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A glorious sunset Roods the lettioed perm
of the bey-wiredmired dining-room—the
'doer lInd his guest are still gabbing over
their wine anti Mee magncent dessere; he
former hat not be se pleased or see/tied
this may yeer, and the latter, heating
spent, all the aerosols in. Londeu, andthe
ewantry it peredise, inooneplete, erae,ever,
thia moneetie witemiat he Eve, whom he sus -
petite to be Itu king in the gerdeu. Yee, 'en
the dieteriee, behind yooder tree, he is
=telex theei the flutter Q a whim !skirt,
He irs denig o rope en hdieurernerie to
the garden, bat Ms heat Meant 80 happy
sippnag his port arid leisurely enjoying hie
grapes, thee John Brandon, who is ehe beet-
natared men in the world, has not the
heart to &snub him Fortane, nowever,
which ie always dolog one person a good
turn et the expenee euoteet feirore
The caprioioas goddess ekes the form. of the
exeellent and homely Smart.
" I em sorry to (Herein you sir," she
sap, in a low voice to her master, " hut
they don't think Widow Jones can laet the
night, ;mashes keepe on asking tor yoa."
In an inesent the vicar has neen fer/f11 his
chair,
"1 will go at once," he answers. Then,
turnime to Mau lon, he fields, "1 know thet
SO bulen.0 eatie you
" Of mu; be, of course," smente the other
heartily.
" ,e1ele my daughter to come down at
ouce " titters the vicar, hurriedm ; but
Brat:don, rieing, says ;
"1 see Mies Wentworth in the garden,
and wilt joia her there."
As he walkacross the lawn through the
balmy, fleweracented air, a sense of ples,sure
tesla through his veins. The heavens are
still aglow with the glory of the vanished
sun—a great, perfect peace is on everything;
for a moment it crosses his mind to wonder
how men can prefer the din and tumult,
the loaded air, the feverish unrest of life
in cities to the delieimes calm, the repose-
ful himpinees of the country. He has not
time to remember that it is not always
memmer even here, and that one is not
aleveys hastening to join a lovely young
wormers who inspires an ardent interest in
one's breast,.
He comes upon Vanessa standing midway
down the path looking at the gorgeous sua-
set. She has not heard his footstep's on the
gram, end starts as he comes up to her.
He first simmers the questionine.look in
eyes, which says, " Where is myfauher ?"
and theu adds on his own account :
" Why (ltd you deprive us of the pleaeure
of your aociety at dinner 7"
He epeeks with the peculiar modulation
of voice that men um toward a woman
vrrhorn they either love elready or feel
themselves capable of loving ; and Va-
nessa, who all tnese years has beet; dream-
ing of lovers rola heroes mai knights,
recognizes the intonation at once with a
little thrill of pleasure. Perhaps John
Braudon is not much like a hero, but he is
a decidedly well looking gentleman, and—
he is the firat man who has ever stood to
Vanessa in the position of a possible lover.
His words, and, more than Ms words, the
tone of them, bring a smile to her lips and
a light to those lovely eyes which at this
naoment are aflame from the red glow in the
heavens.
" I thought," she says, developing in a
mement the instinct of coquetry inborn in
her sex—" I thought I might be in the
way. You and pipe would heve so much
to talk about." Then, with a look direct
into his eyes. which are level with hers, and
with a half -restrained eagerness in her
voice which is immensely flattering to him,
she utters, " It is not really true that papa
and pan were at college together? You
caunot be as old as he is ?"
For the first time iu his life it occurs to
John Brandon to regret his age, and to wish
that he could take ten, nay, fifteen years off
it.
" I am afraid," he answers, smilingly,
that there is but a few monthte difference, a
year at most, between your father and my-
self." Then returning zo his caressing in-
flection of yokes : " Will you, after that
confession, banieh me to the limbo of fogy -
dein, and omee to feel the slightest iaterest
in me ?"
"Oh, no," answerVanessa, with one of
her beautiful stnile, thinking to herself
meanwhile that, though he is really eo un-
fortunetely old in years, still in heart, even
in looks, he is quite youug enough for—for look nor yet th.e ways of a married. gentle -
anything.
"Forty-three," resumes Brandon, in a,
melancholy tone. " And the worst of it,"
with a smile hovering about his lips--" the
worst of it is that 1 do not feel old ; in-
deed, until this moment I don't believe I
ever realized the dreadful fact of my age."
says Vanessa, looking quite
pained and embarrassed, for she is exceed-
ingly sensitive and sympathetic, and would
consider it a crime rather than a. blunder to
wound any one's feelings, " I am 240 very
puttee
" NOVOrt" AllSWerfi YAIIOSSA. "Ile doe
tea shoot heinselfm becemee mm oa great
many years ego, he allot friend's pye ont,
ad he never touched a gute afberweril.
Not a oreature (Wee' mutes wittihe his gate
exempt hie deughter, Mrs. Vaughtin, teed
her daughters, and Mabel 1"
" Really 1" utters Beeerion, eornewbet
perplexed, se he reraembees Ste Bertrames
reputation as a 110$t and entertainer at his
vale on the Themes.
" If you were to see hirn," pureues
Veneem, "you would quite itaderatend ie.
ECG cannot bear the eight of women—oe
girls. We Alsvals •ha.ve to fly if we see hen
comitig,"
" Really uttera Brinalou agaim in a
tone atilt Inure iadictetive of surpriee Re.
port talk a very icliffereat tele of Sir
Berera.m from Vaaeaseee.
" I am forgetting, though," she continues,
" you mid you knew him.'
" Only Mightiy," returns Brandon. "I
have met him once or Vivien at the housee ot
mutual friends in.town."
"Ke is a horrid, dirtegremble, stiff, potn-
pours old man," nye Vanessa, cendidly.
"We hate him.'
"Doe we include his granddaughters?"
"Oh, they hat •• him much more than I
do, Then," naively, "they see so much
more of him."
The after glow has passed into twilight,
and now the moon is rising And making
lovely lights end. shadows in the vicarage
garden.
"Let us sit here," says Brandon, point-
ing to a rustic bench, and Vanessa con:mike.
This is certainly the plermantest evening
she has ever spent—the novelty of the
eituatioa increases the delight of is; after
all her dreamt'. she is really sitting here
with. a man beside her—a man who tells her
plainly with his eyes, in a language which
she understands by intuition, that he de.
rives the keenest pleasure from her presence,
and that he finds her fair.
i; So, then," he lams, regarding her with
an expression of deepest interest, "you are
only half Arcadian. You know all about
the world and its doings, though. only by
heresear."
" Yes," she answers, with a touch of
conscious pride, " Edith and Mabel tell me
everything."
Brandon smiles, woudering to himself
how much that everything comprises.
" But now," he says, " would. you nob
like to see all these gay doinge with your
own eyes 9 Would you not like to take part
in them yourself?"
" Ah utters Vartesea, with a long -
drawn sigh. She does not even know her-
self how much that sigh expresses.
"Suppose," says Brandon, hie eyes kin-
dling a little as certedn rapturous thoughts
strilee ltim—" auppose I were to persuade
your father to briug yoa up to stay with Inc
n
etown?"
"Oh !" and Vsineem looks full in his
eyes with some such. an expressioa as a
slave might wear whose master offered her
freedom.
" Would you like it?" he asks, and again
his voice fells to that tender intonation.
Would she like it? Her face tells him
that, but her voiee is choked by the beat-
ing of her heart. Then suddenly the light
dims away from her eyea, and she utters
mournfully :
•` He would not be persueded—Iknow he
would not."
" We slain see," seys Brandon, muff-
dently enough. " Here he COMAS. I will
not broach in to -night, because, after his
sad errand, perhaps—'
And here the vicarjoins them.
&team, as Om breathes her nnrseling'a
locks that night, is all eagernese to hear
about "the gentleman." With the irtherent
passion of her sex for matchanakieg, she
already sees in him e suitor, a. poasible hus-
band for her young lady.
"Did you find out if he was married,
my deary?" is almost her first question.
" Why, of course he is not," returns
Panama, superbly, who, from her inner
sense of the &mese of things rather than
from her own kno wie lee of the world (as
derived from Edith mil Mabe)), is perfectly
m
certain that no married en looks at
women °thee than his wife with such eyes
nor talks to them in suoh a voice as Bran-
don has used.
"No," says Susan. "He heen't got the
man.' •
For, in Susan's day, bonds set tees lightly
oh wedded folk than today.
" He seems a very nice gentleman,"
tencatively.
"Yes,"answers Vanessa, hell lost in
reverie. " Susan 1" atarting up suddenly
and forgetting that her nurse has hold of
her by the hair until peinfally reminded of
the fact, " whet do you think?"
" Lore my dear," cries Susan, " what-
ever do you start up on a sudden like that
sorry. I did not mean—I----" for? Why, you. ve made ma tear out a
ee'' • "You flettered me," returns Brandon, handful I"
gallantly, "by what you said. What " Never mind," returns Vanessa, indif-
greater compliment could you pay to me format to pain in her excitement; "he said,"
than by refusing to believe my age? And I her face all aglow, " he mid he would try
am quite young enough," dropping his to get paps to take me to Londoa to stay
voice, "not to be proof against beauty and with Men. Oh, &leen 1" marching up and
charm." down the room, " I shall die of pleasure if
He is not altogether pleased with himself 1 I go, and," suddenly flinging herself on the
when he has said this. He feels a burning heti, " I shall die of disappointment if I
desire to make love to thebeautifulcteature don't."
at his aide, and yet he is distinctly con- "Well, I never 1" cries Susan, wrought
scions that he ought not to treat her as he by sympathy to an almost e,qual pitch of
would one of the mum Young elele he meets exciMment. "But there,' with the
in society who are open to a flirtation at a, triumph of successful prophecy, " I always
moment's notice. Therefore not pausing said it, Mary Ann knowsit--she can prove
to let his lase words make their potnt, he my words—I always said The first gentle -
hurries on, changing his voice to it matter- men as ever claps eyes on Mise Neese,' I
of -fact tone. says amp I, he'll be carrying of her off.'
" And so, your father tells me, you have
lived all your life here in this quiet country
spob.
answers Vanessa, sensibly clis. right on the bed, laughing but radiant with
appointed at his chauge of tone; "1 have pleasure, don't be an old goose
aever been away from ie" "1 see ib all," continues Susan, the
. .
"Now, do you know," pursues Brandon, mantle of prophecy sun draping her
"itt is almost impossible for me to realize "you'll go, and ilea you'll merry him and
the position. Some one who has lived in be one of the grandest and handsomest
Arcadia all her life ; has never seen the ladies in London. You'll go to Court, and
city, nor been to a play, nor witnessed a You'll tele the shine off the squire's grand-
apectacle of any kind whatever, nor even daughters and a good many more of 'em.
freen a thousand persons collected ta. I'm sure he's a great gentleman—he looks it
gother." , even though he is plain Mister, but ib
"Ah !" interposes 'Vanessa, eagerly," but isn't always the titled folk as is the best
I know ib all just as well as if thud seen families.'
it. I have read about it in books, and then.If Vanessa affects to chide her flume, she
Edith and Mabel deseribed everything to e not the lege pleased, not to say dazzled,
by her predictions, '
"Edith and Mabel 2" inquiringly, Sit 13ertratt, who at this moment in
"Bir Bertramei granddaughters. coldly drawing out the details of her future
"Now," settles Brandon, shall have life (should he dee fit to put into execution
to ask Who Sir Bertram if " the idea that has stricken hie imagination),
"e is the squire—efir l3ertritra Orford— Would be very much surprised and die -
he hove at the Hall," and 'Vaneees, indicates geeted if be could be aware that the very clay
Ask Mary Ann if them wail not my very
words."
"Susan,' interrupts Vaneersa, sitting up.
bolts at are en
" We uot trimble about those," the
vicar has told him enulingew we hem no
thieves here, and no treeaure to eteal."
Breeden, has flab:bad one cigar, end flee-
ing the night ao exquieite, oan yet not melee
up hie mind to Wore it, when, in the dim
Mace, he SOOEI Vaueseries egure at the wire
dow, Steelthily he creep* from tree to tree,
tuatil he is beneath the shadow of 0410 0081
enough to lee him see distinctly tier upturned
face. Could Any man with a iiperk a poetry
in him behold ei beautifel •woman standing
by amoulight at e, window and not think of
Juliet ?
She cautrot see him, and be lame against
the tree's trunk and Woke kis fill.
" Ah, my poor felloty 1" he says, pre-
sently, apostrophizing himaelf between
stealing and sighing, at forty-three 000 is
past playing the pert of Rotneo—not
because one re pastfeeling it, Heavenknowe,
but becalm it becomes ridicalou.s. An
eldelly Romeo ! Twenty years ago mul
hive done it well. I should like to do it
now, hut what an old fool she would think.
me 1 After all, though," turning his eyeet
away for a moment Mom the picture of
jahet and looktngferaway as one ctoes when
deep in thought, "does a man love better
at twenty-three than forty-three ? His
blood is hotter; Shat would. make him a
better lover ; but I think forty-three lovas
longer and deeper, and so might make the
better husband. Yes, Romeo must be
young, but—"
Brandon turns his eyes wisttally back to
Juliet, and leaves his sentence unfinished.
He has been going about the world for
tive-ancl-twenty years—he knows as muula
of it as priest, doctor and lawyer all in one,
but he has a simple, honest, straightforward
nettle), and in spite of all he has heard,
read Arid experienced, believes in God, and
does not despiee women. He is unmarried,
not from contempt and hatred of that
state, but bemuse he was rejected by the
only woman he had ever, up to this mo -
merit, desired to marry. Twenty years
ago, when he would have fain played
Romeo to her Juliet, she was, he remembere
at this moment, something in the style of
Vanessa, but not near, swenear m lovely—
she is a large and portly dame now, who
presented a daughter this season. Truly
men have the beet of it in this world; they
may have a Julieb when they are terenty-
three, thirty-three, forty-three, and so on
oven up to seventy-three.
Brandon breake offhie reverie, determiued
to seek no unfair advantage, and bent on
inducing the vicar to briug hie daughter to
London.
At breakfast next morning he gayly and
boldly broaches the subject.
" Wentworth," he says, in his cheery
voice, "now that I have enjoyed your hospi-
tality, you must come and taste mine. Mies
Wentworth and I have hatched a little con-
spiracy to carry you off to London, and
oaly think, my dear fellow, what an oppor-
tunity for you to go to the British Museum,
and get valuable teferences for the great
work 1"
Brandon sees the hand of the presiding
genius, stretched at this moment toward
the sugar basin, tremble; sees the faint color
file through her chesk, and her eyes dart an
eager look at her father.
"What 1' says the vicar, half smiling,
half perplexed. " Why, my deer Brandon,
you are joking!'
" We shell settle it all fax you," answers
Brandon, gavly—" you shall have no
trouble. I will leave you a whole week to
tura it over in your mind, and then I shall
come back for your answer."
Half an hour later he is bidding host and
hoetese farewell at their gate, as he has to
be in London that night. He gazes fax a
moment into Vanessa's eyes se he bends
froon his saddle to take her hand °nee more,
and there is a fire in his eyes that makes
them tell even more tales than they. told
last night—te.lee eminently pleasing to the
fair meld. who reads.
She has betaken herself to that bower in
the garden where firat he saw her, and
thitber, a few moments later, comes the
vicar, hurrying. He is unusually eecited ;
an open letter in his hands.
"Read this, my dear," he says, and
Vanessa with some wonder takes it from
him and obeys.
' DES,11. WENTWORTH " (she reads) —"Will
yoa and your daughter give me the plerieure
of your company at dinner toeeight at 8
o'clock precisely. I am here Lamle. The
brougham tak
shall bring you and e you
home.—Yours emu truly,
" BERTRAM ORFORD."
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CHAPTER IV.
Father and daughter exchange glances—
there is, indeed, a look almost of consterna-
tion upon both their faces—too mach honor
is sometimes overwhelming to tbase upon
whom it is thrust suddenly.
Venessa, has been to the Hall now and
then to dine with the squire's granddaugh-
ter in the middle of the day, on which
oocaeioris his august majesty has never
deigned to be present; and, now and again,
the vicar had been invited to dine during
Mrs. Vaughan's stay. There had been no
sending of carriages however, to fetch
either of them; thus sudden condescen-
sion is felt by both to be not only startling
but embarrassing.
"1 suppose we must go," says the vicar,
looking doubtfully at his daughter.
"Bub I have nothing to wear," exclaims
Vanessa, her feminine instinct triumphing
at once, over every other thought.
"Sir Bertram will not expect any very
great display of dress, I dare say," answers
the vicar, in a nervous, flurried manner,
"and we must not run the riek of offending
him since he is so kind. I will go and
write an acceptance."
Vanessa is quite excited. A new era
seems to have commenced iu her life. She
has retired to this bower to dream about
Brandon ; to recall his looks and words ;
to feast on the thought that a being from
the outer world has seen her—a being who
lives habitually in the sight of beautiful and
well-born women, and has yet not despised
her ; to dwell with rapture on the thought
of going to Visit the great city • but this
7
command to dine me the Hall drivers every.
thing eke out of her head for the moment,
and she hastens to seek Susan and to con-
sult with her upon her toilet for the
evening.
Sagan be in a jubilant and triumphant
frame of mind ; she is no longer surprised
at anything—she indulges in an innooent
kind of eelf-glorideo.tion at her own
sagaaity, and reiterates et intervals with
ever-inereasing emphasie that she knew how
it would be all along. She even goes So far
as to cortelder herself the humble instrument
the (Breathitt of Sir Berttam'e seat by a gm. wbicls has given him thms inspmration abouti efthie honor, for she saps:
ture of her head. ,, extending the oceptre to her has also, by "111hada% thought of getting yoti to go
"Oh I it, he your squire? I have met .a strange coincideme, brought o. rival into up to Mary Ann, why, you wouldn't have
him—I know him fdighttY." 'rhea. feeling the fleld—a rival who has succeeded, toe, mob the squire, and, if you hadn't have met
is shade Of disappointment se he thinks of itt taking wha.ai Sir ,,Berarata'a eyes is tff the squire, he tanddn't /1ave been so took
ehebting.partitte and a troop of PrObahle noaecounte tbes Macy of the young lady. with you,"
young gallants °erne doven, iteM the Hall f,0 Fancy ! "P50 bow -string and saelt for 1 But bide allusion to her shame and euffer-
adore and make hive to the *totted &ugh, • Women With fancies," the old Turk would ing of yesterday is unpalatable to Vanessa,
ter, "Alter an, then, if you do not go to have ordained (mind, he have had his cruel and she hastens to change the subjeet.
town, towel 15 brought term, and Yeti have, Will. Indeed, from his idea about Women, ; A more beautiful ereatutei th tri the girl
svell'ese, eie end Of geMeties end foatfafbiee there is no doubt Sir Bartram OUghb to have ' who, in her simple muslin dress with the
in the shooting season," been a dieelIde of tilelianimect " knot of white roses in her heilr, mettera the
Vanefifia knOV/Qt0 him by a littlelaugh 850 dad& at the' Whidow,, her gIoriou Hall drawing.room that evening', Would he
herd to fiad, She trembles and feels ageniz,
ingly shy, bus ib be with the greeefel shy
nese of modesty, 'not • aim sliyeess of
awkwarduees. Bit Bertram reeogurzee and
approves it ; permouages, .1 tun told, are
gretified by menig that they inspire awe,
ani are far more prepossessed by timidity
itt.salijeete Wen under) matideracm, Here,
at ell emote, Sir Bertram. is mitoorat Attd
king of the castle, pleases him tor) live in
semi -state at the ; teerefore, though
he alnioet invariably dines alone, the ap.
pointrnente of the table W:0 AS imposing ae
though he were enteriainiag a party—fees
silver :stem% in AfFAy on the SiAbb014rd, rate
flewere ornemeut the Wile, the a Ildfit trait�.
She hot-heuses produce are served for their
master.
This morning Sic Bertram has requeeted
Mies. Marter to be partioularly choice in her
menu, and to direct her attention espeoially
to the sweet&
Young ladies," he observed, and hie
features eatually relaxed luta A smile,
" think moss of that part o dinuor."
At this, 1VIrs. Marter, making reontion
of the interview later to her biSteX', de-
acribed herself as being reduced to that
state of mored'aud physical weeknose when
a feether would have been sufficient to
prostrate her. But she, who was as quick
at seeing through a milestone AS Susan,
drew her own auguries at once.
Vanessa experienced a kind of enchant-
ment of the senses as she sat at dinner, sur-
rounded by beautiful and luxurious objects;
Rowers such as sbe had never seen before
massed together in profusion, and wafting
new and delicious perfumers towards her.
From the broad windows stretched the
wide and lovely view—the eky was one
golden glory. The squire had insisted on
her tasting his champagne, and even the
few dainty sips she had indulged in had
sent a. pletteaut exhilaration through her
veine ; made her eyes sparkle, and dim
parsed her first shynees. Was it a dream
or a reality ? The squire, monster and ogre
ef all her previous tuoughts, transformed
into a genial, courteous host; talking toher
without a trace of condescension or patron-
age in hie manner, and exerting himself to
amuse and interest her
The vicar, most absent of men, accus-
tomed to eat in unbroken silence, was lost
in abstruse reflections, and the !squire was
therefore at liberty, without discourtesy to
the father, to confine hi a attentions to the
daughter. And, without Vanessa being
aware of it, he was watching her narrowly ;
observing her every action, scanning her
every featre, weighing her gracee and beau-
ties in his cynical mind, and, strange to say,
not finding her wanting. To say that he
was falling in love with her would be inap-
prapriate—so soft au emotion had no part
in Sir Bertram's nature ; such settee as he
had she stirred ; the posiession oi her
beauty would be flettering to his pride ;
she had all the elements of s, charred/le and
lovely woman whom wealth and rank would
set as silver ;sets diamonds, bringing stray
atonea together into a superb ornament.
Whilst they yet sat at dinner he resolved
that Vanessa should be Lady Orford.
That young damsel, 8.0 he held the door
open for her when she repaired to the draw -
room, was not without some intuition of
the impression she had produced on the
squire, and a sense of power made a certain
triumph tingle in her veins such as the first
taste of it mires to those who love and are
born to wield it. And Vanessa, though
circumstances had placed her in so lowly
and isolated a position, had the instincts
aecribed to a young empress. She threw
herself into a lory chair near the window,
awl looked out over the terrace and across
the park. She would have liked to fly to
She houeskeeper's room and pour her won-
der, surprise and admiratim, into the sym-
pathizing ears of Mary Ann, but something
told her that a gulf divided her from yes•
terdey ; that 'now she was Sir Bertram's
guest she could not be Mary Ann's—at all
events, whilst the squire wag at home.
—it had been OQ treraseendengy delightful.
SalPn
Yu came
tg
eana iita
r(Ii4chtelltiovely
weather,the
bar9110he, with its fin° black hortiee,
rolled up to the Vtearage. door, Altd VADeSAA
and her fettles: moulted into it • she obey-
ing Sir Ilertrata's gesture and takiftg the
seat of honor beside him, attune:la she
would bein, from re muse ea deter, have re.
Ungulate(' it to Alec father. 'else radiemee of
hapiuess °';5' beaulty
(eel tuert: kl tuteorbtei l°44bett
&ONTO uhreiegh the velem; 1,141f1 l*A*.V
bobb log fele. , Tee syyrtio root:000 through
wanicleriag etaree of the tentrlooying and
the air aod tee swing of ihe lexureete
cerrietie were rimy alai 41volt:tile sonattiotie ;
the fitie liveries; of the etrrento arid the
leetreeeeee Imeedered heed plea ewe, her eyea
staid gratified her pride. etr B mean,
webehing her queitim repel her Wee e book,
end thought what ari emai hiret preeie
women its to OAtCh. 1.!kk**11, yoa see, he knew
nothing °Mout John Brandon ; nor Mei It.
further knew taat Vanesea wee woo of those
women who, Omagh they delield, in
pleasure, ex:moment, and the vanities of
life, would im move be Induced to merry a
man they did not Love than to sell them-
selves te Likti p0wer;1 of darkitesa 11
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NVOt11011 oan feel elm inteneity of love, i hey
suffer in an even greater (Memo toe um
tensity of repulsion' and eve:it'd elinget
rather endure (teeththan submit to au
embrace from A noun they do nee leer.
11 Varresse, as is quite pi•olieble, had her
little suspicions that tee squire's emu,
ing kiudness was not eat-Araiy di. ita
terested, shri bad no more Mee of en.
couraging hie snit then if he Mai been Imr•
own grandfather instead of &tithes mei
Mabens ; but that WAS no reason why
she should not eejoy the femete weigh, 'eta
at present, he seemed beetrued 50 shower
upon her.
Is wa,s nearly 1 &Meek when they drew
up with a clatter at the doer if the prima.
pal hotel, whore the Medford, epprieed of
their Inthudede vi, -i, stood me toe KA, pe 1.0
receive them with bcooming honor. As
she descended from the i'aryiage there
flashed upon NT/J.11E188a like lightning the
memory of an Moident whiuh courred on
She only occasion when she had ever been in
She had driven over with Edith,
Mabel and their meld some three years ago
in the waggonette, and as they reached the
door a gentleman was staridina on she
steps smoking a cigar, which., as ate young
ladies advanced, he removed from hie
mouth. Vanessa, looking up, beheld a
being who presented so remarkable a like-
ness to a picture of St. George which elle
had always been desperretely in love with in
default ole living hero, thar in her admira-
tion and surprise she stumblea up ene ;step,
and would have fallen hut that he epru»g
forward to assist her. His eyea met hers as
he just raised his hat, having helped her to
regain her balance, and they en12,44m57
expressed as much admiration irateeticinatly
as hers did unintentmeelly. She did mot
see him again, but ever afterward he did
duty in her imagination for every here,
knight or prince of Whom ahe read. Teelay
she half expmts to see him etandiag there
still, but there is only the Medford, with a
§ couple of satellites in somewhat shiny black
raiment.
And now, leaning back in the luxurious
chair, her face fanned by the soft west
wind, her eyes fixed on the last patine. cloud
that erewhile weal so vivid a red, her
thoughte turn again to Brandon. If he
were but the squire! If ? Why not if
earth were paradise at once ! What pleasure
would run through John Brandon's veins if
he knew how Vanessa was thinking of him
But later hrs would have reflected, "1 am
She only man she has seeu—she wants to
love—it is the emotion that charms her—
therefore the first man she meets with the
smallest pretension to pleasing a woman
would succeed in fixing her fancy. But how
about afterward when she sees other men?'
That is what John Brandon would have
said—what later on he did say to himself,
and his estimation of the situetion was
perfectly correut.
Vanessa is not left long to reverie—the
hard, thin voice of the squire, modulated
by considerable effort,breaks on her ear.
"Deep in thought !" it says. "1 wonder
if one might venture to ask the nature of
your reflections?"
Since it would be impossible for her to
reply, "1 was wishing that you were Mr.
Brandon," we may forgive her for not
adhering to the truth on this occasion.
"1 was thinking," she answers, "how
lovely this view is, and how nice it musb be
to live up so high instead of down below."
"Do you think on would like to live
here ? " says Sir Bertram, in so meaning a
tone that Vanessa's cheeks and throat are
flooded with crimson in a moment. To
hide her embarrassment she almost turns
her back on her host and exeleims, with
unnecessary eagerness :
"There is the moon coining up behind
the trees. How lovely I"
"Shall we take a turn in the garden ? '
asks Sir Bertram. "Your father has found
some wonderful book in the library, and is
lost to everything else."
Vanessa expresses her willingness, and
the squire proceeds to ring the bell.
"1 am going to send for your hat and
shawl," he says, but she tells him that she
has not even brought any. He, however,
not being animated by the recklessness of
young folk, but having, instead, a rooted
mistrust of the climate of his coutitry, pubs
on his hat, hemp a light coat over his arm,
and, thus prepared, steps out on the ter-
race where'Vanessa is mating for him.
Sir Bertram talks pleasantly to her • tells
her much about the world, especially Shose
vanitiee and trivialities of it which he
knows to be so pleasing to the female ear,
and, before they return to the house, he
has made a proposal to Vanessa; which
causes her eyes to glisten and her red lips
to part with an exclamation of delight.
How would she like to drive over to B—,
that seaport town which she amid before
visited in eompany with Edith and Mabel 2
The eremite, lb is to be supposed, is like the
rest of the world, a little sensitive on some
poInts—he doer, not speak of them young
ladies to 'amiss as his granddaughters.
The weather promiees to hold fine—if
pleases her, he will send on horses trainer,
morrow, and, onthe following day, they
will start at half -past ten to &IVO over, Re
is oonadent the vicar will nob make 'any
OhjeObiOn,
Yellen& wont home full of triumph and
excitement, entirely shared by the faithful
Susan. When she fell asleep oho dreamed
that she Was up at the Hall again, but the
alai had turned into Mt. Brandon. She
could alined have cried for disappointment
when she eiVeoke 50 find it wee Only et dram
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