear I" returns she, smiling. Her hand is still lying within his, clasped firmly. Sho has perhaps for- gotten to withdraw it, and he perhaps fs in un hurry to release it. As she stands thus before him, with uplifted chin and laughing oyes and dainty slender figure trained iu by yellow roses, she is looking even more then beautiful. " Tell me," he says earnestly, " why you hesitated so long about giving see those two dances when we first mat to - nigh t ?" If I hesitated," sho answers, looking down, and shyly moving a pebble to and fro with the point of her shoo, " it was not—not tllatI did. not mean to give them." ' Yet yon certainly thought twice be- fore grouting them. Were they-• per. haps—intended for s.omo other luau ?" " Oh, no "--quickly -- " indeed no 1 Yon twist not think that!" •' I ,if,l think it. I felt so sere of it fur one moment that I was very near 100 sepals.; your hesitation as a final ra- te.01, aim going away heart•brol1eu." WI, well," she says, smiling, "1 ern glad you thought butter of is 1 If "— ,•:aieing her 'lyes for an instaut to his, with a soft glance -" if yon had taken rue at ray word, I should have been— " What" he sake eagerly. " Disappointed," she replies slowly. "I wish I dared believed that," says iiotiveri0. '• Yon !nay, Why with a little sett embarramsecl laugh—" if I twat confos:: it, I lied kept thein for yon! No ,v yeti believe 9" "'so di.,believe would cost mo -too much. Tilongll ' fairy gold be all ray gale,' still 1 prefer to think as you would hove nm 0111110." " Thorn ie little real faith in all that speech," says Miss Lorne, with sumo slight indignation; then suddenly—a Do you know how lougwe have bueu here? Hones it scents to me. Como—let us return," 1',llero is just ono thing more," per. 0iebe he, detaining her, " What was it yoe would not stay to mu before Bruno ?" '` l.luf.lre Bruno?" " Yes. 111,01 boon tolling you of my teal fruitless search for you, when yo 1—laughed. I asked you why you tat) 111('1; but you Weald 1.110 weever lite, and only tu111 !no to milt you about it some other thee. This i$ some other time.' " "Ie it?" "1'n'tit?" " What a cross-examiner you would make!" retorts she, with a slight shrug. e Well, let me think aboub it. I be- liovo "—loolting flown—" I am not surd, you know, but I snppose "--reluctantly —" I was wondering whore the neces- sity was for your searching for me at all." "Ah," says Bouverie—something in her tone has bitterly offended him—" I dare say it olid ROOM ludicrous to ou— )Pv anxiety to find von,1 mean 1 1t cox. 001013' 000055 00, as you put it." "Now I have made yon angry I" ex - Meanie she, with impatient penitence. "And wily? Simply becalms 1 want a reason for your leaving given yourself very unnecessary trouble about 1110." "I should think yourineth100 might have supplied 111100 reason," replies he coldly, ' Perhaps 1 am without inetinet thou, because 1 don't 111110w 1" 11101ares (110 petulantly. " At least. I, fail to sea why it slieuld not 15(111 strange to the, your westing aide= or Bo trying to find me.,' If olio could not sue by your eyes that—that eertaiu 011111ge were impels. Bible to you, one alight," begins lie hastily, and thou as heathy cheeks him- self, " Bogard my couditet as a folly, thou, if you will," he says stiffly. e I am sorry if T have vexed you, Bays Dolores, looking at him strangely. "liut yet I mean ao uulciuduess— lame. And Ido uob think it is a good thing to lose one'( temper about no. thing; do yob ?" " 13th is it about nothing ? Do you think I don't want you to know—to un- derstand?" exolaim(he, with 80111e rep• pressed vehemence. Then ho grubs sndtlenly calm again. "If I sought you," he says, with de11bera0iOu, " it was beotulse 1 de9ire,1 to be with you --- to see, to hear yon. That is plain %peal. Mg, at n11 events, and will 01110nt your being puzzled 0y me in mune, or re. gardrng my conduct as ' strange•' But why did you so regard it ? Were there" —watching liar eegerly—" no others in your life to whorl your presence meant what it does to ire?" " A few perhaps," returns she, with elif,'ht hositatiou—a hesitation he mai. coustrue1. For ' few ' react ' legion,' " ho says brusquely, "Web, and did all their in- sane devotion wake mirth within your breast?" • N0." 5110 iS gOOlviug a little ner- 00115 now, and too blood is changing rapidly beneath her transparent akin. " Many people Have bean kind to tee," slle sacs, "ani I do not think any of ticm, except you, would have called their intentions te.mo 'insanity.' And, as for you, it was i,ot ' mirth' I felt that you should give yourself trouble on my account, but only surprise." Then her manner changes altogether. Iters ner- 00050088 vanishes, she throws up her little stately head with a proud gesture, and turns her eyes full on hie. To get buck to the house, is it necessary I should Dross this stream again ?" she asks calmly, without a trace of auger or ally undue coldness—yet his heart dies within him. "Not unless you wish it. That path I told you of, before wo crossed it, will take you even more quickly to the house." " That is fortunate. I have delayed too loug," sho says quietly, turning away from hill]. For a little while they are silent as they go along tke gravelled walk; and thea, as though unable longer to abstain from expression of his fear, he says, in a low voice full of earnest entreaty : " Let there bo no coldness between us two 1" "Neither now nor at any other time," she says softly, turning to him with a sudden friendly smile. °1IAP'sE10 VI. Tho hours aro Hying on fleet wings. Already the pale early summer morning le showing above the dark hill -tops. The Duchess has twice yawned dis- tiuctl but, with an estimable good -na- ture, has forborne from loeviug, lost a geueral break-up should follow on her departure. "Any hope that I may have another dance with yon?" asks )'ynor, owning fate to face with Miss Ponsonby in a doorway, " My card is quite full." She has met his oyes for a moment; bub now her own are turned contemptuously abide, and it is certainly the wall beyond sho addresses as she says this—not ho. " May I sou it ?" "Certainly." She lifts the little scented card attached to her fan, and waves it idly to and fro; for an instant her half•closed lids, iueolontly lowered, are raised to let the dark angry beauty of her eyes be seen. "A grotty pro- gramme, is it not 2" she says. 1 May 1 soo the Weide of it 9" " But why ? The inside of ono card is quite the same as another." "Not always. And I am anxious to see what is written in yours." "You aro auxions, in other words, to 800 whether I am or ma not telling a lie 1" returns sho, with a soft scornful laugh. ' That is an ugly word! All 1 want to see is what mums are on your card." " There is no dance there for you. In that ab least you may believe me." "I believe you always. What you mean is that you refuse to give me a deuce?" "Is it? She loops bored, and mal(os a slight movement, as if to go into the ballroom. Sir °hickey, who is with Iter, moves too. "I suppose you have given my dance away then," says Vyner indiflereitiy, drawing beak. "I regret very much yea should have seen cause to do so." " Did I give you another? I had for- gotten it. If so, I regret my Booming rudeness," returns she, studied dislike in her tone, Then she sweeps away from him in hor swaying, graceful, in- solent fashion, and is lost in the throng of dancers beyond. " What an insolent air that girl has 1" says Mrs, Drummond, the sugar-mor- clunit's daughter, who, with her Boar frivad Mrs, Dovedale bctsido her, has witueoled Audrey's dismissal of Vyner. The speaker is a tall, stout, florid woolen 11ith a superablmdau00 of flesh fuel 11, tuned 0111tari0y that breaks its Lou..( oteasicmally and asserts itetllf watt 1:, truurn,ltant rush. 1Ier corns valtlull, Dinh i)ov04atu, :G .... p.. 08001 wet to her as she—airs. Dovedale— could possibly doeire, Tho Vicar's wife is w entail, fair, childish, iunocont.loolc• ing little thing, with forgot -me -not eyes and n dimpled chin and remarkably thin 1111x, From those lilts, so daintily' curled, fall little 400061108 11000 and 10011 )n woath:dully 8pieed, so delicately pointed, so cruelly apt, that low care to provoke them, time has taught lief' llsigllh0ure to treat this pretty little woman with careful roved. Time hue ltlsn taught them to detest her eordiell ', Yet, atrauge t' say, there aro few people iu a'1 i)an.lmarsli no univcrsally,fi'ie 1 as gvet• 11r,. Dovedale. V( s. ins.deut," repents 11Irs. Drum - toned, cath rigour, turning to her c01u' pcnie, for corrouoration. "Awl. Trow Mr. Vyner detect her 1 I 11000 fro - 01111.11i' 11001/011 Ilio positive aversion. ltf v, u't y ou, near ?" tau so wretchedly unromarking I" sets Mrs. Dovedale apologetically. will see that when I tell you I arta often believed him rather eaten - tit A• to her than otherwise." Sho docs net 101,1;3' believe this; but the know. (lege ilia airs. Drummond loot-:; upon a. el homy Tyner as a possible suitor for t•,5 !mud of her daughter Georgina oom- 1 tl,, Lor 10 say it. " You ars indeed wanting in penetra• eau if y uu could thiuk that," says airs. 1) uwmoud, with a sour smile—" such 1nfntere(ting girl as she is, and—and so retail auend 1 in many ways) Why, uvea her own aunt, dear Lady Bouverie, lles s alt t'o,.11te.110110e 110T 1" •• 1 think,.l.0 is afraid of her," remarks etre. Dorr"lide, with an irropressihlr 10,'x1, abut of course ono can under• st,.1111 that BIM is a trial. Such shock- ing form, as you say—quite inadmis- silde I" • f hate a settled coquette 1" declares 1fre. Drummond, whose daughter'. lor,r—la(.auss of Audrey—has prove:.) 11m those. Here the conversation 81111'008 P. 11151,0 break, because of A'ide's's approach, Ohs passes without vouclt:,ailngwther of them so much ass, glance of reoaguition, aisappoars into a windowed leces0 near, and sinks upon a cushioned lounge. " Audrey," says Bruno Bonve r;o,110m- ing up to her, the Duchess has ex- pressed a wish that yon sheold be in- troduced to her." Audrey flushes. Shish; out of hnmonr, and indeed in one of lien eery worst moods. " I have expressed no wish to bo in- troduced to tho Duchess," she answers sharply, with a frown; anti then she grows suddenly pale again, and stands erect and defiant, though inwardly Sleeked at her disooartesy, as the cur- tains part and the Duchess herself comes towards her. "-Bust I then sue for your friendship ?" asks her Grace, with a smile. " I beg your Grace's pardon," says Audrey slowly, but with a certain hau. tear that belongs to her, and so becomes her. "Your desire to know mo must, of course, be regarded 05 an houour, though the desire itself must for ever re- main a mystery to 100." " Tut, child 1' returns the Duchess, with an amused glance. " A fair face is ever an introduction in itself, mud that you carry about with you, whether you will or no." ' Did you mark that 2" says Mrs. Drummond exultingly. " She ceunob be civil even to her Grace." " Hu-sh I The Duchess is talking again," interrupts little Mrs. Dove - dale. "I have, besides, a favour to ask of you," her Grace ie saying iu her sweet- est meaner. "aly daughter Lady Flor- ence has set her heart on getting up some private theatricals whilst staying down here—just a short play or two. Will you help her? \Vo want to get up a little company from amongst our neighbours Lore "—with a friendly smile —" and your face tolls 1110 you will be a great acquisition to our forces if you will eousent to join urs." This is tho very essence of gracious- ness ; and Mrs. lsovedalo, watching Ler friend closely, can see that her face gasses pale as elrelistons. ' Audrey can not most parts from a dairymaid to aduchess," de,iaresBruno, with a little saucy laugh and a glance ae her Grace. Very good, then; she shall illustrate me," (Meides her Grace, smiling. At this Audrey raises her eyes, and a slow pretty smile widows Icor lips, " Oii, nu," she slays; " but you shall make Inn tho dairymaid, or auythieg else that pleases you." "I shall promise you a principal part,"returus the Duchess kindly, "Aud 111800 is a little Miss Lorne hero to -night loud Iles. Wemyss, whose father was—ii very old friend of mine; we must got them to join us too. Aud you must all three give mo the pleasure of your com- pany at the Castle for a week or so, to get things well together." " Did you hear that? " domande Mrs. Dovedale, with unpleasant viva- city. I hoard her," says Mrs. Drummond, now grime positively livid. " What a pity sho didn't ask Georgina WO!" murmurs Mrs. Dovedale. '1 have no 1on1)0 she would have done so had she boon brought beneath Lor no. blue," says Mrs, Drummond, with dig- nity. " Eli—oh, I don'b think Georgina id beneath her notice l" protests Mrs. Dovedale, with generous correction. "Even though sho is a Duohess, 1 distil think—with ntaddouiug nrisep1lruheH. Rion—" you meed say that," " It will boa terrible thing for you, dear, if this slight deafness grows cm you, i says Mrs. Drummond ta110ly and ivltli ill.suppressed raga. " Georgina ds a girl Whom tine (Zweou Might delight to honour, I simply meant that the .Duch- ess was unfortunate enough not to sae her. Georgina is not a bold girl, like (TO BE CONTINUED.) GOOD NEWS For the Farmer. I have secured tho maim for Grey township for a Patent Load Lifting Machine. You can do your hauling and mowing with one 1111111 less than 11511111, as IA boy can run the ma- chine. It is simple, durable, labor saving, convenient and. cube had at n sm11,11 expense. Farmers do not be deceived, order this patent and take no other. Wo will take pleasure any timo in testing it with any other load lifter made, and as to its reliability, safety, strength, lightness of draught and expedition, it has no equal. 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