The Brussels Post, 1886-4-16, Page 22
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DICK'S SVVEETHEART
, ko hurries after the departiug figure of
, Vyner ; aua,9anboiaingauarey'Hilitua.
--- their hostess.
By the Aidlier of . Mitanteu '.1:miv.ii1iott," " AB you witnessed the first met, yon
0 Lees, Low, Bmayway, .. 2gy,,,,/,,t1 might have done es the honour i;o wait
" illoi.i.e EAWN," ETC. for the laet," ho says reproachfully, du
they come up with her.
upon them and gazes down npon the " But how then ?" domande Mrs.
SChli.aarkuoss below, where Mr. Vyner Wetuyss, flinging out her hands and
1.9 walking up and. down smoking a laughing gaily. " How could I ? You
Mr. Vynor 1" calls she softly.
Hearinghor, Vyner oomes to a stead -
still beneath the balcony, and looks up
at her, cigar in hand.
" Here—catch!" she says, lowering
to him a beautiful ione white as snow
which gleams iu the moonlight and ham
a little hand at the end of it holdie
Something tightly clenched.
"Aro you going to throw ine twine.
thing?" asks he carelessly, lf so,
don't. I could 13011 090 it.
Joie your hands, then, and bold
them out; yon will surely see this."
" That's where seem intellect fails
yen. I can sec nothing. It is quite au
Egyptias darkness down bare. Ate you
think
(0 (3 my birthday," says Mr. Yy- 30010.1(11(1 00(0119 towards the gardens
going to make me a present? If you
efie I had forgotten to aslc the bishop to
dinner.
At this merry retort they ell laugh. ,
"I knew how it would be," Hays MTS.
Wemyss presently, Molting wholo vol.
umes of congratulation at them both.
1 could have told you all about it
months ago. 1 am so glad about it!"
She kisses Audrey with sincere
-warmth; and Andros, kisses her batik
aeitin with an abolition 5110 would hare
boon incapable of a week ago.
" It wasu't Bruno, after all, you Nee 1"
says Vyner mischievously, " It was I I"
" So I see. Well, IM delighted—
though what Ihn to say to that melan-
choly Sir (Mickey, after the encoutego.
manta have given lihn only tide very
nielit, 1 don't know." Then she smiles
new slowly and with au honourable
effort, " I feel it only honest to lot you
know that, my natal day is not uow—it
comes with the snow awl the sleet:,
still, if you are bent mi giving me some
-
thine handsome, lwhy, uome down and
do it!"
Slowly, daintily, Audrey descends the
stone situps to meet him, awaiting her
upon the grass beneatu.
"Von' it!" she says, extending her
hand to palm npperniost, on which
his riug IS lying.
"Why, that is yours.!' says be.
A vehement gesture, expressive of
anger, escapee her.
" Take it!" she says again, with eat
impatience that is almost tierce.
"I. cal3't indeed," returns he caltni--,
fiingiog his cigar far from him. "
quite
03311 (31 the questioe. Why, it, .,
hardly an hour ego since you accept, ,
not only it, but me! I fear you it..
have to keep us hotls."
She pales very perceptibly beneath
his steady look, but her gaze refuse is to
falter, Her dark eyes look at him out
of her colourless face with a strange but
unvarying light that is perhaps even a
Attie contemptuous.
"A. jest pxolonged is but (spoor thiug,"
she says, with a dickering smile that
has no mirth hi it.
"There I agree with you ; though I
confessl cannot se e where the jest comes
in here. I have your word, the word
that gave you to me, and intend to keep
yon to it, whether you will or whether
yon won't." Then his whole manner
changes; an inexpressible tenderness
alters and characterises it. " You did
not mean what you said ?" he asks very
gently, almost beseechiugly.
No answer coming to him, he.lays his
hands with a certain seddennese upon
her shoulders, and turns her slight
figure to where the moonbeams can tall
upon it.
Speak 1" he says, with a closer
scrutiuy.
It is possible that in his anxiety he
may have given her a gentle shake.
She does not resent it, but her eyes fill
with tears.
"Ab," says Vyner, " even though you
refuse to accept ine, still I tell you you
are mine 1 I will give you up to no man
on earth I" He leans a little forward,
still with his hands upon hex shoulders,
as if keeping her iu custody. Now I
am going to kine my wife!" he says,
vial determication.
Audrey, laying five little outspread
fingers upon his chest, presses him from
her. Her face is ashen white, her lips
are quivering.
" Anthony, what is it you mean r! she that—
whispers, in a voice so changed. by "That it must be easy to deoide."
" No, difficult. If there were only a
third way, it might contain a charm.
But one grows weary—"
" Of saying No ?'—quickly. " Say
Yes ' then for a change."
" 011, impossibler—laughing, blush.
ing,and warding off her lover as he
draws closer to her by holding up to him
two pretty pink palhas extended. " If
I said ' Yes now, I should always think
it was I had proposed to you. And, be-
sides, you should marry some pretty lib.
tle girl ever so much younger than you.
As for me, I am nobody."
" You are all the world to me, id all
events ; don't make it a wilderness to
me." A moment elapses in which he
has defied tha misting hands and
drawn het to his heart. " Say you will
marry me, Ois," desires he, in & some-
what. masterful tone.
" I shall pay you off for this later on,"
whiepere she, with a soft laugh. "But,
if you will have it so, why, thou, yes I"
You mean it ?" asks Bruno, tighten-
ing his grasp.
11110100 that have been most shame -
rills, coerced," returns $311e,
"33131, yet---"
" What, darling ?"
"I am glad of the ceercion
e '1' gt
"brousy (1151111 (31005 on the svorld;"
the heavens become more fair by reason
of the ineresoe of their starry gellie, attl
earth betieath is fell of the reflex of
their glory. Under the rays of .1.11e
great moon, Dick and his souVe desire
am pacing to and fro upon o, secluded
pathway hedged. in by flowerhie myrtles
and the acchtsal houghs of palti
trees.
Dolores, with head throstn back
against her lover's beaet, is musing
That Mrs. Woroyss has Item them is tlioughtInlly. on many happy thiugs that
manliest by the very way in which she are, on many eorrowful things that yet
coilles to a stand -still and waveriropen. have been; het no -grief dwells upon .het
gentle face, no shadow dims its bright'
beyond. "It is too early to waste time
on outsidevs," she says, regarding the
lovers with sympathetic eyes. "Don't
do it. Go into the garden; you will
find a seat there somewhere, and a very
re3ir val of 310000 rioting madly amongst
my stately hollyhocks."
They are not slow to take lior hint;
and scarcely have they disappeared
when Beano COMICS upon the scene from
behind a, protective hedge.
" To whom were you talking?" asks
be, drawing near. "1 heard voices as I
came along on a wild.goose chase for
you whielfluts lasted for a mortal hour.
Have I driven my rival away?"
Ho looks, in spite of a careful self -
suppression, very decidedly inclined to-
WardS jealousy.
"I was listening to a charming confi-
dence," says Mrs. Wemyss gaily, who is
too anxious to reveal her news to stay
ioeindidge in coquetry; "Audrey and
Anthony Vynor have been with me;
and—guess —"
" You eared them from annihilating
each other like the Kilkenny cabs;
that it ?"
e Wrong, 0 Thersites 1 On the con-
trary, they came to me as cooing doves
(night come, to tell me that they are
engaged to be married. 1"
" ‘N hat ? Wby, I thought they hated
each other 1"
" There are 330 3135,07 kinds of hatred.
Von will remember perhaps that ex-
tremes meet ; so that, if one bates it
person very, very, very much, wbY,
in tame they will geb to the other end of
it, where the adoring begins, and will
wind up by loving each other very,
very, very much!"
" Would they?" questions Bruno.
"Then I wish with all my heart that
you hated very, very,'very much.' "
"There is something in the air, isn't
there," asks Mrs. Wemyss reflectively,
ignoring his remark—" something mag-
netic that suggests love? At least one
might reasonably suppose so, as every-
body seems to be proposing marriage to
everybody else to -night. I wish some-
body would ask mo to marry him. I
feel a little out in the cold."
" You needn't. On an aioragb, I
think 1 have been proposing to you
morning, noon, and night for the past
six months,"
"Well, but you haven't to -night,"
says Mrs. Wemyss carefully.
"The night is very fat from being
spent yet, and such an accusation shall
not be oast in my teeth. I'll do it Dow
twain, or die! Would you prefer a de-
claration standing or kneeling ?"
" You have BO often done it both ways
tia.S.,144 V.! Arne 1 0, 1880. -
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-1 UTOK TAILORING.
otigiese them
Diek is her own again, her love, her
dearest heart 1 Ilis 03.00 will be iss a
girdle round her always. She will ho
his, to have and to hold 'for over,
to
guard, to cherish, to keep back from liar
the very winds of heaven, lest they
smite her too severoly.
A glad SMI 10 full of beauty oversproade
her lace as thus her thovights' weeder
into regions replete with joy. No mo.
mory of her late misery stirs her soul,
All trouble is forgotten, all unquiet re-
collections are laid in their sullen grave.
Who remenieers the night when the
mowing dawns ? Past griefs grew dim
when peesent joys aliment .
A long sweet sigh escapes her, a sigh
of the veil deepest coutent. She raises
her 0708 to her lover only to find his
gage riveted upon her in the clear lam.
guorees moonlight.
" Of what aro yon thinking„ darling ?
01 1130 2" mks he, in a low Mee.
e Per onco, 00," COOIOSSos DOlor09,
smiliug e wi rubbing her cheek softly
against his, " Of some one far less
dear, pd.. %vim still has 8, claim upon my
arfeetteu. 1 WaS thinking of Mrii. Bur -
11 0,FA13, that good 13'0111110 I"
,. 1 was roualling to my mind how
she looked this morning. when I gave
her the 11101185' that will enable her
daughter to leave service and marry the
Mari she loves. Snell a heavenly de.
light showed itself upon her face, 531011
joy, such gratitude. It 105,13 almost too
ranch; it made me cry."
Tears are standing within her lov.
ing eyee, but there is a smile upon her
lips.
"Ab," cries she, " I am so happy my-
self that I would, if it were possible, see
all true lovers happy also ! And that
poor mother's glance of joy is a thing
nov0r to be forgotten. Yes "—with a
little sIgh of intensest satisfaction—. I
have certainly suoceeded in making
some one truly glad to -day 1"
"To -day's snocess makes two. Do I
not count with you? Have you not
made me happy 1"
He receiveshis answer, not in words,
but in a tender deed.
" I never think of you—you are my-
self," she whispers presently. "And.,
besides, in such a matter as this
we are quits. 1 33011101 give you no lar-
ger share of bliss 2133,01 sou have given
"Beloved, does no cruel memory of
thelsad past torment you now ?" asks
he, regarding her with fond anxioas
eyes. "You feel nothing ?"
"Nothing," returns she dreamily.
Her arms steal round his neck, she lays
her head upon his breast, and for a
while is -very silent. Then—" I feel
only this," she says at last, as though
she has been revolving his question in
her inind—" that I am with you now,
and shall he so for aver, and that I am
at rest, and very, very thankful."
There is a pause for a long while;
but they, standiug thus together, feeling
the beating of comb other's hearts,
take no heed of the rapid flight of time.
Sho is in his arms, the one thing
precious to him, a possession before
which all the choicest glories of the
world pall.
"You are growing stronger—your old
pretty colour is miming back to you," he
says presently, regarding nor with a
most thankful criticism. "'You feel
better ?"—with lover.like anxiety.
" I am altogether well," returns she,
smiling; " body and soul are free from
pain. Peace alone belongs to me. You
need not be frightened about me any
longer, Dick."—raising her beautiful
laughing eyes to his. ' Only yesterday
Mrs. -Edgeworth told mo she hoped
I should not grow too robust, as
stoutness was a terrible fault) iu a young
lady."
They both laugh.
" Dear old thing 1" says Dolores. " I
am so glad she is still papa's house.
keeper. She told me she was a little
uneasy at first when the great change
was made, lest she should not be con.
sidered 'grand aweigh ' for the situa-
tion. But I soon set her mind at rest
about that."
"You would have everybody's =hid
at rest if you had your way," says Dick
caressingly. "Do you remember how 1
used in the old days to compare you to
a white violet ?" .
"I remember."
"7 was wrong, I think 1 I bare
"—
looking at her very tenderly—" abetter
comparison for you now. You are
more like a spring daisy—so fair, so
white, so delicate, with such a heart of
gold 1"
She giances np at him with pareed
and eyes alight with love. His
arms tighten round hor slender form ;
his oyee Meet hers,
Far, far above them the floating moon
glides on, and through the idle Weal w
wooing breeze conies cpaielily, playieg
with her gunny 110(33 0021 kissing 1300 130(3.
feet mouth. The air is foil of mystic
sounde ; froth the forest below the sad
belling of a straying deer may bo heard;
said to the lovers there femme across
the dew -bespangled sward, the voice of
oue calling—
" Dolores, Dolores 1 Como in, my
darling !" '
it is the (303110 01 Miss 3,1:(13111, 3133(1 ly
maws 1511601 franght with fond lop
and keenest auxiety. .;
"1.00. yes ; svo inust go in hides ,i, io
says Dolurcs. " A. pity 130( 0" the rhs,
with 0 liegoring giants° 03313 10110 th jdsek
sweetness of the autumn 1 night.
" Good night to you, dear stae'e 10 she
ales, with &little childish wate of her
eleeder iiimeee towards the heavens.
"A fah; good night to Oa 13110 lovely
world 1"
Still for a moment she ling( ra, mi-
litia ft eat adieu, then slips hler hand
w hide her lover'e arm, and. go es -'with
11:w across the flowering grasses \ .
T1{11 MO.
tremulous agitation as to be a breath
rather than a voice.
"That I love you," replies Vynet
earnestly; "700 must have known it,
and that you love me too, though not
perhaps so deeply as I love you; still I
dare to believe I am better in your eyes
than any other man,"
Ho encircles her with his arms and.
draws her towards him, she unresisting.
There is a long pause, fraught with
many thoughts; and then she lays her
head upon his breast.
" At last—at last I am happy 1" she
whispers a little wildly, and bursts into
paaien 01 10033.0.
CHAPTER XL
Half an hoot has gone by, giving time
to a very stricken yoneg wan to eked
away and lose himself, but not h11 in'
1152101311 misery, amorts`, the latuels and
1,130 rhododendrons 1., the shrnblairy,
and still Audrey and Vyner are deeding
111 a very loverace attitude, forgetful of
time, forgetful of 'everything but them-
sel Ves, svi1 en a sudden rustle of draperies,
a faint footfall, rouses them from their
fairy.dreem and warns them of impen-
ding danger.
With a sense of guilt they stall hasti-
ly apart and glaneo, in the direction of
the coining sound.
And now a, pretty daintily.elad form
is discernible through the moonlit
gloom. It is Mrs. Wemyss—of that
they ave immediately aware—hor some,
what bizarre costume rendering her
vevy conspicuous upou the gravelled
pathway.
"113 might have been' worse," says
Vyner, pressing Andtey'e hand remise-
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