The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1857-05-28

lufnl Try TO think of the melanchOlN
girl that you have pitied and loved
only as a shadow that fell for a moment
across the sunshine Of your path, and
then passed away forever!-and so for
get her"
"Stollal I have pledged my honor
never to renew this suit, unless you re-
verse in my favor the sentence you
have pronounced upon it, but, inspired
by the deep and deathless love I bear
you, and hoping against hope, I feel
impelled to implore before leaving YOU.
that, in the event of favorable change
Of sentiment or purpose towards me,
you will not hesitate TO give me leave to
return. Stella, will you promise me so
much as that?"
"Noblest friend that I have in the
world! how gladly would I promise. but
/ must not, Montressor. Were to do
so, you would feel bound to wait the
changes Of my mood and so, for a most
undeserving love, might miss, in some
nobler woman's affections, the happiness
in store for youl"
"Stella, will you raise your sweet
mournful eyes to mine one moment
that You may read my SOUL while
|spoak2'
Estelle lifted her dark orbs to meet
. the clear pure, blue eyes bent with
so much love and candor upon hers.
land read the deep. unchanging truth of
the constancy of his soul, as he said
"Stolla, in the presence Of the heart
searching God who sees and hears me.
| assure that | shall never love another
woman as [ love you, and. therefore, of
course, can never wed another so that
whether you give me this slightest of
hopes ornot, l am equally and forever
bound! Nom will you promise, Stella:
Remember, it is only to let me know in
case Of a change in your sentiments"
For an instant the light of an unut.
terablc love and joy broke on her bcauti
full, dark face, and her smiling lip,
parted to sPeak-when--as ifa sudder
memory and warning had grippcd her
very heart-she uttered a low, sharr
cry, turned paler than before, and ther
q said
"No! no! my Lord! Stella cannot ever
give you that She is poorer than tn
poorest, in gifts to you! She can on
ly pray that you may forget her aud b.
happy"
He looked profoundly disappoiuter
and troubled But soon mastering hi
dependency he said hopefully
"Well, dearest Stella, although you re
icct me without apparent reason, anD
refuse to give me the slightest promis,
or the most distant hope, yet Trepsai-
should you in the long future, chang
! your purpose, and write to me ont
+ wOrd-'Come, Il will hasten to Law a
your feet an unchanged heart Go,
be with you and raising her hand
! he bowed over it, pressed it to hi
p lips, turned and left the room.
Some moments after, Lady Morelle
who came to seek Wnd congratulate
her daughter upon what she imagine,
to be the only possible result Of tn
: interview-found Estelle lying in
q swoon upon the aoorl Tt was follow
ed by a long and terrible illness, ter
. minating in a tediously protracte
convalescence. The town season wa
, at hand before Estelle was able to re
enter society.
0 They went up to London, and one
; more the "star Of beauty" arose upo
p its world. And though the cloud up
p on her life settled darker and heavi
4 er, day by day, she was more followed
a Aattered and courted than before.
e Thus three years had passed away
when one morning, while the family
then occupying their town house
Berkely Square, were seated at a lat
p breakfast, and Sir Parke was engaged i
Ireadjng0lou3 from the London Times, q
4 accouHtof the SaUjaq Of the Frepch shi
lie Duc d AajoU--Creched Of H
a c0aaof 1lg'srs-EstcHe uttered 1orr e.
e land saHh ta1ltjtg from her seat
g This attack was not, as the other hu
e been, followed by illness; on the con
E trarv, from that day, the cloud SCENE
4 lifted from her head, and oven thos
+ who had most admired her face in it
y shadow, were enchanted to see ho'
brilliant was her beauty in its sunshine
h Her healthand spirits daily improved
d yet in all this flowing tide of new liIt
4 Estelle astonishcd her friends by sud
l. denly, in the height of the London sea
son, retiring to her fathers country
n seat, where she remained in strict seclu
4 sion from the world for eightee
m months.
d At the end of this period Lord Mon
It stressor who had never left England, q
! lost sight Of his beloved Stella an
c who was now staying at his castle i
g Dorsetshire, was one day seated d
n breakfast when the morning mail wa
@ brought to him. Among a score of LET
ters the first that attracted his attento
IS was dainty white envelope superscrit
l cd in a delicate handwriting. He too
e that up first and opened tit contain
20 ed but one word-"COMEl
g The light of an ineHable joy brok
r over his face! Oh! he had waited pa
n tientIy, hopefully, years, for that wor,
Y and at last he received it'll Thanks
y heaven in the first instance and the
II pushing all the other letters uuopene
s; aside, he sprung up, rang for his vale
% and ordered his valise packed and horl
n put to the carriage,
u Tn twenty more minutes he hadreac
n ed the railway station just as the ca
% were about to start, and in three hou