Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-08-05
herself quite msrsyr and acted according

~. IN TACT, SAe Qlu aS AmOSt any nefOine
would haye done under the circumstances
grew pale and interesting. Mariana
began, to suggest little delicacies to tempt
Sophie's palate. "Tbe poor dear child
was getting so thin" In vain Sophie pro-
tested that she had no appetite.
In vain papa brought dainty gifts and
piled up costly dresses before bis pet. A
fain smile or abstracted athank you" was
the only reeompense. If sister Kate sug-
gested that Harry's absense was in any
manner connected with her altered de-
meanor, Sophie would toss her ringleted
head with an air of supreme indifference,
and go away and cry over it hours at a
time. Everybody thought something was
the matter with Sophie. Sophie among
the rest. 7-
Her suspense and penitenee becaine in
supporfableat lost. Sister Kate, who had
come so near the true solution of the mys-
terry, should know allAso said Sophie
Perhaps she could advise her what to do,
for to give Harry up forever seemed every
day more and more of an inpossibhity.
"WiTl you cdihe into the garden with me,
Kate?" she asked, in a trembling voice, of
her sister, one day abdtt month after her
trouble with Harry. 81 have something'of
importance to tell you"
"Go away, darling, and l win be with
you in few moments" replied Kate, cast
ing searching glance at Sophie's flushed
cheeks and swollen eyes.
Running swiftly along the garden paths,
as if from fear of pursuit, Sophie turned
aside in her fasorite arbor, and, flinging
herself dawn on low seat, Buried her
head among the cool vines, and gave her
self up to paroxysm of passionate grief.
Soon she heard steps approaching, and an
arm was twined tenderly about her waist,
and warm hand was laid caressingly on
her dropping head.
80, Kate, Kate!!'" she cried in the ago
ny of her repentance, 81 am perfectly
wretched. You don't know why, though
you have come very near guessing two or
three times. Harry and p
Here convulsive sob interrupted her,
and the hand upon her head passed over
her disordered curls with a gentle, sootl-
ing motion.
"Harry and I"-another sob-"quarrel-
ed two or three weeks ago. l was willful
and rsrde, just as it was natural for me TO
be, and he got angry. / don't think he
is going to forgive, for he hasnt been here
since" - @
Sophie felt herself drawn in closer en-
brace, and was sure Kate pitied her.
II would not have owned it 10 anybody,
fit had not been Just as it is" she contin-
tea, rubbing her little white hands into
her little white hands into her eyes; "but
I think 1 10 ;e him almost as I do you and
father and mother" esq '--'
A kiss dropped on sophie's glossy head,
aud tighter was she held. She wondered
that Kate was 50 silent, but still kept her
face hidden in the vines. = i'-''''---'
ale asked mo to be his wife, }" she con-
tinued, ~asked ME as nobody else ever did
in such manly way, that he made me
feel as though ought to have been the
one TO plead instead of him. l could not |
bear that, and answered him as l should |
rot. He thought it was because he was
poor and was rich; and all the time was
thinking l would rather live in a cottage |
with him than in the grandest palace in the
world with any other Mfan, only was too
proad to tell him 10 his face. What can
[ do? Tell me, Kate; you are much bet
Ter than 1 am, and never get into trouble.
[ am sure shall die if you don't" And
poor Sophie wept anew. - %
"Look up dear, and I'll tell you"
Sophie did look up. with a start, and the
,ext moment, with little scream, leaped
nto the arms-not of sister Kate, but Har-
y Ainslee! q
Sophie declares to this day she has never
forgiven either of them, though she has
oeen Mrs. Ainslee nearly two years.