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. All attY had the 'wife been. telling, .
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'From en earry hour in the mew, • ,.. ......„..„..
And. lier hands and feet werOweaOro •: ---
Wittt.thii. mirdene that they PpoliNirn0;' '
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But she said tolierself t •"!Thatreehla •
That .weighe on iny hoert istlite,.. • .
• !That Tom neVorr:thinke to giveMe,
Aco orting hug or a iss.
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to do my dntY
, To use all Dv strength and.iny skill,
In making the hone attractive,.
Ili Striving sny place to till: • •
.But though, the approval of conscieuce •
Is eveeoo am tree to say.
That if Toni with' give me a hug and elrist
'I` would take all the tiro awsY." a •
And she counted twer and OVer
Tho years shehad beau Tonie wife;
• And thought of the joys ano sorrows. .
She had know n in her married life,„
TO be eure there was Money plenty.,
And never o lack or food;
But &kiss now and then, and a Wool of praise,
Would heve done her a world of good.
A• h. memo& Onecia"lotiohig.
.Fotwords that are never said,
And many a heart goes hungry " •
"-No, For sometoi eft hotter than hr*Ntd ;
But tom had ep. inspiration, ,
• And when.hea oat honiethat day,• •
°Ho petted his.wifo and kissed her--, •
• Xu the old tone, lovorooike way.
And slap -such enigmas are women!
Who had nem hermit 'up with pride,
.'And her hesbeind's.disPlay of fondness,
•Just hung on his.neek anti cried. .
And he, by tier grief reminded.
Qf troubles he might have *hared,• • .
'Bless my heart what a fool rye been,
''Aud 1 didn't suppose you oared!" •
•BELINDA: A BEAUTY
And she tells her stories' Well; drama-
• tizing a scene in Spanish here, throwing in-
somia caustic bit ot miniloty.thereokeeping
her characters vivid and 'living before .her
". audience, always.'
• • "Wo have hadenough, mote than enough
110anaa1;" oriel Rose at last. " You have
quite, token my breath away, Belinda.
These maybe the. moralities .• of 'foreign
Wateting.placee, thetubjects of foreign con,
• versation, but they are not 13nglish.• I de-`•
clam When we wets girls:We aid' notknow-
•••• the meaning of , •
"Row hard of oontprehension you must
• have been;, my dear,' observes' Belinda,
•:cheerfully, " suppose that was :in the
• hisweent cleys, whenyou'first met Captain
Temple?" • •
The.taiint mai* Roger 'himself wince.
• The itiniment days when he firot whiepered
, his peaaion to old Shelmadeaneso young
.' wife beeide the hiPpopotanniel •
Yea aresevere this evening, Belinda,"
,• he reworks ooldiy. "You make no distino.
: tion between friend and foe Rose, my
dear" betding over the widow and whispero
ing—yet not so low but that Belinda'a Asir
can catch every lover like ,syllable—" it it
not late for you to "he out, after all . the
' tangoes of your journey? Let rrie take you
• back to the hotel, dearest. You look rile."
" "Oh, hat:Belinda. ," says Rose generously,
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and nakiege friitMt quitting her lover's
: AM. "Don't anybody think 'et null See
„ Itelindelome •
▪ o "Thanks.. very • -xnuoh, o'cried, the
girl. " AsIteliada has. Wen seeing herself• ,
home (only she never had a lieme) during
.•the lasi. four years, she will , probably be
•:qUite:capable,of•daing ths same to -night."
"If—if ' I may be allowed?" And, Mr.
Jones puts himself forward in 'obedience' to
,
glance he received from Rose. It is ton
late for Mini O'Shea to pas a .through the
town without on escort..." '
" Alias O'Shea has got :Costa for her
escort," begins. Belinda, with her usual
sturdy indepetdetce; theit fihruptlY she
• ' • diecovera that Roger Temple is watching
, her face, and -a .new :reek of perveraity
tikes possession of her. " Miss O'Shea has
• ; • got Costa, but she A -ill be: only too glad of
your proteotion;-now,ana at all times, Mr,
Jones !":—smiling Affectionately at &wet
with her lint, and Mocking hint, ridiculing.
• him; despising hint With her eyes.
. •"You will see if that is not a . match, "
: ilfen2srlisalose, as the two figures. walk away
together in theinoonlight '
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• ---ctiATTER Vil- •
• •
itennox sus ms way.,
They walk for a -considerable.,tirrie in
• silence, Belitaa• and Mi. jopes. • At Asa,.
hope yoriliaye forgiven Me for not
Seeding Costa • on tnacoaroonsr whisPers.
the yoring man, pressing her unresponsive
hand ever so little to his aide. • ' •. .
.'Do you, Mr. ?". ' She
1 ' adceptehis Ann cat ot sheerest perversity;
and becetteahe guessed that certain eyes
•*. Ivor° wetribing• her.; bat her • heart feels,
wicked , against poor' Augustus, • Wicked'
'veins t the -Whole bright world whieh farms
background" for Roger T,emPle and for
When I know,people *detest" Me. I
would inuoh rather he withoat their for.
•• siveinstethan With it." • . ' -
Not an epoefir,agizig anatier'fOr nniet on
the eve ot 'peoposing. • But Mks.. O'Sitea'a
• wary.erts dating that sterlight oorivertation
'on.theteraos have brotiglif op Mt. 'loner'
iresoltitiot to the .sticking polo c, Sri nitelt
familiar talk of Lady Althea.. and. Lora
" Berlinda's,teareat relations, 'Mr.
' acmes --the people,' . whenever our r dear
• Belinda does settle it London, With *fest
• he and•her linsland ,must be coristztntly
and intimately thrown"—so niteh famihr
'talk 1 saY, 'about possible cousins in • the
opeorage, not uninitgled withoeuggestions
• that, in our dear 13elinda'6 position, a happy
• tatty , union, rather than lotge. eettiquiente
• Ca what.Roaie`e otep-inaterral hears yearns-,
alter, hos made Mr. Jenes rePolate to win
or give op •all •. : ' ' •
He does not love, he se.oa no .reinotest
..c.halice•of bringin,I. himself' to :late this
limeogre dark.oktoned, bitteO:isingued : mite
otan earregrondclatglitet: tot Joneo is -
not A titan to be turned fr•om, any project;
notorneriial or Matrimonial; • by obstacles
No polity as personsillikes Or dislikes. :The
(Atli:est e•scred trath institled ittohis child-
ish soul; hie higheit,inature',conteption; of
' nrionl latV, is that 'Christians reiod Eloglish•:
',hien should buy it the cheapest market
•• !Whatever erticle- they recitiite. Ele,Olones,
irequires the article birth ; has tittered it RP
And. down Many Boitlieb 'waternag•places,
:lit men of Alm- COrmsnas Cs:Shoe-genus hutt
money; end :o has itunder his handoto
,116 loottOlit for e Ong (did tot R,osie wisely
throw in the hitt aboilt • Modeot. settle,-
YOriente ?) the only dithOoltV'beitg.asot 6, the
articles nt. But' a(teto eatning
him-
• in the widow's atrille uua listeihg
'the' Widew's silky firoiteriee durbigthe post
• Lour anal+, half; Mr. A'OneS c.anno; bnt:.foel
that he is Ver. captivatingtellow,
• jn women's' epos; and hittestam hot ,litte
• leit; neia.3 to tet%1;oet; 'tart' rine'te
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find You at holm yet, Alias O'Shea." He
maked.this next attempt at tender talk PIS
as they reach the Maison Lohoblagee'ne
the third:floor Of which Mies Barke*nd
Belinda lodge. "1 should like," sentiment-
" to Bee the apartment where yot Tend
your time, if I might ?" '
It seems to him that the task of bringing
her to terms will be rotaier of opoomplish,
rnent indoors than, out. Never yet has he
seen Belinda between four walla, and the
idea strikes hint that she may prove -more
manageable within e restrioted space; like
sqhirrel in a oage, a Obit Withina pound,
or any other inferior animal whom it is
Man's etiOreme Pleasure, to tame and •enh-.
jugate.
soThe apartment whets? I Spend my•time,
Burke'e den! Well, ityou want•to see it,
you had better tose your legs, and walk up
now: Miss Burke, as you know, is away;
our servant—aotnally we have a servant,
Mr. Jones, plat to pet our soup going of a
morning—went Off to the bull tight at Fon-
tarabla yesterday° and has not appeared
since. So you mutt nobexPeot to pee thinge
in apple -pip order," . • . • • ,
She qtrito 'hit atm, bestowsse-offends of
hugs and farewells on Costa --the poor .old
dog, well-trained, stoPpibg disoreetly throe
or four paces away:from Miss Burke's
thtesholdo-then• vanishes out of eight be-
neath an overhanging steno pokeeoeheii, or
Oroliovey,, whither Mr, Jones, his dapper
feet tortured by the • stones, his ' yellow -
kidded hands extended to save his nose
from collision With the will, follows her.
The dark, winding •staitelise totems trebly
dark after: the. Odense moonlight of the
streets; and Mr. Jame, a oareful man not
onlytts regards moral but bodily deka,
'Pauses at the bottom. •
"Como- along, it you are coming," rings,
out Belinda's voi
om airyheights over-
head. . Thefe1s plent of • light when once
ton get up here, only 1 olt outafter your
shins meanwhile."
The "•plenty of light ", proceeds, from e
nolitarY oil lamP; Which eIde its aim, re-
ligious rays before the figure, of a. saint on
the lending °Mho second floor. .• • .
"We Hoe One story higher' still," says'
Bolinda, Mr. Jones stopping to turn up his
British noee at this Work of sacerdotal: art.
—44 And unlessojnaniefi happens to have
Left a candle, I shall hay° to entertain you
in the dark: However, there is the moon."
"And--and•tbe brightness of your eyes,
Belinda 1" says Jones, groping his way pp
the steep staircase after. her.
"And what 7" , ehouts .the girl sharply,
through the darknees, • "Thera is suoh an
echooMr. Jones—no hearing a word ,unlees
you speak more distinctly. -.Whet did you
sitY would light us 7"
. But something, either in the tone of her
voice or in the distance that separates them,
restrains Mr. Jones froth again -launching
into the hazardous region of compliment.
Ralf ajar stanch' A 'huge oaken • door,
Ithrokened with time, brosted with dirt, a
iloorasoldoproltably, at the solid masonry
Of the house: On a vigorouspneli from the
hand, it creaks slowly back upon its
hitgeeend....:Mr. • jones--ieointroducedO-•to-
. of
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oBurketecleit," niom tigger than Isle
Wight (Aura, the rootioisted and innocent
"Ton are a more cqinplete fool that I
tOokyoufor,.-MroJonee., If you really want
me, me to marry you, why not sax, So'llk�
rational being, instead of stammering and:
hesitating, and bltshitg like .a, .schoolboy
ashamed to tell the truth ?'
Mr. ;Mies stands elleritly terjoyering hit
nerve after the phinge„ "It will, I know,: noon, ot the hour spent with Roger .alon
meet the wiehes, of' Xis.. O'Shea, end of under the stareof the moment, when, b
may be engaged if you like, but. I will he
no fooleries of that kind. Doyouhear one
—I. will not 1 MrJonea you shallDefer kiss
me,.”' -
And thenoquick as thought itself; flashes
ox her the oemembratce Of the moment
,whelther 0#00 first met Roger'e this' after -
Captain Temple, he remarks at lost,
almost hiunbly. •
" What will?"
Our marriage' Belinda."
".Did they tell you so?" • •
"Mrs. O'Shea led me to believe---"
"Rose leads eieryhody to believe every.
thing. . And he—Captain Temple?"
"It can be no interest of Captain Tem-
ple's. 4/ put himself In the way of your
settlement, I should say."'
She turns from 'him, shewalks quickly
to the further end of .the room; a certain
dignity, a child . though she be, in every
moveraent of her poor little ragged figure.
Then' she comes back to the young man's
side and looks steadily with her honeiteyes
ihie. .• '
" 'ngdikei this cannot be,detilded in
a t, Mr. Jones., ' If you want Malty
and tru y to Merry me, yon intie0 sup-
pose, have IMMO good reasone for doing so.
That is not 'my business, however. Every
one, is free, trolley° hie Own orotehesabout
happiness! But What I do want to know,
and what I dare eV you can tell me, is—
why thould I many you •
"1 shealdbope, a little because you .like
rtie, suggests Augustus, trying with im-
perfect SUO0p138' to throw a lover -like warmth
into his voice. "That is the reason, gen-
erally, I believe, for • which young ladies
adoept men." • - • '
- it-, thought ighiug • had
nothing whatevror to do with such, thinos.
I thought the lover said; I oan afford such
hbuse, a carriage; seryants,difimonds, On
condition that you take me for a hustimulli
And. then that the young ',lady reoltonedtp
the sweeterand the float together, and an-
swered yea Or no, occluding to whether ihe
found the bargain good."
" Is. that the kind of fi-ViitY you .Wieh„
to IdtdrirlYeobueetliwieasiPfor ye:4! tno.addies'Ome:
.youwant to get et. sensible answer, Mr..
She :Tches•herielt on. a . corner of the
rickety table;tilta her hat .beck on her head,
and switootg her. 'sandalled feet to and Ivo • . mars. Augustus: Jones; • nes
in the air, beginso4actoollY as though she Mr. itn4,Mre. Jones, Claphe
was scoring tip the pointe at, pautne—to go. Belinda;,:when shais alone, rings eiery
reckon the items of • the projeoted "bar- passible change upon her future titles as ft
gain.' o• • matron, and finds each tuneless.: But then
"'Carriage, to Enoch ; almonds, so much ;: the diamonds 1 reflection that ere this Mee
:hotate,•80 mint, We will begin withthe governed.the conduct of so many a 'Wiser
hi:easel...How large a house; !tacitly, Should older, better Woman. . •
you and I have tolive at Clapham ?" • Wiltfullygazing through the open win-
." r siu not joking, and you ere," replied dove at the sky, Belincle thinks Of the re -
Jones; stIlen1y. "0! coil* if• You do net mote Belgravian days when her papa Was
choose to take' the :thingSeriotsly, 1 .have in thefirst delightful flush of Rose's Money
nothing more'tosay." •• —the days otodinteroparties and :..balls,
when even she; Belinda, wore pretty frocks,
and occasionally tistei the eiciety &lovely,
bare -necked beings, with flowers inotheir
air, silken Arams,-fane,..loyersonsteado
watching them forlornly from without, a
she did tO.night. How would she look bar
neared, withflowers in her hair, with
train; a fan, lovete How if . she shotil
'attempt a rehearse], of the effect (lovers
oepted) With such rough inaterielti ea, eh
may have Oaild! • ' . •--oo-
Miss Burke, aso it chances, has left ti'
key of her travelling -case in the look -Lela
the frame of Mind' for 'wrong -doing given
and when doee the demon opportunity fa
any of no ?—and in Miss Burke's travelling
case lies, neatly folded, that lady's :lilac
silk dress. In shorter time than it ha
taken me to write;:Beiinde,' candle in heed
glides into theadjoining- room, the site
tintry.ot ,Miss Barke's maiden charms, -Open
:the case; gazes, veellates-o-handlea *.
. • The skirt ie too long, for Mise Burke iso
biltier stature than herself,- SO much -th
granderwill be hertrain. . And the, sleeve
must be tucked up, and she bodice pinne
down, andwhite lace; also of Mies Berke's
addedheteorerict- there for lightnese Ski
,collecie together such dislocated 'sewing im
plenteritt as the:household .can boast, with
absorbed interest stitches•dowzi e fold here
/Makers .up a plait there; finally skipt lightly
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praised her—ah, with praise how un
the fulsome compliments of this legitim
lover 1—and when, vanity, shame:-
minglementof feelings nob as her life
never known before,, held her duritb.
4` Never lase you! Not even when ,we
married, I suppose ?" remarks'. Mr. Jo
unwisely joouler. •
"Married—who take of being married ?"'
cries Belinda; such mutiny ageinet her own
weakness, such disdain, such Mockery of
her captor in her eyes! ,
"You talked a mot:rent-ago alobtit trying
the experiment did yon not ?ft • • • '
"I said that we miolot try being lovers—
no, not lovore either—that we might try
being 'engaged ; andikeep to it. You Are
going away to visit' the Pas de Roland, You
know; toonerrow—". • . •
. "Not now. I shall have no °paw 'time
for eighoomeiegnoy,"inteo.00toe Augustus,
amittively. •
"Why not? Beesne„e Bele here? 'Oh,
BM' has clUith enough on her. hands with-
out you. You will go to the mountains to-
morrow; and you Will stay away four days,
as you intended, andadmire every water-
fall and rook and ruin /1Iurray•bids you.
By that time I shall be used to the thought
of—of Clapham, perhaps. Mies Burke Will
be back for one thing; and I shall hivehad
a good deal," with a sigh, this, "of RON.
I shall feel better disposed . toworci- any
'change. Mr. Jones; if you will promise
never, oolong at you live, to kis! me, I date
say I shall not be Very sorry to see you
coma back." , •
And not one other warraerword or prom-
ise can Augustus wring from her,: Shewill
try being engaged, Minus love -making, as
an experiment; and if he will promise
never as long,as he lives . to kiss; her; pen,
heps after four days' absence eh May not
be very Sorry to see him return.
So ranch for his present claa e of an
a1litmcK-1-with the iitable fisaniiyorV neittart
' CHAPTER, VIII. -•
VANITY vgristrs colt raNnz.
like
ote
and
bad
are
DOS,
elinda
Angers cora° in contact With the clammy
wax throat;'then boats away her' booty,
her legs trembling under her at every step
upstairs. She takee it to, the light of her '
solitary candle; admires its mock effulgence;
°leap it, trembling, around her little warm
test insehOekd ; ms ;Lei: blioevree thf etntg 131 rule y eteehe;
mnodrselere is cOnsojence now, where' '•
„ •
She surveys 'herself,well nigh 'asytoo
stricken by her owe fairness. She feels .
that to be the possessor of real •glianionde
she would cheerfully becione Mrs. Augustus
Jones, and start for Clapham 4o -morrow.
Now, •nothing is wanting but a fan and -
lovers- The fan can hi had—a huge. gilt
and Week et.1319tttreo:of tb0.• 4te. ot tbitiY
years ago, which lige for ornament on the
manteloilielf--and of thie Belinda possessea
Butobe lovers? Bab, some nn -
important deteile re mre to be wanting at
eyete r4613;431.9gbili ti:thtlitne:trftliBek agt 117.' 2P0. taam,n.phlearoC:1:fneWti motion,trel)°g. ,
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n tha
her
ly at
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zoii
littleligunothe Olaeagivee her duskily haolf. •
"If Captain Temple could .eeenie—if Cap-: .
tain Temple. could see me now!' thinke ,
vanity. "If he knew I could' be anything ,
but ragged, and hideous, and a gamin. And
if he did know this, what *mild Captain
Temple care?" saya. another oterner
than that of vanity. '"01 what 4649410 is •
the whole world to him by the side of Itotiei •
and Bases beauty ?".
4. Kaden leaden weight • sinks dead on
Belinda's heart. Shrove nothing to Roger • • •
'Temple; holds no more piece in his present
than in his future. She foams. t� Witte, .
The saint's paete,•diernonds must surely 'be,
too. heavy, 00 painful is theehoking feeling
in her throat. Thriiing abruptly atyay.,:. •
from the sight of her finery and of •herself, • •
she extinguishes the candle; then goes Out"
bare-armed, baro -necked, in her 'diathona. ,
ueohhioo and train; upon the. balootY! „ • • •
It is now past midnight, and: something -
like. 000ler Air begins to stir across the sleep-
ing country. .Balmy sweet is the air; every,
floor of the voet old honer( has its- balcony, •
every"balconY• its flO.Werii ; • the :sky is all
,ft -quiver ' with stare; !mountains,. river, •
,plains, are lying in One great hush •ofpur
-
ple eleep. Beliada. rests her arm against
the iron batten -side, andogazing away weet-
ward toward the rugged line. of .Spanieh
closet, Muses. .
Oliek gees the sharp sinied Of It
resnvien, epee; as it Seentio•beside llelinda'fi
ear. She Ostia Oath:ft Atari, and : there on •
the, 'adjoining :balcony, en' robe de chambre;
and Placidly lighting his Midnight pipe Of
peace, stands Roger 'Temple. Roger may • •
, breakfast withllose, dine with Rose; walk •'•
With Rose, Spend:any number of hours 'der-. •
ing • the. day that . he Chooses alone With .
Rose; but it tvenld be the acme of indiscre,
tenter him' to lodge under the • same roof
with her. Thus the•widoW,Well versed it.
the 'minutia of surface morale decidesh_And
so—from • Soylle to Charybdis—fate, and
the lendlord:of the Hetel..ietibello. together,
havecrqwolotntrivet taoal. edge. nridet..theactmeof s.. • ; ' •
e. . • Belinele seerifino gtitepa the whole. drit.
e. ;natio • capabilities of , the :sittatint '' in :et
a, moment,. but gives no sign. • .Now, ahrofeelso
a le a niegnifieent opportunity for her in, act,
le.
and with • a purpose glance at . Roger
e Teinpie's•face convinces her that he 'dope. .
nos ropogni.qe Rose's vagrant, catat-elbotys.
a stepdaughter under the disguised '
loteird• eanr..ira•ite•vNintv.asthae twriullothaovretawtolrenoowppi%ratyptoitye
evep test the pre:ideal worth of .a -"lifelong
'fidelity," 'eneeplafslhi4ildefiviortteditiolenveri.ilogiton4nl"tit
loneliness, the :certribity of the. otiMe . re-: '
Mainitgtindenictod, favoring: '
'WWI en unconsciousness the Most , pet-. •
' 'feet:aim realities her fernier . attitude; and
•.after eti) minute Or. two ofeilenoe sings
r: • in thet. Undertone for „whioh we have
e no word • in EngliehO the • Whisper or..
serenade, i:fBatintitihVf
of the from "Oone n
Mendicant
citent Stuclens
rerld of sho
•perti.11OIter;,toie,gerieetitohleres:
o 6-diante•t;
. • Desde que lievo Monte°,
• • No he coinidomainquweopat
, 'Con suehte de zapatero.
,• She has a Barrett; a sympathetic) •Voicein
posse, like the beauty of her face; and '
.nielody:Ond voice (dike harmonize deli:eon:4 '
.with every external .adceseory, of the sone..
•• "Brava ; breva:1" . exclaim. Roger,•when', ,
she hat,finished/ "That, arut*otoo Woe se '
excellently eutig thet, it makeeine eager for-
. the sectind." . • • . ' • .
••"Senor !" sheeiolaline, holding her heed
: up with • dignify, and in '•such a .pOeition
obit the Move:Shines open itesOfV. young,
, Outline fell, ' •
, • "1 beg a thousand paidens,". eeys .Ro
otittinghis pipe *telly oat: of sight. o
the sienote's Bog was .so charming their., I •
forgot that we -had. to Master 'et the certif. .
..yinqcirstie.;:itooittiodace. rie. Has it not etineOntl...
• .'My song has second Uua thir&yeree,"
replies•Belinde in English, strongly &vested. •
:with Notified gutturals, "I ninst acquaint •
hislordship, however, that I' believed
my-
self to be . never' sing for the "
pleashre Of stratagete,except wheiaI am on .
ltbe.stage." ; • • ' •
"The tage!" :repeats •Roger Teinpko'
scrutinizing the girlish face and figureariti-
daily ".•Why; is it possible?"' • --; •'
• • "1 have acted as long as 1 can
:Jaye Belinds, witli itil-1116.-effratitery cson-
" If his Englieh.- excallency her
trip:tiled through any of the principal
Sottish towns he Most hive lictird Of me."'
" When: the Retort favors me With her
nitrite I shall benble to.. question MY Sem.
Ory mere accurately," 'answers Roger.
Belinda Pans:0 for at minute or Iwo; • '
then..." kly tame On the stage is' Lagrimie..":
she tells him, "or as you would Say it' in '•
English,'Tears.' Dolan!, tie it not? but
I do not Wish it changed. Who wOnld. net
Semler be Called tears than laughter?" '
oSlie sighs, anciolialt turriitig from bit),
rests her Cheek dOWn "toot, the graceful . •
bare ernid'thatlie.folded • on the balcony.'"
Seen thisolin the Moonlight, her bright heir „
failing around her slionlciere; het ehildish;
face grown • peteiri she seem to It"
ti fair 'a l'ttl- - e as ever blessed!
ecienlo,.Vieion in this prosaic World and his.
palm quickens." • The' balebnies: are distatil •
About four or fivefeet from each other. ,
Leaning attest the•boiddy intervening space,
two persotutUf steady. nerves
Cleip .hends; -pr. at.least 'ion& Offitgere if '
they scominded, They are albite together.
he and this' rabsolutely alone, as were
the first pith' of 1 " na yet
tripeetobly. divided; as theft' tiVeci; vire dee, •
n ea. in Very fact to he ,forevermore Ata •
oger a pfilees4duibckti eoonsib.tin•iti.00,
,
"Well, would • you mind nillaiing, my
supper first? 'I, am as hungry fie a wolf,
sir! Burke leaves me OA a kind of board-.
ovages-when-she-goefroffoliteraturing;Add I
have •not eaten-amoilthfuliiince yent mecca -
roans. . Yoe will 'not mind 7 • Thonke And
of all modern refiuement of lath' and plas-1 while r eat;.You knovii, you caii make:your;
ter, the Walls of the indesaribable smokey: Self agreeable, tell me all the delightful
'grey of ages. Vest plated -es of saints and projects you and Bettie have been laying out
.martyre•in different steges of • biinairig or for my lattre welfare." • . :/ •
'mutilation, French, states,' probably after Belinda'a euPper consists of a big slice of
exaggdiktionii tightnieres. Of that household bread, and another rather bigger.
master's ..most 4M:thrive •realism, . hong Otte of ,melon, washed•down by cold' water.
around.. Stints and. cobwelis may, ;indeed, Hating proadOed these refreshments from
be said to.furnish the roem..• Of. 'furniture the shelf, which at wide answers as dressier,
proper there table that was once' larder and Pentryrshe resumes her former
aitved uud. girt, now in She last ..stage of piece on the corper, of the table, and nnin.'
Tidketi decay, and .et which one leg . is entribered by knife, fork or plate, sups.
propped up by a pile ofbettered beoke ;.atofty " bonnet imagine what patit into Your
pier glass, overdini with. antiquity. for oar:. head : to think of ineillfr. Jones. 'Oh; I know
poses of reffectien ;, threa,OripPled. nhaire; why you come to St. Jean de Luz; of Courier'
PAO ,PeiliXPIt At the -present moment in ft Rosie platted your tour for you!. But what
corner; and a' Shelf containing mall about first put it, into your head to think pf me in
twelVepieges of crookerY, Of different sizes that sort of /442" .FOr • a moment .her
and patterns, • . • • . long eyelashes shade her cheek; the 'Cheek
• Mr. Jones :looks 'around him, • Open- that• neither pales 'noir reddens oindet his.
nithithek 'Belinda.' haying, been fortunate gaze. "I have not made .rdyeelt nVer-arid•-•
enough to find e candle whose solitary light alma
betelypiercesof rord nd-trrezi-d-of the sombre ' Wail; no, no tanythipg, very nettle:tier:"
shadowy loons,' • :. • • . • Me. Jones.esaetts... • •:.
• "A.fia yOuyou'live here?"he exclaims, , '" And I am Ore I ann. not ',What- you,
withlmaffeeted amazement. ' ", What a with your fastidious tastes, would.: think
placieLoWhat pieta:test I :it. gives one the litdoolike-"•'-ooh! the ctOi 41113e.rOPtil?leper.•
horrors to look at thein." • '• . • .hiips Augustus, of her Upper 'lip !—' ',nor
yes—the.•Maison .LohObeigue what any one," with . h thorotighly hirmere
not furnished according. to Clapham taiite.":. sigh thip,""would think Pretty, Now what.
retorts :Belinda ith •h frank
, w her• imprirti in the name of IteaVen, can Make yott wish
"But it suits me better. • Ilike to marry nie ?". ' • ;
the :old,. 'shabby room, Mr. "Jones, and the ' I love yon," begins Nines,
•iorricl.pictdree and the cobwebs;yes, .ancl stammering. '
should he TOY Bonito eoehinge them for " Tell"that bleigue smile one ' else," in -
any stuccoed cockney gentility. I. have terrupte the girl With sadden Passion,'" not
lived here two years off and on;• Mies Burke to me If you loved me, I should feel it --
has made it a sort cif headquarters. in all hero!" • clasping her graceful. brown • hands
her coinings and goings; and / have grown. t� her breast. 'just se I feel \ that :Costa
to the piece. If Burke. would only get loves me, and I would marry you yea, even
kiliedon a railway or made a Profeseorese, you—to-morrow out of gratitude, end if you
nr anything,. I shenld ntiite •content . to had only e hundred el. year instead of all,
ittop. iu. the Lahybeigne , with :Costs el- the thonsende you talk of. Bat you do not.
Ways 1" • , • •. Yeti:care no more for me than for you,
And ;id* AugustioiteelooioAhe 'tithe for and , : • ,
him to crush doivo on -this' ?Peer • pauper ..,•• Ana so / suppose you will not • marry
child with 'the, -rufgnifi$ence of his offer. me," says Jonet,'Withmertification that he
"Miss O'Shee--Balinde," he odes, coming would fain hide undevan air of hatter. '
up beside her 'very close,- "there' le no el a he itates—looks aw from him.
necessity, for you 'to. • Spend your days in She, is a Wind; h child's instinCtive
these miserable 'foreign places any longer. craving for the sweets of liberty;'but the,ia
Sinai I sew. you thie,afterpoon,I,iihena--I a Boherriion as well, with all a Bohemian's
have been talking to your mamma." keen appreciation of money; and what
Step:naming.. If yorrere not accurate money will bring. It would—it :Would be.
you are nothing." • • . :sweet, she feels, to wear fitter 'dress* richer
, • "And I have made'nay mind up I have jewels thin, Rosies, to, invite Retie and
made my,raild.tp, folly," says Jones, with Captain Temple oondeScerichng y o.dinner,
moguanimity,'," os to ray lite of • cionduct, len----------, e opera boi, take thein for
There mak seen, then. are. disparities." 'drite'Cocasionally in•ozie's carriage. And
He gitincesi with en' Air of. condescension' at then to bid good-bye forever to Miss Burke!
the gin's. dross; at the appointmente of the The thenght• of Augustin' 4Orses op a life-•
nosegr'e -roost. '4 Still, as Mrs, d'ghest saYS, .Compamon, May be hidecas. but half its
nix months 61 the first! educationel Aaron- hideousnesi vanishes, , surely, if one re,
itiges in England would work wonders, and. members this—he Would replace' Miss Berke.
at our age, we oet afford to wait; can we • " I am certain I shalloneke yon.yrretched,
•not t" • ' , • , • • • • • Mi. Jotes-.• but as -von teen, You .artd°Rosie;
• " I shotild answer' better if I -1314'0i have set yoar, Minds .ori this enigagenient
gliMmering netiOn of whit' you mein by ---:st6p, thatigh, I must isk'dne thing first:
Are you going to ithOol ogri.feoltiO, s. your. name oft the doorplate, I mean of
Jones? , Yotio h's,' you know. , hocliphina That I could not etand,"
do:' ... • , • • ' Mv name ---on a door -plate?" seys
• his voice shakes,. his color, 'Ones, as intlignantly ae thotigli tl:ie blood
• Untie"' With•-hotiel 'Sew ‘'tlie* ' 4
riees‘ .(How loideo s he • is. oonitontes Be- ard " • `
out of her own dingy, Cinderella frock, and
a minute liter •stonds; radiant in the majesty
Of rustling silk, short sleevesobere throat,
and train—a Young /tidy. . •
She is not an bey girl, !titer: all. • So
much the tarnished glass Pponhliss Burke's
dreesing-teble assures. her promptly. Her
neck and'ShOitIders look lily.fair, compered
to the etin-tin • of her face; her arnis are
delicately fashioned, and tolerably plurop
for seventeen. But the ,pig-teils".. • She
snatches off, ihe .frayed oot .green
ribbons, tinplaits and behold! the
ill-kempt, neglected heir . falls 'roorld her
slender figure .in waves .of silky eheetiont.
A pair,ofoglevel of Miss Bukke'S supplies
an iinpromptu•Cturhion, over WhiCh she coifs
it high 'above her 4forehead, at the little
Spanish :bldnde 'in. phok ".(the blonde R 'ger
Temple admired) was doffed" to -night: - A
Scarlet passion -flower, wet with ,detto froni
the balcony, finiehe.s the. picture.
'• Not ugly! • 'Why, sheis pretty already—
a year or two hence Will. be odmirablY
'prettier than wlia even kote in her prince,
thinke,Belinda, gazing ,at . her Owit' trans,
figured sell'in it• kind of rapture, ,,The only
thing she lecke now.. is, jewelryear•rings,'
bracelets. necklace 'for, her throat; the
•
Jones diamonds,. in short. . ',Pending the
pOssesekon Cf th.ese, could .no -subatitate be
found, ta 'give one snme. iinperfect foie.
of their spleridor? •
(1.7..the landing of' the second fiber:stands;
es, we the figure of saint;
rharlyred, satin-dippered, glittering, with
gerge.cni paste adornments. If the, good
old Beata would ordy lend that necklace „of
hers for half. an hoar, ten minutes; 'long '
enongla to yield some one •fain: foretaste of
the soeetslot b ' Ants I If-Laistaning her
perrolion—one were . to borrow it, alp'!,
The 1,1‘,....4 esa.--e..ean be opened by a cutin‘ng
'handsttom the back. And no living soul is
abotd ; u.4a it could nO,t Surely be much Of
'a lin, centidering that- the saitt. is but a
. ,
eine. . .,5•4 dell-witholoestd•-•eyes.- - "-- • - a
She creeps down the echoing stonestairs,
her heart besting, her unaccustomed feet
entangling themselves at ' every movement
in lier skirts.; she reaches the land-
ing of tlae,second floor: "'There stands the
'Beata, her ivid hands crossed on her breast,
her, be_ad epast'awfally wide open. .Thel, are
the paste 'brilliants.
The ,ctookY fastening of the .glsss door
• ry n o gives kgroati asshe opens it. causing ,
4 .0.
Li vou go tgi •Atl tr,zwer, indeed ": sprnot* s open he- foot dee "guilty Conscience to quake eget' ti
ittatia you ever'cire for me eriatigh4toTre uoa iDutt .hareelf in a • not altogether un• but no ear save he. own hears the sOrtnd'.
!oxie? . • • • .• • smentifie ttattd gait a
. e me. or one ut
pzo-
bites gIew.vnti from -eat, :that. P.Arstle •I etsional' meir„. tiPotheCariet!or' that sort Of
bC2.Tpathhak,„vz,o ever4.1.7zban; thing, eier'tiCket thirl names outside .911.4
'1 know I nevot°' "000tiforiod • if .wby 1.40or,plate,"
Will the: girl fix those hard eyes sof here• Well;"then,._ could tib"rer. Salt .ynt. her"
ttpAn fete. nover saw any one" so. yon me, tlir..*1101e thing7 .tirepotteroa.1"likely ;
tO MA° nieOkiip•py..: .0h, oomeoyou . still, if Oda: tOttild like to- try.it;ibtt . an
!Intisn't ihaog, ii*ity-.±-7." • * 44; •
ehe. does, With tiarnittakible energy...htne. rtsidea 102Viita'imptutot:sly.., ,
'too:tett •Iihe4oele his tOnels. I *ill ,tibi " h '7
• o efence.• .•"We She unclasps ,the neePece shiyenng os her
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