Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-10-01
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MARY MOORE.
4 PLEASANT LOVE STORY.
CHAPTER j.

CHAPTER l.
All my life long had known Mary
Moore-all my life long | had loved her.
Our mothers were old playmates and first
cousins. My first recollection is of boy
in red frock and Morocco shoes, rocking
cradle, in which reposed sunny haired,
blue-eyed baby, not quite a year old That
boy was myselt-Harry Church that blue
eyed baby was Mary Moore
Later still | see myself at the little
school house, drawing my little chaise up
to the door, that Mary might ride home.
Many "A beating have gained on such oc-
casions, for other boys besides me liked her,
and she, | fear, was something of a firt,
even in her pinafores. How elegantly she
came tripping down the steps when | cal
led her name. How sweetly her blue eyes
laughed at me- How gaily rang out her
merry laugh That fairy laugh, No one
but Mary could ever bring her heart so
soon to her lips followed it through the
heated noon Of manhood-and now when
the frosts of age are silvering my hair and
many children climb on my knee and many
call me father, ! find that memories of
youth are strong, and that even in grey
hairs, | am following its music still
When | was fifteen, the first great sor-
row of my life came upon me- | was
sent to school and obliged to part with
Mary. We were not to see each other for
three long years. This to me was like
sentence of death, for Mary was like life
itself to me.
P,,f ba, rtc nra touch +I;po.-
| left college i'll all the flush and vigor
of my nineteenth year. | was no longer
awkward and embarrassed / had grown
into tall, slender STRIPPING, with very
good opinion of myself, both in general
and particular If | thought of Mary
Moore it was to imagine how should daz-
zle and bewilder her still more was a
coxcomb, but as youth and good looks have
fed, | trust may be delivered when say
that self conceit has left me also
An advantageous proposal was made to
me at this time, and accepting it, | gave
up all idea of profession, and | prepared
to go to the Indies. In my hurried visit
home | saw nothing of Mary Moore. She
had gone to boarding school at some dis
tance, and was not expected home till the
following May. | uttered one sigh to the
memory of my little blue-eyed playmate,
and then called myself a man again
'In year. | thought, as the vehicle
whirled away from the door, in year, or
three years, at the very most, / will return
and if Mary is as pretty as she used to be,
why then perhaps, | may marry her
And thus | settled the future of young
lady whom | had not seen for four years.
| never thought Of the possibility of her
refusing me, never dreamed that she would
not condescend to accept my offer.
But now | know that had Mary met me
then, she would have despised me. Per-
haps in the scented and affected student,
she might have found plenty of sport; but
as to loving me or feeling the slightest inter-
est in me, | should have perhaps found |
was mistaken.
India was my salvation, not merely be-
cause of my success, but because my labo-
rious industry had counteracted the evil in
, my nature, and made me better man.
When at the end of three years prepared
to return, [ said nothing of the retorma-
tion in myself which | knew had taken
place.
'They loved me as I was murmured
to myself, Fand they shall find out for
themselves whether am better worth low.
ing than formerly