Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-06-16
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"By no means, this illness has saved her life,
the paroxyslns Of pain deprive her of reelection" "
"If after all we make her happy, we will be
/ forgiven, will We not 2"
II hope so for the sake Of all, and the young
nurse returned to her labor Of love.
Hal Burton caught himself wondering, who
would nurse him, if he should be taken sudden
! ly ill; he looked around at the charming room
he occupied, giving evidence of the refined taste
of q presiding angel-thought how lovely Lena
Vesc looked in her tasteful white morning
dress, and ended by saying, "Who'd be a
! bachelor 2"
In three or four days Molina was atle to sit
up. Poor child how pale and thin she looked
and how mournlally she folded hcr white hands,
and looked ont Of the window.
Lena vcsc entered rather abruptly, e" oh, you
begin to loyk better, little inSalid-we shall
soon have the roses blooming on your cheek
again, nothing like country air, my dear. IN
the mean time will you see visitor"
"You mean Hal, poor fellow! No, Lena,
could not Leal to look at lli,."
"Not exactly Hal. but some one you will hc
glad to scc."
She orcned the doc: softly and Molina was
folded to the heart of-Clarcnce Statcn
"Oh Clary! thought you dead. | have
suffered, oh so much Didn't Hall kill you ~
"No darling, or I shoall not he hcrc."
Lena Tcsc waved reckoning hand and Hal
Burton appeared on tic scene OF action. M"lra
made an effort 10 rise, and he caught ler 10 lis
bosom.
Hal flushed little, disengased himself made
. flourish Of hands, and began,
! .As am tic orator of the day, may as
we'll proceed You sec ny beloved little sister,
Won have been the victim Of hoax. but all for
yoar rood. YOU little vixen. own that went
TO tow, on hostile thoughts intcn"-l PRO
ceedcd to Statcn's Office with "malice afore-
thought TO murder him in . Wholesale manner
but there l learned that he had gone to the
IIotel--and what for do you guess why to
ioin -, and leave for "parts unknown" But
us good luck would havcit, lie fell into the
hands Of Miss vcsc here, who with the priv
csc Of an old friend, rilicule;l his intentions,
and entreatcd him to 60 back 10 yon."
Good bless You, Lena" ard Molina pressed
her now friends hand aflectionately.
Don't interrupt mo- lalics, fer am not yet
done. At the Hotel met the OBJECT Of my
wrath, and this yourg lady, where matters
!! we're explained satisfactorily; and concluded
llot to kill your licge lord On the contrary
we l,ccame good friends. But s9n were to bc
tanned. Tha,,ks to wcn:an's ready wit in the
person Of Miss ,-esc, You were TO be punished,
and cured, through Your cf;rti'"s, which are
the best part of YOU So, was to pretend
that Staten was IilleG-yun know The rest.
four su,llen illrcss frightened us all. But Miss
ycse is Il sooIl physician. So she had y"n re-
ln.ye.! l.ere-hut Is!!a! have SAID enough"
"T deserved my punishment; said Moina
softly, sand not only forgive, but thank you
all, for your well-meant kindncsa."
At this juncure, Miss Vcsc: anil her guest
! Hal Burton, vanished and the wcdded pair
| were left alone. Both were loving each other
very tendcrly just then. Even Ienas bright
eyes seemed less fascinating to Clarence, than
the pale features of lis suffering wife. Yes /:
the Iasi love was tlearcr than the first. Let us
hope that this reconciliation, unlike the Others
we have witnessed, may last always.
! Muna did not speedily turn into an angel ;
such hasty transformations are never seen in
real life, whatever novel writers may say to the
contrary. But whenever she felt like teasing
! and her old tornentor, trnYMr, struggled to Us
cape its bonds the lashes Of conscience drove it
back; and she thought Of her wcll-merited
punishment Neither were so happy as they
! might have been had both been wise at the be-
snning for memory, when prubcd, contained
many sting; but tEcy were far happier than
they had been.
! Mvina even tried to be gracious with her
mothcr-in-law, and succeeded so far as to visit
lier occasionally, and sit On Il clair while she
was there will not paint an impossbility
and say that they learned to lCce each othcr--
they cid not; but they ceased thcir perpetual
| jalring, which was us much rs could be expected
from natures so dissimilar.
Poor Mary IIilliard! deserted wife at
twcnty-two she can never be happy herself
but she loves to see others happy; and is rejoiccd
when they escape those schools and quIckSand'
of life, where her freight Of happiness was carly
wrecked. She is still AIoina's fast friend.
And Lena ycse? she, whom we shameiully
neglected in the beginning of this story; anu
who came among us SO u,ccreuoniously y-Lera
Vcse and Clarence Staten, have mutually ceased
to love each other; and Moina docs not know
that she owes her present happiness to her h'ls-
bands first love
Lena Vesc is married to Hal Burton-didn't
vou know it would Lc SO? And she allows
lin to smoke in tie parlor; for it is hard to
torsakc ones early ways-eh, old bachelor
Moina has given up tcasing;' and she, and
Clarence as we'll as Hal and Lena, although
they dcplore the cause, do not regret the youne
wile's punishment, and Lena's stratagem!
AUGUSTA Ga.
Ak 1rishman who lives with vegetarian
writes to friend that if lc wants to know wha
,lipant living is he must come to his house
,rLorc the breakfast consists of nothing, and