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The Brussels Post, 1886-1-15, Page 22 THE BRtTSSEjS POST DICK'S SWEETHEART. By the Authormt "Mleneen q'neverees," "Lova, Loon Bennesrone," "Pnrt•i.i8," " Maur 13ewx ' —OO, how auntie hated that!-ti,i Venice sunsets; and the pretty cooing pigeons on the Piazza of St. Markt I used to feed them every day, and they -do you know -they came to know me quite, and would strut attar me tail downwards whenever l appeared. Ah, the yellow sunshine and the wonderful gray ebadowa, they all return to mo -- they do not permit me bo forget 1 To me Italy is a veru dream 1 Dick "- laying her hand beneath his chin-- " will you take me there when we are married ? Your -our England is of course the clearest place to me, but yet I do want to see my Italy again," "When shall we start?" asks Bou• veris, with eager animation. " For the horse ?" asks she demurely. "Indeed you remind me, Mr. Bouverie, that we have already outstayed our time, and that our absence will cause eommeut. Come then !" "`At a touch sweet pleasure melt• eth, " quotes Dick ruefully. " I had forgotten there was a world indoors. What a pity to leave this glorious light for the more glaring one within. Don't let us go in yet." "I am afraid we must." " Are you in haste to leave me?" asks he, with foolish reproach in his tone. Are you uevor to he convinced?" whispers ,,he. She is leaning against him, gazing up at him, looking pale as the ketals of a lily in the soft fading moonlight -such an exquisite face, warm with love's light aid pensive with sweet thoughts born more of heaven than earth. With a heart that throbs with thank- ful joy, he holds her to him. It seems so strange that this sweet thing should be his own, her life at leasthalf his, and she willing that he should dedicate all his to her. There is a humbleness about his devotion that perhaps, un- consciously to herself, renders him even dearer to her. His life bas been puri• find, rounded, completed, since this little saint -like girl, with the happy childish eyes, has crept into bis heart. Still and more silent grows the hour. Over the bills comes the slow dawn with dainty tread... "A sons, of heavy h,u•mnuies "rows no ill, growth of patient right More sweet then shapes! music 10." Bouverie, turning up her face, looks at her long and earnestly. Were ever eyes and soul smeweetly tnatohed? How yoo:l, how puree "A 111111 s•, si,i,'Ol1. s11 W1!'t s, dt wonderful, They said a light camp from her when she moven 1 lewoe'tee e e man caughs 44, mum, y age, gaf i t this tlefi'gr`girl lust entering up'� 'le the uuknpwh nea of life(„ 'seems Wawbaokwards, as el,;ate Mat petuons breittb, to the glad young`yoare when love wan all in all and Imp meant Certainty: But; the love. that. even then washut hal -w•onncled vanity is now without its sting, and is remembered only as a curious experience never to bo forgotten. " You knew the. Matt -mins perhaps ?" says Lady Bouverie, with unsympathe- tic manner. " Yes ? Olt, there was a child, of ;course -Mrs. Lorna's baby - that pretty Dolores over there 1" "It must have complicated matters a good deal," says Colonel Oswald, still rather-dreauiily. " Yes, 11 was a sad af- fair altogether." " Sad ?" Lady Bouverie searches his face for a Moment, and then arranges his thoughts for him. "About the poor child being left an orphan no young ? Yes, of course. But their she has real. ly missed so little; her aunt's care has boon toner quito that of a mother." " No doubt," sa;•a Colonel Oswald, with a little acrluiesreut bow. He seems singularly attracted by Dolores. " 13y Jove!" he says once under his breath. and then aloud-" 1Ier name?" ' Lorna' I think you said it was ?" " Dolores Lorne." "Dolores! What :,, sal name) Ilnw significant 1 Poor girl, pour girl! But why ' Lorne,' I wonder ?" " Why, you ridicolcus man, beoanne it was her father's of course 1" says Lady Bouverie. with a short laugh. There is some offence in her laugh. It has dawned upon her that Colonel Oswald is hardly giving to her oouver. sation the undivided attention to whioh she has grown acenstomed, " Well, I suppose it is as good as an- other," remarks he. " It is a very good name indeed," re- joins Lady Bouverie, now distinctly el% fronted. "The Lornes have always been good people ; they have ranked for generatione with the very best of our county families. And Dolores, as you may see, is thoroughly well-bred." " A beautiful teem indeed 1" enys Os- weldtboughttnlly. "But to see her. here -here 1 I used to tell myself I was too old to bo surprised at anything; but this is just the little too touch 1 And the Dnclaoss, who is so verycxclusive 1" He has fallen into a muttering tone, and Lady Bouverie acareely follows him. Then he rouges himself from his rove- rie. " How oldie she ?" he asks ab. sently. " You love me?" he Bays presently, in a voice eo low that thcynervous passion iu it almost bides the words. But she bears him. ' With all my soul, sweetheart 1" she answers hack, raising her head ti1I all the shadowed sweetness of her eyes is bare to him. I envy no man on earth," he says, after a long pause, lifting her soft palms and laying them one after *nether against his lips. " And I no woman," returns she gravely. s Still with the happy lamps of love lit within her beauteous oyes, Dolores re. gaine one of the reception -rooms, and, finding Miss Matnrin there, seated on a cushioned lounge near an open window, she goes to her, and, leaning over her, whispers some merry nonsense in her ear. As she does so, she attracts the at. tention of a seer°, elderly, hungry -look- ing little man at the farther oui of the room, the same man whose presence in the early part of the evening so upper. red Miss :datnrin. Ide is sitting beside Lady Bouverie - whose guest and cousin he is -and bas been, tip to this time, engrossed with old family topics. But now his mind wanders ; hie eyes concentrate them. selves upon the tableau in the distance the pretty girl bending with laughin;; 11ps above tbu woman who was so well l,uowu to him ie the ohieu days. There is something about the fresh innoceut sweetness of Dolores that draws the the rninde of Most to her. iltifortuuate- lv uow it compels the adtnirabiou of Colonel Oswald. Who is this girl, so like, yet so unlike— ', See that girl over there ?" he says sn 1.lnuly to Lady Beaver's. " She re. minds me so strongly of some one, Pretty girl who posed as ' Adversity,' I moan -just now talking to Miss 3latu- 010." " Ah, that is Mies Lorne ! Very trete JAN. 18, 1SLG. St Know Mere— all When And Where yein will," an• *mere thei olonfil, rising too.. "'Follow•hie into one of these auto. rooms," says Lady Bouverie, in a chok- ed tone-" and quickly. I feel as if this horrible :doubt could never bo soon oneugh allayed.'. " Lead,' retnrne Oswald briefly, Uneonseiously her hurried foobstops carry her past Dolores, who is still standing by her aunt, smiling as one at rent with all the world, a look of the moat heavenly peace npon her lovely face. CHAPTER. XIX. Gray sea, gray sky, and barren rock; above, a sullen heaven; below, a chilly mist that, creeping ever onwards, covers ell the land as with a sbreed. The sun is dead; with heavy wings the seagulls heat bhe air, and sail inland to tell of comiva storms and storm jest past. There are glints of watery light upon the pale ocean now lying-speut,apll wan from last night's passion. boar the shore great walls of foam aro still dash. ing themselves over the small black rooks; there is even yet a furious anger iu the waves as they rnsh inwards to waste away in yellow foam upon the beach. A weary, moaning, swishing sound conies from the cavus, a sound of wrath and pain repressed. Dolores, pacing up and down upon the desotabe shore, looks out to sea, and marks how the sullen clouds hang upon the very verge of the horizon. More rain," she says, " and a coming storm." She lnolced a little sad, a little deject- ed. All last night sho lay awake listen - in, to the howling of the wind and the distant roar from. the ocean, mingled vith other sounds nearer and sadder; tiny all combined to wreck her slumber. eileeploss she lay, troubled by the angry u'dht and the sound of the wet leaves neediest a wiudoiv-pane, and a wind sob. hese through a rainy dawn. Two mores have come and gone since that happy night when she and Dick stool together in the garden at the Castle, beneath the rays of the dying moon. Presently also weals Herself upon a smooth piece of rook. and with a stick begins to draw in i he fashion letters on the nand -letters, and then words, and then that dearest word of all--" Dick." From this it is but a simple thing to come to herself-" Dolores Bouverie." How pretty it looks and sounds 1 She is still staring gravely at it when some- body, coming noiselessly up to her on the soft and, places his hand beneath her chin and turns her face to his. " Ab, Dick!" she says, with a little rapturous blush, bolding out glad arms to ham. Ie it for your sins you wander here alone on such a dismal day, my ladyo taire,'.'asks he gaily,seatinglnmeelf beside her, " and is all this writing "-gazing at the sand-" a penance? Why, what is this? ' Dolores Bouverie 1' Oh, 1 say - how lovely it sounds 1" " Doesn't it?" says Dolores, flushing with genuine pleasure; then all at once she grows rather pale. " But it is un• lucky the do it isn't it ?" she asks nor. vously. " Stnfi I" eaya Mr. Bouverie, with undiminished spirit. " If you once begin to believe it omens, you will never again know a (satisfactory moment. True, I assure you! My love, how cold your hands aro 1 Yon shouldn't stay here s0 long on such a day; null your face -what a sad little face I Hes anything vexed you, darling?" ' No, no, I am not vexed; it is only the effect of last nilht•s storm I suppose. Yet there is a weight here "-laying her small chilly hands upon her breast- " that I cannot aoconnt for." " Don't try to," counsels Dick nom. fortably, drawing her nearer to him and tucking both ber hands inside his coat by way of worming them. " But I wish I could 1" says she miser. ably. " Itis a horrible depreesion,that has seized upon me, and -and it frigh• tens me. Ol), I wish I hadn't written my name 6o in the sand I Perhaps "- tears rising in her eyes-" I shall never marry you now." Won't you indeed?" cries Dick indignantly. " Don't try to get out of it in that way, my lady, because it's no good your trying. What a baby you are, Dolores! I believe you tied a roat luxury in making yourself wretched." "Indeed yon are wrong,' says she earnestly. ' I hate being wretched; but there is something within mo to -day that forbids my being Happy. What fs it, Dick? A warning?" "Digestion," says Dick prosaically, " What did you have for breakfast-oia1" "An egg," answers his Jimin,'e thought. fully, " and after that some hot cake -- just a little wee hot cake -no more." "'Pie the hoboak&,"says Mr. Bonverie, with decision. "Ilot cake is the very — It is, I do assure you ; I give you nay word it is." But, though he tries to laugh her out of her depressiou, he yet Moles at her very keenly, and grows secretly anxious because of this change in her, It is so unlike his little bright love to talk in this dolorous way. Then suddenly it 000015 to him --in it most unlucky moment -•that a little wholesome (molding will do her a world 'of good. Tho very thiugl No doubt alto has never had ono iu all her life before, so that it will have the virtue of novelty. It will rouse her, and -and pl,rllltpe friehteu her a bit; and bring her to a healthier frame of wind. Look betel" lie says, with quite an air, " I've boon jestlug up to this; hut, do you know, I feel positively ashamed Of you -1 do indeed! One would think by your meaner iron were the moat tui. beul,,v ;girl on earth, whereas yen •have 'very thine your (0011 way, all it seems to BRUSSELS PUMP WORKS. . F]3 LT ON W'1LSO.N Take Buell 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 Shoo, they will keep a Good Supply of PUJ12PS ON 114NTS And are prepared to fill all orders at Reasonable Prices. Repairing neatly anti promptly done. Please call and examine our stock before purchasing elsewhere. WILSON & PELTQN. You forget the flight of time," says Lady Bouverie; nodding her head. „ If you knew her wben,a baby, no wonder 'ou,are;ai xprieed"to sec her now break- ingiutowomanhood. Tho past seams but as yesterday to you and me until some httle fact like this compglqpa•t0 a. knowledge of the truth. She11PIIfll make a lovely woman. Her,age ? Seventeen or eighteen, I should say -not a day more." "Ah, that would be about the time 1" remarks Colonel Oswald. All his care- fully -cultivated ema11$ bIk seems to have deserted him.' ' " I must toll you," says Lady Bon- vorie, turning to him suddenly and tap- ping him on the arm with her fou with an elephantine attempt at playfulness, " that I hope -I think-- Indeed --to let you into a secret -I feel sure there is something between her and Mich- ard." If she has complained of his want of appreciation of her oommunicatious be. fare, there is certainly now no longer reason why she ahonld do so. As though suddenly touched by an electric battery, Colonel Oswald springs into life at her wade, and gazes at her in blank dis- may. Yes," contiuues she, nodding empha. finally, quite pleased by the sensation she has at last created ; "some day I hope to call that sweet child my daughter-in•law. Only to such an old friend as you would I confide this hope, because as yet she has beeu very mo- destly reticent ; but I have little doubt the affair has actually arranged Reale" Colonel Oswald, straightening him- self from his lounging position, games at her with horrified eyes. Au expression not permissible, and fortunately too low to be heard, passes hie lips ; it is the outcome of an agitation nob to bo sup- pressed. The pride of birth is strong with him, and this woman is his oon- ain. " My dear madam, do you know whet yon are saying ?" lie says at last, with quite a wonderful politeness, consider- ing the state of hie mind. Why, yea, I hope so 1" answers Lady , Bouverie, laughing. " It may be rather precipitate to talk of it, as the young people themselves have not as yet ohoson to make the engagement public ; but I am positively certain there ie something between my sou diehard ty, as yon say, and charming as wall." and the girl you have been '-archly- Lady Bouverio's tone is complariut. ' "so persistently admiring ler the last half hour. I am sorry to •,)light your hopes; Arthur; but such I feel firma is the case." " I hopes() with all my seal 1'' says Colonel Onwalcl with extreme vehem- ence. " I hope there ie so much be, tweet, Miss Lorne and any sou of yours as will prevent their coming together for all eternity." " Yon mean ?" interrogates Lady Bon` vette turning very pale. " That that poor child over there in the victim of a cruel wrong i" "Go on!" says Lady Bouverie, with blanched lips, tightening her (;ogees upon her fan until the ivory pieces snap in twain. " IMAM that she -may Heaven par. tion those who wronged her I -was never born in wedlock! She is nameless illegitimate 1" Lady Bouverie Flees to her feet. "I cannot graep it all an siddbnly," cans hnarsaly. "'There must its Sim seniles her 11150 80)110, which itt Its l,osb is wintry, and looks calmly impar. font. " She is Miss Materin's niece, end her heiress. Very good fortune -- iudeed bettertbau good -almost cobs. sal." " Mies Maturin's niece ?" repeats Col. oust Oswald very slowly, very match as though he disbelieves, for the first time, in the perfect hearing on which he prides hitnnolf, liar sister's child. Lovely creature, isn't she ?" Ali, I had no idea there was a child 1" says Colonel Oswald thought. felly. "Dear me -bless me 1" He 'seems overcome with (surprise. lie puts his ;glass carefully in his left eye end examines Doleres meantely as site stands over there, calm and (smiling, a world of rapturous content in her inno. cent face. 1'i.tat other face that he re- ntemhers through her was it fairer. 7 bi--tf. is/fONEY TO LOAN. 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