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The New York Fireside Companion : a journal of instructive and entertaining literature, v. XLIX, no. 1250, October 10, 1891, [Incomplete].
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Garvice, Charles, 1850-1920. Collins, E. Burke, Mrs., 1858-1902. Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.
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13 April 2022
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Language
English
Publish Date
1891-10-10
Publisher
New York : George Munro
Alternate Title
Fireside Companion On love's altar; or, A fatal fancy / by Charles Garvice. Fatal fancy Mad Kingsley's heir / by Mrs. E. Burke Collins. What was she to him?; or, Virginia King's heart / by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller. Virginia King's heart
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Eyreren Acconvixa 70 Act oF CoNGRESS IN TH YEAR 1891, BY Gronax MUNRO, IX THE OFFICE OF THE Tisai Cononses, Wasmsoron, D. C.—Evrenep at tax Post Orrice at New Yore at Seconp C1.ass Rares.
CHURCH-MICE. ful of fire and life and the love of
ite, with brows dark and arched;
YORMILY Hy RICKEY: and hair that, closely cut as. it
“Two little churen-mice!” was, broke intd short ripples an
ee qbome Rood folk they Tonge waves, re feet cleven,
Going ng to be marri¢ eel at aati proad she out ted vant straight~
y, they must. |, and move only an
aiman with some Irish blood
“Mego little choreh-mice!"
‘Some good folk they sighed—
“ Not a rap to bless them with!
How will they provide,
who is young, in per-
fect fen and a practiced ihe
“ Dyo little chureli-mice,
he garvanta, house, and dresat
Isp't ita paint) thin;
‘Quite moral! "Yes,
and which bore evidence of a long
aad dusty wi
Io wore is soft hat tilted off
hist forchead, and he hummed or
“ gwo little church mice,
‘With’ mange out health and
‘brains
In the way of capital—
‘Fools for their pains! nd
every person whom he had passed
hhad tumed and looked after hin
Of his own sex envlously,
ailof the otter sex admiring.
At the edge of the fair he pulled
up and weemed to o consider, Jook-
ing in the direction of Mon!
erg; then he Wook coin from bis
pocket, ae itin ie and said,
gra
“ Two little church-mice!
Much they know about
Ail the troubles of the world,
Sooth, a mighty rout!
“ Two little chureh-mice
wrempting Providence!
jon the ime of it
nnra0m Bese st
and
“ Two little church ale ret cols Hany oroeaia ‘the
‘Won't they find it hs ’
Breedandchcese tor working -deye, i Seg tt 'g 3 Me : } r
Beet for Sunday treat * A 3 q By ets ; 3 ; E qd (el shouldered lis way with a
‘Pwo little ehurch-mice— ik : K Y ; e into a laugh, as
will folk now its niet, i = SiG i i Be sabe § 4 tH ag Pi if be were entering into the fun of
jen young folk from older fol ! i é é oe) fe i t i i
Meekly take advice, hi Bi ie A Wes a! Peels mane te seDloy
e did.
most of the- stalls,”
bought some gingerbread and eat
But these little church-mice,
“Ht and drank a glass of beer at &
© Very bad of them,
Gad their ain gait quietly,
_-And let why will condema.,
bone Show,
icon a guid applauded theme:
2:6 For the two ilttle church-mice
“2 Found it teas a bother
To do without all sorte of things
‘Than do without each other.
‘The two little chureh-mice,
Ta rain as well as
Stick to text whlch sayeth Two
Are better than is one.
shaking their heads, but shaking
them with the smile, with which
And the two little church-mice
Find, what'er befall,
What poets cail the cruel world
Ts uot eo bad at all
Two little church-mice—
Avibat about them? oh
They are happy litle mice,
‘That eno
heat, which most eontiemen ‘would
found intolerable.
sntly he arrived in front of
the ‘platform, on which @
Hingtbout was taking place and
he stopped short, shouldered hi
self into a clear space, and looked
on with @ smiling inferest. “And
at this moment Madge Lee was
Arifted to bie side, and the tow,
clear voice is mechanical,
C°trenmy oppeak reached
—
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1891, by George, Munro, in the Ofice of the Librarian
of Congress, Washington,
On Love's Altar;.
— oR —
A FATAL FANCY.
BY CHARLES GARVICE,
Author of “She Trusted Him,” “ Paid For,” “Elaine,” etc., ete,
ae ta moment he did not notice
" : ity for he was abeenbed by the
a Hy i formance on the platform.
i i NM men Were hard at work trying to
throw each other, and though it
Ras evident tho” bigger of the
moa tremendous Cornishman
—must throw his opponent, the
young man, who w ehterstood fhe
whole Dusineas, ‘wanted tose
he would do it. “But suddenty ti
that she was the queen ihe, and perhaps | she started, but not with fear, and turned her large | crowd made one of the periodical rushes, ire
she owed to the same i ir of reposetul | eyes pon him questioningly. “The man’s crafty sil was thrown against si
ked down cai
D IN BOOK FORM. dignity which sat so well upon her at this moment, | eyes wavered and fell before hers. sly, then seeing it was a
hones as if unconscious the surrounding tur- “ well Hadge’ he said, in a tone that w: vena, he ut out 0 one rand an 2 as if he were
* molt, 1 she stood Jost a thodght and her own day- | meant, but fell short ot a, bllying one, “mooning onte with a feather pillow, kept back the
would ‘be complete with- is; for even, ‘bo lives in a caravan | and star-gazing again, man who wa crowding her, and’ with the other
re at Cumberleigh in full im feling fortunes may Pm daydreams. « Thero are no stars ner moon, Uncle Jake,” she | drew her in front of him,
ysis, shooting-galleres, and nfly a man caine round the caravan. He | said, quietly. In doing 80 be held her a moment, She slipped
. ery now ‘and then a dark-s sinned, was. ‘. yTey y like the rest, but was dressed in a HP he said. “You're sharp ona uord, from bis grasp, her face suddenly, dyed @rich crim-
1 ass, with the usual crimson shawl | shabby suit which ght har» been the cast-off | are! Ite a pity You don’t male tse of sharp- | sp, and was passing on, wien he ea
od-fashion over her Justrous head, would | of a shopman or clerk. was a man of about ‘There's inanthe to be fed, my girly and money |" *'Not burt, hopet “You ‘waut to tell my fortune,
lide in and about the crowd with that eisy and fy, with the air-and expeation which dissipa- | to be got, and vou don't do sou Share, leaning up | do vou? - Well, I've done everything else ein the fait
on graceful gait w strange people have in- | tion’ and excess stamps upon. gentle and simple | agen that vi rv but that, so here goes,” and he held out hs hand.
you must go far "down into the countey— herited from te days ‘? when Pharach was king | alike, and iis coantenance was not rendered more | “She drew! erect So her fa height and looked at | | She stopped relacikoniy as it seemed, and mis-
Temnote districts where men—and women—have not | over Egypt,” and w “Let me tell sour fone brepossessing by a pair of eafty eyes, and lips | him with a kind of smoldering fire in her exes; | understanding her hesitation, he “pulled ‘out half @
Jetgrown ashamed of enjoying themselves tu the | ene, kind enti an. "Cross tho gypey's band ch wore @ smirk and a snes by tur: en they softened, and she nodded as if accepting | crown,
Spen air. silver, pretty lady.” scorned about | the teprook “Beg pardon! Got to cross yout hand, of cours
Etunberloigh Fair was held just outside the mar- | ” Nui-brown children sat on the steps of the cara. to snes ak, then turned aside and entered the ring |“ J,was resting,” she sald, simply; “but Il go| T forgot. Come on. Now, mind, I shalt ouly be:
~ ket town on 8 ood-sized common... It lasted three | vans, or played about the horses’ heels with impu- | round the fire. He walked th a p now. lieve ‘in’ the good luck. -'No bad luck for me,
‘apd during those tree days the good folk of | nity,'and in the center of the colony, so to speak, Fibteh was intended to conceals slight th ‘iinpe tor ts Shea drew, the shawl round her face as she spoke thanks
cin leigh talked, thought, eat, drank fair. It was | w: hered, round a kettle suspended over a fire, ice been strong and haaisome, and was the crowd, and Uncle Jake, After other momentary hesitation she took the é
[7m srony wit, Nor
PUBLISH
CHAPTER I.
Cusmenzerén Farr was in fall swiny
Stone time, Iu the good or the bad old tim
there ‘used to'be a fulr, oneo myer at least, in
every town, large oF small. ‘There were several in
serious England, and if you want t
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as’ gathered, wa
of the year to which the country people | a group of gypsies eating thelr ehernoon meal ns | vain. jooking after hor until tho: sith figure had disap: | finger of his outstretched hand, lightly e
the ong erent ofthe ia too—looke Ta to and | placidly as ff they had pitched their tents on some | " Hfalloo, Uncle Jake!” said me of the men, look- | peared in the throng, went ack to the fire and iet | palm, and ein ‘aise ole
packard aby they, dated from ite Te Sylvan island, ing up with the faint laugh which greets a ne'er- | bimselt down to the ground Diath bent his head almost to hors,
ought that horse at Cumbertelgh, Fairy ey | gust ontald this ring ronnd the fre a young gir | do-well who Je half feared, af scorned. “*Ilow | | I've started her,” he SAG with a grin, “You | “Wangs ho said. “There's such a row I can't
were m married three weeks come fair-time,” and so | leat inst the side of a caravan. She was | goes don’t know how to nage her—any of you, You | hear;” and with an action natural enough under
cat athe Tilino reckons froma some grand Sues ta'be partaking of the meal with the rest | ©"Cncle Jake screwed bisevit month into a con- poll her, among ou, Why shoukin't sue work | the cireumnstanece: and fot trom any intentional of-
festival or the Spaniard counts from some famous mpany; but she was not. eating, and the | temptuous smirk, and shook lis head, Vio the Fost? Unt T hate idleness and loafing, | fense, he put hie left and on her shoulder and
bullfigl half veiled by their long black lashes, ‘Not while there’s anything else going, eh, | Wi here's hat bottle zone! er away from the crow:
Tt was tho third and last day, and the fair was at ha aa Greamy. avd faraway expression, as if she jee call another, and bob Up a stone bottle. girl made het way ira the pushing, | “‘Ier face. flamed, her eyes flashed, and she
its height. The lanes between the booths were | saw nothing of the wild scene of confusion and man took it, drank from it without a word, seething mass, ig the formal Let the gypsy | wrenched, slipped from his ent rons and fling.
~! crowded with & dense throng of pleasure-makers, excitement upon iol they rested and stood silently looking abthe fire; then he tall your fortune let the gypsy tell your fortune! | ing the money at his feet, was Du moving away.
from aoa women, in thelr Sundog best, some With | “In dress thero was litte fo distinguish her from | glanced sideways et the mottnless figure of the ce eNDHYs hand with giver!” ut she utter” | young msn looked startled for a moment, hen he
4 Thete children on thelr shoulders. the other women of her tribe, with the exception | gir, and jerked his thanb hort suouider inguite ed it mechanically and without any desire to gain | stepped in front of her, as effectually burring her
Ww was awful aud indesctibable. From one | that the frock of brown wolsey was clean and with- iy. sil by the gesture | clients, and the people paid n rogress as if he were a stone wall.
out rent, of, indeed, darn, and that she wore no | loo a in her deat id ~ Hout this tines soung man entered the fair. | = Whacs the mentors gear , With a gentleness
gold rings i her eats or on her fingers, as did the || “Ob, hate he sat, with a laugh. “She's | He had been walking, with the steady, swinging which was apology, conciliation, and Ls strong man’s
dress was well made and well fitting, | mooninj pace which puts the milestones behind one, across | respect for a wouan. all in o Did I hurt you?
bad sho seemed to wear it-aud tho sbawl round | "= ne always m0 .” said Jake, half flereo- tie common, on the eart-track which Jed from the mea
her head with that Indeseribable alr of ease and | ly, halt sullenly. “don’g she work like the oad t6 tot i den
grace which rn with some women, can | rest oe an ‘ing the noise and blare of the fair on | none was meant, ‘and tell’ me my
Heqer—no, never~-be acquired. ‘There was & generaljaugh at the “us.” The the slight haiows to the left of him, he had stopped good girl—though, by George! T etpest it il be
i revolved and swang to the melodious strains 0 he was about the middle height, but slim and | day on which Uncle Jke bad worked bad not looked and listened, besitated a moment, then | a pretty black one now,” and he
steam-organs. Every showman had a dram, ‘uid | well but, there was youth and strength and health | yet dawned. treed off and entered the fair. we inight bave resisted his words aid goue off
“ seemed to be trying to knock the head in. Acouple | in every ‘limb, in the very poise of the shapely |” ‘Let her alone,” saida woman, ie up from was a young mman~searcey indeed, as ag i uttal, ‘but the smile. Was irresistible. ,
Srnec bands plased nceasingly. Chiidren blew | head ot the slender neck, upright. as.a. column. | the kettle of stew she inspecting ot | are reckoned nowadays, mor boy ‘ e your h and, and—and do n't touch me,
innumerable tin trumpets, and the ingenious gentle- | Her hair was dark—I hi Imost written black, | interfere with her, Ure 8 been Tike there were two things noticeable abeut & him. ples sai
‘an with the three thimbles and a pea shouted | but remembered that the scientific men have de- that most of the day. at he was a gentleman; and, secondly, that ‘ths | P Something, a sadden entieness of appeal in her
hoarse exbortations to the crowd to come and win | clared that there is no black hair. Her eyes were ike emitted a svarljnder his breat! is had been very good to him in the matter of | last words, attracted his attention, and he just
their fortunes. large, lustrous, and, unlike a gypsy’s, soft and melt- tia not atraia of br he sald, rth a kind of food form and feattres,‘Bewuty Pas bere cance | iat his hat before he held out his band with the a
ere wes every kind of show. The fat woman ing, with the softness of the stag, not that of the | defiance; and gettin 14 ‘wide-awabe a litte on one | the fatal gift; and yet it is the gift which mos ast gesture a gentleman would accord a lady
in company with th giant and the dwvart side, thereby giving rakish air, at once | women desire for themselves and their dauzhters, | ~The fire died out of the gitl’s eyes, and with
leton. ‘The spott “Beauty fs mot uncommon among the’ gypsies, | cruel and repulsive, hy they ring and approached | and the one gift im man which, when it is combined drooping head she murmured her prophecy hur-
man of th | but ails gir’ loveliness was of a striking and ex- | the gir, With strength, they admire and worsbi ried
ana yel hed inviting}y" ‘hzouat the bars | quisite ord She did not seo or lar him, or, at any rato, did | | This young man had the kind 10 which aig caught only a word here and there, and his at-
aethat ‘she ore @ better dress, and wore it with | not appear to do so—or ‘a eybey’s ears are sharp tention strayed back in a moment or two to the
‘A little apart from the rest were half a dozen | exceptional grace, might be ascribed to the fact | as the panther’s—untjhe was close Dpon her; then platform, and suddenly he shouted:
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