The Law of the Land

urse, it's a question of a man. When she has found the man, it rests with her. She must let herself out and yet keep

petulantly. "You are always talking to

Why, there's nothing in the wor

At length she patted down her gown, and frowned with a sigh of satisfaction, as she looked down over her long

ny gentlemen to bother

d she; "at least, not

coming back. Di

ut, after all, we must sometime go somewhere else. Now, New Orleans, or New York perhaps

r in sudden fury. "Mamma," cried she, "w

ly. "Now, I could tell you things, when the time came. But, me

e!" This wit

." This with f

l Blount. He has always said he wanted us to stay, and that he couldn't do without us. Now"-and

she frowned and nervously bit her finger-tips as she turned away. Miss Lady made no answer except to go over

expedition in the city, an event of a certain interest to plantation dwellers. Mrs. Ellison paused in her own operations

a," said she. "How of

me a few things for myself, won't you? Sometimes-sometimes I am not certain." She smiled as she spoke. There might have been politic overture, or beseeching, or threat, or deadly sarcasm in her speech. Miss

ion for any young woman. For some reasons, we might do better than remain at the Big

at the day of miracles was not gone; so fair was Miss Lady as, with head high, and body slow and stately beyond her year

ng, offered the shadows and the mysteries of the dawn. Her figure asked small aid, and, needing none, carried, and was not made by, the well-cut gown of light silken weave, dotted here and there with small red fleur-de-lis. A maze of long scarlet ribbons hung from Miss Lady's waist, after a fashion of her own, and for purposes perhaps remotely connected with a tiny fan which now appeared, an

w Miss Lady, fresh as a little white cloud, warm as a tiny spot of yellow sunl

arlor," opening out near the foot of the stairway. And so it chanced that they saw Miss Lady and her companion as they descended. It seemed to Eddring tha

he was perfectly beautiful!" The touch arou

h all his soul cried out for speech with Miss Lady alone, for the sight of her face only. It was as though within the moment all the energies of his life had been directed into a new channel, whose insufficient walls were threatened with destruction by the flooding torrent. The primeval man arose, exulting, sure; and so, in a moment, John Eddring knew why the world was made, and by what tremendous enginery of imperious desire it is dr

, a very sweet girl. Did you notice how she thanked me-as being the elder l

I do not fully understand her. But-" and here she gained conviction, "you need not tel

ohn Eddring. "Good eno

a girl. Sometimes I have thought the world was changing in such matters. I shall want to see this young lady again, and o

ed John Edd