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Ontario Reformer, 26 Sep 1873, p. 4

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The. ifat began Wo praise and ac- | on the Lord, in the siyle of Sir Leoline's mastiff, with 'sixteen short howls ; Mrs. Hassan braced herself in Mow, to--endure that long di Weise 2 to which the choir was wont to wed the noble words of the ' Te Deum," when her attention was diverted from the weekly agony by an apparition which had at least the good effect ing here gars to the howls, roars s, ghibh thel four masi- ve thought proper to attribute to the peoples, apostles and martyrs. was apretty woman in ing up "the aisle with or §aughers, who game in as was their custom. A chill, and then a glow of anger, ran over Mrs. Hassan, and her husband won- ~ sudden flash into his wife's' eyes. I am 4fraid that Mrs. Hassan's mind, during © the prayers an sermon of that morning, waa not in a Christian frame. Every one in Meuango was in the habit of exchang- ONTARIO REFORMER 4 OSHAWA, ONT, rEiDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1878. study} but, after all, life was foghim a very heavy and uninteresting business, and he would not have been sorry to lay down the burden once for all. At thirty five, mu h to his sister's vexation, he | spoke and thought of himself. as one to whom all the chances, ambitions, and en- joyments of life wcre closed. If the idol to which he had sacrificed himself had possessed even a head of gold, Mrs. Hassan could have borne it with more resignation; but when she knew that the costly sacrifice had been laid on | eyes the shrino of a wooden image, no better tkan that fishbodied doll which the Ephe- sians adored as the virgin huntress, Mrs. Hassan's patience was sorely tried. And now thegwoman had come here to thro herself. in Sydney's way, and his sister could foresee nothing but trouble. 'If he once marries her,' she said to herself, ' he will find out what a fool she is, and having and hating is far worse than losing'and loving.. The next evening there happened to be a little party at President Lyon's. - Mrs. Hassan snd her mother-in-law had meant to go ; but, »t the last minute, arrived an old friend of Mrs. Hassan's the elder, and that lady preferred staying to talk over old times. Mr. Hassan had gone out of town on business ; Cassy did not like to go alone ; and, rather to har surprise, her brother, who was in the house, offered to ing greetings going out of church ; hat, 0 her bible class in'the Sunday-school room. p ip Yd and diffi-¢ ARLE ose Who, having =in- us, never think of needing or ask- ing forgiveness ; but girls are creatures given to cuyiogi Tanjecture, amd 1 fear pubis + 4 gh 1 Wather occupied | with 'guessing at Mrs. -Hassan's personal | -experience than in making a practical *ap- | | plication of the lesson. 's the matter, Cassy I" said her | as they walked home together. Mrs. Hassan's hand trembled on her | husband's arm, as she said in a low voice ; | - 2CIEAEHmE -.; me improvement on first intentions. * SR or Wo ! ' Pe. --- 2 LA kw "7 lald Sy. sth ouly allusion he ever made to the past. know, run in the family ; but they do | no harm,' pany her. Not till she was coming do vn stairs, to get into the carriage, did it occur to her thit Mrs. Armet would probably be at Mr. Lyon's. / ¢Batshe would contrive to meet him somewhere," thought this uncharitable woman, 'and it may te better there than, accidentally on purpose, by the river, or | in the woods.' As Mrs. Hassan came down the stairs of Dr. Lyon's house, she heard from the parlor a certain hard mstallic langh with which she was familiar, and she saw hef brother look about him with a startled glance, as if some old association had been unpleasantly jarred. The brother and sister paid their com- pliments to Mrs. Lyon and the president, and then Mrs. Haman looked about her. Sydney, who felt lonely and out of place, | attached himself 'to Professor Beaucour 'But it's not that sort, James. rd | and made conversation about the college rather have seen epéry spirit that ever | library, to the extreme disgust of Miss walked ina'churchyard, or even a wehr. Mande Clay, who had been making her- 0 2 tlie uslivesdity Yowa of Menango, but Mr. wolf, than that woman who came into | church this, morging with the Vales.' "88 Ia pretty worhan enough,' said | Mr. Hassan. ' What is the matter with | her)' ESI Arbeit She is a widow, now ; she was Anna Clayton." ... Mz. Hassan looked'as. if he were going to whistle. "But, beingiin the street, he | refrained, and only said : * The deuce she js I" which was perhaps | * "1 suppose, of course, she knew Sydney | beze," paid Mrs, Hassan, bitterly. da ndight be satisfied with the mischief she has done, #nd let him alone." | TDeyan thipk ko cares for her yot I' "He.cares for her so much that he ean- mot cars for. anything else. She ruined | 'Shin fife. I can't 'understand it; 1 can't, Vea Wall Mi. Haman, quite passion- + "As to that, can you understand what | pay me!" said Mr. | to omfort his wife. you!" returned Mrs. Hassan, in & most unwonted state of excitement, 'James! Asif there were swy compari. son ! Bhe is cold hearted and coarse mind- o, and utterly selfish.' | ydhey, being the exact reverse of all this, devoted himself to her, and | loved her with all his heart and soul 7' | 'He didn't love her. Ho loved the | 2 fifa [Which he' somewdy pin/ upon. her persomality ; w Tshouldn't wonder if he married her after all, and was utterly miserable ; 'and hare i isnu war for him to go away | %o now.' | Mr. Sydney Devine was Ms. Hassan' . | only brother. When quite a young fan he had thrown away opon Miss Anna Clayton a love as sincere 'and intense as | aay man ever gave to a wowan. Why he | did tt 'ennot "explain, for Anna was all | that Mrs. Hassan had pronounced her to be ; and, a! nineteen, was as wordly, - selfish, and as calculating as though she | had not been blessed with a pratty figure, firie eyes, and a pink and white skin. Sydney, sc to speak, put all his eggs | ~_ into une-basket ; but Miss Clayton, like | _ wo stringy to her bow. While she had | "," beh engiged to Syditey, she had been car- _rying on a flirtation, by lettter, 'with a gentleman old enough to be her fathesit | a good man, wh) was rv wiser.in his love | than if he had been one-and-twenty. Matters had gone so far between Miss n and Bydney, that the expectant | dégroom had ordered his wedding suit. Miss Clayton went down to New York to | Take her-tast-purchases, married Mr. Armer, and wrote the day before her wed- ding to Boeke her engagement with Mr.' « Devine. ".. " i Itis to be supposed that Mr.' Armer never knew of Mr. Devine's existence ; sad Anna did not at all mind the talk "which she occasioned, but rather enjoyed her notoriety. oaks "after {lie war broke out, y- threw aside his law practice, -" and went into the rank and file. He went "from one ead of the struggle to the other. Heo wel his epaulets, and rose to be a lonel. Heo was p for recklens- | mess in the field, and did his duty like a | man. He was in 'sixteen pitched battles, | and never received a scratch ; and fever | '48d disoase passed him by unharmed. 'So many are taken who haye every- for," 'he 'aid onee, 'but uk to, me.' It was almost When peace came he went to Menango, - where his sister had married, aud resum, od his profession, but ip very gnambi. tious way, occupying himself chiefly with #¢he business' arising from his brother-in- self agreeable by asking a series of dis- | connected questions varying from astro- | | nomy and chemistry to the professor's own paper on the 'Catacombs,' in the last North American. <The professor was a shy man, and, like { most authors, he could not bear to talk of his writings, Perflaps he feit grateful to Mr. Devine, for he entered with ardor into the subject of Eaglish clossie liter- ature. In the meantime, Mr. Devine | was conscious of a curious feeling--not hope, not expectancy, not terror--an in- ! fluence in the air, for which he could" not account, only as it connected itself with a rather loud treble voice, and a frequent sannd; half-laagh, half-giggle, that came fromamid a group of students. The voice, the langh, were oddly familiar. They were alike, yet unlike. sounds which had rung in his memory for many a | day: Mrs. Hassan, listening to the. conver. any ong else? sation of that very elegant young gentle- man, Master Dick Monroe, was at no loss | to recognize the voice, for the memory of aversion in this ease was truer than that of love. She sat where she could see Mrs. Armer's figure in the centre of group of young men. Mr. Armer had not been dead more than eighteen months, but Mrs. Armer had chosen, since Sun- | day, to leave off her mourning, or only to | retain such as might be discernible rather by faith than by sight. Shé'wote a pale lavender silk, made very.low and trimmed in every conceiva- ble place. She had violets and white | roves in her hair, and a black velvet rib- | bon with a pearl cross on her white neck, and pearl and jet bracelets on her arms. She had not grown old, and at twenty- nine looked hardly less fresh than-at nine- teen. Her color had not faded, and she had the same way of rocking to and fro, twisting her neck and rolling her eyes- in a manner which some people called grace- ful, and which had of old disgusted Cassy | Devine and charmed her brotaer. Would it charm him again? Mrs. Hassan glanced at him across the room, and saw that he had seen his old love, and was watching her, quite oblivious to the professor's remarks about a fine his- / » prudent yong woman, preferred to have torical collection whieh he desired to see added to the library. The look on Mr. Devine's face was not of admization, or grief, or uy very intense emotion, 'except that of shocked surprise aud wonder. Presently, as Professor Beaucour turn- .ed to speak to some one else, Mr. De- vine made his way to the group of which Mrr. Armer was the centre, and reached | it just in time to hear these words 'Oh, people in America make such frights of themselves, wearing mourning forever, and going about like so many palls. And if you put on black you can't go to parties. Why, when Cad Martin's brother died, and sha was perfectly devot- ed to him, she wouldn't put on black at all, because then she said she couldn't go into society, and her mind was so distract- ed she needed diversion more than ever. I told Mr. Armer that he meedn't expect I was going to make a guy of myself for him forever, if he died." And here came the inevitable Jangh, echoed by many of the surrounding gentlemen. - I think most men have a certain pleasure in hearing a woman talk like & fol, as it justifies their preconceived theories. ' Can this be the woman I have had in mind all these years I' thought Mr. Devine bewildered, and yet with a dim sense of relief, as if some heavy cloud were grad. ually dispersing from before his eyes. He stood and watched her every motion | fascinated, but with a fascination how different from his old passion. Theré was the same turn of the head, the same uplift- ing of the eyes he had bsen wont to think 80 graceful and sweet, the 'same sidelong motions of the body, which he had once law's, large preperty. He had tdlents,. and had once been devoted to his work, Dut now he seemed to for nothing but to make for himself the modest income which sufficed for his . Theré was a pleasant » socisty in compared to the movement of a lilly on its stem. 'Why did all these airs and graces now strike him as so disagreeable, and the manner, which had once been charming art) , seem self. affsctation Devine went nowhere but to his sister's | ldom t was other Hob 'with books fn his Yoi sare moments, 2nd tried.telor- ad hime lf aud the 1a hk puts Had he been a blind fool, or had she been different ; and from what creatire had '»een modeled that fair, sweat i image that ad 50 long been enshrined in his heart | ' Oh, 4 don't feel as if 1 could snstain 'e in such a place as this,' continued |-of-feeling, he Jandy Mrs. Afinee. ' How do you manage when you are at home I she asked, throwing back her head, and favoring Major Mou roe, U. 8. A, with a roll of her eyes not unlike that popularly ascribed to a duck in a thunder-storm. 'I have sustained myself with a pro- phetic hope of your arival,' said the major with a bow, and then he slipped out of the circle, and left a place vacant for Mr. Devine. Mrs. Armer's eyes fell upon Sydney, and her color deepened and her brightened. 'Oh, Mr. Devine! oh, Sydney! she said putting out a very pretty hand as she rose, dropping fan, flowers, and handker- chief for the studen's to pick up. ' Is this reelly you I' ¢ I believe it is,' said Mr. Devine, smil- ing, with perfect outward composure, though hia whole self was in a sort of whirl, wifh a rushing wreck of old associ- ations and memories going down into chaos and amidst them all, , awake after a sleep of years, seemed to stand wonder- ing at the destruction of her prison-house - confused and yet with a sense of relief and rising life that was delightful. 'It 'is such a lovely evening, "should 00 like to go out on the piassa,' said Mrs. Armer, with a rustle and sway of all her silken dra )eries. She hung on his arm ; she looked up appealingly into his face as she erossed the room ; she 'minced' as she went, in the manner that of old moved the ire of the prophet. Dr. Lyon looked after her as if he won- dered what sort of beast this might be that had come into his ark. Menango, as represented then and there, drew itself together a little; eo glances, and was inclined to think Armer 'mot nice." Mre. Vale, a stately, old-fashioned lady, inward] resolved that her cousin's; vii 1 Reraelt and her daugh ters should: Mrs. Armer had the effrontery to atop and speak to Mrs. Hassan, and expressed a desire that they should weet where they could talk over 'old times." Mrs, Has- san, was intensely very polite, but cool, and She did not even look at her brother. . Devine and Mrs. Armer did not Me pte than ten minutes on the piazza, pow 4 during that time she did all the talking, A a Tah on the subject of her ¢ poor, d and intimating, firstly, that he had never understood her nature, aad, secondly, that he had left her * very well off,' but to neither intima- tion did Mr. Devine respond with sym- pathy orinterest. Ju his sudden revulsicn knew whether to be himself or with his who came to the tem %y in the morning and found that only + pin iy past of n was left im, hardly have been more startled ds Sydney Devine in the pre- sence of his once adorable Anna. He took her into wo aftended her with lite care, and "ordly after found out Ris is sister, and asked her if she were ready to go home. Mrs. Hassan was more than ready. Her whole soul was stirred within her, and she longed to utter her whole opinion of the fair widow, but refrained, fearing to do more harm than good. Neither brother nor sister ke till they were half way home, and then Mr. | Devine roused himself from his silence, and said : ' By Jove "- id hot seem as if this ol to a heathen deity was dictated sither by de- votion or by renewed passion, and Mrs. Hassan ventured to ask him what he want- ed of Jupiter. ' Look here, Oassy,' said Sydney, with sudden earnestness. ' Do tell me; she always like this I Mrs. Hassan drew a subdued Tomp breath of intense relief, and answered, with studied quietness : "Ido mot see much change in her. She is as ty us ever, and her manner | is much same as when [ used to seq her,' * said Mr. Devine, after another "I have been a tremendous fool.' "Indeed," 'said Mrs. Hassan. 'We are all that, more or less, I suppose, Doesn't Mrs. Armer sirike you as unchag- god 1* ' As the same ; and yot there is the wonder, Cassy ; it you saw her as I do now, why dida't you tell me 1' "1 cried to, Sydney ; but you said I was jealous of her/beauty," said Mrs, Has- san, 'betraying A little thorn that bad pricked hor at ingorvala for years, ¥ Well, well, not see what I was thinking of.' "And then came another sigh, as of mingled relief and regret, and then he discovered that his sister was crying a little. hy, Cassy, what is that for I' he said, gently. ' [ amso glad. I was was afraid yom would fancy her agin. ' Cassy," said Devine, speaking: vith great deliberation, as thy carriage drove up to the door," 'I shouldn't fan- cy her if there wasn't another woman in e world.' Mr. Haman had come home on the late train, and his mother had a little supper ready for him, and instead of going back to his solitary den behind bis Wiig Syd- ney stayed to partake of the repast, ny bore io he nor his sister had taken supper at the president's. A cloud , in some mysterious ---- to have lifted from the face of creation, and to have dispersed itself in empty air ow his sister looked in her most Siuguip] wit] wo hey REMOVAL MEAT "MARKET. G.W. GARTH, BUTCHER. HAS REMOVED HIS MEAT JAR ! KET to the Building directly opposite BLACK'S COMMERCIAL HOTEL, KING ST. a La season, to merit a share of the vants of the Citizens of Oshawa in hi TWO PEDDLING WAGONS on hep road ERY PAX, so that his etsintuats cal be at r own doors.and in rood time supplied oven. 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REMEMBER the PLACE Heary's Old Stand, oppusite Black's - How blue sitk. was an ly dered he had never noticed it ig What an excellent fel- low was his brother-in-law ; what a charm- ing ola lady was Mrs. Hassan the elder. a delightful, well ordered, home- like place was the house ! - Where had his wits been that hitherto all these things had never seemeg to claim from him more than a listless, hali-weary interest! He had not talked' so much before in years and he made a good su , and then fed bits off his fork to cat, which she, much rE took daintily. He felt like a man who has dreamed of wandering long, heavily burdened, through waste places, and who wakes tu find him- seif safe in the familiar room, with the visionary load left ind in the land f visions. Before he went away, he had promised to think about an oft repeated proposal to make his home with his brother-in law, He thought to such guod purpose, that before the week had come to an end Le was established under his sister's roof to that lady's contentment. He saw Mra. Armer two or three times before she ended her visit ; indeed, she came to him to consult him about a law- suit in which she was with her husband's relatives, but Mr. Devine in- formed her that the matter was out of his lime of Once and again he en- countered his old love, bat with no more emotions than ever-increasing disgust. The once sweet, unconventional artless- ness was rulgarity ; the grace, affectation; the silvery laugh, sounding brass. With delight, he felt hiraself a free man, and he threw himself into his profession with renewed ardor, and each new day so¢nted & rew revelation of life. 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