That Girl of Johnson's — page 26: what you’re looking at

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THAT GIRL OF JOHNSON’S. 15 thrive that side of the mountain he offered her a home, and she accepted his offer, believing him noble because of this generous act, as women will believe of the men they love until they have been proved otherwise, when the sweet if rather blind faith in them can never return once being destroyed. But she did her best to make him happy, though for them both happiness was impossible. At first she tried to raise him to her level, but he never gave her any help in this, and she soon found it out of the question; natures are different; she found this out with a sadness that shadowed her life though she never repined at the life laid out before her. She had accepted it; she must abide the conse- quences. But she did not live long. Her daughter inherited her nature only ina far higher degree. Her husband knew it, and the neighbors knew it. Never, however, did the girl’s father know that her mother’s books were her constant companions; that she lived in them and on them; that nearly every word of theirs was known to her by heart. Betsy Glenn had been her mother’s schoolmate and friend. Betsy Glenn taught Dolores with all the power she was capable. She had long been dead, but the seed - she sowed grew and grew; some time it would ripen and bear fruit. Had her father known of all this he would have stopped it from the first. He did not know it, for he had never taken enough interest in her to know it. Had he asked her she would have told him, but he never asked. The jealousy he had always felt toward his wife for her love of books seethed and scorched in his heart as he stood facing her daughter and his. She possessed not one of his traits; the mother’s nature had deepened. tenfold in the daughter. That night his comrades at the tavern had told him of this; they taunted him with it; they laughed at the girl. _ They did not like her—not one of them. Narrow natures comicboo cS (E(0) 2 |