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Exeter Advocate, 1914-4-16, Page 6t'FIATTER Vti,•---tl`izutinuedl, you, going, to teach r e all these things yourself'. 1 l t y tlrfng to please You, i 1 ow•rz I was cunsidera.bly st;i;rtIctl .by What 1° t t du ,' with a ante blending of the judicial and speak she had broken into ,L torrent wizu t t o anything " „ rite t'n Yen wrrir ms O "Yon told rens," 1 said, tr a 1Irg to sneak •the sughestion, L. - betore �1 unulii� n' of the paternal, rand to forget the blond or (yt or ci. . ' ee yerl-wind tweet,• rioting in my t'eins. Because, tlinuglr I'm not goPti'. at "that your another was a lady. rend ,hitt learning, i will tr y so hard to please you. you Wioutd liken to be one, too." I knew you will like ire better when you I cropped to consider lzow 1 should have Tirade rue t, lade--ancl I'd learn itny- Ynirke my plan sound attr'rtttll•e to her: thine:,: so as jou would lite rite better, l.itith clasped both her shall !muds on dear, do ar mr. Hervey..my shoulder and wtaehed m3' fate, al She slipped 1Lertum round in.v neck dawning delight ,eezirly shown in her I and gave me a 1t t1r-chllctislr hug or a'r- <hining eyes and parted, smiling lips•ieetion, Then she sprang to her feet, ' "Go on, she whispered softly, 1 and executed a little as seul of sheet'. "\Well, dear," I said "you would nut 1u'oesnees en the firm sand .lust in front 'like, when you are older, to feel at a dis- or rue. lit the middle she stopped, and o.clyahInge before dither ladies, you y hung her head in sudden penitent re•• t• tee. e a would like to sliealc correct English, and rum h r to play those dance tunes cop like so 1 "Poor father' she faltered, I'd clean mush. and to ring the songs you ad -1 forgotten all about him But when I pure, and understand something of the heard you tell Mrs. doles yesterday as people who w rote them, end perhaps to. 1 should always have it friend in you, speak ,11 little French and German,and r and yOu would look atter rue in future, understand how to manage L house anal I was so delighted I coupe have scream- edtw Cee after cookery y and needlework.' ren jo\^, First, 1 thought you+tl Het' face fell, and she shook her head 10111 e a dancer ,of me, and so I'd earn my living: t l rpltatie•rlly. g ing: but Trow you say I'm to be eau 1 shouldn't like that!" she murmured. sated arxl made a lads of and that I'm hut, of course, 1'd do it for you. Any -mot to go ori, the stage, why, I'm se hen - Ir.. 1 can't pretend to be sorry about tiring else?" -Well," I said, racking `ixty brains to remember what the girls of my own Oasis really dict know how to do, "then there would be spelling and history and geography, and perhaps a little drawing and painting, and some poetry, reading, and—and lawn tennis, and riding,antl ell those things as well. And, of course, ballroom dancing." "That, is the • only- part 3. like the her without kissing that little durved sound of." she said gravely. "-tend are rose -red mouth which smiled up at me so invitingly. But I had schooled my- self to a certain line of conduct with re' gard to my little ward, and 1 was re- solved not to be tempted out of 11. "One thing I can't promise you," I said, with matter-of-fact cheerfulness, "and that is to instruct you myself. But I will certainly collie and see you 'while •you are at school." "At school?" Iter Pace fell• and her under -15p trem- bled in undisguised displays "Some nice finishing school . i will ,find for you." 1 went on persuasively, "where every one will be most 'kind to you. and ren one will scold you; where you will have girls of your own age to "make friends with. "L 'don't avant them," she cried, sud- denly bursting into tears. "I only want you!" A pang shot through my heart as I saw her evident grief. ' Lilith clear," 1 was beginning. when she slipped, forward toward me, still on her kneeC aitd caught my ]rand. "Don't sen" pie to school, ,Mr. Hervey; please don't send me," she pleaded pas- sionately. "I know what school is, and 3 Bate it. Keep me with you! I know you have a studio in London. Well, it must want dusting and cleaning, and, your clothes must . want mending, too,. sometimes, and i;'ou must have a -servant to do it. I don't want to be a. lady any. more, because if I:am made a lady, I see tt will mean being put away into one of those dreadful sehoels. and sneered at andlooked down upon, and bothered an worried to learn... things;ncl ti'evt in yo I can't sec the set end sjty—or, you. 11`L S,n.9.. 1.4n p__Sen. art. oh! aft'. Hervey, °,' nd nae away from you! 1'd ra- eee-t,et be your servant. to wait ort YOU, than be the.Ilnest lady in England! 'I can look a lot older In a long print frodl: y<.itlt 'my .hair ,twisted up. :Get pie just sweep 'out your studio and .watch you- paint only, let nae be with you. and I don't care .how hard I work, For I love You, Air. Hervey, and I shall be miser- able if you send me away. You are so kind and so handsome, and you have been. SO good:• to me. And think how I 'shall amuse• ;ot1 learning new dances to please you while you play the piano. -And when -mere busy and don't want to be bothered, 'y'ou don't know how tiu.tet I can keep. I'll never give you. 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There would be. of course. ser-» tain overstocked andunderpaid so -calf - ed "genteel" occupations open- to a.half-• educated woman of vagabo'hd parent- age, ward to a man eleven yes her" senior.' But I, could not find it in my 'heart to mention any of these, and so I only stared at, Lilith in affected sur-` prise; and asked her what she meant. IIer answer was only too. explicit, ",I mean," she said wistfully, "shall I see you everyday after that? 11 I work v%hy, 'vry hard, and put up, with the hateful life, and learn the horrid books, and grow all stiff and prim and young. ladylike—shall I"be always with Ybu af- ter that? I threw away ,the cigarette I' was lluhting;.and, rising to 1ny'feet 'I helped her to rise, too, from .where she knelt staring at me in' that -altogether .bewil- dering -way. Then I took her little hands in one of mine, and, laying the other on It, tried to be more fatherly,tlran:eyer,. "You don't understand„ dear," I said, "that In :the world I come from young gentlemen do' riot ask: young;ladies.1,o stay in', the house ' and.. eween . out she studio, or do anything absued of that I . sort. They just see them sometimes at, tea or dinner at• other people's houses, or they meet them at balls or parties, or at the .theat.re, or in the park. it is on ly marrleci people -who see each other every day." She suddenly disengaged her -bands, and stretched them up round my neck. "You are 'very fond of me, aren't you?"• she asked, very seriously. "Of course, you'd have never done so much for me' if you, hadn't been, But you are, aren't you?" "Of course I am fond of you, dear." 11well, then,' she asked triumphantly, her face radiant with smiles again, 'when I am educated,' why . don't you marry me?" "Silly child!" I said. "Of what Pos- sible use 'Would you be as a.ser•vant at your• age, and with your small' experi- ence of household work? If You really; want to. Plrbase me, 'youwill 'stay here, ;like. a good girl, with Mrs,Nokes, while r go art to townand try to find out your grandfather„ Mr. Pritchard, the, clergy- man. 'Mgrandfather! why do you wk I' nt to find him?" "I want to find you a home with him, deal, while you are finishing .your edu- cation." Bat he has hardly ever' heard of rue, and I have never' seen hlln. .And he was very, very angry' with mother for run- ning away with father, Suppose be won't have me?" "Then 1: must' hind yen 501110 other 110111e for your holidays," ''Won't you even have me "with You. then 1" . Of course riot,".. I answered, laugh- •ing, '1 am bachelor, Lilith, living all by •myself. I don't keep a boarding-' sehool of Young ladies under my roof." She was Silent for a few minutes,' as if reflecting, Then 511e asked suddenly: "Frew long will' it take to what you sail finish my education? "13y the time you are eighteen," I 21.11, Still in the sons ,ha1PWherttering Vine, "T shall expect to find you a: high - Is' accomplished young lady ' ,iJlghteen! Two whole \'ea.rsl will, yeti conte and take rn" away .from SC hoot When I eta eighteen?" "1 suppose so." "Awl what will become or me them?" 'This was lust. the question which • CHAPTER, ti I1. The ` question shehad asked pie was again one I could not answer. why would I not marry her, as She put it 'when she Was educated? I could not frame so obvious a lie as that I did not sufficiently bane for her. Aiready I cherished for this little un- taught creature' a passion which, al though 'still to some ,extent ideal and romantic, partook already of the char- acter of haracter•of that love which comes to 'a man once in his life and once only -the love which by some is called: folly and infatuation, hut, which makes of our lives on earth a -heaven or a'hell, . . As to her humble birth arid vagabond training, her obvious lack of all higher morality, her "unconventional ideas, and the difference.: between aur relative so - alai posit!'ons•-•'',tor till these thiriga I cared nothing at all. At that moment, as I looked into her liquid blue eyes, and as I beheld 'MY soul's ideal standing there before me, constraining pie with gentle caresses to accept the frank and. innocent offering of herlove and life, .I would have given my soul to he able to accept her offer and to say: "Yes; stay et school until you.ltaree gained the sur- face polish the world esteems so highly; I will see you constantly to encourage FINE. drain'sugar To have 'every grain alike. size :of dots. at left, cacti one choice r;extraGraitu1ated hitepurecane sugar, get the St. Lawrence in • begs, with red tag—ioolbs , a51bs„ _-20 lbs. 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