Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1858-06-02
miscellaneous.
From the London journal.
A TALE FOR TICKLE LOVERS

it again-only once again, Emily"
Emily lifted up her face, with SOFT trem-
ulous smile, as her hazel eyes answered the
ardent question of her lovers glance
"fesayes, Edward" she replied, and the
words ysre sweet to his eager ear.
''Aslsiletand 4 again. Emily I 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 ev-
er said to him, Il love you" But his caress |
was given back with half-tin,id, yet earnest
tenderness, and his soft blue eye bcamed with
happy em otiou. 1t was Edward Vane's first
wooing. and the pleasure he experienced was
as rare and delicious as it was novel; for, to
the young lover declaring his earliest attach
ment, is not the timid yes" and the kiss of
her he loves, the sweetest thing he has eyer
known?
Under the trees, in the garden of the old
parsonage, they walked together in the sun
set, after this sweet walking side
by side, Edward holding Em;ly's hand, and
talking tendcrly to her they went, with his
warm heart bcaming in his handsome face,
and Emily listening silently, with happiness
whose very silence manifested its depth; and
the sun sank lower. aud 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 Emily's father. cal
ling her from his study.
They went back; and now. standing for a
single instant longer in the old stone porch
under the curtaining vines, Edward drew
Emily to his breast again, and pressed his
lips gently to her check.
"A few moments, my darling before you
GO to him" said Edward. Let me see him
! first. | must tell him -"
\ l,a,,f,y-,lrriH through Errity, heart.
She laid her head quietly on her lovers bo-
som, and kissed softly the beloved hand that
held her own in lingering clasp.
Eyes. tell him. she said, with blush;
and then loosing herself from his embrace,
she went away, while Edward Vanc sought
her fathers study
s
that Edward aud his daughter loved each
other; he had seen it long sincc-had known
/ it perhaps before they themselves. Edward
was not, it may be, the husband her father
would have chosen for her; affectionate in
disposition, with an ardent temperament, but
impulsive-ch anging-uncertain of purpose
all this the old man had seen him to be.
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
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 net every Eden its serpent? 1t came
in dark, but beautiful and shining guise; ii
came in the shape of Emilys lovely cousin
Helena, Who with her sweet. bewitching
face, glided in upon the happy lovers and
brought fascination with her.
1t was not that Helena Wyndham. with
her beauty and pride, cared for Emily's low
er that she left for awhile the score of suitors
at whose expense she had been amusing her
self, eoquetting with them all by turns, and
giving hope to none: but Edward was hand
some, and winning, and elegant; and above
} all, he had never knelt at her shrlne-tbe in
satiable heart-hunter! And so, for the eclu
OF a new conquest, she came daily over from
her fathers magnificent estate to Hadley par
sonage, to win away, with her bewitchins
smile, the heart OF her cousins lover.
Emily saw her, riding lightly along On he
white steed, with her dark locks braided
and her snowy plume waving to the breeze
her red lips smiling. and her dark eyes beam
ing with the delight of anticipated triumph
Emily, sitting with her father and her love
in the old parsonagestudy. saw this brillian
cousin, aud thought. "How lovely Helen
is.' But the thought was not mingled wit
envy. She had won heat without Helena
destinations; and her soft cheek colered, an
. .. her clear hazel eyes beamed with innocen
ban,iness as she looked at her lover.
A moment more. and the quiet of tina
happy little circle was broken by the appear
apce of this beautiful enchantress- cousin
Emily and her father both knew Helena's he
low heart, yet they gave her kindly greeting
She was their kin. They never dreamed wit
what intent she had come. They, in thei
charity for others, could not conceive that SD
had an idea of evil regarding them.