Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-01-08
Otuuillt Dailg Dutte ReturH.
From the Waverey Magazine.
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SIS It 10 be happy to Love"
From the waverley Magazine.
ny FAIRfE DOT.
SIS 1t 10 be happy to Love :"

walked Win ner, talked with her.
'One night we were in the drawing
room alone, | requested her to sit be-
side me. She arose, and | drew her
close to my beating heart, and whisper
ed loving words into her ear till she
tinnidly placed her hand On mine and
said, do love you, Howard always
WILL For moment [ could not speak.
Those words thrilrd my soul with
feeling before unknown. The feeling
was so intense that it seemed almost
shock. | nearly questioned the reaIi-
ty Of my position.
Gould it be possible that was low
ed Dear Ellie, can you pledge yours
self to me ? / at length asked. She
shrank little, and said she had not
thought as far as that. Urged her to
think of it, wanted to know as we'll
as feel that she was nine. all mine,
bound to me. / could not feel satisfied
without her promise. wanted TO hear
the words from her own lips-which |
knew would be as binding as chain
Of adamant to her. When [ next ask
ed her, she began hcsitatingly, 4 think,
then frankly and earnestly added, 'yes,
I hnoD [ can be yours forcrer land
glanced hali-earRcstly, half.tinldly in
to my eyes.
'Their expression caused her to
drJop little, and her cheek rested en-
my shoulder, my bowed head halfrest-
ed on hers. sat very quietly, L am
not outwardly passionately demonstra-
tive, very much the contrary but the
.spirit-fount sent some bright little mes.
sengers down my cheek, and they fell
on Elfe's, though did not know it
then.
'When we parted, I gave her Il good
might kiss, which she half-abstrac tedly
received, her mind was deeply engag-
ed, | could see, bat not in present, ab.
solute actualities. She glanced Into
my face and seemed at once arrested
and awakened, she quickly turned her
head away and left the loom. She af.
forwards referred to that quick glance
in one of her letters, thus: There is
one expression OF your usually very
calm, moony face when | shall never
forget, it always haunts lie when [
think of you, saw it twice while yon
were here, once when l tod you |
loved you, ad again when you bade me
goodnight. Your countenance was
actually radiant with an expression of
triumphant happiness aud satisfied love.
the last time the triumph was most OBJ
servable. | felt then that was yours,
that l had yielded, as | never had be-
fore, and had thought L never could
yield, and felt that you knew it. 1t
almost frightened me, and yet took
a pleasuse in the very strangeness of
the feeling
Il did feel that she was mine, I did
triumph in the thought. felt in>
debted to her for all my happiness, and
my whole heart was hers exclusively,
devotedly. She was my first love, and
| felt that she wou'n be my only one.
/ thought she was entirely ruled by
principle, and, rather rellglously in
clined, so, as wo were sitting on the
bank Of beauriful little river. [ told
her did not call myself Christian,
and said, 'can you love me, totwith-
standing'' Ellie said, Il too, am hu-
man, | sin daily, hourly, and, though
your love might be more valuable to
me were it associated with Ch. istian
principles, | do not make the absence
nominaily OF that noble ingredient of
character, positive objection to your
Affection 1t would seem an assump-
tion of goodness which do not pos
sess. Yes, can-I do love you, dear
Howard
AS usual was silent. This habit
at first puzzled Ellie, but, with wo-
mans intuition, she very soon learned
to understand, and humor the peculi-
arity.
Enough of this--she did love me.
in spite of donbts, fears misgivings on
her part, this affection began to be a
part of her very being, aud i told her
she was my idoi--that | Lived her
with my soul, that though inexpressi-
bly, dear to me already. She was daily