The Brussels Post, 1886-10-22, Page 7OCT, 22, 1886,
head as much by character as by posi-
tion.
It was getting very soar Ohrletmas
when the baronet bold his sister one day
ab luncheon that he wished to speak to
liar. They went into the library to.
gother, had a long interview, and, when
the girl came out, hor face was red and
swollou with crying. She was very
anent that evening, and Stephen watch-
ed her in wietrel wretchedness. He
bad not been able to speak to her that
afternoon; ho could onlygness at the
reason for her unhappiness, mud he eat
brooding sullonly over George's cruelty
hi bringing tears to those proud eyes, anis
longing to be with her alone, that ho
might learn what her trouble was and
comfort her. It wag late in the evening
before he got an opportunity of speak.
ing to her iu the morniug-room, whither
she had gone en the pretext of fetching
some work, knowing well that hex sou.
sin would follow her. She broke into tho
subjecb at ones.
" Mr. Falobnor has proposed for me,
and George lusiste on my accepting
him."
Mr. Falconer was a rich gentleman of
about forty, who had paid Lilian
marked att'entien for some time. Lilian .
affected to look down upon him bowels°
Ms father had made his money in
"cotton "; but the sneer was absurd,
as her admirer was a man scarcely less
stalwart and handsome than her own
brothers, and as much their superior in
intellect, character, and feeling as lb was
possible for a man to be.
Stephen leaned on his crutches,
trembling from head to foot at the
news. He had known very well, poor
fellow, in spite of mad dreams after an
occasional moment of her fascinating
kindness, that erne -could never be his ;
but her marriage had been a horrible
dread for the distant future, and, now
that it proved a not -distant reality, his
heart sank within him. She was
touched by the utter prostration of this
poor cripple, who would, as she very
well knew, have given his life at any
moment for her. She led him to a chair,
and tried to cheer him with a sort of
regal tenderness. At last he said, his
lips brambling—
" But George can't force you to marry
Wm , Lily,"
" Yes, he can practically. The
money that ought to have been mine of
course I shall never get from this spend-
thrift crow. George says it is impossi.
ble that he can give ms what my father
intended me to have, that the estate is
so burdened that there may be a break.
up before very long; and I am hall
inclined to believe him. So I am
portionless, and ought to think my.
self lucky to got a husband at all, it
seems I"
"But, Lilian, that is nonsense I You
aro the most beautiful gid in the
county ; you will make a sensation in
London, and marry a duke if you liko.
You aro surely never going to lot Goorgo
do what ho likes with you, with your
high spirit ?"
Tho girl did not answer, but impul-
sively hid her face in her bands. A
light camp into Stephen's troubled
eyes, and he shuddered as he looked at
hor.
"Lily," ho whispered, " has George
heard anything?"
"I think so," she answered, without
looking up. " He just hinted, iu a way
that made me think he must have boon
prying into my affairs, that it would be
better for me to do as he wished. But,
after all," she cried, in a different tone,
raising hor proud head from the table
as suddenly as she had cast it down,
" I have done nothing wrong—nothing
to be ashamed of. It is not my fault
if I am so hunted and teased and mis.
trusted by my ownfamily that I cannot
see what friends I please, but must
correspond with them secretly. For
I won't give up my friends at any one's
bidding I"
"But you saw bin not long ago, and
by your friends' invitation," said Ste-
phen, in a low voice.
" What do you moan 2"
" Do you think I didn't know, at the
first moment of teeing you with Colo 'el
Richardson, that 11 was his letters I had
been receiving for you ? Oh, Lilian—
and he is married I"
"And what if ho is?" asked the girl
quietly. " I like him well enough to
marry him if ho were free ; but I am
not going to give up bis friendship just
because aunt Constant;ia and mamma
and Annie insulted him and me when I
was in town by saying our acquaintance
was improper. I shall have what
friends I please—now and always ; and,
if I am to marry Mr. Falconer soon after
Christmas, I will see Colonel Richardson
again before then."
" Soon after Christmas 1" echoed
Stephen, in a low voice.
" So George says. And the sooner
the better, for then I shall be free," said
the girl impatiently. " And now you
must post a letter for me at Beckham
to -morrow --just one mono—tho last,"
she added coaxingly.
" To Colonel Richardson, ander cover,
SS usual, I suppose ?"
"Yes. And, as it is perhaps the very
last service you will ever be able to do
me, I am sure you won't tease about it,
will you ?"
" It is a very bad service I am doing
you, Lily. If George were really to lin
it out, I think he would kill mo, and
perhaps you."
"Oh, the sense of honour is not so
keen as you imagine in onx family I"
snoozed Lilian. "IfIewould bully us
both, and perhaps strike one of us; but
ho wouldn't risk hanging on your ac.
comb or ming."
"But what do you want to say to
Colonel Richardson ?"
"I want to toll him to come and say
good-bye to mo before he pea away,
for bo has been ordered abroad..
George won't invite him bore again,
7 know ; but I must Woo him, ,and I
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will 1"
" But how can you•--•"
"He must come on Christmas Day,
in the evening. You know bow my
brothers will celebrate Chriebmas by
drinking more than usual, and thou
quarrelling among themselves. They
will soon give mo an excuse for leaving
their seeioty, and I will meet Colonel
Richardson at the gato at the bottom of
the garden—the ono that loads to the
short cut to Beckham."
a You would risk that? Think what
you aro doing, Lilian. Colonel Richard.
sou would never consent to put your
reputation in peril like that."
" He will put himself in peril too, with
my wild brothers about ; so he'll risk it.
And I know how to make him come.
I'll tell him, if he doesn't oome down
here, 7'11 00010 up to London to see
him."
"Lily, are you mad ? I will not help
you to do this,"
" Very well, thou ; I'll risk it without
your help—post my own letter, receive
the answer, and you may betray mo to
George if you dare. I believeI am mad,
I am so miserable."
"And all for a man who does not ap-
preciate you, who likes Annie better
than year
"ft is not true," said she fiercely.
" If I believed that, she could not stay
in the house a day longer—I would not
rest until I got the little hypocrite
turned out 1 But it is not true --it is
not true 1 Now will you desert me at
the last, just when I am so wretched.
and have nobody to help me 2"
"I will serve you to the end, forood
or for evil, as I have always done, Lily ;
vonoare golive wlileynerrMr..'tealleOner
marries you or somebody else, my
wretched life will be no good to mo, and
I don't care how soon I lose it. No one
will ever worship you as I do, Lily, nos
for so little thanks."
But she soothed him with sweet words
and kind eyes. She did indeed feel the
strength of his devotion, and, moreover,
110 was too useful an ally not to be worth
a few kind speeches.
So the letter was sent, and the answer
came—and the secret was safe.
Since the regular hunting.season had
begun, Harry's neglect of his wife had
not only grown more open than ever,
but had been supplemented by sneers at
her " refined tastes " and " poetry,
prunes, prism " manners. She could
not tell the pause of this change, and
went on quietly on her own way, duti-
fully caring for his small comforts, and
accepting his coarse snubs witch the
ammo placid indifference with which she
had formerly taken his scanty thanks.
When Christmas Day arrived, it was
spout just a9 Lilian had predicted. In
the morning the bodies went to church,
accompanied by Stephen and William.
As there was no hunting, and Lady
Braithwaite had insisted upon the
grooms having a holiday, the other
young mon spent the afternoon in the
stable and the billiard -room, wrangling
more than usual. Wilfrid had already
remousteated with George for teasing
Harry.
You are always saying things to put
his back up now. What do you do 1t
for 2" he asked.
" I don't Dare a straw what he says I"
cried Harry sullenly, who was flushed
and excited ling before the afternoon
was over. "And, as for my not being
a person of authority,' as he calls it, I
have as much authority as anybody
hero."
Over whom or over what, pray 2"
said George tauntingly. " I don't say
you can't manage 9, horse as well as—an
ostler; but show me the man or woman
on whom your word or your opinion has
the slightest affect."
"Well, I like that 1" bursts out Harry,
hie face twitching with passion. " Don't
I manage my own wife—doosn't she
obey mo, and quickly too ? Do you favor
!roar her oonbradfct mo or differ from my
opinion ? Answer mo, or, by Jove, I'll
make you I"
Your wife doesn't think your opinion
worth differing from, and she obeys
you as the shortest way of gobbing rid of
your presence. Everybody knows that."
" I say, George, do shut up I" broke
in Wilfrid. " Can't you see you are
only irritating him against his poor
little wife, who has quite enough to put
up with from him already ? 1Vhat ou
earth are you driving at ? Can't make
you out lately 1"
" Dont interfere with your infernal
preaching)" shouted Harry. " So my
wife has enough to put up with from me
already 1 Very well, she'll have wore
than enough, then, before loug, if sho
doesn't gob rid of her confoundedly cold
tragedy -queen airs, I can tell her 1 I'll
show her and you too if I'm not master
of my own wife 1" And harry flung
away the oigar•end he had boon billing,
and swung himself out of the yard, un-
able to control himself any longer.
Wilfrid turned to his brother.
" Why the dickens did you badgor the
baylike that ? d'e'll only go and let off
his ill -temper on poor little Annie, and
perhaps talcs to proving his authority
WW1 his fists or his boots, sho hulking
bully P"
"Nell, the sooner he doos, and die
-
gags her thoroughly, and makes hor
throw him ever altogether, the bettor
for hor."
Wilfrid looped at his brother keenly,
" I say, George, you are not playing
170000."
"Yes, I am ; you don't know the
game ;" and tho baronet lounged out of
the stable -yard with his halide in his
pockets, but with teethed firmly set that
he bit his cigar in two.
Dinner that evening began quietly
enough. There was a hill 111 tho hos-
tilities between the young mon, Harry
being Killen, 'Wilfrid xatho0 sleepy, and
Goorgo giving all his attention to Lili-
an, who waam}her most brilliant mood,
tatlkiug, laughing, teasing her oldest bro'
(TO B1] CONTINUIID.)
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l Inge,,od Orli-ate Ronson pain 1,1 sod
410001n14d to mo,1,rtn ,, 1 6 at reasonable
rates, He 41 so la to gives.. A,illri(sr
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90.11 (ludortclt,
BRIT EIS Lll;r9E WORKS,
STILL AHEAD.
The snbserlbers take this opportunity of re.
turning thanks to the tnloobitaate of litutssels
and vicinity !or pant patronage, and bog to
Mato that hay tug made several Improvements
11!. their krill tel mode 01 in, rel ng,lhcy aro now
Ina MOW t,Oxlalouthou erar b,le•u LO sumo.
the +'ablla with Pim,i.(Iass LI us 0.1
This being the twelf1l season of our bust -
11050 (Waif01Se iu Brussels,nud havhtgelventot.
q uelld est eatixlnetiuu so far, the publlu call re.
!yet roue! vi ng goal treat1100 t and a Arst.claes
article from us, 2'1rrt•Clalsl lou at Ill aunts
at the kiln.
We also boldo No. 1 lime for plastering to
18 coots.
Remember the spot_ Brussels Liuto Werke
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ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS.
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and always anions as by any trot -Glass
SwnrER ARRANGEMENT, 1886.
rerpyool and Qucbert Service.
From Liverpool, From Qnoboe.
.Lt
Friday, Are. 0 Circassian Ptldayy nug.27•
Thur.d'y Aug.1 POlvnesien Thur,7 Itept.2•
Thursday, Aug. 1U 4
. Parisian Thursday . 8 opt, 0•
Friday, Aug 27. Sarmatlon 'Friday Sept.17.
Thursday, sopt. 2. Hard it>Man Tb ursd''y 8',t.21.
Friday, 50pp1.10. Circassian friday (10(.1,
Thursd'y, Sept. 10. Polynesian 'Allures -1'y Oct.7.
Thursday, Sept 98. Tarlatan Thursday Oat. 14.
k'rid ay, Oe6. 1. Sarmatian 1>ridoq Oct. 22,
Thursday, Oct.7. Sardinian Thursl'y Oat. 58,
Friday, Oct ..s5, Circassian Friday, Noy, 2,
Tbursd'y, Out, 21. Polynesian Thursd'y Nov, 11.
Thursday, (Mt, 25. .Parisian Tloraday, Nay.18,
The last train eonuoatiog with the steamer
as Quebec laavus Toronto W'ednee4sys at 8.80
a.m. Passengers van lenvu Wednesdays at8;8J
pan. also, and compact with the steamer at
Portland every 'Thursday until opening of
navigetict> at Quebec Ole 14th of Dist', at soma
rites.
Fo cattle, sheep orpigs are curried on the
TIa11 Steamers of the Allan Lille,
Forblukets and 110rshs end every informa-
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A new stock of Buffalo Robes,
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JUST TO HAND.
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Aro to the front this Fall with a large and well selected stock of Cook-
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SPP,CIAL attention to an entirely now bole, '"IRE ORIGINAL," "Tilt
'1V:1R uoma limo," and the old reliable . "Woon Coos," weighing 400
pounds The "RositL PttnNsi Gua" is a square base burner, for coal,
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