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• POlETRY:
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Between the
_ - " Dear _Mr. Brown "—I ]know She meant .
"DearJack;" that D sentiment
. ••Is overweighted:
- Shy litge- love She did not dare; ,
That flutter in the M shows where -
- She hesitated
. .
- . The darlinfgirli, What loving heed
:She gives tie strokes; it does not need
- Great penetration • . '
To note the lingering, trusting touch, :
As if to write to me were such •
- A consolation. -
• - •
The flowers oanie; so -kind of you. - -
&thousand thanks." Oh; fie Miss Prue,.
The line betrays you. . You know just theie you, sent.a kiss; -
You meant that Writ to tell me this,
And it obels you.
` They gave snob ahaPpfday;" •
I love them so," she mea to say, .-
",Because you _sent them."
a But then, you See, the page is small ;
. She wrote in haste—the words—ian-d. 01—
' I know sherneant them.-
" At night kept near me;tbo,. - •
- -
Anddreamt of them," she wrote, " and you,
• • But would erase it , •
Did she bat have one tender thought,
That perished with the blush it brought, '
- - My tor would trace it. - ,
"This morning all the buds have blown"
That flourish, surely. is "Your own," -
'Tis written queerly : - • •
She meant it •sb. Ah! useless task
• To hide vour love 'neath such's:Mask
At that "Sincerely"
. ,
•• •
"Prudence.". Those tender words confess; .
. .
•
As much to.ine as a caress, -
- And Prue—yon know it
But then, to teaze me, you milk 'add
• Your, other.name, although you had
Scarce space' to do it
A dash prolonged across 'sheet
To close the notel The little cheat-
- No; when she penned it, - -
She Meant its quavering length to say ,.
Thatshecould write to me for aye,
• - And never end it
Prue! Love is like- the flamethat glows
Unseen, till lightly fanne 1 it grows
Too fierce to quell it -
And Mine ! ah, mine is-uncopfessed;
But now--.---; that dash a,nd all the rest—
have to tell -it: '
1
suoh a subject quite inaprossible to her; hut
• By .0B04.iitA ' is. • OB4pla -
- hough be had t*tiples, however, abOnt-
h wing ardor Ail seeking MSS , Hart'S
se toy, it was by:, '5 ,1 means his intelicion
to exclude himself ftoni :: any frit** intev.
I
co rse-with that y vim lady. On -the Cow
trEiry, belied by tria time siairtirtil - kin:iself
that it was his duktiin a quiet way,- to learn
.w at more of her li '.1could, in order to-tlice
to give such . advice.
Sing that adViee.iwere.
be looked for. from,
er, - 'Without further
hi self in a positit
cii4cerning her (su
necessary) as ought
Ein elder son and be
los . of time, the Afore, he • set himself
ab. lit this,virtuous *ork, and, Continued it
withlaudable perieterance through week
after week of the, Item:nig spring and
early summer, for if -1,-t roved" to.be an under,
takpg.of an ardaouil !tort, 'requiring, (or, at
le t, so he thoughi ' uch time for its due
ying out.; - .[t
oar
s Alike weeks went on, Pritclenee
shoed herself to . varioue !moods,
. - . _
He Isaw a good dea f . ant.1:.she- was
sometimes, (though i -often) silent and
demure; ,ebe was erallY irritating and
mo e or less mooki She was occasion -
all gentle and wo ; and in all her
nio ds,eXcept • pertik-S the first, shegot the
bet er. of :him. Theil ad many encounters
tog Vier, and she beg! him in every onekof
them. She was ten iiinies cleverer than he
Was ten tines re. per—ten -times more
datzig„ And he Sal himeelf again and
• "She 13 n' the kind of woman
they.think elle is ;. s is not such a girl as
it n do Mabel -an good • to be intimate
with; if ray naothertiknew her as I do she
would not iet her etin the -house ;" and
yet, though:he kneiv.i this, he presently
lostithe power of open, g: hip lips to • make
she others know , beforele had been
acqtialnted with Missriidence couple of
months, the -.poor y6 g fellow,Was injoave
With her. . =
• She had got him i toils' before he
had I even begun to uspeot his danger.
•
Pretty `soon indeed h gan to be. conscious
that she was-acquitin certain power over:
him. He knew tnat was flirting with
him, but he could no lp offering himself
to b flirted with; reWhini to her by
an a ttaollion that he " d not understand,
_
but Inch he harcil .ried to resist;I he lit he Was stud her, not suspect-
ing t et .whilehe wit his clumsy labors
she batl learnt hint ou nd out, and could
see through. htm thr ha glass window.
Afier's very eh* -.42e- had passed, he
*began t� take advantalle of every opportu:_
nity lie could .find for4eing with her and'
- Whiti is Lite"
"1
have planned inuch Work for my life," she
said; •
• - •
A girlish creature with golden hair,
Ana bright and winsome as elle Was fair.
." The days are full, till he comes to -
The clothes to buy, and the home to make
A. very Eden -for his dear sake."
But cares soon cane to the wedded -wife ; • •
She shares his duties; and hopes and fears,
Which lessen not with the waning years;
-
For a. very struggle, at best, is -life, •
If we knew the burdens along the line,
- We should. shrink to receivethegift divine.
- -
. a
. Sometime -s, in the hush of the evening hour,
. . She thinka of the leisure she Meant to gain,
•
Andthework she would do with hand and
bzain• - •
-
"I am tired to -night, I am lacking Power
To think," she says, "I must wait until
: -
My brain is rested and pplse is Still." •
. _
Ohl woman and. man, there never rest; .
-Dream not of a leisure that will' not ome
Till age Shall make you both blind and
dumb. , -
Yeti must live i3aoh day at your very best; •
' The Work of the world is done by few,
God asks that a Part be done by you.
Say Oft of the years, as they pass from sight, .
This,. this is lffe with its golden- store; ,
I shall have nonce, but it comes nal:4°re."
. -
Have a urpose to -do with. your utmost might
: -
You will finish your workon the othi.er side,
-_Wheit 'you wake in His likeness, 'satisfied.
The ,pliory Orr a Life. .
•• Say; what ? to be born
- A helpless babe to greet the light; - -
With e sharp Wail,- as if the morn
Foretold a Cloudy noon and nighty
TO weep, to'slisep, and weep 'again, - -
With sunnyemiles between—and ?
And then apeee tl2e infant grows
To be a laug_hing, sprigotly boy,
Happy, despite his little woes
- • Were he but -ocaiscious of his jOy
To be, in short, from two to ten,
A Merry, 332004 child,;-e,nd then ?
• And then in coat and trouserscla,d,
, To learn to say the deealcigue;
' And break it, an unthinking lad,
With mirth and inisahief, all agog";
Atruant oft by held and fen, '•
• And capture butterflies—and then?
And then,.ineressedin strength end -size, .
To be anon, a youth hill grown; .- -
A hero in his mother's -eyes,
• A young Apollo in his own;
. To imitate the ways of 'nen -
rashionabie-iin--and tlien?
• -•
And then, at lalt, to be it roan,
To fall in love; to woo and wed! . _
Witb. seething brain to schemeand.plan
_Together gold or toil for bread::
To sue for fame with tongue and pen,
And gain_ or lose the prize—and then 1
. . _
And then in gray and wrinkled 'ski'
To Mourn the speed of life's -decline;
To praise the scenes our youth beheld,
- And dwell in the meniory of lang syne;
To dream it.While with darkened ken) -
To drop' into his grave—and then?,
:
Dreannis and -Dreams.
A maid.en site in a Window -seat,-
-
- And to ana fro swings her idle feet
As she gazed off at the sunset glow
• _ -Over the tops of the hills of snow;
hiher lap restive book, unopened, forgot,
Her eyes are gazing where ours .may not,
-As she dreams and dreams.
Far up in thosemountains of red and gold,
• Behind the snow hills So white and cold,
She sees, I doubt-bOt alover true
On hisfierySteed go cantering through; -
-For the bright eyes flash and the red lips .smile
Artd.ehe sits there gazing a long, long while, -
• ( Aildslrea,ms and drearas. • -
rOhi the std4s fiery, the loveris true
From the spur on hie boots to his cap of blue;
And the hot eyes flash and the cheeks burn fire
• As be spurs his horse through the nand and the
At his side gleams a sword, now useless'andeold,
• With rare jewels set in its hilt of gold:
. Thus she dreams and dreani.
, ,
. He has traversed the world' on his steed So fleet
For a ina41 like this in the window seat. '-
Scanned maidens of hign and of low degree,
And of each one said, softly, "Not thee, not
- thee!" • " •-;
Will never a hand point -him out the way,
" -
I wonder? Oh, yes! he will.eome to day,
' BO she dreams and dreanis.
- -
Brit hark to that Sound; was it out of the Street?
. And was it the sound of hurrying feet?
Oh, my heart, stand still and listen with me •
-While I press my. -face to the pane and see,-.. •
* Is it horses' hoofs on the pavement below?
Hate yotecome, My knight, left yes no?.
• She dreams and. dreams.
From that sword the jewelspmethinks see -
Adorning the' hand of a. maid lilts ine 1 -
And now loan feel his breath on my 'cheek,.
His handover mine. will he never speak? -
.A.,,voice through the dirknesceomes loud and
— clear; - - - -• _
"What, -dishes not Washedyet ? Erow's this, my
dear?"
istewell„9 ye -dreams?
Pranetero Cali.
8 W
-489Pe
•801.1id
• t00),
:meth
thire
s . -uncomfortably lconscious . that he
these opportuniCes. as secretly as he
and -almost constAus (uncomfortably
bat .8lie perfecit# :understood hie-
d of procedure, d - entirely !unit:ht.-
-with -
pre," he said to her.
- " ,never talk to
pleased at the demur
always adopted toward
,yet, f eonscience' eit
it; bu
before otherpeo-
ce, only half dist
manner that she
in public and
4
• it was only on. this Angwit day that the
had been
ps, finally
met 'early
ae. to tell
ngeinetit,
or twice
so before
her, and
be found.
search of.
the rest
ace upon
SO011 in a
g up and
perently
re-:, long,
d On her.
she
ved tone,
ne read
; it is
who are
quired-;
h- a look
is boots;
here to
ny,. Mr..
ed that
taken it
•that' it
)2 these
habit •of
esump-
ity, he
oments
d—
that I
;" she
little
treated;
you're
don't
little
d hini:
u- any
itely.
ds en -1
ry one
:to be
ou for:
butl
o tell
eurt-
hem;"
then'
y het
r her
s and
eeri a
most
'her
dent
ed it,
/leart
torn
poor
wotdif,Which a..-icore- of ticnes
very near the -young men's li
crossed them and got spoken.
It was -a Sunday, and they had •
in the morning in the garden—
the truth, by Sat of tacit arra
they had done more thin Once
before—he Coming out an hour or
breakfiet intentionally:_ to -find
she demurelyperreittingherself to
On this special day he came in
her while the heads of !'most of
of, the household • were still it pe
their pillows; and discovered her
distant part of tile garden, paoin
down one of the gravel raths, in ap
a very thoughtful mood. _
41 hope you have not been he
he said cheerfully, when he lighte
"1 have been here for sorneti
answered coldly. - I
Oh; by Jove 1—am late .the
claimed the pique- man in a grie
and he looked' it his watch Q.2ut as
it his -face brightened "N
not half past Seven yet. It is you
too eatly,," he said. „-
" Tao early for. what ?" she in
and then she looked at .linn wit
that made him ready to sink into
and "1! you think I only 0161118 Out
enjoy -the pleasure of your coMpa
you are under Er:cations de
she haughtily said. *- -
Upon Which he -felt so confound
he held his peace, for (de he had
hitherto) had not had e doubt
was for for that reason that Miss Hare°
Sunday mornings, had been in the
.shortening her repose.
However, When she rebuked his pt
tuous assumption :with such sever
etibraittedtci the rebuke for,a few m
in silence and then merelranswere
"Well, sit is for.. your company
collie; any Way."
"That is _ a vety different thing
said. • - . • • .
"1 suppose .is," he assented,
ruefully. "But, I say," he remons
after -anOther- little _pause, "1 think
-awfully hard- upon fellow.- If you
consider that you may . give one a
enceuragement after all this titu
Jove !"—and then his eloquence faile
"1 don't. see why I need give yo
encouragement," fihe _ said deliber
'-‘‘ I don't .888 why any man nee
csouragement. YOU are all alike, eve
Of you:. YOU think :a woinan ought
grateful, and to make a curtsey to y
every civil word -you speak to her
think. differently: From -me, I beg t
you, Mk. Keith, you will get . neither
Seys nor gratitudik"- . -
UT 11 T
VT ell!!4• an] sure I don't expect t
replied Keith, ratherititiguantly ; and
he walked On -with' his heart .-prett
Within him. . --
She had_ a light stnrinier mantle ove
shoulders, . and- she . folded her arm
pped it- around her, as If it had b
tial: cloak. The movement al
med lie if it were inade to -show
r how: self-contained and indepen
im she Was.. And . BO he interpret
e watched her Askance; with his
of honest love for _her, and yet
- a good many eforiflicting:thorights
d she not bare at all for him? the
was asking hiroself. Shewasfar
-a match for .121m -7 -he knew that; but
e remembered *lards and:looks that
had given- ..ta hint,. he - remembered
-ivererarely enough, indeed; out of his
hts) two or three tender passage's that
&seed hetweenthein, and hereould not
ve-that her indifference was not 58.
d. .He let a minute -pass in Silence,
-
hen he spoke to her -again:
don't know- why.you oon2e down upon
o this Morning," he said.. -
done? I an2.- eure. you ought to be
s with me.- If you knew how felt
ii, you would see quickly enough how
at any. rate, deserted to have you
eh. things." •
nd why you less than anybody else?
are like other people I sUppOite," she
red indifferently.
ut ell people are not alike," :iremon-
d. "Why, its absurd to like
Do you. think all women. .ate like
lyre
mar
see'
q, half troblea•tit- kive
when he made fsbis aocusatio 12 as°f hh
gave a little laugh, andJi • . •
. •
" Well—shall.we hat , our: next conVet- with
eilence.tand_my-other :Ohs." .
Sati011 - before :them 141F,?" she answered-
instantly,.: !! I am .qui ii willing; on :my„ lad.
side. Suppose we come tOphedrewing:room than
nosvi- and let your mottle', have the plea- --,yet h
sure of hearing you rip:mob . Me for- Loy she
(the*
.61 you aiwtve -get the ftotter of me," he ..thoug
repliedi " If I ever verit-thre to - blame.you .had n
for anything you alwayiiitirn the tables on belf;
- - '
Silli18
" An What else word Ott have -me do?" mid:t
she asked. "-Do Y011 - k I am fond of
-being.foi'und fault With NI nd what are you to s
" I
to me that I should takelf ult-findiogfrom
you?" 1 - '' - , ' - ' I have
: And -then the colorei i to his -face, and friend
.that•Ia4 :_question of is touched. hint
enough t� make his sire fail him. Per little
Mass the • he should like ti: e simiething to -`°n."
11
he had Pay su
egtkn by -this tirl. (or perhapehad .•,,-A
begun) t feel a certain beret conscious- ,
.her ; he balloted indeed still that there
could be °thing. Serious Oween theta, but
move herirato at lewd a li i ik of feeling,to
ing and Onillenging• spirit:her. And the "'If
he had thought Often tha e should like to -81rat!i.
awake so ething differenri 5roin this mock- Y°aree
they had m3: spirit they would be li
young man who was rap* grdwing more me,'„,n
earneet - than. he yet *ell, knew, =was- 1.
'begkainti to ;find that mocking words AS,n_FP
had acquired *it keen Re ler to sting and 8'0°
wound IS In
In addition these _pa e, *too, that she
letting
.inede.hiM euffer, there another matter -them,'
ti. at . troubled = him not a He Was 14°
afraid of Godfrey:. It W- true that. his
brother elWays spoke 0. ,Prudence in la ulx'n he
slighting I way, which St 6 on . her - side Wide
One respect; '-she said. '
hat is, .in scorning me and all My set-,
°sir he suggested after O.:moment's
. - • .
- holding theirproper place, and not
you,..or any Of your Sex trample upon
' she retorted. • . • ..
n- Which Keith said, nothing. The
iniplied suggestion that he was trampling
r struck him its.soniething so wildly
of the truth.„. that no ejaculation
aPpeared adequate to express his amaze,
- -
meat. • - -
' They walked again in sileneetor another
-miunte or .80 after this. :She puzzled'hini
;very Mitch ; she troubled him.and gave him
many pangs. . But yet he felt unutterably
. .
tender to her, .and he longed intensely tol
give ..some expression to his tendernes
More than -once before :now he had been
very near dealaring :his love for: her, but
some lingering -sense . of .prudence, • seine
lingering sense Of doubt, had kept: him
But now the moment had 'come
When it. seemed to him that he could not
hear to be silent any more:- -
-`• Well, I Ought alzkost to be 'afraid, I-
OW:pose, to say anything more to you," he
abruptly began, with bis heart beating fast,
after the pause had lasted a little while;
• and I should be, I fanciy,-if my consoienoe
were not as Olear toward you 58 it is. ,But
yeti knew pretty .well how things are with:
me, Prudence—I never wanted you or any
ether *Oman to . knock under- to 'me, but
You know I love you with all my heart, and
if you can only like me -enough to wait
Me till I have got _a hOme to offer you, I
—1 think I shall be the- hotppiest
er.1
;.: • -
• 1. I •
you, -do you think, .suf posing I agreed to
this.arrangement Onaposedly asked;
and she -turned to hi:. and looked him
straight in. the face. 1." things stand at
this moment, they are ; 40—exactly pre-
pered to hear of it, perl*, 2,-!, •
The - poor young w. *as was gifted with
only Flo sinall and ordffiM : an amount of
0611z:control that, at thWi.„iquiry; he ciolored
to the roots of his heit,(::-, r
They•may not be prk.ared for it; but—
but Should -tell duce, of t•Ourss,"
he -said. •• i .
And they would 126- leoubt he highly
gratified by theintellige.r.lie-?" replied Miss
Hart suavely,.-
• And then she looked- Etlli 4-03„ again -as she
"might . have ' looked•.beetle through :
:which she had just stia.- a_ pin, and the.
next moment gave a iii20 us and, perhaps,
notei.very pleasant laugV4
was trying to finktOme answer to
make to her sarcasmon4 ,Aad littered two
or three words, when sh-9..iterrutited him,
not without a good dignity; she
was so entirely. mistressherself that it
was 'quite. easy for ,r9 • be dignified,
Whereas even selVposs for -MM. Was
imeAriyaer the thomeniii thing not to be
attained: . .
. Mr. Keith, I sin no ,zte so simple as
not to know how the "neer stands," she
said. "Before you cor4itoinise yourself
any further,' take ha* l'7,our proposal.
You have meant it kinfti perhaps,'but
you have forgotten, I ti,to take.into
account that I am like be a.littletoci
proud to accept it , want. 14e to.
-tbankyou, thank you, ."—decline your
offer. And now," she 'CI composedly,
"let us never speak about -pi again. ,
-
But of course he. beg 0 speak about
it again instantly; he reit'?1:-,4 ibate hesitated
before he opened- his ,a,) all, knowing
how .nitioh reason there lor hesitation ;
but, after he had mice p from his die-
*
OketOng it Wall not ,likelyt an admoni-
tion from her - would keti na silent. So
he pleaded his cause withT, he ardor and
_the earnestness heciotild ,O his aid, and
she walked placidly by hre e and listened
to 'him, finding. the --oce "on, perhaps,
not Unpleasant.
-" If it is only that yout;q2ind what the
rest may say, you ought to :give me up
for that," the young inak'',-,--Etgerly argued.
" And you are not going ttfr,4-ell me, -Pru-
deuce, that you ' don't - caril4_1:,at all for me?
You hay, - as good as eaWybu liked me
before now. I don't thin =hitt You would
have let things go BO 141, they have—
that you would have let' et BO f011a Of
you as you know I hat .
,if you, had not _meant t en getting_
if soraething
baok to me at -
you forget, Mr.-Eeitik t people are
:sometimes a little weak". ,e011ed 36141
Hart to this appeal; and Ens, at last, elle
east her. eyes -modestly. toAor ground. "1
was very weak if I ever Sitif‘liliked you." -
. "But unless it naa Deeit4*,:e you,would
not have said it at 9,111" 41,4,aimed Keith
triumphantly; ."and the WA of it is all. I.
want you to -allow.. If yep ine know
that you like . :the, you 't imagine,"
imagine,"
(mod the young man; " th4t4 am going to
give you up: Prudence; like me ?"
And with the last vrOrds, b -a0/3 tame from
ndernesi3, he
:!Eind after a
(own. -
vement for s
•his lips with a tremulou
ventured.to touch her he
moment, even to take it uL.
She submitted to thh3
few seconds, but after thiC
slie gave a little, just au
drew herself away from hi
"This is very foolish," s
" Foolish do you call
ace of time
sigh, an&
Ad abruptly.
. ejaculated
Keith, with all his face on fir i 'tit seems
to me like—hke standing on -144hreshold of
some -new world" *
"Well, and may not tit
new world be:it very risky
on ?" inquired . Miss Hart.
ard,.yoU see, Mr. Keith,
of the unknown. Come, .
foolish.- Let us forget this I
"How can you tell M8
Y011 believed that it was
greshold of a
to stand
ani a cow-
ed* afraid
at it iS all
!half hour."'
-0 that, as if
-sable ?" the
young man broke out passioniely.
"You have been very unwke said Miss
Hart reprovinglA
"1 have to learn that ye,
Surely,-Prudencie, I have to,
this morning thatyoudid-210
You allow that, de you :no;
, e went on ardently, aftelPire,moment'a
ke silence, jibltt have -ktiowti!.rtil-s,o indeed,'
and if you have still gone on .-40-eting me,.
how cani believe that all this Wipe you have.
meant to say no to me at laiitt.! rou cannot:
have meant it there is so '4-.4h between,
no and yes. Give Me one ii!4-4 Of: 61";
and I will wait --you do no,t1 ..hoow how
patiently I will wait -7 -for ther,"
And then she niade no inatuti ilate answer.
It wee a very 000l and caVous word,
e
ItO -him ; but after a little paw-:, he finally
did give,him one word of topfi*.i..!?4
brit, such as it was, it raisett him to the
seventh heaven. But, as, tin* *ant on, I
lan- afraid the poor lad found 4..at be had
entered into -a. rather stormy poraiiiie, and
that ifMIs Hart had disturb -6A* repose
in the days before he had -clee10.
to be :her lover, she racked hiMt4th almost
unbeatable torment h Other days
that came after them. For •-discov-
ered that his exPiotations'Of rka0Aving any
extended. &tors. from her hitOe' after his
elevation winii.a delusion of tILCOost abso-
lute kind., .- She gave hini nokltore than
she had given him before, 1314.g.tess. She
treated him With brusquerie, T'oldness,
soinetimes even with oontemptk She made
him -jealous by parading her aWtrent pre-
ference of other people ° to ligeelf; and
when he reproached her with thewOuelties
he told told him coolly that she pr_aktijd them
for his own good, that. he inigV,leArn pru-
dence, and wean his affections o her.
‘TfPor you know you are ver. polish to
oate about me," she often Wet hire de,
windy& "There are a eat other
gala thatlt would he Ur bette,,,Ar you -to
like." And she would entuntet4e these
.maidenasoznetimes, Mahe dro04-1ft Wild
withimpatii3nce. ,
"1 -will marry you or no ot woman
-in this world I" he told her one with
vehemence. And then she. la*Ltedi and
suddenly stopped her teasing' ttp, and
lookizig .in his facie with a softet kqkiii her
eyes thimshe often let him see -77:
Well, I don't think you .will- 3:1241117'
Me," she said- abruptly —"kit
e replied,
lf)U nothing
IOW before !
And, dear,"
returnede nd that their
t
as appeared, was a- very -
ant one; tit Keith -had 4
his case that : appearak
Hart was teoncerneo, weh
to be reed ed With. implieti
or-twioe--a least, if not oft
-his eyes ( Moll - were - peiL
too_jealous to see -straightil , hat there. was
&ore between them thanti ',Other of -them-
was _divot; d.to -oonfeei3. - IR ii - ; . :: . - - .. -
Ones he. houghtihis So Oliongly, that he charged. her with • try ng to Make his
brother care for her; a Id " thing to do,
and a very unwise One as tiitill„for, as may
_routed hirn With.humilletioi- 4.. . .
be supposed, she rose to tkia_ciooApion, and
1:
- "" I. troub fit myself aboutVour brother 1"
she exclai
reourse, az far
y and indiffer-
experience-in
kis, where falai
by no means .
and once
trust,- . -
r, !seemed -to
-aps, however,
ed, drawing hO' elf .up te ber
utmost height she was no' tall woman,
-
but many Ida she made feel, for all
his six feet, "' she to Nred far above
him); "Do yeti think I oh d be likely to
try to get a boy like that , are for me,
-when I would not, move Vnd or foot to
entice any leen alive?" •
And her s.:corn was so ati that, car-
ried away by it entirely fdliithe moment,
he almost humbled -himself in the dust
before her to entreat heti:pardon. Sop
growing alwayfrmore and incratender over
her, and ni re enthrailed hery Keith
came and nt during theAo spring and
summer mon hs—not a v happy MAD,
for neither Prudence nor #e oonscien
gave him an'easy time of it!f 'ut'yet loving
the obelus -had bound h
self with too
well evet.! to in. eh to break t -
It was not itintil August
oome that,
in plain words, he disclosed trie state of his
feelings to -Mut' Hatt before that
time she hal, of course, Len perfeotly
aware of how mittters stoott:With for
both her natural gifts and he-r2arge =Peri:
!woes madeay want of ooniirehension on
ing," said .the Poor boy, with rather.a. break
in his -voice at the leat words.
It was an honest >deolaration, and no
.Women .need have. been ashamed to be
totaled by it: but Miss Prudence -Hart
had. proved her right to the name she bore
on a good many 000asioni already in her
„and though -Keith was trembling as he
finished speaking„ the healthy color in. her
cheeks hardly either deepened or declined,
arid she paced on steadily for it dozen steps
or more after. - he had ended his speech,
thoughtfully. to all appearance, revolting
-the propttal.hehad made. She was as 000l
as a melon, too, when, after that Pause,
she opened her lips. '7
"And what would all your peapia
say to
t
-
unlikely thing should by (sham:
will try not to, make you tinh
good old Keith.' -
And on this—for she gave hi
tender speeches—the foolish fe
moved that, Jading an entire
express hie gratitude in words;:
went dolts on his -knees beforO'
oh an
pen, I
--you
sin*
as BO
ly
'vast; to
.;-
kiesed the little liandshe gave up to him,
with all kinds Of . incoherent bleeeings
stimbling over one another on his lips. -
And so, with little yiaible change, things
went on till the stimmer had passed its
height. Long , before One, Prudence had
made herself rntich at hotne in the Verner
family, and had Won a high:opinion for her -
virtues from Mr. and Mrs. -Verner alike.
From M8h8i ehe had; perhaps, not quite
won so high an: opinion, . 'for Mabel's
acquaintance with her -being more intimate,
lea now and then to certain suspicions that
made that -young lady doubtful about the
innermost character of her new friend ,yet
even Mabel was=attraoted b h qnboh
"It
tfor-
e or
to be disposed readily to think ill of 1 -
seems to ine that shale not quite st
Ward," she had said, hesitatingly, On
t
o _faith (who, having his own
thougbte; too,- Oil that point, had not, per-
haps, been: able to do much to allay his
sister's perplexity) ; but to her mother she -
had not said even so much as this. - She
was a kind-hearted girl, and hardly liked -
to hint at susPicions that she could not
prove; "for if Mamma thought there Was .
anything_ odd about her she would never
let her stay," she - argued; "and it would
seem eti hard to sendler away. . Besides,
I may be wrong, and elle is BO nice in rainy
Ways, and I don't believe she means any
harm. It is only that—I think—she does'
not tell the truth,"_ she woilld say, a little •
trOubled; and yet unable; to resolve that, if
other people's eyes were shut; it was her
business to Open them. ' So she kept silent: _
and Prudencitt went on her way rejOttig.
But on a certain motning,. when aftumn
hadbegun,and the beech -trees were grow,
_big red and -dropping their leaves upon the,
lawn, the penman brought a letter to MiEis
Haiti from which unexpected reeults
ensued: It- was a letter addressed in a
maxi's hand, and when shereceived it at the
breakfast table; Prudence blushed a little,
and slipped it into her apron pocket un-
' After an hour or two had passed, how-ar-
_opened, nd when the meal Was ended took ,
her dep tura from the apartment rather..
hastily; after , which for a good while '
nobody saw her any more. - .
ever, tire. Verner was Seated by herself in 1
-the dining -room with her desk and her •
account -books before her, when Miss Hart's
gentle fingers opened the door, and her soft
step having brought her to Mrs. Vernees -
side,. down she - unexepeetedly plumped
thereon the Nor,giving the elder lady, who
was busy with her bills, rather .4 turn.
'" What's the -matter, my dear 2" she said
quickly, looking round.. .
"011, dearest Mrs:Verner, pothing is the
matter," answered Prudence sweetly. She '
had a pretty bolor in her cheeks, and in
her eyes the softest _ look of . modest confu-
sion. "Nothing is the matter-:--unlees you •
should be angry; but you won't be that, I
think, because I am so happy. I have come -
to tell you .first °Vail; Dear Mrs. Verner,
I am -1a going to be married."
- "Married, Pindence I" oriedMrs.Verner; °
quite taken aback, for she- had thought
she knew - all the girlie concerns, and had '
calmly con2e to the cenelusion long ago -
that she had never -had alover in her life.
. "Ye. I knew: r.should. surprise you,"
answered Prudence, softly, laughing, "for
I never told you, did I? But it has been
awl a Jong attaohmentr-oh, such 'a long
attaohment 1 and there were difficulties;
but he can do what he likeellow, and my
only trouble, dear Mrs. Verner, is that I ' .
must leave you all-, at once. Yes, at once,
for he is going With his regiment to Canada
almost immediately, - and; --and there will
be so many thingo to do you know."
• "But, Prudence, where do you propose lo,
go to ?" etc:le:hind the matron., feeling
almost scandalized at the rapidity with
will& Miss Hart was preparing to trawled
the whole affair, • "You can't. be married
in a moment, ()WM.".
. " On, no; bus he asks 'Me to go and stay
in London with his brother," explained
Prudence, whir 'another sweet and Modest
Smile. "His brother is married. 1 don't
know his wife,. but that -doesn't matter, -
dom.; it? And they have sent an invitation.
to me to go to them, and they want to have
our wedding from their h
ouse. Are they
not kind? Wherever I go people are se good
to me," said grateful Prudence. °-
The news was startling; but of 'course
the only thing was to facilitate Miss 'Hart's
departure. The gentleman- who was to be
her husband had just COMO into a -"Very good -
fortune, she informed them. " I am sure
you Will be glad to know that I shall not be
poor," ' she told them meekly; and they
were very glad of course. They rejoiced in
her - happiness 'altogether very - heartily.
"The only thing wehave to regret is that
we must lose you," • :they said ,to her.
"" But you will not lose me forever, I
hope," Prudence answered very meal , to
this: "My George hopes only tobe aj1ad
for a very few years, and then We _Es all
settle in England, andl hope I shall see a -
great -deal of you." ' -
. And so when Thursday Caine she took
her departure with smiles and 'tears. It
was quite an affecting _parting. Mr. and
Mrs. 'Verner almost felt as if they Were
separating from a daughter. Theygave
her a handsome present to help her with
her trousseau; -they. told ber to let them
have frequent news .of. her. "The boys ' •
Will be sci eurprised," Mrs. Verner repeated,
an hour before the and came. - "1 shall
write, to Keith this afternoon and tell him.
They will both be so sorry when- they hear
you are gone." .
And acoordingly„ when Prudence was
fairly launched onler new life, Mrs. Verner 0
wrote het note, and Keith gbt itt next '
morning. Ile found It on his tab hen -
he came in to breakfast, and he reLJ it in '
Godfrey's presence, and as he read it he
gave g gasp and turned deedlypale.
"1 say, whit's up?" cried his brother in
surprise; and then without a word Keith
dashed the letter on the ground, and the
other pioked it up and read it.-
The next moment Godfrey had struok his
clenched hand on the table with a blot -that:
made the cups and saucers. ring.'. '
"Confound heri" he oried.furiotisly. =
But Keith only looked at him for a .
moment, and then walked blindly out of. -
the room. His brother might muse her,
but he had loved her too well for that. He
felt as if his life was ended. . Through the
closed doors he heard Godfrey swearing
and he sat doWn alone, like a man who was
stunned. - , .
TR X ICND.. -
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