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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Record, 1881-10-07, Page 2• P ARUNDEL �' EL OTTQ, SY MARY -CECIL HAY, 4uthter of mote efeelletoniMoney;' "Iitdde" Per* , , " rho. $vore's, Leyacg; ^ ,. b?ctor goof I'a., uinhecf ;" " :Vara'- Love rest ; ' " .i Sluuttrw un the Threshokt:" "flack to the M4 Flo ne;' etc., etc, CHAPTER XX1V.--Oantinfcetl, "I do not care ranch about this ball, any way," said Tom, a little affectedly. "There is no one going for whom 1 care one fig." "How is that'!" asked. Leaholme, moving his face out of the lamplight. "Bessie would not come, you kuow," Tile pause 'was scareely perceptible before Leaholme answered, with an olid little laugh : Surely you will be able, among the hundreds of ladies there, to find ,a substitute for bliss Bruce." ► " Not an easy matter," said Toni, brusquely ; " is it, 'Siie.Itendal 4" " I did not quite follgw yqu," he- re -plied smoothly. " Did you .ask if I supposed it possible there would be any lady in the assembly to -night who would rival your couain in the opinion. of either of us three I"` " Yes," said. Tom, hisface flushing a little more deeply red . than it had been when he cause from the mess. room, and feeling rather ridiculous. " Well then I say I hope there will be no one to obliterate her from your memory. I fear there Will be no ono to obliterate her from' Lord Leaholme's; and I know therewill be no one to. ob- literate her from mine.', Tom laughed rather uneasily, regret- ting his silly idea :. and for the rest of the drive they were silent.' • But never again could those three - meet without being conscious, each one, 'of knowing the other's secret, and of his own be- ing known. Such a contrast there was between them, in spite of that one thing I So far apart were the ' hopes. rind aims of each in all bet this one:; and so differently was this. one • hope eurtured. Among the gayest and. .most noticed were they in all the crowd that night, each winning admiration different from the other. And in all the glamor, all the excitement, their thoughts would rest upon one absent girl who sat alone. m a big, strange room,..with twe white arra upon her kneea, and a pale, re- gretful, tender face settled with her Bands ; watching the glowing fire, . just as she might have watched a dear corn- panion's face. The enjoyment . of the- ball was at its height; ribbons and lacesand -flow- ers flowers had began to be- scattered in the room (the spoil of the Battle; of the Spurs), when the graceful•- black -robed figure rose with .a quick, impatieece "Little Are," she said, "you are.' but, a -sad • companion, as the night ,wears on. I must sing a song' or something to 'away with • meleneholyr.' If :I had but Dick Swivellerhere, or a piano Z. What shall I sing ? :1 think I •Must make a song -of: my own; it will take • up the time se famously: Now what shall it be about? It's 'Oh, to be a. poet !' _ I suppose I. would rather be a poet than anything ; but, as I cannot,. be anything' or a poet, it'.'is' no use making the choice, I suppose." The song was a very trifle; truly ; butthe experimentalizing until -"the, words fitted the air, and the air. fitted the words," as she technically described it to herself, whiled away the tithe won- derfully. Then she sung it through,' again and again;• ending with a little laugh at herself in .the light of noet• and composer. Presently, as she glanced at .the time -piece, astonished: to find it was three o'clock, she heard a step upon the stair. "Aro they coming home so, early 1" she thought, turning to look as the door opened. Her'bright, . expee••• tant eyes. dropped suddenly 'as Tom carne in, unsteady in- his... gait, his. cheeks flushed, and his eyes realm. .• "Hessie, dear," he said, laying one hand upon hers, "it was so dull there 'without you that 1 was obliged to come a way." "!hell /-have you been there,-Toml" she asked, looking down eoldly;onthe slight hand that was -on hers. "Yes, horridly dull. So I am come home to you, dear, to sit and • talk to you a bit. It will be worth all that hot, 'tiring work over there." • "You dill not think so a few 'flours acn. Oh, Tom, Tom, why hove you cane home to me so'" • She laid' her other Tittle cool hand down upon.. his, and was looking at him with intense sorrow and surprise in her loving eyes. Iie raised his . eyebrows sleepily. "What do you mean by '00,' dear 1" "The consin who said good night to me seven hours ago had a bright, •franfc '•�a. Tom; and steady hands, which I Hee rte to hold as I said goodbye. The cousin who comes back to me now • has a face I dare not look upon, and hands I eanf of tench • without 'a Shudder. Oh, shame for me to have to say it 1" He looked at her reproachfully, but the pain he sew in her I}if'ivering face brokedemihis fictitiois defiance of of the truth, • 1! 1 1 Oh,H salew' ehe ie with childish erd olii s d h plaintiveness,. . don't be bard on me to -night 1 Iw4s led on to do it in. that thirsty plade," • , s• " I thought you were led on," said. Hester, coldly. 1 had not much, • Hester, indeed. It was the excitement. 1 diel not say any one led me on," You were wise to conte home, Tom," she saki, very gently ; with a pitying gentlenesewhioh even surprised him, " And oh, Tom,, do not let any one else see your shame 1" ".If you are ashamed, it is worse than any one else," he muttered. " I shall not see you so again, I pray' and trust, dear cousin. Now goodnight, I shall never .speak of this again ; but in the quiet morning you will have two menioriesof yourself, and I pray God He will let you keep and guard the right one—the- one w. all love. Good -night." "Good- night, dear," he whispered, forbearing, with a spark of true shame,. to touch her hand again. As Tom's footsteps, died away, there came along the passage Sir Randal Platt ; a loose, light overcoat: thrown over his evening dress, - the sleeves: banging empty, ' He turned coolly, at the open door, but starteo at the sight of Hester's white face. Neither' his voice.nor his hand shook as Tom's had done, yet she - turn- ed from him with infinitely greater disgust than she had turned from Tom, • Seeingno attempt on her part. to ad- dress him, he plunged at once into a conversation befoie he had ventured to join her on the rug.'. ' " Your friends are enjoying them- selves : greatly, :. Miss . Bruce, your cousin in' particular. She is dancing everything:"_ a' Yes," said Hester,standing in front of 'the fire with her back to' him, and tapping impatiently with her foot - up- on the rug. " Particularly did she seem to enjoy. dancing with the ladies' darling.'Of course, you knottewhom I mean,' Miss Bruce 1" No." " The colonel of this noble yeomanry corps.. They have enrolled him. lion of. the day, 'and itstrikes me -that is the. very sort of celebrity, to suit him.: He seemed to me to revel in the sight of tho'little :iteful tempers which would peep out•. through the anxious efforts, made by,the'sex'to'. attract., his atter- tion." "Do.you forget, .Sir' Randal, that. you ere speaking to one of them now 1" He laughed, softly. • " I :do not for get to whom. I am.. speaking, • Miss Bruce, X could, forget. my ' own exist ;ence sooner..,, You are,' though,: se far above such infatuation, .that. I speak of it to you as of: , a 'distant. weakness What I tell you.. is 'indeed Arne, and. the. ladies.really are showing` their des- perate anxiety to please him.tr " Perhaps he dances well. .I should fancy he would," said. Hester, with ie - imitable nonchalance, as she. •rearrang-. ed,.two of the figures on' the cbimney- piece; studying,. with her head .,thrown back the effects of the change she' had made. . •'.' :Pe'rl ap9 so, " ZE ><q . qn `ac coniplish- ment:we men at least wil'l'. not• envy pini, or seek to emulate him in." • "'I•cannot fancy. 'you,: Sir 'Randal; seeking to, emulate.hiim in Any thing." 1/, My tastes are, I trust, a little more manly.; such tastes, I . think, ..as' Miss Broca herself would expect -in a Juan." . . . "You are, a hotter sportsmen; for.. instance, ,than the Earl :of Lealiolme." " I hope so, indeed,. 1 am no cow.: aril ; and if I judge poor Leabolme 'rightly—or hear aright—he is."' _, " A poor shot at' a .tiger, you•doubt-: legs judge him ; a poor: one to fight hand to band ;with „„a vicious, greedy fellow who has :a dangerous appetite,” " Pools ! that is nothing.'•You have seen. a: tiger's skin about this . place suppose {". Yea; and./ have heard froin-my cousin a' certain story of .the jungle. I have heard, too,.of a young soldier's conduct in scenes which cowa-`°id hearts, would never.'face." "I begin to think, Miss Bruce," said the baronet, hi a voice whose passion he could not ,hide, "that yon would have been in the majority to -night. I was considered .most daring because I. Set ; up here and there an; equal claim with the ;hero. }n oho or two cases, whertl I .hero. him, I. caused intense surprise.. ' "1 date say," said }Tester, in .a tone of exquisite content. - "If the .rooms had • been graced by the presence• of one who could .have, eo truly: graced them," he continued, rorty advancing toward her, "I should' have had more courage still, and caused still more astonishment." Hester drew back 'coldly,• and spoke .,yeltll.. careless indifference, "1>id you say' Mica. Lane was enjny, ing, herself i" "Immensely. .She ,loops pretty to. night" t/ 1. spoke' Hester "Shegenerally demi," Iles � rlyde, Foe t , when he stopped, without a shadow of the jealousy hi tried to provojce. 'Does she 7' I never had the leisure to remark: it.. And, Lord Leaholree," he added. trying once: more -.—and this time with desperate earnestness ---to read what sign of jealousy there might be, "Leahollne is paying her . a • most marked attention," "le it altogether a most pleasant hall 1" asked ,Hester, trenibling, and longing for him to leave her. To me it was chaos wanting the one spirit that could have touched it into beauty. I left early, as yl l see, for that reason," "Not very early," pointing to the clock, "I wish you good -night, Sir Randal." He bowed, Her bands were kept beck so proudly that he count not ven- ture '.to offer his ; for even he could feel there was something in the sweet young faee that would .not brook a liberty, as well as something which kept him from daring, to offer it. "Sonithing," he said to himself, sit- ting down in front of his bedroom fire, and frowning into it, as he thought this iguietly over an d recalled the new sensations this girl had taught him—. "something that keeps a fellow wret- chedly at bay when he w.ants to go on saying particular things ; yet something that has drawn me on, and 10 drawing me on .now; as not a living soul has drawn me before. " How 1 hate the fellow the instant she mentions him.' As we have ventured to take• a peep into Sir sandal's solitude, we may venture to take' one into another sol- itary chamber before sleep and silence settle down upon The Arundel .Arms, as"they•do when the dawn flashes clear and white.. outside the shuttered win- dows. " Can I help your lordship ?" asked one of the hotel' servants, • throwing open Lord Leaholme's. door for him • your lordship's gentleniati is gone to bed.." " u All right. I told him to, for he has to leave' • with ins early in • the morning. No, I need no help, thank you. Good -night." . Lord Leaholme threw off his uni- form rather vi eartfy, ' ""''r That farce is over," he said in' his .bitter thoughts, "anti .r titin fecal clays „when I have taken off , my scarlet,.,,Itattered- fan blood=stained;: After' the scenes ofiwhitih the thought can snake stye bead throb even new ; yet the Struggle has never been so hard, the fight: has never been so keen as it has been .to -day. A,ud can I really own' that 7" he said pacing his room slowly;.'" though only herein my own room, and to no' one :but my- self .1 I—a hardy, weather= beaten soldier 2' The pride of my father's house mtist:surely have ' deserted me; A craven in every sense of .the word must I be, to hasten: away from her be- cause I dare not trust myself to look upon her dear, dear face -I ani .: so glad that I got Tom to come away- - to - :eight before any one there had noticed him. T hope she was not up, because '--she iis:fond of him, But,if.. she was up, then she 'would have been up latter, too,-and'woold have seen him,=horse: Poor Tom 1 poor, pleasant,' : Ioving " It "was a splendid affair—oh,, splen= did 1 and some people said Marian Berkeley was the belle. She bail a. long curl from her chignon, Bessie ; s and khair you ow howshort h n her and I did not even think it a. good match. And some said.lady Emily Thrope was the belle, and sore Haid: some body .else. You must guess," "Yeu, Bella,". maid Hester, looking over the bead below her into the glass .opposite; her sad, ,dark eyes roaming front .one face to the ether. "Yes ; some said so. Of course Lord Leahollne was: the principal per - On there among the gentlemen;, and every one was wanting to dance with him, though I never saw a, nicer lot of gentlemen at a ball before." "You ,mean ,he fetid- you ere the belle i" sid Hester. simply, as she ex- tracted .from I3ella's head the flowers and padcllings which had raised it half a foot, "I am glad it was he, because he would say it without meaning it, as Sir Randal. Platt, for instance, would." Now, as it had been Sir Rancdal.. Platt who itad said it ; and as even Bella Gould not help feeling that he. bad said it to ,half a doyen of his part- ners ; and as there lay n- Tittle scented trifle under leer band 'on-" which the Earl of Leaholme's name was written only once, .Bella did not receive this remark of Nester's so complacently as, she might have• done had' the version. she had given borne looking into. "Of course he means what ho says," she• said, ,shaking her crisp'hair int - patiently, as Hester took out the last In p.- . t • "Did you dance .much with•him, Bella l" 'Do not I always `1', asked Bella, snappishly, And Hester :forebore to question further. • "You' forgot to bid re good -night," she said; as Bela at last lay down. ' I do not intend to act' your maid without a word of thanks,: Lane. Sit up, and give it me at once."' . "Good -night," sleepily .'said Bella, from her pillows. ".That will not do,' laughed , Hester, "sit u " .. p • Bella: rose' on . Ler elbow. "Now give me a kiss, quick, . and go to bed and to sleep, It is 'high time, 1 ate sure." "Hester bent and kissed her gently. '"Good -night, Bella. • I intend. to leave nil;the balls. ;-for ';you. You e-njny'' them; ami to -night I feel as HI never e conic)," -. • d Pella -left alone on the verge: of a deep,. sound sleep—just managed be- fore sliding over the border, to •acquit honorably in her'. own mind from any. shadow of reproach. Site had told no falsehood, she, knew ; if 'Hester mis- understood her, why,:that was' plainly Heater's fault:... There whit truth in all she §alcl,•. and she might' sleep through' these few -hours blessed .with an 'un ' troubled conscience ; to dream Of rami=. ous satisfactory'speeches that had been whispered to her, and a few that she. would have preferred hearing, if pos- sible. , • - `iHester=alone in her own room at a, 'last—gaveone long look out upon the fair,'' cold dawn, and said, in her sore and tired, little heart, "Itis too late 'now ever to. hope_-for'it I must try to remen)liln' always : that :tlie,, Rest lies farther To ! How atran a it is ' that, 'I not envy him, even „though she -is A uI1tTnnAr rltasLNT:. g can fond of him. I feel somehow as if. in On a certain chili autumn morning far 'distant time,' perhaps -I Hugh Drlahoyde found himself loiter= muat needy win a little love from her, ..lug unaccountably, - before setting off by the very depth and intensity of iny:' from his city lodgings td the 'house of.. own. Yet battling with this all 'the' his two pupilis-in Clapham—his only time is the full hopett,saness•'of . having tried end failed, and promised never to. try again—as I Bever will. -Yet '1 never can'envy Tom. 1'think that only as myself could I love her as I do, and I think T'wonld rather: love. her as I do than lova her less and win' a little love in return. ' With His .help, who can' purify every'. earthly, passion, .I wit love .her with a''love .. that is ,not ivhnlly selfish ;. and do the little that I can to help one whom she -Lis learning to Through a clogged' door a little way beyond Lord Leaholme's comes Hes- ter's merry laugh. What trinphies you -must have left •behind you, Bela 1 You are tattered and torn as that immortal , individual *rho married the maiden all forlorn." " 1. am so.. glad . - yon sat up," was Bella's yawning reply. . " You will help Inc 1 Manimo always keeps-Hor- ton eepsHor-ton such an unconscionable time." " Have you enjoyed yourself an much'ae yon have 'danced T" inquired Hester;aa she began to unlace the'tight little, bodice. ' Quite as much," replied Berle, but with e certainwant of heartiness in the ready w orda Which struck an-Hester's stir. " 1 will not aak you . about it till. morniiigeat.feast, till later on this morning, for 1' am sure you are very tired." l " l`Ttit a bit," replied beta, hastily. C,H.AP'TER XYY. two pupils:: He had given% his, little sister a doubly loving farewell kiss, and yet lie hesitated before leaving her in the small,: cheerless room. - Three moths before he had Colne from Aberswys to London, thinking •it would he such an advantage to hits, in -seeking .employment,..:to be "on the spot." He had found it but a dreary pot so he on, after all.. While he was daily looking up the' clerks in 'CIA' Agency offices, he had . said, he might • takea few pupils, for children were so, abundant in the great metropolis that there would be no 'scarcity of pupils. It was not very good for'Tottie, he. had added, , 'With a sigh but it was only for a time,: and wee his best chance of getting her at last- a. home among the fields and flowers, which she longed for. • So Hugh came to London, tend found himself learning dailya harder lesson than any' he could give' to, the two pupilq whom m ' he had at last met with. • • . . ('ro 131•1 ceeerlimrn.) The leaf of the Wild Strawberry has verifir'd• that Scriptural quotation. Pr. Fowler's E'xtraot of Wild Straw- berry is the marvel of healing in all varieties of Slimmer Complaints, and Fluxey, Cholera Morbus, Cholera in. feetum and every form of Bowel Com- plaints of children or .Malta promptly yields to. its power of healing.. Professional' and Other Cards. IV. F •0ATtTW91U}IT'' 810;0w% Dawn :Graduate of the Ito It 'o� r • ' College of Dental s - genes of -oeeI rooms ,St toria Block, Atlet$t- : z7 :.'> .. ■ v ,u . . citlm, where be be constantly In at dance, and prelavt to I{tertornt every o >cq�r+-- Clinton, tbon In tteanti4101)w WW1 April 2l aYRr, >- plctjstry,• .� S JF.RO)TI:, Litentiato of Dental Surgery 0 • visit lliytts off trach and every month, tions tenth: until the fourteenth, alien be writhe most happy to Wait upon all those that may favor hlni With theft patronage, All operations performed in the Most, ekflltul Manger. 111vth,pee. ii 10160, 1111, 11F:%1'n. O08eu, itattenbur) Str i t, malt j • stets behind Itan,ford's hook store,, Itoelt1e,R4� opposite the Temperance Irall, Boron Street. 048c4 hours frorq 3 a. n. to 0 p, m. Clinton, Jan 14, 1281. I•y DI[. is t sr Gv, 11. O.,. M. 1t C. S. Brarl:uu , L 1'lly"oku'o,.8llr;(eoll,4:. 1/111ce and re.tles(0 neat )ioisna'.Y Bank, nnarkut "we' Clinton, Jun, 1.1, 1591, r -y �4 .If. 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