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The Brussels Post, 1885-12-4, Page 22 DICK'S SWEETHEART. THE BRUSSELS POST. Dao. 4> 18814 y the Author of "MILnnen T8>aviitine," "LOTS, LOOP IiE1inEBroltn," "PsrLLis," '^ MOLLY BAw i," tree. "1-10 Lot lour wits wanner I'• eayl Miss Lorne. " And, if you won't come with me to the first turn, why, good-bye then Until tonight." " Oh, I'm coming," cries Bouverie— " to the hall door, if I may 1 There is no false pride about me. And about to. night? You will not bo later than ten You will give me the first dance 2' "If you are in time for ib." " Don't comfort yourself with the thought that I cha'n't be. If, on your arrival, you hear of any burglar being secured in the coal -cellar for prowling about the premises during the earlier part of the evening, remember, it is I, being ' in time. " "You gia'n't stavithere long after my arrival," says Mins Lorne fondly. " With my own hands 1 shall release you, be there a thousand Drummonds in the way; ' She slips her hand through his arm, and squeezes it confidentially, " 1)o yon ever think, Dick, how strange a thing it would have been if we had never met end loved ?" " A tetriblu thing 1" " Should we bar a met and loved some other people—odious people !—or should WO have gene to our graves unwed?" " Unwed,' says Dick, with conviction. " How one event changes one's whole life 1 I suppose, it luy uncle had not fallen uv.,r that precipice somewhere in Switzerland, you and I would now have been as apart as though two different spheres held us." " He was killed ?" asks Dolores, with some awed interest " Yes. We were poor people at the time it occurred. tent his death made such a tretnendous ,iiti'ereuce—gave my father the title, property and all 1 I re• member my uncle slightly—a quiet man like my father, very timid, very silent, and in great awe of my granduncle, from whom the money came, as well as the title." "Why was he afraid of him?" asks Dolores, some vague contempt in her tone. Because the property was not en- tailed all through—and an empty title is a barren honour. However, the old man died shortly after the accident that killed eay nude, and left all to my father. I think at the time it happened I was sorry about thab accident; brit I am not sorry now. If it had not oc- curred, you and I—how impossible it sounds 1—would be strangers to each other." Poor man I It was end, though 1" says Dolores, with a sigh. " Now here is our bonudary-lino," she adds, stand. ing at the mires of the avenue and hold - big out to hint a dismissing hand. "Not a word—not an entreaty I Your doom is sealed 1" Well, you needn't stand so far away from me,' says Dick, aggrieved. " There isn't anybody looking, and therefore no. body can see. Saygood•bye to me in a more dutiful way than that." " Yeti are sure—sure "—glancing retied nervously—" that there is no— Oh, Dick—there! Indeed you should he more cautious! And— Good-bye again 1" There are Revere' " again," and then she runs away from him down the long avenue, anis is soon hidden from him by the jealous laurestines- entarn,eney ontor le presume), enrongu its Ivied gateway and thug themselves, With a glad 4911813 of youth and freedom,, upon a mosey'peen{ beneath an gnarled old apple -tree; " How cool it is here—how quiet—no poise 1" Bays Audrey, clasping her arms behind her Bead and gazing upward at the liquid blue of the evening sky. " No boys t" returns Dolores, laugh- ing " " It moans quit the sarne thing." " Sometimes—just at Beat, when I knew you—I used t thiuk, whenever yon spoke of the boys, that yon meaut your brothers." " No; my niobium spared me thab in. ilictiou at least— • may' Ie au everiateng clellglle to per. I can fancy how openly glad she was when that poor man fell over that olili, or whatever it was, I remember him myself but very slightly -1 was only n oblld then, a more bah'—au aimless, helpless sort of moo nuc like Sir George, and very g think for the ono week I knew him I lived on lollipops. Papa always speaks very kindly of him ; but then he speaks kindly of his sister Lady Bouverie too ; so that Inc word doesn't go for much. Yeti don't wish you to thiuk that," she sage, smiling, " because I would have you believe that the pretty thiugs he says of you he really does mean, and that ho likes you more than most.' "It is only fair that ho should like his daughter's friend," replies Dolores, feeling strongly attracted to her because of this great luve for her father which is betraying itself iu every word and glance. "There is one thing that giros me deep pleasure—one thought rather," goes on Audrey, turning her fano slowly until her eyes rests oie Dolores. "If yon should chance to marry Dick, dad will be your uncle." " Aucl you my cousin." Dolores, colouring warmly, bolds anther fraud to her ; and then all at once a grim little loo!( of comic display deeolates line fare. "And Lady Bouverie ens mother-in- law I" she adds slowly. " It does take the gilt off—doesn't iter says Audrey, lamming. Then, after Li iuomeut's silence—" 'how happy come o'er other some can bo 1' I wonder it 1)ial( knows how lucky he is? It will be the happiest thing for him 1" " \e'hy should it not be the happiest thine for me ton ?" asks Dolores gently. IVo have not spoken of our engage- ment yet to any one, except to auntie, and now to pen ; but of course all the world line seen how it is with ns. And C am glad they have seen"—with a little snddeu gnickcnmg of the breath and a sudiisu paling of her lovely face. "Why ho11111cuo cool: to hide one's joy? Yet autually to veal: of it, to put it all into w0019, that 1e (1i11iCnnlb." " AIy auub—dons elle Know ?" "Not yet. I told Welt to keep it a ;eoret from his mother for yet a little while; but I suppose she has made a good guess at it. She—she has been very—one doesn't know what to call it," nays Dolores, laughing—" very affee. Giouate to lee of late. At least that is what I am sure she has meant to me." " Very I" says Audrey drily. " If I were to become a Cinderella to- morrow, I wonder how it would be with iter then?" " You would be ' Mies Lorne' then, not her' pretty Dolores;' and, when she met you, it is amazing what an an -went )f eye•glase she would require to be able to see you, and her tone, when she toped. you were quite well, would bo "Ihn alI the dnagh tors of ton• lather's house And all the brothers tun,' I suppose I slionld speak ofthemes' the pupils,'; but somehow 'the boys 'comes more naturally: What a torment they are --what a grinding horror I And yet' —with BnmereliOrBu^-"' itis 11181111010 t'0 be so hard on thele. Sometimes—even to them—I confuse I am grateful to them. They meaty sn lunch to 08 in many ways. Where would dad ho with. out his books, for inetenee ? The fact is, clad and I are carnivorous animals, and live on the boys. ' " Still youug boys I dare iayaro--" "Young I" For au inetaut Bliss Pon. sonby glances at her ; and then elle laughs faintly, " They eren'b always so very youug," she says. " i would they were ; they womd ne jest half the trouble then. It is big boys that worry. We have them at seventeen, twenty, twentyoue, and so on. Once we hast one at twenty.seven. Ile was the dell - est boy of the lot—so dull iudeed that I don't think he will ever be auytliine else. Perpetual youth is Ins lovelypor- tion." " What became of hint ?" asks Do- lores,who has been secretly wouderiug if she moans Sir Mickey, but is at !set comforted by the reflection that cer- tainly twenty-seven summers have not passed over that gentleman's flaxen heart. , We kept him only four months, as, beyond laying his exceedingly largo hand and small fortuue at my feet every seeoud day and eating unlimited jam. tarts, he did literally nothing." ixow tiresome r• "It wasn't—not exactly. He did both things ao thoroughly, and els>tye at full length under the big acacia, that lie ceased to trouble us after a bit. 1 al- most missed him and his proposals when he went. Perhaps I missed the tarts even more 1 He was most generous in his distribution of them." " Do all the boys propose to you ?" asks Dolores; who is much " fetched " by this idea, and is regarding floss Pon. sonby with an irrepressible smile. "Pretty nearly," says Audrey, with imperturbable gravity; then, all iu one moment, she gives way to a merry burst of laughter very unusual to her. "You see, dad has the reputation of be. ing so clever, and indeed, is so clover," she says, with loving pride, " that they send him all the forlorn cases as a last resource; and sometimes he doss man. ago to push them through in spite of Dame Nature. But why they mast all arrange to believe themselves in love with me is the amusing part of it." "It sounds amusing certainly. Just fancy a youthful regiment on its knees to one all day long 1" " Sometimes it is unpleasant," con- fesses Audrey, with a change of feature —" sometimes'—looking earnestly at Dolores and speaking in 0 low tono— "they weep, and that's hateful I I' re known them to get so damp and so limp that, after indignantly refusing them, I have had to support them back to the house ; and then, when they used to sit through dinner wibhuub eating a morsel and w,th their eyes and noses as red as fire, dad used to ask me what it all meant; and, when he found out, he would he very angry, and want to send the luckless boy away; and of course that was awkward you know, es—as— well, of course you understand "—a lit• tleimpatiently—" that the money the boy paid was of great importance to us." " Of course," says Dolores, with the simplest, most business-hlce tone in the world. It soothes the other and drives the little frown from her brow. "Whatever you do," she goes on, smiling again at Dolores, " don't encou• rage a lover who looks even inclined to cry ; it will embitter your life. But I forget; my advice is not wanted here. I don't believe Dick could cry even if he tried." "Yon should know, being his cousin," says Dolores, colouring sweetly at the msntiou of his name, as she always door, but looking in no wise embarrassed. 4' Bub what en irrelevant remark of yonrs 1 What's Hecuba to me or2 to He- cuba ?" "You alone can answer thatgnestiole." Audrey is silent for an ineignificant time, and thea, reverting to her first topic, "There is one thing redeeming," she says, " about the boys—they all love dad 1 Even when they go away they don't forgot him. But that"--wibli a swift brightening of her rather cold and haughty fade—" is not to be wondered at." " No," returns Dolores, with a subtle touch of sympathy—" I have seen him." " Does it over occur to you," exclaims Audrey, growing suddenly animated, "how he can bo Lady Bouverie's brother? What faintest connecting link is there between them ? She so insolent, so overheating, he so tender, so—" Hee voice fails, and a beanti• fel dreamy expression comes into her eyes. " Your cousin :Oleic was belling me to. day of how Lady Bouverie once was grate poor," says Dolores. " Yes; I expect tine sudden unexpect- ed ries to a title and a decent renb.roll was to nnlol> for her, She hasn't re - coveted from it vet, von see. That word BRUSSELS PUMP WORKS. WILSOJY 6 F LTON Take much pleasure in announc- ing to the people of Brussels and surrounding country that having Purchased the Business of Mr. C. Eike, on Mill Street, opposite Mr. P. Scott's Blacksmith Shop, they. Will peep a Good Supply of CHAPTER XIII. Dolores had barely time, after parting with 1)iek, to throw olf her hat, mance bereelf a degree prettier than she was even a momenb sin::e, and enter the li- brary by the tipper door, when n ser- vant opening the lower one, Denounces Miss Ponsonby. " Pm so glad I was home in time 1" Bays Dolores ingenuously, run- ning to her and kissing her warmly. Between the little heiress who hat:uever known a grief or felt a cynical thought and the cold self-contained girl always so bitterly resentful of the poverty to which she was horn le strange friendship Inas arisen. " I was so afraid I should be late :.i have only just come in my- self. Take off your hat." " You were walking?" " Yes, with— 1 es." She blushes faintly, and busies herself drawing for- ward a low lounging chair fur her visi- tor's comfort. " With Dick," says Audrey calmly. " Well be is more forbuuatc than meet,' " 'Because I walked with him ?" loughs Dolores lightly, raising her brows. ' That too. Itut I wins not thinkiug so much Of this hour's grace accorded him as of the feet that probably you will let ]titin walk through life beside you. Now that is a speech that re- quires no answer. If I am right, so much the better for him. If I ani wrong, wily, then I cats almost find it in my heart to pity him, though his race are not altogether dear to me I What a per. feet riay it has been 1 What an evening it is!" "Why should we waste it indoors?" says Dolores gaily. " The orchard is a happier hnuting•gronnd than this can be. There may be some strawberries still left, and I'll tell them to send u8 out some extra cream for them with our tea; but perhaps"—With a hesitating glance at the cool room s110 has spoken of abandoning. " No," 'answers Audrey; " you need not be afraid of that. What room—even the loveliest—can bear comparison with the summer air? ' Sbono walls,' so far as I am concerned, always ' a prison make.' " " Auntie has gone to the town ; so we shall be all alone," says Dolores, Slowly sauntering towards the or - PUMPS ON HAJV'D And are prepared to fill all orders at Reasonable Prices. Repairing neatly and promptly (lone. Please call and examine our stock before purchasing elsewhere. WILSON 86 PELTON. sufficient to make you quit i11, ae@ nee hurried but frozen adieu wonlu brink you t death's door; and beieidee ---" " The picture is complete I" iuternlpt' Dolores, laughing. " Your style is de cidedly graphic. Let us rejoice nn the fact that I shall never be called mem le enact the rote of a modern Ciudc1slle. Oh, by.ths-bye, Audrey, I am so eery) you will not let us call for you tri-mte,t. But you were right yesterday.. le yo,1e plaoe, I should have rejected sirs Drummond's invitation just MB you dew- " Every one detests me so," says Al ist Ponsouby, frowning and plucking a tient) to pieces. "Yet what have I dour. re any of them?" You aro so mutt prettier than the) are I" " Yet so are you ; and they all Tee fess—nay, they all do like you. Ther, must be something morally wrong W> or isme; unknownyettt me ? change n Perhaps I elm, to bo more meek, perhaps I should hs... accepted Mrs. Drummond's words iu :. different spirit, though they were t)," ken at the eleventh hour, and only lie cause tlio Duchess thought me worth :. word or two and an invitation to ter Oastle." " Mrs. Drummond made a mistake; 3 think you were right in showing it t•, her," replies Dolores quietly. "IS So Chicksy going?" "About him I have been more wor- ried than I can tell you. He declares nothing -will induce him to go; ami, absurd ne he looks, he is really vet) difficult to manage iu smell affairs u. this hind," " His not going will look rather marked." "That is what I told him; but he seems to think that reason for his going only an metre, inducement to etuy tit home." Miss Ponsonby laughs a 0)0,4 joyless laugh, and gives the soft frill round her nock a violate little pull. "lie fs voty much in love with yea," says Dolores gravely; " and sometimes I (lo not undereband whether that pleases or annoys you. He is a kindly young man, I know—lie—lie has many "Don't say good polities I" inter- rupts Audrey calmly. " That would be the finishing stroke to whatever ehauuu lie r11>4y have." "t Chancel Toll me"—looking earnest- ly at her—" do you mean to marry him'l" "Well, why should not? Re is an oxeellentp"u'td," says Audrey defiantly; and he has no father, or mother, ur sister, or brother to cousnit, or to be furious with hint for marrying a girl without a penny. About family there is no question," she says, with a proud gesture—" on either side." " Yon think of marrying him then ?" interrogates Dolores, a little carefully suppressed surprise, a little well-bred regret, in her tone. 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