Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1849-06-30
SATURDAY, JUNE 30, Is49.

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/ pine in dependency, until her lie Is now
despaired of by her friends. And yet you
/ come here, and dare to insult me with an
offer ofy your love'--she spoke this word with
bitter scorn-' you! the almost murderer OF
one woman, and the wronger thereby of
our whole sex. Ay mcre-you hesitated
long, because, forsooth, was too poor,
as if love, that holy sentiment, Of which
such wretches as you can know nothing,
was 10 be profaned by base thoughts of
lucre. | tell you, Harry Colbert, | have
known all this for weeks, and have waited
patiently for this hour, STOPPING TO a de-
ception which | despise, that might re-
venge nv sex at last. You seek wo-
mans love why you know no more Of
that pure sentiment that the meanest hind
that cIouches at the masters whip. A
true woman scorns the hand of man like
you, who, for the qualification of petty
vanity, or of his own selfshness, would de.
sert a heart that he had won. The time
was when | might have loved you, but it
was when | thought Your heart noble.
now see its baseness, dupliciiy and little
ness, snd bad as you are. cannot hate YOU
from very scorn. Go! and go knowing
this, that a woman can avenge her sex even
at The cost of so pretty lover as yourself
The withering contempt with which
these words were spoken was the last drop
in the cup of the lovers shame. While
Sophy continued speaking he had stood
abashed before her, not daring to lift his
eyes but once TO her face and then the in
dignant fash Of her eyes, and the bitter
mockery on her lip, were no temptation to
renew the experiment. And when she
ceased, he rose and almost rushed from
the room, too utterly confounded 10 reply
though boiling with rage and shame. He
reached his room in a tempest of emotions
indescribable. But his passion was too
high 80 allow him 10 see the justice of his
fate.
Curse the girls p was his first exclama.
ton, she raved like Pythoness-but
why did | not Tetort sC0rn for scorn =
To refuse me when she is not worth
cent, and all because of Eveline,' and he
brea.hed a maledicton on her as the cause
of his discontinue, and with bitter excla.
nations strobe to and fro in his room.
Gradually, however, his passion calmed
itself, and desire for revenge possessed
his mind. But how should he be reveng.
ed Should he WOO and win some other
lady at once, or 90 back to Miss Yalliere
and secure her. After pondering long, he
determined on the latter course.
'Yesp he said, If marry Evelne, 10
whom it is known | have been attentive,
this termagant will never dare to tell OF my
proposal, for we had no Witnesses, and no
one will believe her, if il should be announ.
ced soon, say tomorrow or next day at
larthest, that | am engaged to the heiress.
She loves me no doubt-there this vixen
was highland will be glad TO ac-
ccpt me. | will despatch a note at once
4 little dissimulalion to conceal the cause
of my neglect, little penicnce adroitly
thrown in, and q little ardor, will win
favorable answer, or | know nothing of
the trusting nature Of Evcine VaIlere.'
The proposal was written and sent but
the next day, and the whole week, passed
without an answer. Harry began to re.
pent of his precipitance, and wish that he
had never seen either EveIine or Sophy.-
But at length came the long looked for re-
ply. He opened it with renewed hopes,
which, however, were crushed on It's peru
sal. The answer was short and cold, and
a refusal couched in terms which
forbade second attempt. Miss Nalllere.'
the note ended with saying, declined all
further acquaintance with Mr.. Colbert
Stung TO the quick, the rejected lover
vented his rage on both the women he had
abused, and determined yctto avenge him.
self by q speedy marriage. But he soon
found that his conduct was known in So
Cietv, though not from any thing which
Evelne or Sophy said, but from reports
originating probably with their relatives,
and gained strength from what had been
observed of Harry's conduct. Atlength
the tide of scorn and rebuke became so
strong that he left the city and removed
tc another section of the country.
Harry never knew the struggle In EV-
cine's heart, nor the noble firmness with
which she conquered it. His letter reach
ed her on a sick bed, where she had been
laid by his perfdy, but tho her weak
heart pleaded for him, her convictions of
what was right prevailed, and she rejected
him, because she felt that she could never
find happiness with one so base, tickle aud
selfish. Both she and Scphy Greene liV-
ed to love truly and worthily. and the
friendship began by their mutual dlsap.
was cemented by intimacy, and
endured through long and happy lives.
AS for Harry, he carried with him his
own punishment. Providence rarely ln'
tcrleres in the affairs Of ordinary life,
except by enslaving Us with our evil hab'
its, and thus making US work on ourselves
our own retribulion. These habits Har-
nv carried with him, nor could he shake
them oil. His character soon became as
well known in his new residence as IN
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