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find that a good place he
to go to, as the old i
colonel is always “ grasping the bit men-
prowling around his TAE WITCH HUNTER,—“ SUDDENLY FROM OUT OF THE COVER OF SOME TREES DASHED A FIGURE, A PISTOL WAS LEVELED AT THE YOUNG HORSEMAN, tioned. *¥es,’ I said,
own grounds at night, . AND THE WHIZ OF A BULLET RANG IN HIS EARS.”"—SER PAGE 850. ‘Give it to me?
pipe in mouth, Th - “1 step for-
old sphinx spit and growled away in the midst | creature expanded, like a lovely little snowdrop, | suming in all about six weeks—and return home) ward, She sprang behind a large chair. Iran
. er waters, while 1 spooneyed away about|in the sunshine of my atlection. ‘That sounds| with him about the middle of November. round it, and she bounded through the window.
Cleopatra and’ her rather poetical now—quite Wordworthian, upon| “Novemser 187s. 1 tound my two beloved ones | Of course I followed the enchantress, although I
never make the fool of me that the mad Exe; my honor, looking rather countrified, after the belles of New- | saw R——’s face grow black—: rhat a chase
_ did of her Antony. going hor “ After all, K—— is much more to my taste | port and Rye Beach, but, by the same comparison, | she led me! At the end of fifteen minutes my
row, thaak fortune! I'm getting rather tired of | than such big, black women as M——and R-—. | meomparably fresh. ‘They had both been awa, | new coat wa: split down th , owing tom
cher, now ‘she’s mine,’ as the story: Of course I told her about my uncle, ete.,| or ‘they could not have endured my long ab: bling over a wheelbarrow ; my pearl panta-
and shall be glad of a respite. Shi ind frightened her almost out of her wits by the | sence’—they told me. I find that Jennie; the | loons ruined by splashing through a mud-puddle,
apirituelle as R—, and I fi dreadful picture I drew of an ogre about six feet | colonel’s youngest daughter, has come home, hav-| one of my sleeve-buttons snapped off, through
: making come rather heayy. is such a/ high, and broad in proportion, with a graff voice | ing left sch of tor good. i haven't seen ber for catching my sleeve ona loose board of the sum.
spitfire, she would occasionally get provoked, |—in which he was sup to thunder great, | some tbree years, and don’t much recollect ho
and claw, instead of kissing. double-barreled oaths at my shrinking sel{—and | she looks. “Told hat my cravat-pin ba
“Terspar, 17th, M—— has gone, and R—— has | the temper of a tige so peen very much admired, and f bad thought of
not yetcome back. I've been obliged to look out | “If she could only see the meek little roly-| her every time [had put ion. It’s fortunate that
for some o1 my evenings with, and have | poly of aman, with his fringe of yellow hair, and| 1 don’t live in the times of Ananias! “She imme-
hit on a pretty little curly-headed thing, brown- | a vofce that woulda’t sca Ouse 1 its | diately begged my acceptance of a dozen exquisite
haired and brown-eyed, like @ bird—a shy little | loudest! Of course she was ready to swear any-| handkerchiefs, which she had been embroidering ‘
creature, oes not scem at all disinclined to | thing by everything that she would never betray | with my initiate, all my lady-loves were
, nestle under my wing. her *Pher—Philip® ‘to the ogre’s dreadful jaws. — | equally'generous, I er, in return, the car- &
“T snatched a kiss from ber at parting to-night. |‘ Tuvespar, September 2d. R—— has come j buncle ring bestowed on me by the little Cuban,
She cried a little at first, but I soon contrived to | bi As she is something of a novelty, 1 am | end which, 1 told her, had been my moth
console her. glad to see her, I find she bas been'staying || “November 191n.’Good heavens! E— has
“FRipar, 20th, It’s just as well R—— should | away to punish me? Ahem! L have been pun-| been here in my absence! Ambrose tells me she
~ - stay away. Things are going on swimmingly, | és: is very much changed. Why haven’t women
K— improves on acquaintance. “Sarorpay, 4th. Lam getting tired of | ra t to come tormenting you when
“ We bad quite a blisstul time in the woods the | and think { sball go to see M—, os she has | they have lost all their good loo! hen the:
other day, galbering mosses for some rastic work | written to beg me to do so. I have to keep away |lose those, 1 lose my sympathy. | She brought the
or other. K—— doesn’t object quite as much to | from K—— more than I like, for R's eyes are oy with her. | (Ambrose says he’s the image of
being kissed _as she did at first. getting opened. She says she has heard I have |—bis father—but' has light hair.) She insisted
Moxpay, 80th. R—— has written that she is | been flirting terribly in ber absence. on seeing me, and could hardly be made to be-
coming home, so I felt obliged to propose to| -“I-had two affecting scenes consequent upon | lieve that I was out of town, 1 must write and
K— this evening. By George! how the little! my informing my two faveve that I was called | send her some money. She may be troublesome
<€>°- away, owing to m
F uncle's sudden _ill- vexBEr 2ist, Went over to the colonel’s .
ness, e should jorning to carry him some venison that ha
We I! ent me, ent up the si
- be and ' piazza, something all blue and gold futtered along
- tw ch ‘it, and the dearest little angel stood at the top of
es! must | the steps, looking down at me. S eet-
contess that K—’s | p mplexion, eves blue as her dress, and such
- ir |tangles and ppie of real blonde hair—none of
an dest. | your brassy yellows, but pal ! Ihave never
Really, it’s some tun | seen such a dainty bit of woman-ware out of a pic-
ture. ‘1 suppose this is Jennie,’ I said, and she
€ ! | replied—‘And this is Phil—no, Afr. Chetucynd, as
does run/Rachel says I must be sure to call you.’ (To
ake me seem older!) was my mental comment;
for clean | but I said—‘Call me anything ren please, so you
spenk’—for she has a voice like a bird’s, She
or opened her eyes wide at this, and laughed—a
Z ; laugh that rippled like her hair. ‘Papa is in, said
she, and danced away.
“You have seen Jennie?” said R—, coming
. into the parlor a little after.
“Yes; and she hasn’t outgrown her straw-
colored hair, 1 see. Why can’t alé women have g
black bair? .
: “ How pleased the old thing looked! She showed
- every minute of her age to-day. THE OLDEST FOSSIL BUTTERFLY.—SEE PAGE 343,
“J waited and waited, in th that Jennic .
- would come back, and at last the old colonel asked | mer-house—they were the latest style, dogs’
me to stay to dinner. I consented, and had the | beads,-with ruby eyes, and could not be found
- | pleasure of seeing Miss Jennie come in all arrayed | out of Paris.
white (R—— scolded her for freezing us with| ‘When I stopped, at last, for breath, Miss
ing. her white garments in November’, but the blue of | Jevnie isappented, and 1 saw that my watch-
= “Thank you, Mr,|her eyes was repeated in her ribbons. Such aj chain was broken short off, and my enameled
<= Philip Chetwynd,” | sunny-tempered little thing as sbe is, too, laugl teh, hi ogram in brilliants—one of
é xaid Florence. ing as a bird sings, nibbling like a squirrel with | Bregui 0.
“Suxnay, 1th. | her tiny pearls of teeth—purring away over her i
i father like a little white kitten, I wou!d almost | bi z
l be willing to e colonel’s white head and ouse again in my disbe -
reat, bulbous nose on my shoulders, for one of | tion, 1 sent Ambrose across to explain my loss,
those rosy-fingered nips and pinches, all wasted | and to leave a carefully arranged bouquet of this:
* y hi rms and wrinkled, wasb-leater | tles and nettles for Miss Jennie.
~ . eks. “He came back with the watch, found in the
.—| Come and pinch me, Jennie,’ said I, and she | mud-puddle, and a hastily scrawled note, thank-
~ My charmers are in-| seized hold of my nose and held on, in spite of my | ing me tor the bouquet, bat regretting that 1
i iy consolable, and bave ; struggles—I could not get hold of er, because | should have depriced myself of my dinner to
2 sent me, between! her jather was between us—until my nose was lease ‘yours, ficetly. Jennie, What a spicy little
2 them, sixteen sheets | red and swollen as the colonel’s. Then I had to} thing she is! Yes, I did what I have been spooney
of lamentations, al-| go home—heavens! I Iooked!—and Rj enough to fore, 1 kissed the little pink- {3
most equal to those | bothered me so with her cold cream and kallis-| tinted note, and carefully hid it away in a breast-
. l of Jereminb. on.” . ocket.
’ — “Novenner 220, I dreamed of the little witch |“ This evening I went over again, ostensibly to
j M nizht, Sometimes she was St, Dunstan, and I| apologize to R—— for my abrupt disappearance
CHAPTER XIIT.—DIARY | was the devil, bellowing in the grasp of his saint-| in the morning, but really to see her sister, R——
NTISDED. ship's heated tongs, "Then she was itania, and I| was stit! and grim, and Jennie sat demure!
will pass over | Bottom, and as she hovered around me, ‘sticking | the old colonel, on a low stool, her little w
the diary of Philip | musk-roses in my sleek, smooth head,’ I ca hands erossed upon her knee. She didu’t conde.
Chetwsnd’a stay at | her in my arms, when she changed to Caliban, and | scend fo take any notice of me, but occasionally
Newport, Rye, ‘ete., |slobbered my face with two great lips like raw | would pull ber father’s head down to the level of
A BEAR HUNT IN THE URAL MOUNTAINS.—" HIS GUN HAD BEEN DISCHARGED, and a trip to Canada, | beefsteak. er own, and murmur something 1. bis ear,
AND HE WAS HELPLRSS.”—SEE PAGE 342, that followed, con: I went over to the colonel’s as soon after| “Jeavenst how I envied him when those vel-
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to-morrow;
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much as some men of
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