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: t LOVE CONQUERS. ORA THORNE,” Ns,” ELC. LY THE AUTHOR OF 6A ROSE IN THO! He jreaded Ie he was the son of 2 p vise He knew it w fate loathed bh for i n s thankful that it ¢ wW g, When d bAu eo d been bouzist by are. into the charmed ele of coun , but was not permit- ted to do so. e must draw the line son said the great Lady Holte of Cus 1 we will draw it at pickles. some meaus Vane found himself by Lady Lilias, who looked more beautiful than everin a superb dress of white lace trimmed with water-lillles and green leav Diamonds shone in the dead-cold hair and on her white breast. Her arms were bare to the exquisite polished shoul- ders. She turned to Vane. «This is all miserable pride,” she said. “Frankly speaking, I would neither visit nor receive this rich pickle-manufacturer. ‘Che reason why is that he does not, nor never could, belong to our class; tbat neither by thought, education, culture, nor ideas would he be pleasing tous. There must be different ranks to society as there are different storys in a house or strata in the earth. One alone is useless; but the whole of them make perfection. And my decided opinion is that class distinctions should be preserved. I should not care to LSSOCTALE with those whom I considered in- Ihe «Yet you would carry the child of a woman in your arms?’ he interro- negs. gated. «That is a different thing. You will never understand me. Now, for instau if L was that pickle-manufacturer, I should be too proud to cringe and fawn for the society of those who did not wantme. L should not condescend to buy old pictures and call them family portraits, to taik about my ‘hancestors.’ I should take ny stand on my own merits. I would say, «1 ama rich man retired from business. L have been a pickle-manutacturer, and now am auxious to mix in good society. Those who chose to value honesty and sincerity could know me if they liked—at least there would be no sham, no pretence, no affectation—L should stand on my own merits.” Vane laughed in aslow pained fashiou which puzzled her. “But you yourself,” he said. «You would not visitor know the Wylton © hase Fanualy??” «Prankly, no,’ she answered. «I do not admit that there is any equality be- tween us. Why should I seek to tolerate such society Hie looked at her with strange earn ne begin to understand,” lie ot one wae ¢ arry chi n Woman, not Visit a retired wha the pride of eve who cou chie-nauutac carer, With asmile in ber Ked at nin sweet eyes. sPhen you are besinning to be a wise im ste rejoined. Sill he was strangely iil at case. «Lady Lilias,” he said, «if ask youany questions that seem to you rude or out of place, rebuke put I should like to un- ders are around Ulve farms. ‘They belong to L some very nice rd Audley Now would auythir induce you to take even th he thing eda sweet silver did not see the pain in lis face, the te bling slips, and the keen anguisi his suspen “What a droll question Mr. Vit think no class of men in England so honest, so honorable, so estimable the farmers. Lo me they seem to be the salt of the earth. But what could there be in common be- tween them and me, except the kindly sympathy DP have for then “You would not associate with, or re- ceive, or Whatever the word is, a farmer’s son, Lady Liliasy” “It is too absurd a question to answer. A gay mocking smile came over her face. “1 will draw a line at the professions,” she suid jestingly. «1 wish Lknew whether I were inside the line or out of it,” he remarked. She was not in the least angry at the words. To himself he said that, if she new his origin, she would not "address him again. Just then Colonel Gordon broke into the conversation with an anec- dote. +A very wealthy man,” he said “bought Burchall Park, in our neighborhood, a Sir John Liford by name. He had been i in trade in the City, as an oil-merchant, [ be- lieve—and he had made a large fortune.— He was elected Lord Mayor and knighted for some service to the State. He bought Burchall Park, and soon after his instal- ment there, he gave a magnificent fete-—— All the elite of the county were presen and looking round Sir John thought he had made his position. He had sprung from the very poovest and worked his way upwards. His father and mother had be fouged to the laboring-classes, and had never consented to give up their plain homely life to share their son’s grandeur. “ir Joun had an enemy Who envied and hated him, and who, he of the grand fete, ga himself the trouble to go to the Village where tue old couple liv ed and told them that their son had sent tor them, and that they were not to wait to exchange their every-day clothes, When the tete Was ut its beigut, and the guests had just sat down to a magnificent banquet, the host at tue head of the table, with a Count ess on one side and a Baroness on the oth. the door epencd, and the oid people were suddenly announed as Sir Joln’s father and moiuer. ‘ley stood there be. fore the brilliant crowd, old, triguteued, and Uremblin His euemy bad thought to shame the grand noble-hearted man— had thougitt to see him blush for his old father aud mother, and turn from them ashamed, Ah, how mistaken he was! It brings a lamp into my throat to think of it. Sir John steod tor one haif moment at vay; Uken be went to his trembling old mother aud kissed ber with a hearty kiss, and sueok his father’s band. -You are heartily welcome? he said. Holding a baud of cach he led them to the top of the table. +Ludies and gentlemen,’ he said, let me introduce my father and mother to you. [owe them everything, and I boner | affection jer him. The day wiil come and your social code. [see that there | . who takes the most kind!y interest in his ten- | stin- terest in the young farmers, or the farm. | ore them with my whole beart. If au nt dee > to huoWw Wie suswered gently; cand a them tuere. sure to Uril CHALT xX. fa terrible passion gradually © Vioart and left him pow. | erless to cee withit. He bad been at Ul- | verscroft only four days, but the time seemed to be much longer—indeed the life that lay behind was almost forgotten. He did not think of the future. The present was so full of dazzling light to him that he could not take his eyes from it. Lord Audley was so delighted with his visitor that he urged Vane to spend anoth- er week at Ulverscroft; and to the young engineer it seemed as though an eternity of bliss were enrolled before him. With the glowing warmth of the suniight of love in his heart, he did not stop to count the cost. He knew only one thing, and it was that he worshipped Lady Lilias. It was as foolish as if he had wished to woo the moon and the stars. She was quite as far out of his reach and as far above him.— Even to himself he dared not say that he worshipped her; but his heart and tir strength of his manhood had gone from him. Away from her all was blank, dull, and desolate. In the sunlight of her pres- ence all was of the brightest and fairest. How he managed his work was a puzzle to him. He found himself compelled to rise early in the morning and get throuch it before he saw her. If he caught but one glimpse of her, if he heard only the sound of her voice, the blood coursed wildly through his veins. Certainly fate was good tohim. Hemet her always at the breakfast-table; and from that hour he knew time no more un- til he parted from her at night. He had | noticed her great love for flowers, and he rose an hour earlier that he might get the most fragrant for her. At first the proud young beauty did not know who it was ‘laid the bouquet every morning by ber plate. On the first day she hardly ne the flowers—touched them, and then for. got them. On the second day she raised them and looked round halfinquiringly The same evening she was in the con. id tound Vane there reading. pgan to talk about Howers and their name: + Do you believe,” | the cuuracter of people the towers they love «No, bdo not,” he retu | reason, that, outof twenty people, eight would prefer the re the lily; and H uteen characters can never be alik ems to me no criterion Whatever.— dy Lilias, «that be known by rned—*for this en j It | What is your favorite Mower Lady L. ias.’ | | 1 | They had grown more familiar with ea | other, and traakly dis dcaci ot likes and distik suswered readily | ty, should say iy? or Phe rose’: | but itis neitis jove Lie dapiine aud PE think tt Word sdapame? ois the mest bea UE the poed im ine - wciuti’ ranks mextz bu ot dreaming.” guage. -dapane’ Phe pext morning the bew for her Was mace up entir she knew | daily otter ring came. Sue | | flowers to tuc Landsome I | watching her. Vane saw a crimsou ais rise from the beautiful ditapicd ¢ } the dead-goid hair, an : | it bad never done bet . jed from his, and somethias ce loving came into the exquisite seemed to him as thougu tae rug round him. She was kinder to him tuan to any one else; she talked to him, and their conver- tion was always interesting. He usd lived in a World of which she Knew notu- ing and desired to know someting, aud she was interested in every detail. Suc hardly kuew berself how much time suc spent in talking to him, and would have looked up in haughty surprise had auy vue mentioned it to her. One morning she rose earlier than usual, and, on going out on the western terrace for a breath of the sweet morui: ir, sue saw him sitting at the farther end, waere the passion-ilowers grew. Mis face w turned towards the river, Which looked golden in the morning sunligut. Sle was struck with the genius aud passion wiicu made itso different from ordinary faces, with its inmate nobility and refinement, With the proud carriage of tue ucad, aud the erect graceful figure. +No one can ever mistake a gentleman,” she said to herself. stiow differeut are that face aud gure from tue faces aud figures of the -sous of the soi?!” She saw something too iu the expressioa of his face whick prevented Ler from go- ing to him, and seat ber sndeors witu burning cheeks and a bestiug beart. Luc bouquet that waited for her that morning Were composed of the sweet flowers that poets call +-love-lies-bleeding.”” Papa, with L He comes jagine. You we as that among ya good f mily, I dsuch The Vi- face son of Sir vart too the ». He is very meets.” eral “My dear, he is a ¢ that he ditfers from otuers. ot my tiie T have met uuadreds of youns men, but never one like him. Me hus a seul, as Well as tue keen intel: ofa susiuess man; be is a strange EAXG Tadacie piso much that I have a resi Itis in that In the course | ed +Love at sea’? | supremacy ¢ | fight ag when him, and be will be one of the Aaa men asked. +-Lam sure of it,» ed Y A cOve he were ler, she would not Lush al mee : He spoke a few words, and then it ued quite natural that be sbould turn round aud walk by Ler side. He was ina delirium of delight as he watched her face j and listened tu ber voice. She looked at ut susie the gleaming river, br e, and the radiant uues of countless Howers. +Tuis is fairyland,” sie said. +Au,no; it’s Love’s Land, Lady Lilias! Do you kuow that lovely little baliad call- +No; 1 have not seen it.” «1 will not go througa it all, Will you | listen to the urst verse and the last.” Yes,” she whispe and the sweet. ness of the low Voice sent a thrill through him. “*We are in Love’s land to-day; Where shall we go? 1, or row? many a wind and w And nevera May but ni We are in Loy Where shall we “Land me,’ she says, ‘where Love shows but one shaft, one dove, One heart, one hand,’ +A shore like that, my dear, Lies where no man will steer, No maiden land." Silence fell upon them as the words died on his lips. What was coming to her? she wondered. Her heart was stirred, the lovely bloom on her face came aad went, and she trembled. What was it? She had listened to poetry from lips of princes, and had listened unmoved; but then every | prince had not the same music in his voice, nor the same beautiful face and eloquent eyes as this young worshipper by her side, it was the first time she had ever felt em- barrassed or confused. In those few min- | utes they seemed to have changed places. He had taken the ascendency, ne had seiz- ed the sceptre of manhood; the nobler and stronger soul bad suddenly asserted its er the other; the strop nly mastered the othe ned to her? She who had love had sud What bad happ liaughed ligitly at love and lovers—why should she tremble and blush and falter? She wouid not give way to it; she would inst it, sweet as it was; and, ore her heart with its mingled should not think the She looked up though it pleasure and pai words had inapre at him wilh a car ush. Those are quaint pretty words,’? she said. «Do you know anything else by the same author?” “Yes. Will you listen? Thisis called | «An Interlude. I will give you only two verses a. me after, "You came, and the sun And en above, : green grew owers brightened with laugh. And the mearlow-sweet shook with love. “*Your feet in the Moved sofias You With a face made out of a rose." * grown grasses weak wind blows! © as April passes, Again there was a pause. His words had stirred ber heart with sweetu blushes | su strange new do given t even himself hours at Ulverseroft will never be forgotten by me,” he said. «Nothing will ever be like them tome again. I may Visit stately mausi I may see fair Ja. dies, but no place will ever be like Ul- Verscroft tome, and no one—oh, forgive me!—no one like you. I wonder if my visit, an eternity of ypiness in itself will prove a blessing or curse tome.” “Why should it prove a curse?” she asked gently. His face flushed and then grew deathly pale. > «Ah, if I dare tell you!” he said. «But you must know—you who are so beautiful that all men love you—you before whom all men kneel, as the very queen of beauty and love you must know!” «But indeed I do not,” she replied with averted face and drooping eyes. «You know what happens to the moth when the taper is bright—death in the clear hot flame,” he said. «The brighter the light the more cruel the death. You know what would happen if a moth loved a star.” “I can imagine,” she returned, remem- bering the poet’s beautiful words about the desire of the moth for the star. «Ab, then, Lady Lilias, you know what has happenedtome! I die the same death asthe moth. Will you forgive me if I tell you how?!”” «Yes’’"—with the dainty, rose-leaf flush deepening. «Say to me what you will.” Sue bad never given so much encourage- ment to prince or peer; and he almost knew it. «Most men lose their wits at some time orother of their lives,” he said. «That is my cause now. Pray accept it as an ex- cuse for all that IL may say. I shall be sorry for my words when I am sensible him a courage that do not like to hear you speak so de- sparia marked. «You are gen. »peiul I can have neo ho when you have you will yet. in tue : said: nd story of my fol- > to have none; < after-years, I shall Uke to dar raved everythi idiey, and I be- i eaii .ne professional nave occu mad enough to do asthe meta did. i have veen mad enou tv dare lo iove you—yeu who, they teil luc, Ye seul away tue noblest in the laud. Overwuelu: me with your scorn, aie me for any daring; but remember it is 4 iman’s uesrt you crush. 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