The Herald, 1904-02-26, Page 71..' In the meantime Sir Owen devoted
!✓himself unceasingly to Violet. Every
rasa' brought • home lavish! gift for
other to The Limes—great hamp-
grs of game and fruit, of rare for-
!' sign wines, of flowers—and Violet
'•(said nothing of them before Felix,
tI because she saw: he was hurt that
ii''he could not do the same, and
during that period time girl's mind
''.ivas tortured and harassed by,
•doubts fears. r'
It was such a chance to miss.
She might be Lady Chevenix of
• Oarsw,00d ; she might be the weal-
thiest woman in all the county ;
and yet she had elected to be noth-
ing all her fife but a mere domestic
drudge. When Sir Owen came
ever and insisted upon driving her
out, she would say to herself that:
luxury %vas a necessity for her ; that
the could not live without it ; that
the must have it. Then Eve Lester
hwouitl Mend a day with her, and
would talk to .her with such noble
simplicity, such simple grandeur of
tihe life before her, that she felt site
loved Felix more than ever. At Vale
.Elovse, however, the cloud deepened,
and honest Darcy Lansdale Wore his
great heart away in sorrowful repine
log.
One evening -how well Violet re-
membered it ! it was the beginning
of July, and the western sky was
crimson with the setting of the sun
—Sir Owen rode up to the door. He
-O came into the dining -room, where
't'he family had just partaken of tea,
and it struck all of them that he was
ill at ease. Ile spoke chiefly to Mrs..
Hays, and looked hut seldom at
,Violet.
" I went to London yesterday," he
said, "and something tempted me into
at jeweler's shop. I bought some very
• fine diamonds, and T have brought
ahem for you to see."
He took rom,e heavy morocco cases
from 'his pocket, and Violet looked
:up with a new light in her eyes anti
�t low cry of delight. Few women,
thought Sir Owen, can resist the
'temptation of diamonds.
He ol:ened the meets and laid them
before her. There were a, 'beautiful
diamond ,s -tar, a. eutpeab necklace,
brooch, car -ring , bra:aelet and rings,
ail oath atones of the first water,
full of fire, clear, brilliant and beau-
tiful Ti.:r.• erlxn 0:1 1 ght of tete setting
sun . done in them and made them so
aarz2li. pl; br'g"tt that it was almost
impowsible to look :it them.
"What do you think of them ?" he
asked Violet.
"I cannot • tell you. I did not le.nrov
there was anything in the world so
beautiful !" she oried.
"How mittolr are they worth ?' ask-
ed Mfrs. I3ayc.
"I have paid mare thousands for
them than I tihoul,.1 like to tell you,"
Sir Owen replied, laughing, 't and I
would Elly as many •more to please
tho }same person for whom 'they are
intended. Mites Haye, will you try
them an ? I thank.' like to see the ef-
• fee,.t,„
13u•t Violet':: Min's trembled as she
tried to raise the giittcring gems
• from their velvet beds.
"Let me hole yo:i," lie slid; and she
did not obj et.
Th:' next moment he was standing
by her wide. Ile placed the bril-
liant star in her goldnr hair, and she
• felt that he lingered far longer than
he need have done over it.
" What wonderful hair yon have
i he said. "How beautiful it is ! The
• diamonds are not good enough, for
.
Than he clarired the necklace round
the white graceful neck ; Violet fast-
emr1 the brooch herself, and he
clasped the bracelet an her lovely
warm. She would rather that he had
loot done eo—Felix, would not have
Mom' it, sea, %vas sure ; but then the
',temptation to sate herself so decked
lust for once was irresistible. Sho
had never worn a dlamond—and
these were so gorgeous.
Very soon lie placed her before the
great gilt mirror, and the crimson
Rani/gait fell full upon her, an tho
atheen of her golden hair, on the
!brilliant gems, on the face more
i beautiful. than any gem. Such a
marvelous picture as she made in
itho,se glittering dlam•oncls, Sir Owen
,eaid himself, had never been seen.
B,ir. Haye cried out in admiration,
"She is like the Queen of Sheba,"
lace said.
"She is fairer than any queen,"
Laughed Sir Owen. " You ought to
wear diamonds, Miss Kaye. You
were born to wear them. Knowing
that, and feeling how well they
oceanic' become you, I have ventured
to, buy these for you ; will you honor
me by accepting them ?"
Hot Violet drew batcic from the win-
dow, with a pale, scared face, and a,
aryovement so sudden that the light in
like thediamonds was 1 gleams of fire
k
['diamonds
over her.
"You bought them: for me ?" she
1 Said.
1 "Yes, and I hope you will honor. 1
,me by accepting them," he replied,
' with a ]ow bow.
"I cannot," she said, quietly ; "they
are too valuable. • I should never:
wear them."
"You hail wear them at court, s 1
ebb told her, "and no royal dueness
Maas finer." a'
"Felix Lonsdale would not he will -
yang," she said, calmly ; "1 cannot
bake them."
' An angry flush burned his face, a
! $Irkl fight leaped into his eyes; but a,
Wen from ;a4rs. Hoye controlled him.
"My slaughter is quite right, Sir
Oweien. She Gannet take these Glia,
Monis .from you while she is the
promised. wife of Felix Lonsdale. I
Will help you, Violet."
The diamonds were taken off and
restored to their eases. Mrs. ]3.aye
had hover acted more wisely. Violet
Would have resented it had they
been pressed upon her; woman-like,
when they were so quietly taken
bank, she began to long for then.
"Mere was no word spoken as Sir
Otvert replaced the cases in his rocket
and rose to take his leave.
"1 trust I have not offended you,
Miss Haye," he said, "by offering you
the best tribute I could think of to
prove my admiration!"
"Why should I be offended, Sir Osv-
eo? You were kind to think of me;
but I—you ,pee, I ca.xe not take them•."
"I will not offend again," he replied.
BD shook hands with Francis Haye
and his wife; he parted from! Violet
with; a bow.
Where the door, had closed behind
hire, Francis F2aye looked at his
daughter.
"You lhiave .refused quite twenty
thousand pounds 1" he said.
Mrs. Hoye held up her hand with
a warning gesture.
" She has done .quite right. Fran-
cis. It would be absurd for the %Vile
of a poor, struggling lawyer to wear
twenty thousand pounds' worth• of
jewels—more than absurd! Who
would make puddings and mend socks
clad in such diamonds as those? Let
Violet ,bo consistent. She prefers
linsey-woolsey to satin, poverty to
riches. It is her own choice—we must
not interfere."
Violet kissed her mother, but ;firs.
Hays felt with keen delight that
there was little rapture in the kiss;
and all the rest of the evening the
fair face was clouded.
Another thing happened which an-
noyed Violet. She Wa.s walking one
day through Oldfield Lane, when she
met Laeiy Rolef and her daughter
Lavinia. Withgreat cordiality her
Ladyship stopped to talk to her.
"Will you mind walking on with
me, Mins Hoye?" she said. "I have
often thought that I should like
to chat with you."
"I Shint'l {be very pleased," ans-
wered Violent, little dreaming of the
mortification in store for her.
"1 wisih•ed to speak to you when
we Were at Garswood,,' said Lady
Rolfe, ",but I found no opportunity.
I think it only my duty, Miss Hay%
to utter a fens' worth of warning to
you about Sir Owen."
.Violet looked up proudly.
"I do. not think that there i5 the
least need for such 'words, Lady
Rolfe," She replied. •
"/ am truly glad to hear you say
so. Sir Owen Chev'enix is a
wealthy .near. a 1 do not wish; to say
ono word against him, but I am, quite
correct in stating that he aloes not
hear one of the best of reputations.
Elie drinks, and—well, he has other
taints wihich I must not name to
you."
"1 do not see how this concerns
n:0,'• said Violet.
"`Birt I do, Miss Huya'. Pt•ay listen
to n:e. You have a pretty face, and
Sir Owen is always attracted by
suelr: Yours Is not the first, by any
moans, that the has admired."
"1 never supposed that it .was,"
said the girl, proudly.
"That is right. If yon understand
the character of the man', all is well ;
having a friendly interest in you, 1
was afraid that his flattery might
mislead you."
'If site only knew the truth 1"
thought. Violet. "fI she conkl only
guess that 1 have refused to be Lady
Clievenix 1"
"1 am not alone in my ideas," con-
tinued Lady Rolfe. "1 heard many
ladles at Garswood say what a pity
it was that rio one warned you. This
is what I want to say to you, Miss
Kaye—and believe me, real kind-
ness dictates the word. You are en-
gaged to marry a very honorable
gentleman. Even though Ito be un-
fortunate, do not lose the
substance for the shadow; do
not give him, up, under the
mistaken impression that Sir Owen
will marry you. The difference in
your rank and position is too• great.
Re is simply amusing himself with
the prctti,ersrt face near him. Be
warned in tune—lhe will flirt with
you, but he will never dream of mar-
rying yohr."
"That is ,yeetir ladyship's opinion,"
said Violet.
"And the opinion of ev'e yono else
who knows Sir Owen and who
knows you," added Lady Rolfe. "I
assure you that many ladies have
s'po'ken to me alban.t it, and have ex-
pressed: a, great ]tope that you would
not be misled by Sir Owen's flattery
and love of flirtation.
"If site know all," thought Violet
—"if she did but know 1" And her
—beautiful face wore sucah a witch -
lag ,smile as She bade Lady Rolfe
good morning that the kcen, worldly
woman felt alarmed.
"Sire would never look like that,
Lavinia," she cried,"unless in wane
wa,y or other she had the best of the
matter. Surely it can never be that
lie Ivan asked firer to marry him.,'
"My dear mother, Sit Owen may
Marry just whom he plrat.,ses. Tho only
fact which interests me is that he
has not asked Me to marry hem. As
far Masts Kaye, I am not interested
In her, and do not care to talk about
her.'"
Mss Rolfe dismissed the matter
very quickly frown her mind, but
La1d,,y hefts pondered it deeply. Sure-
ly ate must be mistaken—the hest
na teb in the county, the most eligible
M40.• for .miles around, eoillcl% never. dale. She disliked ail such,;. she re -
be leo abeuvd as to throw himself monrbet•ed how even when things
a wz4y an a mere Irotitotly like Violet looka:d brightest, she bad stood In the
Hoye, evien •tlnougit, 5110 had the face l,oiso that had l rlon'ged to the
of, alai angel and the grace of a ;queen, ciet'sons, wondering what her life
GRAMM M Xty,. Would be like there, and reealled the ;
curious sensation that had wine over
her of there not being enough to fill
bee life. Then he langbedt a lit-
tle 'bettor laugh as site flung. away
the wild flowers that she was hold-
ing.
"1 have a desire to be rieli," she
said, "bat none to be noble. I ami not
nobie'. I see the right and honorable
path, but I have not the strength
to follow it. , I rate myself for being
what I am, but I cannot change."
She made no false excuses to her-
self : she gave no high-flown name
to tho sin that she was about to
commit. Mammon, tempted her; she
fell ; the spirit of the world,
the pride of life, the love of
riches' had ale' entered her soul,
and taken possession of it. She did
not disguise from 'herself what she
tra,s doing when she deliberately.' re-
solved to break her plighted word—
to give up her lover and marry' Sir
Oiven%
leer temptations had been mane
and great —they had been contin-
ual, they had been 'hard to resist ;
but that was no excuse. She knew
that she was committing a double sin;
the was proving false to the one man
whom ,Slue really loved to marry one
wvhom oho did not love at all.
°Lt is a double sin," she said to her-
self, "but I cannot help it —I could
not go through a life of drudgery
and poverty. Felix will hate me, but
in atter years lie will know that my
decision WAS WISE"
So She thought and mused, dream-
ing in the sweet shade .o,f the sum-
mer woods of the gorgeous future
that would be hers if she married
Sir Owen. Presently ber mood chang-
ed, and her eyes filled with passion-
ate tears as she thought of Felix.
"I love Felix 1" she cried. "Why, can
not be have Garswood ? Why' must
he ba poor and obscure while Owen
(Ihe*vcnix revels in wealth ? It is not
fair."
She had love and wealth before her,
yet she had deliberately given up
love and chosen wealth. She made no
effort to justify herself in her own
eye's. •
"Those diamonds were too mach
for me," she said. `•1 can not help it
Ef I sin not noble by nature."
Yet whore she hail left the woods,
and 'walked lisone through the rnead-
ows, something was gone from the
sunlight, something from the song of
the hinds, wedeln was never to be
there again for her. She walked as
ono over whom a shadow lies. She
had joined hands With sin—and sin is
never a1 cheerful ekmpanlon. Tire
flowers and the tries, the eolor of
that grass, had lost their charmas for
leeerver; y t:1hIn:1101-0g•. was a dark shade over
" Will it Ins always like this?" she
thought. "If it is. I shall not find
my future-. very bright."
T.hci: the girl's heart inisgave her.
As she looked round everything re-
mits:1 rl her of Felit. She lia.d walked
with hint dowel those groves; she had
kite c're;l with china by that stile and
hatter diose trees: he haat been so
torch a part of her life that she
could not picture life %vithout hint:
I1e\v nl11r11 1 live without item'?"
'ahs Said. `• l:iow Shalt I spend
tdu' chez•,•, the years, %villi•
cat i 11101 ?" 'f hoe rite. triPtl
to harden their heart. "People can
riot live. on love and poetry," she
toll herself ; "if they eculd alt would
be well."
That sant:' evening she said to Mrs.
III
" 3In main, 1 have Oven thinking it
will Ix' better for Felix anil myself to
part. 1 air afraid Is' has enough on
his shoulders."
(To be Contin_ ued.)
PUTTING BABY ASLEEP
1 a
.the KLeairulori AS to her own fu-
ture •ware ;eft ontrel.y in Violet's
IlkaKls. erttller henor mother
slrGnk•o ono wontlfatwltnchr
could infin-
einecy her, and Feats was so engrossed
in his business that he was but sei-
dour able 'to sec tier. Sir Owen, on
the contrary, always kept ltdmstllf
present to. her •mind. Every day
brought hrampers, parcels of books,
everythSn°�,'
that could h,3
thought • of, from; the Iia•11.
Every day brought a tittle note
begging that she would accept
fla%var,s, fruit, or whatever accom-
panied it. Ile rade over very often
himself ; he seemed to bring an at-
m'osphero of the fashionable; world
with him ; he was always full of
eiririt•s, with wonderful news to tell.
Violet had been very much annoyed
by Lady Ilolfees warning — it had
tented the balanee the wrong way,
"I understand," the said to herself.
"They think I ant Iso far beneath Sir
Owen tient ho will never deign to
marry rue. How mistaken tl•ey are,
and how little they know of the rani
truth 1 How I could ,surprise them if
1 wished to do so ! Wimt a triumph
and a vietory I could win over them
all ! Harr they, would wonder to see
me Lady Ch•evenix ! It ever I do be-
come Lady Chevenix, that woman
Lady Rolfe shall come no more to
Garswood."
That coats the first 'lime she had
ever admitted to herself that There
teats an "if" in the matter—the first
time she had thought of the lossibil-
ity that she m'ght eventually be
Ludy Ch•evenix. 'the temptation was
great And ,subtle. It was sante time
in forcing an entrance into her heart
—but, ante admitted, it would not
leave -,her. There were many excuses
for her. there was much that pleaded
for her—her youth, her love of lux-
ury, her dread of poverty, her long-
ing for the bright side of life. The
constant dropping 01 water wears
away- a stone. Such was Violet's case.
The constant talk of poverty with
which her mother plied her morn-
ing, noon and night—thee constant
praise of Sir Owen, the blank, cool,
toleration of Felix, tare •wore»leer at
the riches of the one, the pity for
the poverty of the other, all lnfiu-
onccd icer, until at length, a day
came when her heart opened to the
warship of Mammon, w]tI e love dwin-
dled into insignificance by the side
of wealth. The day canine when,
wearied of everything, she went out
into the cool, green depths of the
sum.nrer woods and held her life, as
It were, in her hands. •
She tried to think of her ease as
though it wore that of n. stranger—
as though, site herself had no vital
concern in it. On the one:tide slue
heel to suppose that the would prove
true to her promlee, true to her word,
that &ie would marry the man whom
Oise really loved, Felix Lons:iale. "Let
m'o look at that picture quite calmly
Brest," she said to herself. She Would
111180 to, Wait at least two
or three years;longer, and by
teen
the brightnetets of her
beauty would crave waned — the
spring of hr'r youth 7voitici
have left her. They would be years
cf ,sorry eiseonifor•t, too. Her mother
and father would lose all patience. ;
they %%•orb'_ be years of ceustarlt un
f i a;'antnes e. ] , lix, tco, would doubt -
hiss bi' always in trouble—and she,
like meet of the yeurg, g':iy and beau-
tiful, dreacic'ti trouble.
Taking the inax'riag;•:' at it:a le•s t,
It was a boor one. When she was first
to Felix Lon:.dals things
were. quite difleroll t. Na cloud of d;s-
graee hung over his family ; lie: bill
fair to become a, rich 101111 ; he had
t•%•ery hope of making a beautiful
home for her. Even thele it was not
reach a marring., as she with her
queenly dower of beauty and grace
had a right to expect. Were she to
]harry .him evitla his, prc'sont proa;-
pects, what a fate would lie before
her ! Suclt lilnit.et metuas—Such gen-
teel poverty ! She struddered as site
saw the throe years stretch them-
selves out before her. She foresaw
hard work—tile work she disliked
most of all, domestic drudgery, hard
fare, nh, bales, no parties, but little
dress, nothing but timeare of a house
--a bare, 'plain existence from which.
she ,shrunk—no visiting. How p•e.iple
would tango at .her 1 It would bo 1110)
going out of the %vort:l at once. But
then—and hor heart grew warm at
the thought—she would, have Felix—
Felix IVlie lowed her so dearly.
Felix to whom the ground qhs trod
on was snored. She would be with
him, and she would have the happy,
eon•sciousneris of Raving done what
was right ; she would have done her
duty, and ,she might be happy afteaa
all. .
Then canto the other side of tha
picture, and the girl's brain whirled
as she tried to understand it -e
tried to realize it. If she, married Sir
Owen she would be mistress of mag-
nificent Garswood—site would be
mistress of all its grandeur—of the
superb grounds, the gorgeous pia
tun, the wonders of silver and
gold ; they; would be hers to use when
she liked and Ito tvshe liked. She
would toe Lady Cheve:nix, patroness
of balls, quessn of the county ; she
would be able to patronize Lady
Moire in her turn, to punish those
who dared to think site required
warning ; she could have dresses
such as she had not dreamed of ; she
would be great, wealthy:, and pow.
erful. But there would be no Felix
With rail this She would have to :give
him up, and she would live the re-
mainder of her life with a ,sense of
slaving acted unfairly —of having
betrayed suoh love and faith as were
given to Seer women.
Theses were the two palls that lay
os clearly and 80 distinctly mapped
out before her. In her heart she love d
telex—and slue knew it; lett that
same heart• longed for wealth and
luxuries such as Felix could' never
give her—that sane heart recoiled
front the poverty, the struggles, the
economy, the daily Dares that must
attend her as th'e wife of Felix Louse
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STREET CRIES IN LONDON
A Long List of Those in 'Use la Ad-'
dison's- Time.
The protest against street noises is
becoming so general andt urgent that pro-
bably to the next generation of London-
ers street cries will be a matter of his-
tory.
To those of our forefathers afflicted,
with sensitive nerves, London must have
been a city of perpetual torture, pays"
the News of that city. "There is nothing
which more astonishes a foreigner or
frights •a country squire than the cries
of London," wrote Addison in the Spec-
tator. Those old London street venders
had musical ears and voices, however,,
unlike the modern street hawkers. But'
their number was appalling. Among the
long list of cries were to be heard; the
following:
'New -laid eggs. six a groat. Cracicd
'stn and try 'ear"
"Any tripe or neat's foot, or tars!
foot, or trotters, Ito ! Heart, liver or
lights."
Buy any wax or wafers, or fine writ-
ing ink."
"Lily white vinegar:"
"Good fresh sausage"
"Four pairs for a shillling, good Hoth,
land socks,"
"Any corns to pick."
"Any work for a cooper."
"Any wood to cleave."
"eny bats or cape to dress."
"New River water."
Every household article -•eats to have
been hawked about. There were venders
of wheat. starch. toasting' irons, candle-
sticks, shoes, garters, figs, tape, buttons,
hat eases, cockles, herrings, mackerel,'.
coal, etc. And then there was the watch-
man, who cried the time every half hour
from S to U Welted: in Afarch, a$11 for'
longer or shorter periods, aecording to
the season:
Maides in your s 11001<es.
Look well to your locks:
Your fire and your light,
And God give you good -night,
At
One o'clock.
kitchen Superstition.
There are many peculiar o1cl-lash
Toned superstitions connected with
cooking. For instance, in Scotland;
when oat cakes are being baked, it is
still customary to break off a little
piece and throw it into the tire. At
ono time, whenever a baking was
made—which was, perhaps. once w;
month only—a cake was made with
nine knobs on it. '.Each of the come
patty broke one off, and, throwing It
behind him, saint: "This I give to
thee ; preserve thou my sheep." men-
tioning the name of a noxious anima
—fox, wolf, or eaglet.
A roast pheasant is usually sent up
with the tall feathers. This practice
is a memorial of the clays when a'
peacock was skinned before roasting,
and when cooked was sewn in its
plumage again, its beak gilded, and so
served. Teesing the pancake is an-
other interesting 'food superstition.
Formerly thea master of the house'
wrx always called 01:an to toss the
Shrove Tuesday pancake. 'Usually ,he
did it so clumsily that the contents
of tho pan found their way to the,
floor, when at. fine was demanded by;
the cook. The custom is still kept up
at Westminster school, where a pan-'
cake is tossed over the bar and
scrambled for. The one Who secure
it is reworded with a guinea.
The origin of the erorm on hot eros
buns is a platter of dispute. There 1
little doubt that cakes partly divide
into four quarters were made long b
fore the Christian ern.. At erne tint
it was believed that bread baked o
Cloud Friday would river grow mold
and 0 piece of it grated was kept
every house, being supposed to be
sovereign remedy for s;most any Leet
of ailment to welch man is sublet
In mary parts or England it Is oonsi
Bred unlucky to offer a1 mince pie
n. gnvst, It must be asked fort.—li
ton. Journal.
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The cripples and beggars of 0
13eeskurek„Austria, have, gone put
strike as 0 result of a new as lu'm lI
ing been built for filen by th0 •.Ina
tra.te$. They say that the pYofes
prefers to live in the open air aind
lain what it ma Orem aegetieaes
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