The Brussels Post, 1885-11-27, Page 31
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Nov. 27, X1356.
r0n1111 1119 newt, mires per into 11)0 arina
and drawn her nearer to ]him until Ler
le ad resin upon 1110 ebonlder,
You are doll unhappy about some'
thin];," sho [Jaye gently, with all the sure
eo.uitk'n Ol a sweet and 9erin- sere e1',',,
"Is it about i)0? Yon think I shall
die -is It net? lent it is not de,tifb that
Willoomb Eu Me, Comfort yot0000lf with
that thought -if it hal coin fore 1t will
bo tiametlling elan that will noises,' I
don't know what "--a, 441e vn'guely�--
"hnt entitle dove. She /delve ab lapse
amity when I !neigh or smile. But' i0
will not be death t"
A strange earnest hole has come into
her face:. She pre"aes )101' li140 to his
cheek, and then with a little sigh sinks
back into his embrace. It is not sor-
rowful nigh, but, ono full of 00(00ut-
1ne`lt,
Why ellouhl anything come to you
but happinem ?" Rare Bouverie, There
is a certaiuty in the Way she has de -
dared her disbelief in the advent of
death that lute somehow com(ore,•1
Linn, Auy evil minor to that would 17e
to him as weight.
" ll'hy, indeed?" returns elle
And vat l think it will 1.11 m0, 11111"
—With w luster pretense at 1'nyr•r-
"have I taut told you to talk of memo -
thing else -anything --hut me."
Uf our marriage then," seri Dee -
eerie. "Once you are really mine, w l 't
evil tiling can mead you ? Then yon..
sats little foreho+lings will die of lame i f
nutriment. \bur lips Phan tales n:;'uu
that sorrowful ear': o if they dart' I e e.l7r
eyes— What eyes you have, 1oleros;"
He tmrne lip her chin and gazes into the
alert.. depths of her Renl'e Windups (Nita
a wuudoling adoration.
"' 19eantr ilea
Inn',%rnyen.
Out love lu yours, my Nora Crclna/'
he chants iu a low voice. " Dut I for.
gut l" he cries 0800001y, with an an-
suhnption of terror. "I must talk of
any chins hat you. Of our marria;;o
then, as 1 said before."
" Of our marriage ?" She parses ;
the colour deepens in her face, and
" From army blush that hh,d(ee in 1,er<•h<'oka
T.0 dtuu.eu t little loves mud era... 11)111),''
" Do you know," she says softly, " I very
often think how it will be with us then
•--whether we shall ho very unhappy,
or-- I shall be always thiukiug of
you, of course, and wandering how you
like this and that and the other things
to be done, and what you like best for
dinner. That's a man's chief thought,
his dinner, rani it? After me -that is,
I mean, of course, after the WOriiall he
loves 1"
is it ?" questions Bouverie. There
is a materialism about this idea which
affects him disagreeably.
" Yes," says Dolores, with a little as-
euring nod, "I shall therefore watch
you when dinner begins, and every time
yon refuse a dish I shall dismiss cook -
that 10, if she is a mild woman and I
am not too much afraid of her."
" You're sure to be afraid of env cook,
Fantle or simple, declares Dick, laugh.
and thinking what a darling little
mistress of a house abe will be. His
berme! "But, as I never yet looked
coldly un my dinner, cook's all right I
But where shall we live, Dolores?"
" Ab, that I" says Dolores. A trem-
bling silence follows her exclamation ;
1111,1 thou -"I wanted to say it to, you so
ilnilly times," she says, with a quivering
smile; "but -Dick, let u8 live with
auntie I" She has turned to him, an
(wer pleading in her lovely eyes. " She
sunld not be happy without me," she
guys in a low whisper.
" And yon ?" says Bouverie, a mo-
mentary most natural touch of jealousy
in his tone. "Could you kuow no hap-
piooss without her -even with me?"
Ho has taken her hand, and is gazing
at her with a strange expression not to
hR misunderstood. She turns a little
white, and her breath comes in soft fit-
ful catches, but her great luminous eyes
do not fall before his.
" I should know happiness," she an.
MUM gamy-" a happiness too deep for
words -but nob a worthy one. My con-
tentment would be incomplete. Think
what auntie has been to me all my lite
-my mother, my friend I Should I he
the ruore sacred to you if I forgot her
when my heart Was filled with the joy
of lour lova ? Were I to forget, Dick,
were you to counsel forgetfulness, would
that be me -would that be you? 011,
1licle speak to me!" She herds oat
crying.
" I don't know what I said," exclaims
Dick distraotodly, feeling, as if each sob
of hers is an arrow dividing his body
and soul; "I only know I meant nothing
that should distress you. Dolores, my
own life, we shall live with auntie -with
env one -••even my mother, if you wish
This last awful proposition droves as
potent as a magic philter, and instantly
restores Miss Lorne to calm.
"Not that!" she exclaims nervously.
But, Dick -dear Dick -are you sure
yen will not object to have auntie as one
ui• our household ? She is my mother -
let her be yours too,"
"With all my heart," agrees Dick
genially-" Though how I'm to recon-
cile ib to my conscience I don't know I
Two mothers 1 Why, see what an un•
uonseioneble lot of trouble it isiving l
You matte me feel quite ashamedofmy-
self; but, if you will have it so
N0W are your eyes dry, you little baby ?"
" Yes -yes 0" says Dolores, smiling
softly. " It was silly of me to doubt
you, was it not ? But I was just a little
afraid of you at first; and-•-'"
"Afraid," interrupts Bouverie-" and
of me I Darling, let us have that pee -
feet love between us that casteth out
fear; let us be of one mind, and "--
etoutly-" lot that mind be yours.'
This arrangement is so eminently sat•
lefa0tory that no further argument eta-
etics upon it.
Upon these two beside the river an
OTC:Matte si)On00 mild -le silence ton
freeglit with unspoken thought to he
oppressive --and with thought so aweetl
A tiny squirrel in the old oak -tree above
thew, springing from branch to Immo'',
parades abruptly over their 'wade, and,
seining c0ureg0 Own the utter stillness
that eucolnplieses then], satire daintily
at the pretty tincture they present -the
soft head of the girl lying so happily
upon her lover's urease -Ilse lover's glad
content -tire white robe, the parted life,
01111 little jewelled hands ---and, close to
it all, the soft but cruel harry of the
river ruslifog ever onwards to the ocean
---there Is tau lingering, no kindly be i•
cation abort it, only a wild, if subdued,
hurry to its goal -to the end of all
th'ngn.
Dolores, marking the deadly monoton,'
of its haste, shivers slightly in her lover's
arms. Do all things hurry so ? Is there
no gracious delay -no tender dallying ?
Are life and death but so many quiver•
ing eddies that mark, yet fail to chock,
Wm vast onrl1811 0f Fate? And what is
Fate bringing to her Life, is it, or
death, or joy perchance, or perchance -
Ah, what a word to ring in her ears I
And yet how loudly it peals through
mead and woodland ! Shame -shame t
\\'hat can it have to do with her? Yet
" Shame I" is the sound that echoes
from sloping hili upon her right to placid
moorland down below.
She flings the echo from her; she
laughs inwardly, au,l nestles a little
closer to Bouverie, as though her shield
were here. Across tho scented gravels
a sweet wield is blown -a music weird
and mystical ascends from the bosom of
the impatient river. Deep in the wood
the petunia of cooing pigeons may be
heard.
" Thri oun,mor 1,4 ,44 lnmq 01701' our heads,
Tha f ow'ra ),n1'•, rnu•,.I sur feet,
And in the gln,u„i,, ,; the woad
' Tie Chrc�6tl wLrd b•.d
sweet,”
By an etTort she rouses herself fro
the reverie into which they both hay
fallen,
Lf what are you thinking, 0 r0crean
sweetheart," she murmurs gaily, with
drawing herself from his embrace an
turning bis chin by a loving touch in he
own direction, " that no word has es
caped you all this loug, long time ?"
Why, of my lady -love, be sure l"
" And she -who may she be ?"
" One distress Dolores Lorne, 11
your grace, madam. an' it it pleaooyou.'
"By my haiidahne, sir, an' it doe
please me I An'— Oh, Dicer, ho
nice you look withthat stern courtier
like air upon you I But would you "
she hesitates -the admiration so late]
assumed dies altogether from her eyes
and a certain fear takes its place-
. would you ever Iook at me like that?'
she asks nervously, (mite forgetful of her
momentary appreciation.
"Am I not looking at you now ?"
" 011, no -not at me I You imagined
me some One else, did you not? But it
came to me that, • if in the years to come
you were ever to regard me like that, I
should—"
" What, beloved ?"
' Die perhaps" -laughing; then-
" Tell me," she says, leaning towards
hien-" are you ever really stern like
that ? Are you" leaning even closer-
" ever like -your mother ?"
"I -Tow eau I bo sure?" returns he
slowly. " She is my mother. Why
should I then positively declare that
Clare is no likeness between us? And
yet„
" Yes ?"sho says hopefully aud breath.
lessly
" I irnow that I can love, whilst she -
Do you thinkI would chance anything
with you, Dolores ? Whatever demon I
may have inherited, it is not so strong
as the angel that has come to me since
first my eyes fell on you. I could not
risk anything with you. I could not for-
get the greatness of the gift yon have
given me -your own sweet self. I dare
say I've got a bad temper. My mother "
-with a little bitter laugh-" reminds
mo of it often enough to make Inc euro
of it. But tell me "-gazing anxiously
into her luminous eyes-" that youknow
I should never be anything but gentle
with you."
" Yes; I know it."
She rises slowly to her feet, and
stretohes out her halide with a soft len-
guishingg gesture towards the setting
sun. Then all at once she laughs, and,
turning to him, lays both her small
palms against his, and gives him a lov-
ing but vehement little push.
" And this is how I know it," she says,
with the most charming assumption of
sauciness. "It is because yon wouldn't
dare be otherwise -so now I"
She shakes her dainty head at him -
her pretty bead with all its soft riotous
rings of Hair that tremble Iike gold in the
dying sunshine. Her parted 1 gold
aro full
of laughter, " her eyes are as eyes of a
dove." sag
"I must go," she e solemnly, light-
ly unfastening the chains that bind her.
" Not yet. Why, it is quito early I"
" Nevertheless my last hour has 00100.
I have promised Audrey to give her her
tea this afternoon, and it is 11070 half -
past four. At live I am duo, Give mo
my lett,
"(live me some tea too," says Ur.Bouverioeagerly. " I never felt so thirsty
in all my life I 1'11 C01110 horns with yonand help you to pour it out. That will
be doing you some good,"
" No, Audrey doesn't care for you,
and you don't care for Andrey. I can't
bear conflicting elements,"
" I won't say a word that—"
" Good -hyo," says Miss Lorno, with
decision. I have seen quite enough of
you for cue day, considering I am bound
to moot you again to.nigbt, Till then,
adieu 1 Yet stay ; as lar as the first turn
fn the avenue donate, yen May come with
me, but not a step beyond,"
" And all this is because of Audrey !
Ole ray cousin, shallow -hearted; how
I detest you 1 But for you I should be
,11:;000,,°, to 011082 PArn4i,ca 1"
(TO BE CONTINUED,
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1 desire to return my thanks to
my numerous customers for their
support i11 the past ttu<i to intimate
that, owing to ill health, I have
leased xray blacksmith shop to Mr,
D. Ew80n fora few years.
I have a lumber wagon, bob-
sleighs and other articles that t
will sell at a bargain to get rid of
them.
Two or three gentlemen board-
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Flour and Feed Always on Banda
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I will offer my whole stock of Groceries, Crockery & Glasr.wiu'c:,
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tention to our largo and well assorted stock of Teas and Cofl'ccs. We
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ed out at 40c. per lb. Every housekeeper in this district should o71,.
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