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The Wei gh ling Eve
Or, Married to a Fairy.
CHAPTER VII.—(Continued),
'I would d0 anything to please. you.
What du you, want me to dot"
You told me,' I said, trying tospenlc
With a fine blending of the judicial and
tete paternal, and to forget the blood or
seven -and -twenty rioting in my veins,
"that your mother was a lady, andthat
YOU would like to be one, tool"
I stopped to.cousider how I should
make my plan sound attractive to her.
Lillth •clasped both her small betide on
_dawning lder delightand
clearly ed shown In e, her
at s.
eyes and
parted, smiling lip
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"Go on," she. Whispered softly'.
"Well, dear," I said 'you would not
like, when you are older, to -feel at 0 dis-
advantage You
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Would . eke to speak correct English, and
to play those- daliee tunes you like s0
much, and to sing the songs you ad-
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a little French and German, and
understand how to manage a house, and
to see after cookery and needlework."
Her face Pell, and she shook her head
emphatically.
"I shouldn't like that!" she murmured.
"But, of course, Ira do it for you. Any-
thing else?"
Well," I said, racking my brains to
remember what the girls of my own
class really did know how to do, "then
there would be spelling and history and
geography. and perhaps a little drawing
and painting, and some poetry, reading,
and—and lawn- tennis, and riding, and
all those things as well. And, of course,
ballroom dancing."
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you going to' teach me ;7111 these things
Yourself?
'
I own I was censlclerablY startled .by
the suggestion, flet before 1 could
speak she had broken into a torrent of
words.
!Because, though I'm not goad at
learning, 1 will try so hard to Please you.
1 I knew you will like me better when you
have made mea lady—and I'd learn any-
thing so as you would like me better,
, dear, dear Alr. Hervey.'
She slipped her arm round my neck
and gave me a half -childish hug of nf-
s e sorting to Tier feet,
f
ectton. Then h 1
sheer
s 1 of sh
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le pas eu
aiul executed
of me. en on the middle
sand stopust 10 front
of g In the In au she 'stenten, and
hung het head In sudden penitent ra•
membranes.
"Poor father!" she faltered. "Pd clean
' forgotten all about him. Blot when I
heard you tell airs. Nokes yesterday as
1 should a
iwa s have a
friend in you.
and you would leek after me in future,
• 1 was so delighted I could have scream-
ed for joy. First 1 thought you'd
make u dancer of me, and so I'd earn MY
living; but now you say 1'nl to be eft-
! eaten and made a lady of. and that j' n
not to go on the stage. why. I'm so hap-
n- I can't pretend to be 501•i'V ub0111
father. Because, you see. if he hadn't
died. you wouldn't have offered to do
all thesethings for lee."
She knelt down in front of me in the
sand. The sea stir and rapid movement
cheeks. She hadrttakent r offtine her `black-
straw 11111. and her yellow curls were
blowing 11,0scly out around her fare and
shoulders. It was difficult to look at
her without kissing that little cursed
rose -red month which smiled up at lite
so intitingly. `But I had schooled 01Y -
self to a certain line of conduct with re-
gard to my little ward, and 1 was re-
solved not to be tempted out of it.
"tine thing I can't promise you." I
said. with matter-of-fact cheerfulness,
"and that 1s to instruct you myself. But
I will certainly cone and see you while
you are at school."
"At school!"
Her face fell, and her under -lit trem-
bled in undisguised dismay.
Some nice finishing school I will
find for you," 1 went on persuasively.
"where every ono will be mast hind to
you, and no one will scold .you; where
you will have girls of your own age to
make friends with."
I don't want them." she cried, sud-
denly bursting into tears, "1 only want
you!"
l pang shat through my heart as I
Saw her evident grief.
Lilith, dear," I was beginning. when
she slipped forward toward me, still on
her knees, and caught my hand.
"Don't send me to school, 31r. Hervey:
please don't send me," she pleaded pas-
sionately. "1 know what school is, and
I hate it. Keep me with you!! 1: trnow
you have a studio in London. Well, it
must want dusting and cleaning. and
your clothes must want mending, too,
sometimes• and you must have a servant
to do It. I don't want to be a lady any
more. because if I am etude a lady. I see
it will mean being Out away Into one of
those dreadful schools, and sneered at
and looked down upon, and bothered and
worried to learn things, and hent In
so I can't see the sea and sky—or you.
That's the worst part. Oh! 11r, Hervey,
don't send me away from you! I'd ra-
ther be your servant. to wait on you,
than be the finest lady in England! I
can look a lot older in a long print frock
with my hair twisted no. Let me just
sweep out'your studio and watch you
paint; only let me be with you, and I
don'trare how hard I work. For I love
You. sir. Hervey, and I shall be miser-
able Jr yam send me away. You are so
kind and so handsome, and you have
been so good to me. And think !tow I
s11011 amuse you, learning new dances to
please you while you play the piano.
And when you're busy and don't want
to be bothered. you don't know 1101)'
(Iulet I can keen. I'll never give you
a bit of trouble if only you let me stay
with you!"
She teas holding m: hand tight be-
tween both hers and looping up at me
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with big tears gathering in her great
blue eyes, like a sea -nymph in distress.
with tate incoming tide, from which the
mist had Lifted, making a background
for her flushed face and floating hair.
I am proud of 1110 self-control, as It
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"Silly child!" I said, "Of what 'firs-
sable use would you be as a servant at
your age, and with your small oxpe'I-
ence of household work? If you really
want to please me, You 'tw111 slay here
like a good girl, with Mrs, Nokes, while
1 go up to town and try to find out Yout'.
grandfather, :kir, Pritchard, the clergy-
ntan,"
"11•v grand rather! Why do you want
to find hint?"
"I to find yell a h0ma with kin,
dear, while you are finishing yarn' eau,.
cat 101,."
But ire has hardly eve'' heard et me,
and I have neve' seen hitt. And ho was
very, very angry with mother for rul-
ninF, away, with father. Suppose he won't
!lave me?"
hen T must find you some other
home far your horn -toys."
"Won't you even have me with you,
turn?"
Uf emn'se not,' 10niWered. laugh -
Mg 7 not a bachelor, 1d1!III, livingall
by myself. T don't. steep 1, boardng-
school of young ladles under1111 teof,"
She waft silent for tl few minntea, as
'If repenting, Then she Itslrad suddenly:
Tlow long will It take to what you
call fin18h my education?"
13y the time . you aro eighteen." I
said, tarn in the :three ha.f0•}tantering
tone, "I shall expect to find v0u a high-
ly, naaom-dished young lady.''
'TOigltteen! Two whole years! 'Aid
1x111 yet name end take m0 ttivay from
(1011101 w}lell t am eighteen?"
"T su00080 so."
"And what will bourne dr int then?"
This waif lust 3.110 cu0sii0tt wltloh.
that kindly, well-meaning old gossip,.
the 110010r, from Sandhythe,. had asked
me, and which I had not been able to
answer. There would be, of course, cer-
tain overstocked and underpaid so-call-
ed 'genteel" occupations open to a hall -
educated woman of vagabond parent-
age, ward to a man eleven years .her •
senior. But 1 could not find it in my
heart to mention any of these, and so I'
only stared at Lillth in affected sur-
prise, and aslted her what she meant.
1 -Ter answer 'vas only too explicit.
I mean,' site said wistfully. "shall I
see you every clay afterthat? If I work
very, very hard, and put up with the
hateful life, and learn the horrid books,
and grow all stiff and prim and young
ladylike—shall 1 be always with you.af-
ter that?"
1 threw away the cigarette I was
lighting, and, rising to my feat, I helped
her to rise, too, from where she knelt
staring at me in that altogether bewll-
derI ng way, Then I took her little hands
in one of mine, and, laying the other en
it, tried to be more fatherly than over.
"You don't understand. dear,' I said,
"that in the world I come from young
gentlemen do not ask young ladles to
stay in the house and sweep out the
studio, or do anything absurd of that
sort. Tiley just see them sometimes'at
tea or dinner atother people's.houses,.
or they meet thematballs.or parties, or
1. at the thea.tl'e, or in the parlc. It is on-
ty married people who see each other'
every day"
She suddenly disengaged her hands,
and Stretched them up round my neck.
"You are Very fond of me, aren't
You?" . she asked, very seriously: Of
course, you'd have never done so much'
for 'me if you hadn't been. But you are,
aren't you?"
"Of 0011000 I am fond of you, dean"
"Well, then," she asked triumphantly,
her face radiant with smiles agatit,
"when I am educated, Why don't y011
marry me?"
CRAPTDIt VIII,
The question She had asked me, was,
again one I could not answer, •
why would I not marry her, as she
Mit it, when she was, educated?
1 oouid not frame so obvious a lie as
that I did not sufficiently care for her,
Already I ehe'tebed for this little un-
taught creature a passion which, al-
though still to some extent ideal and
romantic, .partook- already of the Char-
acter of that love which comes to a
man once in his life and once only—the
love which by some is called folly and
infatuation, but which makes - of our
lives on earth. n heaven or a hall.
.As to her humble birth and vagabond
training, her obvious Mel; of all higher
morality, her unconventional ideas, and
the difference between our y0101105 so-
cial positions—for all these things 1
cared nothing. at all, At that moment,
as I looked into her liquid blue eyes,
and as I behold my soul's ideal standing
ti ere before me. constraining me with
g.ntlo cart~ , accept the frank and
innocent ofrprir nI her love and life, X'
would have R1, my soul to be able to
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that in a very short time I .shall, take
you away and make y0u MY ador'od.
wife:"
That was the. impulse, passionately
strong, Which surged up within me at
her words and 'touch, and net men but a
villain,. loving her, could have felt other
wis0.
(To be continued.)
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