Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-07-08
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. TALE FOR TICKLE LOVERS.

tremulous smile, as her hazel eyes an.
swered her lovers glance.
"Yes, yes, Edward" she replied, and
the words were sweet to his eager ear
Again, and again, Emily | could
hear you say it forever, my love" said
the young man.
He bent his handsome head to kiss the
lips that had said, what no other lips had
ever said to him, 81 love you" But his
caress was given back with half timid,
vet earnest tenderness, and her soft blue
eyes beamed with happy emotion. 1t was
Edward Vane's first wooing, and the
pleasure he experienced was as rare and
delicious as twas novel; for to the young
lover declaring his earliest attachment.
is not the timid "yes," and the kiss OF
her he loves, the sweetest thing ne has
ever known?
Under the trees, in the garden of the
old parsonage, they walked together in
the sunset, after this sweet confession
walking side by side, Edward holding
Emily's hand, and talking tenderly to her
as they went, with his warm heart BEAM
ing in his handsome face, and Emily lis
tening silently, with o happiness whose
very silence manifests its depth and'the
sun sank lower, and the shadows grew
longer. as the pleasant moments slipped
away-golden moments to Edward and
Emily and, finally, as the twilight began
to gather, they heard the voice OF Emilys
father, calling her from his study.
They went back and now, standing
for a single instant longer in the old stone
porch, under the curtaining vines. Ed.
ward drew Emily to his breast again, and
pressed his lips gently to her cheeks.
"a few moments, my darling, before
you go to him. Let me see him hrst. l
must tell him."
A happy thrill ran through Emiiy's
heart. She laid her head quietly on her
lovers bosom, and kissed softly the and
that held her own in a lingering clasp.
HYes. tell him." she said with a blush !;
and then, loosing herself from his EN-,
brace, she went away, while Edward
Vane sought her fathers study.
# was no new thing to the good old
pastor that Edward and his daughter
loved each other he had seen 1t long
since-had known it perhaps before they
knew If themselves. Edward was not, 1t
NAV be. the husband her father would
have chosen for her affectionate in dis
position, with an ardent temperament.
Init ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of
nurpose-all this the old NAL had seen to
he. But he himself had not many years
to live they loved each other, and it
might be, after all, for the best. At any
rate. he could not find it in his heart to
cross their love, and SO his consent was
given. and Emily and her lover received
his blessing.
And now the old parsonage seemed
another Eden, in whose garden dwelt
only happiness. But has not every Eden
its serpent? 1t came in dark, but beau
tiful and shining guise ; it came n the
shape of Emily's lovely cousin, Helena,
who. with her sweet b%ewitching face,
glided in upon the happy lovers and
brought fascination with her.
1t was not that Helena Wendham, with
her beauty and her pride cared for Emil
Tvs lover. that she left for awhile the
score of suitors at whose expense she had
been amusing herself, coquetting with
them all by turns, and giving hope to
none but Edward was handsome, and
winning, and elegant and above all, he
had never knelt at her shrine-the insat-
liable heart hunter. And so, for the ecIat
of a new conquest, she came daily over
from her fathers magnificent estate to
Hadley parsonage, to win away, with her
bewitching smile, the heart of her cousins
lover.
Emily saw her riding lightly along on
her white steed, with her dark locks
braided, and her snowy plume waving to
the breeze, her red lips smiling, and the
dark ewes beaming with the delight OF
ANTICIPATED triumph. Emily, sitting with
her father and lover in the old parsonage
study, saw this brilliant cousin, and
thought, How lovely Helena isl" But
he thought was not mingled with envy.
She had won a heart without Helena's
destinations and her soft cheek colored,
and her clear hazel eyes beamed with her
innocent happiness as she looked at her
lover.
A moment more, and the quiet OF that
happy little circle vas broken by the ap-
nearsuce Of this beautiful ~enchantress
cousin. Emily and her father both knew
Helena's hollow heart, yet they gave her
kindly greeting. She was their KIM
Thew never dreamed with what intent she
came. They, in their charity for others,
could not conceive that she had an Idea
of evil regarding them
But Helena Wyndham laughed at their
charity. She did not scruple to abuse 1t
when it served her purpose so to DO ana
she olided in, in her elegant attire, with
her soft, yet brilliant beauty her captlya,
ting manner, her keen, delicate. hight
flashing wit, and placed herself IN Devil
dazzling contrast to her fair, SIM
ole. unworldly, yet noble cousin Emily.
If was not the first time Edward had
seen her but he had never viewed her
nearly. never spoken to her before this
evening. Helena took care that his ear
Hest impression Of her should be only an
agreeable one.
She was peerless in her loneliness, her
grace, her mental gifts ; she would nave
adorned a royal court. Edward was al
and a gentleman, cultivated and
refined, and a passionate admlrer OF oeau-
1t would have been marvel, II one
like him had resisted her entertainments
for she was the very spirit OF beauty.
How incomparably loyelyF was his
mental exclamation, as she sat near MN,
gayly and carelessly chatting with her
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