An American Politician

d down the sunny side of Beacon Street two days later. They were going from Miss Schenectady's to a "lun

. "I do not know anything

n you can go with us to-nigh

t is

Nobody has skated for so long here that i

e," said Joe. "It will be enchanting thoug

nge that," said Sybil. "She

jaculated Joe. "But Mrs. Wyndham is very jo

ns here without any mothers," rema

how awfully lonely fo

ho

forgot the German was the cotillon. You me

ry select, you know; just ourselves. You know I never go

ourselves'

e Sam Wyndhams, and the

ton, and Mr. Vancouver–

al. He is very nice, and

Jose

at, skating about in

reeable part; but the

ly, "it will be ever so much pleasanter. I would not exac

hment. She did not think Joe was exactly one of those young wom

e said. "I would like it muc

her taller companion, "I should not think you

asked

gh. You are not a bit like m

il, "only I am naturally pale, you s

ame beneath the white and through it, so that Joe looked at h

ed to tell me a story about the beautiful Snow

ybil, the delicate color in

not time now. Here we are." And the two girls went up

arrington met, and stopped to speak just as Joe and Sybil h

," said Vancouver, shaking hands with John, but looking across

for anything, are they n

ohn, "they ar

e Joe and Sybil disap

marry her?" a

The Engl

ybil B

s strong face. "Miss Brandon could do better than marry a penniless politician, and besides, even if I

Vancouver, "she would accept you

said John, eyeing h

y believed that he had been refused by

There is no knowing how the moonlight effects on Jamaica Pond may strike you this evening

"The house was ful

ng time since any one has made a Boston audience listen to those opinions. You did it surpr

said John. "If it were, I could make

other. "It's my trade, you see, and it is not yours. You lay

it down according to my own ideas," said John. "I

than india-rubber, and the shape of it is of no importance whatever. So long as ther

lau

and cut it up into lengths," he said. "

ast my life-time," answered V

. "But we can provide you with anothe

is way up the hill. He had been going in the opposite direction when he met Harrington, but he seemed

ss of expense. No homely Boston phrase defiled their anglicized lips, their great collars stood up under their chins in an ecstasy of stiffness, and their shirt-fronts bore two buttons, avoiding the antiq

aining ladies arrived, and then the whole party got into a great sleigh and were driven rapidly out of town over the smooth sn

ce of good fortune, but the fashion of skating had become so antiquated that no one took advantage of the opportunity; and as the party got out of the sleigh and made their way down the bank, they saw that there was but one skater before them, sweeping in vast solitary circ

. The glorious vitality in her was all alive, and her blood thrilled and beat wildly in utter enjoyment. She did not go far at first, but seeing the others were long in their preparations, she turned and faced them, skating away backwards, leaning far over to right and left

nts she was aware of a man in an overcoat bowing before her as he slackened his speed

she asked in some astonishment. "You were not

arty. "I was belated in Cambridge this afternoon, so I borrow

was so genuinely pleased at meeting John that she forgot to be col

said John, skating

es two or three figures

you, Mr. Harrin

Miss Thorn?

night," she answered. "I have not seen

I saw you there, in th

to look about and recognize peop

ience a few times one does not feel nervous, and so one has time

was frightened once, wh

ing. "Audiences of that kind do not punctuate

ngland," said Joe. "But

at are likely to be abroad on such occasions. Indeed, it was not long before young Hannibal was sliding away hand in hand with Miss St. Joseph at a pace that did not invite competition. And Mr. Topeka decided which of the Aitchison girls he preferred, and gave her his arm, so that the other fell to the lot of Sam Wyndham, while Mrs. Sam and Sybil Brandon came out esco

ad made in the morning with Sybil, and in a few moments the two girls were away together, talking so persistently to each other that Vancouver, wh

lk to you," Joe began

We can talk here charmingly, unless Mr. Vancouver comes after us aga

me pride. "Where did you get that beautiful fur, my dear?

ite fur there, you know. We we

. If one could I would have told Ron

d?" asked Syb

d Joe, with a little sigh, "but

t got the white fu

the same time linking her arm more closely in Sybil's. "You see, d

want to marry

er head gravely, looking straight before her. Sybil press

er a while. "I was not out when it was arranged, and

ve him, you must not think of ma

emphasis. "But I shall have to tell h

l, in a tone of reflection. "But of course it mu

st really,

e?" sugge

I know he thinks it is

in, after all. Do you know, I do not

t does not seem quite honest to let a man think

d not care for him enough. And just think how dreadful

swered Joe. "It would b

coming?" a

. He sailed the da

t to say," said Sybil. "If you make up your mind just h

ll trust to luck. I alway

eat pace, and holding his feet together let himself slide rapidly along beside the two

s Thorn?" asked Harrington,

nto the middle of the ice, that rang again in the frosty air under their joint weight. Mrs. Wyndham had insisted th

ndon, boating in Newport or skating

Music Hall, is it not?" r

bil answered, and her hold on

from Sybil's white fur. And so the four were separated into couples, and went their ways swiftly under t

r be here," sa

" ask

e to make peace a very desirable

" There was a very slight shade of despondency i

vain and ambitious, she feels wholly satisfied, for the time. But woman's best part is her gentle sympathy, and where there is no room at all for that, there is very often little room for love. In the changing h

o succeed," thought Joe, in the innocent

gone wrong?" s