Violet Lisle — page 52: what you’re looking at

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SALA AG oe es een a eae Tk NV? ot Wate ar aed : ead $ J ao, 1 ' J “ uae A HEROIC ) REMEDY. “T think he will not enjoy his visit to the deminaeaer the Lisles any more than I did.” | She thought he was going to Heed with Melville Lisle. CHAPTER X. A HEROIC REMEDY, The evening meal at the cottage—it had been a very un- -eomtortable one—was over. Melville Lisle was in his library, endeavoring to forget the occurrences of the day — in his great work on Diaphragmatic Propulsion, Violet had retired to her own little room, and Goody White was — in the kitchen, discussing, with the dishes she was wash- ing, the difference between aristocratic and plebeian love. making. Another view of the same idea was occupying Viglebe thoughts, as she sat by her one window, looking out at chs . . > wes “e S i a® an A . ra . a or am “ts >. stars as they one by one crept up to the dark canopy of — heaven and peeped through. Why should Lady Darling- ton object to her. marrying Guy because she was poorer ~ than he? And why should her father object because Guy was richer than she? for, after all, those seemed to be the only reasons. At least she could not see that there were any otherg outside of her father’s wounded pride, and it had been that very pride of his that she had considered most of all. When she had consented to an elopement with Guy her chief reason had truly been that Guy wished it, but her second reason was that she felt that her father would for- 2 give anything to Lady Darlington. She had never — counted on his affection, for he had taught her never to — think of that; but she had believed she could count on his pride, and now even that was in arms against her happi-— ness. It was all so unreasonable to her, and think it over as — she would she always seemed to come to one conclusion— that Guy was the only one who thought of any one but himself. He thought of her first, and found his own hap- piness in hers. And this was not in her case merely the self-interested fancy of a crossed girl. It was really more _ true than she knew. Lady Darlington and Melville Lisle ‘were playing with the two young people as if they had been senseless pawns on a chess-board. : pH _ What wonder that all her thoughts cnt ee = a 3 ° ’ * rr” . + v=