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Show ·10 . ' . j I' YiOUS COII\"C'I'S:Jtion lJC'tWCC'll US wJtid t was somcthtng In t LC j) c 1~ tramn of Jlis horf'c 's heels was hn.d softened me, and _when t ~ ''{' '. mons'rons L:uricr It ad no longer in hcnrin:;, Jt SC'<'11H'{ . as 1 '\nm;·'old thouf)hls :uul been Lrokcn down from bctwccn us .. ~cc:. whiclt lltnll just befancies rctumcd to rno; sweet m~m(;~ t -~~didcntly to my mimi, fore angrily dislllisscd, _now c:mf~c _nc" ~,hilc lend in,-,. tny !torso and taking her hand tn one o m~ t:., tl\trotwh a u~n·ow pnth HlCII.\IW IIUIUJI."). . I I tl c. we took ou r couJ s, o 11 wtt 1 t 10 o which womJtl 1 tth' rougl·t :t P1 C ..I S •,. tll t tl 1 ickct ' we ]1ad trot t cu to· gcthcr a t bousand times Lefor~. I 1 "tltis is our old walk. "Mary," I Lcgnn, as we l!'oc~ct.C]t·,in across tlto path from Do you remember 1 rrlwt lJIIle ws d < the first time we knew it." _ _ ll'churd with one exccp- "Y 't lool-s tile same as C\el, I • ' . I I es, I " + J ·c tbnn once and pal'tlcu ar y tion w},jcJ~ I ha~~~l rcma~ ";f :~lO:lpon whicJ, we uscJ to sit, is sthciasr cmeloyr nto m bge. got aJet IeJOn ~' ' tbc LusiJCs ha\'C grown up so thickly mound _it." . . since we have used it. lt "'".' on•· " l t IS so lo11g, l\L~1 Y• ] , The weeds grow now wtthout visits that kept the btusl.' ( 0\\ n . . t least . ·ual the time is far interruptiou from us~!r~m m,c· ol D ',0~1 know, Mary, I am ' J I hall VISit Jt Uf>'clll1. 0 ) distant W 1011 S < \) 1 rl ilVO ~f-lrCIWO to-morrow." como to Lid you g~od- Y ~.. c. • 0 "To-morrow l so so?n . . l\hr 'l I have been making "Soon! Do you thmk ~ soo~, l • l~l~Ye declnrcd my intcu-prcparations for months. crt.'1lll y, . tiou for months." I Uid !Je.ar something of such a "Indeed! but not to J~lC. I l d I mean I bclic\·cd purpose being in your mmd; but l0i1C ' that it was not true." . . not true 1'' I demanded with some "Did you hope tlwt Jt was . I . ] frankness of cluld-camcstness. She answered With t Je Ieac y hood. J 1 n H urdis told me--" "Surely I daid· ; .a nd when o' " I said (J'loomily, authority for me, < 0 J "John llur IS IS n~. . 'l'he iJJtcrruption broug Jt brcakhw off her speech Ill the nuddlel. t IJiation of whieh, o . place from t. Je con em • d us brtek to om· starting- ' I tl I; tl tacitly .seeme to s:ncc my brother's departure, we Ia o J Hhr ink. P ,\ RTJ ~'<; SC F.Ni~ . 11 "Ol!, Rich:trd, tl1is :m ev il tern per !" she f'Xdairncd. "'\V lry do you cucuu,·n;;e if? Wl•y this "''g''Y spirit toward you1· b1·othf'r! It is :tu C\·i l mood, nncl can do no good. 1Jf's ides, I thiuk you do IJiJn injustice. He is gentle and good 11alured; Ire w:tlits your pron1ptn('SS, it may Lc, :1nd Ire la cks something of your enterprise and i11dustt·y. Perhaps, too, he k1s not tJ,e same zcalons warmth of feeling, but truly I belicyc thnt his lJC~Jrt is in tl1e right place.'' "Jt is y om policy to believe so, :Mary; else where is yours?'' "Mine!" s ite exclnimed; and hCJ· eye wns (ixcd upon me witl1 an expre ss ion of lllixrd cmiosity nud wonder. u Ay, y ours,'' I contiuucd, g iving a coust ructiou to the cquivocn l form of my prcYious speech, diHC t·iug fr om thnt wlJich I originally int ended ; "ny, yours, for if it Le not, your clinrity is w::~tcd. Hut no more of tllis, Mmy, if y ou ple:1 sC'. 'l'hc subject, for Stmllry rerr sons, is nn unplctts:lnt 0110 to me. John Hurd is is fOrtunntc in your eulogy, and f'o r your sn kC', not less t.l1nu ],is, l will not seck, by :my word of mine, to disturL your impressions. 1\ly words migl1t Jnf'judicc yom opiHiou of l1is wot·t! J, withou t impniring its iutrins ic v:1lue; .1nd it mny Lc, HH you think, tlw.t I am a ll wrong about it. He is a fortunate man, that Soln1 llurdis-doubly fOrtunntc, ]f:u·y. J le ltas the wenlth wl1ich men toil fo r, nnd fight for, and lie for, mal sell themselves to tl1e foul fiend for in a. tl1ou sand way~ : J,c l1as tho favor of women; a gre:Jtcr temptntion, fo1· which tl1ey do a t lJOusnnd times worse. He lHts tlrose possC'ssions, Mary, some of w),ich I am never to lJavc, but for the rest of wlJich I am eYcn now ubout to le11ve the ltOine aud pcr!Japs all tl1c hnJlpiness of my cJ , iJd J,ood." "You surely do not envy your brother, Uichnnl, uny of his possessions?" " J .. ct me know wl1at they arc, Uary; let them be cnumerntcd, :md then wi ll I nnswc1· you. Envy J ol1n Jlurdis I do not; that is to say, I do 110t euvy him his wealth, or I lis wisdom, his lands, hil:l negroes, or :my of l1 is world ly clinttels. Arc you satisfied now, Mary, tltat there is notl1iug base in my euvy, though it mny Le that he l1as somct hi11g yet wl1ich })1'0- vokes it 1" •• And what is that, R iclmrd 1" |
