Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-06-14
G. 0 NJ NJ Il nitatiO MS.
For the Spirit of the Age.
The Hearts Influence.

So you are going to leave US, Cousin
Willie?' said beautiful Cecil Glare to her
eQusIn, as they stood The Hao
And are you sorry am going, Cecil? !?
The large b own eyes with their siiken lash
es were raised to his own, and Willie look
ed in them and read = can you doubt it Z
They were a beautiful pair of eyes-so
Willie thought as he stood gazing through
them into the depths of tae little heart be-
low that was resting so close to his own.
Twas a heart few could read save him.
Stay, Willie, one moment said the low
pleading voice of Cecil the next mornlng,as
he was about to mount his horse. : | have
a request to make of YOU
FYou know [ can refuse you nothing,
t my own sweet cousin,' he said, as ne took
n her slender fingers between his own.
n Willie do you love me z
EDearer than life ITSELF
o sThen by your love for me entreat you
i never to touch the wine cup? Remember
e the fate of Archie, my own darling brother,
.e and do not break my heart
" Cecil, my own sweet cousin Cecil, L
n swear i'll will never touch the wine cup
50 from this hour !" and mounting his horse
ID he rode away.
Years passed away William Glare hac
or graduated with the greatest honors at col
It's Iege; and report said he was engaged to b
N married to very beautiful young helres
;s. he had met at fashionable watering place
on Alas for mans constancy! And was swee
m Cecil so soon forgotten? No; at the dir
ion twilight hour, when other memories wer
arv busy at his heart, when the large brilliar
81. ewes of his betrothed were no longer fxe
on on his, he could hear the soft sweet tone
fnIl Of Cecil murmuring-F Do you love M
ho- cousin Willie? And then he would +
the and Danish memory in the smiles OF tt
,res beautiful Edney Belmont.
of Twas dark and gloomy night wht
and thew we're married anddark were the fat
and that hung DER them. During the evenl
yavs his bride presented him with a glass Of viii
ob- saving you will pledge me in this W
lie.'
;s;ta tOnly for once as he whispered his v
tho never to touch. He could not refuse
food the glass was drained to the bottom. |
1T not something whisper in your ear, Wi
i in Of Cecil and the broken vow! methlnks
nnre else YOU would not have started and co
form ed so.
= half AS years passed on he drank more
,se- more and became at last an habltlal dru
roots ard. His wife who had caused his do
IF fall had left him and gone to her faith
v;r. the modification of being drunka
land wife had undermined a rather weak col
than tuition and she died.
The And where was Cecil all this time
,edom the far off cline of Italy dying of br'
ather- heart mingling her sighs with every
tarion, grant breath of air that famed her
nlow- Transparent brow. Cecil Clare was
,rocess beautiful. There was not afeature the
,at OBJ would have called regular; but she wa
pens. ceedingly lovely, .hss pure transparent
bought richly mantled by the crimson velvet
$ what hectic flush made her look more like a
urrow, dian Angel from the spirit land, tn
,e into mortal. She had travelled in foreign |
IS pull had mingled with the grave and gay
lforma- she longed for the quiet of her old I
ry far tain home.
present Twas brightspringd day when sad
taxing ed friends laid the slender form Of g