Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1858-02-04

deal more than mine, if he is really in love
with me-" a~
The evil spirit was coming back, and it
whispered, q He will certainly say Suip
but you had better not say Snap +! too read,
ily." ..r.'.. ..g .... N.
She walked on, thinking, imagining tri-
umph, when suddenly the thonght came to her
that she was confe5sing to herself she wanted
to say Snap !-and why /? 1t was not posi-
| be that the tables of her pride were turned
| upon her ; that she was in Frank Handys
power to refuse or to take that she loved
him Il don't care for him at ALL" was the
suggestion of the bad angel. "I ouly want
| to teach him for the future to behave. He is
presuming, exacting, self-conceited fellow"
Have yon ever, in the course of your ex
perence," said the good angel, "seen any
other man like Frank Has not the conver-
sation of this very day raised him high in your
esteem-which is-whch must be--that is, he
stands before you in light in which no other
man has ever stood before ~
II don't believe he loves me-" said her per-
verse heart or else he would have taken q
great deal more pains to win me-
| "Ah - said the good angel what better
| love can man give, than that which sees your
faults and strengthens you against them p
True he has set his ideal of womanhood so
! high that You do not come up to it but he
sees in You capabilities for good beyond those
of other women, though to the height OF your
capabilities you have never attained
! oh | shall be a worse woman and an
unhappy woman, if | do rot love Frank
/ Handy, and very miserable if Frank Handy
| does not love me- said her heart turning its
( better instincts, as she threw herself upon her
| little, white, dimity- y-covered bed in her own
chamber, and shutting out the light from her
eyes, thought what life would be if Frank new
er said Snip Frank, who was even then
walking in the fields irving to think oil the
! harm he could of her
| Here she lay, and cried, ard disqnieted her
| self in vain And she thought over all the
| good she had ever heard of Frank Handy, and
| strange that though it seemed 20 her he
! had the good word and good opinion of every
man who knew him, no one had ever quite
! seemed to appreciate him to his full value
Perhaps he had never shown his inmoSt heart
to other people as he had 10 her. Her wound
ed feeling seized upon the balm she found in
such q thought. Frank was not man to put
/ forth his pretensons. She had wronged him
very much in calling him conceited and pre-
sum!ng. He had spoken only what he had a
! right to think about his sincerity and oh
! how she wished be could think q great deal
| better Of her.
/ Dlri ng the burst OF tears that followed this
reflection, the great farm tea-bell rang. Gym
thia sptang from her bed aud wiped her eyes
! IF she looked as if she had been CRYING, might
/ not some one say she was .retted TO lose Seth
| Tagsart? Seth Taggart, Indeed She wasn't
going to cry for losing any mau. And the
evil spirits resumed their sway.
| So Cynthia went down stairs, towering in
pride and wrath. She had half . mind lot to
90 to the wedding. No, she could not do
| that People would certainly say things she
would not ike about her and Seth Taggart.
| if she stad away 1t was delicate ground
with her, this matter Of Seth Taggar'tS, be-
| cause he had never made her any offer. i
think men treat women shamefully." said Gym
tha in her thoughts, summing upal her wrongs
at once, as she sat at the tea-tab!e, priming
herself with pride against the weakness before
| which she felt her courage giving way.
Cynthia, I reckon you'd best go and dress
you." said her mother, as slle was clearing away
the table after tea you leave the things
and I'll wash up aud pat away. 1t will take
you some time to fix yourself, and you ought
to be there early. if you are going to stand
| with Sue"
Who's the groomsman, Mss Bridesmaid e
said her father.
Frank Handy, SIR said Cynthia, with
toss of her head.
Ha Handy p said her father, right
clever fellow is Frank, It'll be lucky wom-
an he stands up with to he married to-
/ CYNTHIA escaped to her own room. and she
began to cry again. There her father spoke
well Of Frank bat nobody could know him
as well as then knew him. On il he only
would come hack Why hadn't Sic known
the state of her own heart that morning. Bat
he took her by surprise and all her evil feelings
had got uppermo>t az the moment. Ii word
be very cruel Of him -yeTy-nct TO try her
again.
Thus she tlon.hs, uat il sile was sufficiently
advanced in Lc7 toilet 10 pnt E.cr wreath on.
Should she wear il Wo1I,, il No; Le CON
Tossing tho mIch, + he v ,rc 10 <es il in her
hair She looked for SON, riLg,aud, in her
drawer, but al this Moment her father calIe,!
her. aud said. ii ne came Quick he would drive
her over to Srsie's before he embarrassed his
old mare, 30 she Pot on the hon wreath in
hurry, g',In. ii the benefit OF her doubt, and
is treIhbn. green bells mixed with the light
cur.s of her pretty hair
l. Where did vou GET that from p said her
father. It's mighty tasty declare Give
me kiss, CiHihy. | hope Eoar beaux will
think yol look half az pretty as do And
it's better my child. 10 he sln,;re3 b7 roar
father who loves you. than By eT6wd Of fool
ish fellows half q. whom get around pretty
girl jast Ike my Cock Of sheep cdr yontler, one
following Because another Is making up 70 her !"
az Foolish fellows y they aeEe foolish fel-
loEs" Bat Faaak HaHsiy Was not one Of
then. Fraak had aever followed in her train
Sufficiently to ',e accounted one Of her suitoTs.
Il was tbs yery :. f0j.iSh7 fox whose ranks