rp^HPS *$ its i MY FANCY'S QUEER. the Mark system, trial by jury, or the clasping one another and answered Fersruson"s Boy, Freddi e. Wi me amusing again, and to feel pangs The Girl of the Period. disruptive tendency of feudal government. briefly of disappointment in class when he F. A. Stearns, in Tid-Bids: I dined Gail Hamilton in New York World: But no, said the girls, he must will not say if she be dark or fair, At last he pushed back his chair a passed me over, and to desire, with She has been duly and amply forewarned. with Ferguson the other day. Ferguson Or if her eyes bf hazel, black or blue have heard there was no doubt whatever little and gave me my paper, folded. quite unreasonable eagerness, that he I will not dwell upon her wealth of hair, She has read about herself that he had heard me. has a boy named Freddie. Freddie "You will have to read verv steadily, should look at me again, even if his Or 011 its silken glossiness or hue. till it might well seem that whatever The girls were as happy as usual. Mi'ss Chrystal." t. eyes would have laughter in their is a boy about nine years of age, I know not if to other men she seem 3olid virtue she should attempt unto, They could contemplate the .situation "Yes," I said, in a small voice. depths. The sweetest woman earth has ever seen, and is considered very "bright." He all sweet spontaneity would be utterly tranquilly,' it even afforded them "For some months." 'The incarnation of a poet's dream But every week the laughter seemed is he is positively brilliant. But if he impossible. Not a quarterly reviewer, amusement they found something ButthisI know she is my Fancy's Queen. "Yes," I said again. further away. And if he were grave p not a monthly magazinist,not humorous in my discomfiture. It were my boy I think I could polish "The rest of the class are far ahead in class, he was graver still on Saturdays. Be thou forever blest, propitious day, was I, not they, whom he had overheard. a weekly religious and family newspaper,scarcely of you." He gazed steadily at my paper him still more. At all events I should When- first I saw her, robed in creamy a daily morning reporter, "YesyesI know," I said. as he discussed it, and discussed white. try. but had tried his hand at her education, We sat in a half circle on the floor He seemed to have'nothing more -I sought to speak to herehe would not it as though in a dream. He no longer Freddie came into the parlor soon before the fire that night, in our pretty her development, her weakness, stay, wholesomely humiliating to say to thought me flippant, and conceited after my arrival, his face shining from But like a startled wood-bird took to bright dressing-gowns, and drank her costuming. From a thousand and foolish, and tried to cure me. He me, and I understood that the interview flight. a recent vigorous application of soap cocoa and ate sweet biscuit before going sources she knew the risk she ran in loving no longer thought of me at all. might end, and rose to go. He 'The fairies knew her as she swiftly stept and water, and his yellow hair plastered to bed. I was hostess. The study, fine clothes and yachting,and crinkling rose, too, immediately. Most of our It was only at the end of the term Along their forest pathway arched with down to his head so that every the little tin kettle singing on the hair and the Episcopal church. lecturers nodded at us and sat still. green, that he set aside his perfunctory tutor bump was plainly visible. hob, the blue and white china the But she went gayly on crinkling her And from the flower-fastnesses out crept, Mr. Tudor conceded something to my manner. "You don't remember Mr. Johnson, cocoa, the sweet biscuits were all mine. To weave new love spells for my Fancy's hair and reading her prayers. She girlhood. He stood when I stood, "Are you goinghome, Miss Crystal?" do you?" said his father, taking the We four friends gave cocoa parties Queen. knewfor she had perused it a and remained standing as he continued he asked me hesitatingly. I young cub on his knee. turn. To-morrow Claudia would provide to speak to me. He threw out a hundred timesthat she ought "Yes. Not at once though. For a I followed hard at heelshe knew it not, the feast. Yesterday Nell had "Yep/' was the reply. crumb of praise. to stay at home and knead bread week or two I am goingto stay with For never once she turned herlovely face been hostess. Cocoa was the chief "What's that?" said Ferguson reprovingly. "Your style is cleai," he said. and sweep the house and make it Nor paused, but onward sped towards the ClaudiaMiss Harrison, I mean. dissipation of our college. We eave spot "When you deal with subjects within pleasant for her brothers instead of Then she will come home with me." "cocoas" as our brothers gave "wines" "Yep," repeated the boy, with a surprised Whereon were housed her innocence and your graspwhen you do not get out which she went to school herself, "I may be spending my holidays it was a drink easily made, inexpensive, look* grace. of your depthyour style is clear decidedly. studied Greek and the higher mathematics near you. Perhapspossiblywe nutritious. 1 rested not until I learned her name, "Haven't I told you to always say Not an altogether historical and graduated just like a boy. may meet each other." And wooed heraye,and made her mine, yes, sir?" We sat round the fire on the floor, style, but lucid." Even that did her no good. She had "Oh yes, very possibly." I said. I ween! "Yessir." talking and laughing, holding our teacups I felt that, on the whole, his blame And now she is a grave and stately dame learned her anatomy perfectly welljust And suddenly 1 felt light-hearted at "That's better. So you remember and stirring our cocoa slowly and But none the less is she my Fancy's Queen. had been lees humiliating than this the thought of holidays. There was how many bones she had, where Mr. Johnson, eh? It's nearly three absent-mindedly as we talked. My Wm, Beatty-Kingston in the Theatre. his praise. He held open the door a little pause, and I arose and held they were single and where they were years since Freddie saw you last," guests were merry, but I to-night was for me and shook hands gravely with out my hand. double where they were jointed with added Ferguson, turning tome. "It's unsually silent and depressed. a quiet smile. "It is somewhere in Devonshire, is a ball and socket and where they A CEITICAL MAD. astonishing what a memory that boy "After all," said Claudia sensibly, "Good afternoon," he said. it not?" he said. were jointed with a hinge what they has. What do you remember inquiredtabou trying to comfort me"after all, what "Good afternoon," I replied, and I "What?" Freddie9" he were expected to do and what would Mr. Johnson, did you say, Cis? Nothingnothing fled. How Lore Conquered Constitutional History. "Your home." be the terrible consequences if they "I remember," replied Freddie, ingeniously,, at all events that mattered. You The girls had invaded my study and I "Yes. Axetown East. Quite a littlo were compressed. Yet she laced them "that his hair was white at said he was young well, that is true. were lazily stretched on my bed and place on the coast. Have you in just as vigorously and relentlessly The lecture was just over. We four the roots and black at the ends, and How old, girls, do you imagine he is?" window-seat and rug waiting for me. friends there, Mr. Tudor?" as had her grandmother before her girls, the lectured, were standing, notebooks mar said she guessed he hadn't dyed "Twenty-five," said Lottie. "Well?" they said. "No," he said doubtfully. "I be- who had never a bone on her conscience, it this week." "Twenty-four," said Nell. in hand, in a little group in the I sat down beside Claudia on the lieveI believe the fishing is good?" and lied about it just as innocently, This remark produced a feeling of "Very young," said Claudia, conclusively. hearthrug and tore my corrected paper corridor, talking in subdued tones, And it did not strike me as strange reiteratedly and unconvincingly. constraint, so to to speak, and Freddie into small atoms and burnt them. that he should be going to a place in consulting one another on a knotty Nay, with all the abtruse metaphysics was banished from the parlor. I "Then you called him shywell he "I hate him," I said, poking the fire which he had no friends, and of which and mathematics and all the point in the history of grand jury. did not see him again until I went to is shy. You said he blushedwell, he vigorously and pushing the smouldering he did not know the name and concrete science and languages which dinner. The lecturer came out of the lectureroom does blush." paper into the flames"I hate county. she had, as it were, taken aboard, and Ferguson asked a blessing. As soon "That is just it," I groaned. "It is him! He thinks me conceited! He and passed us. He bowed But I did not tell the girls what he danced along her butterfly life, loving as he had finished Freddie "burst out all so true." thinks me horrid! He tries to be satirical had told me. It was only at the end gravely as he passed, and went hastily her dance and her butterflydom no with: "He will think you observant," said because he thinks me puffed up. ot my visit to Claudia that I broke down the stairs, his college cap in his less for her dainty dalliance with "Par Nelly, nibbling the sugar from her biscuit what's the reason you never He laughs at meI saw it in his eyes the news to her. I broke it casually. science, for which, in truth, she never 'hand, his long gown falling limply do that 'ceptwhen wehavecomp'ny?" with slow epicurean enjoyment. more than oncealwaysevery "He came for the fishing," I said. possessed a grand passion, and only Ferguson made some facetious remark, "He will think, at all events, that about his tall, thin figure. We were time I looked at him. I said he blush- "And father and the boys seemaccidentallyto wished she could be more of a butterfly but I saw a light in his eye you aie interested in him," said Lottie edI said he thought of me as a girl silent until he was out of sight then have come across him." than fate had permitted. So needless which told me that there was trouble cheerfully. I said he blushed because I spoke to "Never mind," said Claudia. our tongues were loosened, and we no is all anxiety lest by any tortuous ahead for Freddie, and I rejoiced in "In hima man!" I groaned, for a him. And he despises me! And he "No, it does not matter." Isaid resignedly. longer spoke in subdued tones. process whatever a sow's ear can secret. girl who has tyrannized over eight admiring will never, never forget." evolve itself out of a silk purse! "Mar," said Freddie presently, brothers and been treated all "Poor young man!" said Lottie And there I forgot that I belonged But Claudia was sympathetic next "don't you wish Aunt Maria was her life with deference by fond father to a family of boys where no one ever day when we arrived at Axetown East. feelingly. here?" and uncles has an ungrateful scorn for wept, and burst into sudden tears In a short fortnight Mr. Tudor had And then, of course, to point the "He is grave as a judge," said Nell. Why, Freddie?" said his- mother, men. I had had no meek mother and and Claudia, Nell and Lottie fell to made great strides toward friendship moral, she made a foolish marriage. "That," said Claudia weightily, "is with a fond smile. aunts and sisters to teach me humility comforting me. with all at home. He had found favor Reared not only with refined tastes as a becoming womanly virtue. "'Cause you said the other day that nervousness. He is nervous,nervous with father and the boys his which is desirablebut with expensive you wished she an' Mr. Johnson could "Poor Cispoor Cicely!" said the of us." hotel was comfoitless, and he deserted tasteswhich is unluckyshe II. meet, 'cause he'd be such a good catch girls sympathetically. "And Saturday it frequently. He came and must needs fall in love with a young As the weeks went on I grew more But it was I who had most to say. for her, an' it was about her last is coming and you will be forced went at all hours, laughed and smoked man similarly reared, who had correspondingly and more convinced that I hated and I leant against the balusters, with my chance, an'" to see him. You poor, poor Cicely!" with the boys and talked sensibly like fallen in love with her always should hate Mr. Tudorthat "Frederick!" shouted Ferguson. 'face towards the open door of the Yes, Saturday was coming. On an old friend with father. He was banged and blooming face, with her he thought me young, ignorant, stupid, "Why, Freddie Ferguson!" exclaimed Wednesday and Thursday and Friday more bronzed than ever for a fortnight .lecture-room, and gave the girls the light feet, her ready laugh, her merry flippant, spoilt and conceited that he his mother. I went about with a constant he had been fishing and rowing voicea young man who had no fortune despised my intellect, remembered my 'benefit of all my observations. The subject was quickly changed. I consciousness of Saturday's inevitable and walking with energy. He laughed foolish speeches, and always would to maintain her in the flowery "Yes, he is nervous," I said. "Poor felt that it would be wise to send Freddie advance. Our lecturer had stated that as I had sometimes suspected he could remember them. His eyes had a way Eaths she loved, who had nothing to away from the table, but Ferguson young man, he is shy! When I asked on Saturday afternoon he would be laugh. He had left his tutor manners of twinkling when he looked at me and elp himself with but his fresh young daied Fate and permitted him to remain. pleased to go through our papers with behind him with cap and gown. Suddenly him if the grand jury still existed he looked away again all the perplexing manhood, unassoiled. trained by a us, to discuss points of interest, explain now, at the end of a fortnight, 'blushed, girlsoh, he is copper-colored questions seemed to fall to me, and good education, good blood in his "Gimme another piece of cake!" said difficulties, and remove possible he had grown tired of fishing and of his lips twitched when I spoke of gavelkind veins, good principles in his will, good to start with. I know, but he blushed Freddie, presently. misconceptions. We were to go to lonely boating and walking. He haunted as a custom duty," and found habits behind him and a stout heart through the copper-coior'' "You have had three already," said him singly. I was to go alone to the our house. He seemed to be always Wolsey guilty under the Statute of for what should lie before. While the his mother, gently. man who, I had said, was shy of me where I was. Claudia was sympathetic. ''For your ignorance, perhaps," sug-gested Purveyance. He seemed to enjoy my novelty l3ted the glamour lasted and "I know I have, an' I want anoth and thought of me as a girl and could And, somehow, I felt traitorous blunders the worst mistakes of Claudia, Claudia. the heavens smiled, but when the not forget that I was a girl, whom I when I received her sympathy. Nell and Lottie never provoked stress of life began when a new little "He is very shy," said I. "He is "But" had said blushed. The thought was in him even a temptation to smile. soul looked helpless and unknowing terrible. "I want another piece of cake!" mot used, I expect, to teaching girls. It was a still, warm Summer evening But the bad half-hour in my week into their own she knew, both knew, "What can you possibly want of He cannot forget that we are girls. Saturday came. The girls were a day or two after our arrival. was on Saturday afternoons when I that the reign of the butterfly was more cake?" cheerful. "Go first,Cis," they said"go We were in the drawing-room He waiteddid you notice?-until we went alone to him, and sat by his side over. The young man must fare forth "Wanter eat it, of course. What'd I first and get it over." down-stairs the French windows were whilst he spread out that week's history tiad left the room the other lecturers for bread the wide world over. Then yer s'pose I wanted ter do with it open wide. Father was showing Mr. "Yes, I will go first," I said. But paper of mine before him and arose the young womana girl no stalk out before us. I think he wanted put wheels on it an' use it for a wag- Tudor some views of places abroad when he came I faltered and put off commented on its faults and required longer, but a youthful mother of the on'" to open the door for us and to where he had been stationed at different the evil moment, and Claudia, Nell an explanation of its ambiguities, and period, with her child in her arms It struck me that this would be a times. Suddenly, on the still air, bow us out. Oh, poor young man, and Lottie all went in before me. waited patiently with most courteous and fared forth by his side. good time to remove Freddie and inflict came a voicefrom the garden. Claudia "He is not shy to-day," reported attention for my answers. Now and he is shy'shy and young corporal punishment upon him, was coming up the path with my Nell on her return. "I think, Cis, that then, glancing up at him quickly, I The Haughty Wife. The girls were frowning at me. but Mrs. Ferguson thought differently. brother George. perhaps we were mistaken about him. caught a gleam of laughter deep down 'Claudia was touching my elbow, with She regarded Freddie's remarks as From the Bostos Record. Or, perhaps, he was under the impiession "And that is the story," she said. in his eyes. Yet when he spoke his mysterious meaning, on onaside Nell laughable. that we were learned giris after In one of the cities that lie over "It dosen't seem quite a modest thing voice was slow and grave and weighty. pulling my sleeve imperatiWy on the "It's astonishing what a fund of humor our papers and our chatter he knows to say a man blushes when you speak against Boston there live3 a family It was Saturday afternoon in the other. Lottie formed her lips into a that boy has got/' she said, as us better and thinks very little of us. to him. Poor Cis! she has never been, middle of the term. I sat beside him whose masculine head is a man who .silent "hush." she gave him the biggest piece of cake He is solemnhorribly solemn! And happy in his presence since. He will at the table, listening meekly to his has won considerable wealth, from on the plate. "He's always making "Shy and youngvery young! no old man could be severer. Oh he spoil her holidays. We try to praise criticisms. quaint remarks like that. Par and I humble beginnings not unlike those of what is the matter?" I said. is quite at his ease." him sometimes, anythingt bu goofor as Cis, she will "You miss the point here, Miss Chrysttl* of him Sh think he'll become a great humorist." Nobody answered me. No answer, sajr Commodore Vanderbilt, with the difference never Nell had reported truly. He was "Mr. Johnson," said Freddie," as he indeed, was needed. At that moment really dislikes him now." quite at his ease. He was sitting waiting that while he like Vanderbilt, "Yes, Mr. Tudor." rose from the table, "can I feel of your our lecturer passed us again and went at a table which had pens and ink "That's a pity," said George, "for "And here you speak of impeachment began as a boatman, he was expanded di'mun pin?" back into the lecture-room. He had and papers on it there was no expectancy Tudorpoor beggaris in love with as though it was procedure by into the bank.ng business instead of "What a singular request," said come up the stairs behind me he must in his attitude he seemed a little her." bill." into the railroad business. Ever since Mrs. Ferguson. "But please let him, have heard me. He seemed to glance bored, indeed he sat with his back I do not think father had heard he "Yes, Mr. Tudor." do it if you don't mind,. Mr. Johnson. Kmy way as he passed. There seemed he became a banker his excellent wife towards the door, one elbow on the was engrossed in photographs of "That is a somewhat grave mis- He's got some funny idea in. his hea/' to be a twinkle in his gray-blue eyes table, his hand propping his chin. He has been smitten with the great importance China. I did not venture to look at take." and we shall bee what it is." The giils moved slowly away but I rose when he heard me, and looked at Mr. Tudor. I do not think that he of her husband's new occupation, I could not acquiesce again. And We did. After rubbing the diamona turned precipitately and fled. me calmly enough as he shook hands. looked at me. But an anecdote which the monosyllibic "yes" was the only and advertised it on every several times with his forefinger (inci -1 Past the lecture-room door, along father was relating was new to us "Miss Chrystal?" he said. form of answer that came to me. possible occasion. The horse-car dently coloring my immaculate shirtfront the corridor, upstairs I fled to when he told it again next day. "Yes," I said, meekly. "And here. I think, you were required with currant jell), he said, wondenngly: conductors on the line which runs my own little room (study, bedchamber He touched a chair that stood beside It was an hour or two later that we to discuss the constitutional importance and reception-room) near into her city all know her, and smile his at the table, and I sat down found ourselves alone together But of these events?" "Why, it ain't sticky at all." the sky. I meant to work and took ^ith a feeling of obedience. His face George's words were ringing in my when she enters the car and grandly "Y-s Mr. Tudor." "No, Freddie, of course not," said my Stubbs and turned over its leaves, was grave, his manner, as Nell had brain still. It seemed natural, now utters her command: "You have not done so, Miss Chrys- Ferguson smilingly. and found my place hurriedly, with said, severe I wondered how I could that we were alone that he should go tal." "Conductor, let me off at my husband's "Whyshouldit besticky? Diamonds an unusual energy. But work would have thought him nervous he looked back at once straight to those words. "NoI am afraidI am afraid not." bank'" are not sticky." -not diive away the remembrance of as though he had never blushed he 'It :s true he said gently. "I did "You mistook the question, possibly?" One day lately a trampish-looking "No. I s'pose not," said Freddie my unlucky speeches, the sentences seemed quite unaffected by the consciousness not mean to tell you yet. I meant to old fellow with a red nose got on the "but Iheard mar say that she though! jr bore no meaning to me I could not that his pupil was a girl. try to win your love first." He was looking gravely at me, waiting. car ]ust as the banker's wife delivered it was't adi'mun at all,, but only paste, JL ifix my attention on the history of He seated himself beside me, and drew I did not speak. He was standing My spoken answer like my wriiten her usual order to the conductor. The an'I knew that paste" vearly Germanic institutions. I shut a corrected exercise towards him. near me by the open window, and he answer, was not very much to the old man watched her performance up my Stubbs in despair the girls But at this point Freddie was hustled "This I think, is your paper, Miss took my hand and let it rest in his. nomt. I spoke desperately. curiously, and then arose, pulled himself were playing tennis in the courts below. out of the room by his father, and Crystal?" "Do I spoil your holidays?" he aeked "What is the good of it all?" I said. together, and called out with a I seized my racket and ran in a few moments my heart was gladened "Yes," I said in a small voice"II gravely. "Are you unhappy, as "What does it matter about the judicial magnificent air that was inimitable swiftly down to join them. Tennis by tne sounds of dismal yells in think so, Mr. Tudor." your friend says, because I am here?" system, and who has the control "Conductor, let me off at my old would make me forget. the distance. He was turning the pages slowly and I hesitated for a moment. "I do of taxation? What does it matter woman's peanut stand!" I saw no more of Freddie that evening. But if my thoughts were distracted gravely. I sat looking down at my not think that Claudia knows'" I answered. about the Pailiament.and the courts, A roar went through the air, and I do not intend to dine at Ferguson's for an hour or two they attacked me hands folded meekly on the table and and all the dull old laws? One can't "my husband's bank" has been alluded again at present. Again when the game was over. I did not see his face. "Cicely, I am very bold," he said really care for the Constitution." to more than ever since that time. .stood before my glass and changed my "Your first answer isis inadequate." eagerly"very bold to speak to you I had time while he sat surveying dress for dinner and grew rosy red as now so soon. If I make you unhappy me to feel ashamed of my babyish, The Coachman's Bri de in Europe. vfche remembrance of my words came Colored People in Washington. "The first part of Stubbs isis very I will go. If I have no chance-^-no passionate speech. back. I had said that he had blushed difficult," I said, venturing to look chance at alltell me, Cicely, and From the New York Herald. The national capital will need to be "What made you think of devoting because I spoke to himI had said up. send me away." A prominent banker in Wall street yourself to the study of constitutional fortified Ly white immigration in order that he was shyI had implied that There was a strange quick little But I said nothing. History?" he said, with gentle surprise. said to a Herald reporter after he had to protect it from the surplus colored he was shy of me because I was a girl. twinkle for a moment in his eyes as "Send me away now," he said pleadingly. His gentleness seemed like satire. population. The colored people now exhausted every clew to find out I should never dare to speak to him or he glanced at me but his lips did not My eyes, in spite of myself, filled look at him again! I had called him number 30,000 out of the 180,000 whether or not Mrs. Schilling was in smile. I looked up at him. I could think with tears. Suddenly he looked away copper-coloredat least I might have odd people composing the population the city: "I had a talk with Mr. Morosini "In the next question," he said of no proper answer. "I do not want from me. He asked me no more questions. spared him that reproach. I looked of the district. There are at least slowly, "you confuseor seem to confusetwo to send you away," I said. and he said that his daughter For the next five minutes he in the glass at my own little face it things, the constitutions 150,000 whites in the district. In the talked rapidly, without a pause. is well and happy, traveling with a fc THE NOVEMBER "BELGKAVIA.' was brown as a berrybrown by nature and the Assize of Clarendona slip, last annual report of the health officer When I resolutely blinked back my rich family in Europe, and never was in the first place and made more perhaps?" tears and glanced at him, he was diligently it is shown that of the births during Cheerful People. brown by the summer sun and the so happy since she left home as she is He was looking steadily and calmly disfiguring my history paper the year thers were 1,985 white breeze from the sea at home. His God bless the cheerful peopleman, at the present. Her sister had a letter at me, waiting. For the first time in with crooked circles, and his face was children born to 1,537 of the colored. eyes were blue and his hair was fair. woman or child, old or young, illiterate my life I felt small and young and eyes less brown than ruddy. from her, and she expressed her brownhair,1 I was altogether Although the whites are nearly or educated, handsome or homely. meek. I forgot that I was 19 and no After that day his eyes ceased to delight at getting rid of that brute of skin, all brown alike. And I had called five to one to the colored people in Over and above every other social longer a schoolgirl. I was overwhelmed twinkle when he looked at me he him copper-colored!I had called a husband." point of population, the number of trait stands cheerfulness. What the with a sense of my own ignorance. passed me over in class and put the him young'what else had I called The reporter wrote the above and colored children born nearly equals "Noit was not a slip,"*I said. "Constitutional sun is to naturewhat God is to the puzzling questions to Nell and Claudia, him? I brushed back my brown hair called upon Mr. Morosini at hi3 office history is quitequite stricken heart which knows how to in number that of the whites. Those and was almost gentle when I went -tightly and severely, tied my soft silk on broadway. Mr. Morosini received new to me." lean upon Himare cheerful persons who think that the colored race is alone to him. He gave up asking me sash with a ]erk and ran down to dinner the reporter courteously, but declined Vto "So I had gatnered from your pa- who go in the house and by the wayside. to expound this theory and that argument falling off and will gradually die out with a rush, hoping to escape from talk about his daughter. The re- a per," he said quietly. They go unobtrusively and unconsciously which he had failed to follow in this country should note these smy thoughts again. porter then laid before him the above His very gravity and quietness about their silent mission and when he was forced to condamn figures. It is told by southern people statement of his friend. Perhaps, after all, I thought, trying seemed like bitterest satire. He said brightening up society around them my work, he worded his blame mildly that the negroes are becoming more "Is thate statement true, Mr. Mo- to comfort myself, he had not heard he did not grasp my theory heredid asked. and looked away as he spoke. with happiness beaming from their rosini9 prosperous year by year in the South, me. My voice, alas! was clear as a not follow my argument there. And I faces. We love to sit near them we "He has forgiven yeu, Cis," said the bell's I was an only girl in a family of Mr. Morosini read it carefully as if and with that prosperity they are had had no theoryI could not follow ifii1 love the expression of the eye, the girls. "He completely ignores you now boysa spoilt girl who had never been weighing every word and then said: rapidly increasing in numbers. They my own argument. He grew more tone of their voice. Little children for which you are thankful, Cis, are taught to be meek and silent in the presence "That is the situation exactly it is grave and quiet and slow. The lump are large property-holders in Washington, you not?" find them out, oh! so quickly amid of her brothersa talkative girl true every word. Now I hops the papers in my throat grew larger every moment. and one street in the fashionable the densest ciowd, and passing by thu "Very thankful," I said. I said it who had learnt to make herself heard will drop the subject." If 1 had been brought bursp in a part of the city, Fifteenth street is so impressively, for I needed to convince knitted brow and compressed lip, rl I should have into las in any Babel of louder and gruffer Mr. Morosini then fixed his initials, family of myself as well as the girls. glide near, and laying a confiding little well controlled and fortified by colored "voices. But perhaps he had been G. P. M., to the paper to certify still tears before him. I sat .still and 4e I was inconsistent, for I began hand on their knee, lift their cleai propertv-owners that they cannot tthinkingnot listeningmeditating on further tta authenticity of this statement. looked at my own brown fingers to wish that he would find young eyes to those lovi ng faces. be driven Irora it. ?r*- ."V it^'Si A~ i Wy^lAl-. feM -V**a-i t2mMm^MM$(m^^&^^m- &M, fi&tss WM&i^^hMMi&< &Z\,^>Ca^i Pkspt-a&tiii