The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-07-19
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From the Waverly Magazine
EDWARD AND LILLE.
B Y R. E. o.

In a neatly furnished parlor, in the quiet
village of Nj, one beautiful evening
in the month of May, might have been
seen, seated on a sofa, two most interesting
youths, Edward and Lille. Both their
countenances bore the mark of youth,
stamped by no channel of grief, and dark
ened by no impress of gloom. One Of
Edwards arms was paSsionately thrown
around the slender waist Of Lille, while in
the other hand he grasped her tiny snow.
white fingers. And, ever and anon would
he draw her close to him, and press her
lips to his in a manner that plainly told he
regarded her with no ordinary degree ol
affection. While her flushed face and radi-
ant countenance cleary showed thath was
loved no less inreturn.
Were we skeptical enough to doubt the
sincerity of their love, those doubts must
have been vanquished by the conversation
that ensued. Lille, started suddenly up
as if startled by some painful emotion, the
tear-drop at the same time moistening her
beautiful dark eyes, said
Then, Edward, you must leave to-mor-
row, must you, and again return to the
University @
Yes said he, with choking emotion ;
tomorrow by the first train
'Oh, dear ? said she with mournful
sigh; how lonely l shall be. 1t does not
seem as though vacation had half passed,
l have been so happy in your company
And then the small tears that had been
clustering in her eyes rolled down her face
in torrents.
Edward, though he felt no less than she
the anguish of parting, in order to console
her, soothingly replied;
Truly, vacation has appeared very short
to me; and it seems hard for us to part.
But we can be comforted by the reflection
that it is only for one short term, and then
we are to meet again for life
DO not said Lille, talk to me OF
short terms, for every day that you are
gone seems like gloomy year to me-
Thus saying, she threw her aching head
on Edwards throbbing bosom, aud the
auburn curls which had lain in rich pro,
fusion on her neck of snowy white, cover
ed her beautiful face.
While we leave them here, in aconditior
which might have been an ornament to the
garden of Eden itself, let us briefly trace
their histories.
Edward was young man OF twenty
three. His father, wealthy merchant
had died while he was young, leaving I'd
ward and his only sister the heirs OF his
large estate. His mother was one of thosC
| hig h-minded, pious-hearted women which
so brilliantly adorn the female sex; an(
one, too, who had spared no pains in ele
waiting the moral and developing the intel
lectuaI faculties of her children. Edward
was strongly attached to both his mothe
and sister. He had beenaccustomed, from
childhood, to float in the higher circles o
society, and in the mean time was consld
cred an excellent student and was expec
ting to graduate the next term at one OF the
first colleges in the land, withhighest hon
ors.
Lille resided in a village far from tha
where Edward lived. She, too, was sur
rounded by all that tended to promote hel
happiness, and was herself all that woman
could be, beautiful, refined, and intellec
tual She had become acquainted VIII
Edward some three years before, while at
tending school in the same Institution where
he was preparing for college. She wa'
then but sixteen. Edward had been cap
tivated by her loveliness and intelligence
and induced to win the affections OF the
angelic being. While she, conscious o
his talents, and impressed with the warn
sympathies that glowed in hismanly breast
returned reciprocal feeling.
An attachment had grown up between
them which two years had only strength,
ened Yet, during that time they had
kept up a warm correspondence, and much
of Edwards time, during vacation, was
passed in her society.
The morning after the evening we have
mentioned, Edward tore himself from his
weeping Lille, and returned to college,
For a time his countenance was sad and
melancholy; but, after short time, being
stimulated by the thought of being the
best in his class, and delivering the val
edictory at the close of the term, he sue
ceeded, to a certain extent, of calming his
his mind, and himself rigidly to study.
But the task proved too much. He was
soon attacked with violent fever, which
seemed to battle the most skilful medical