Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-03-05

Hertha-wouId you be afraid Of loving
me p |
Hertha grew pale cast a glance nt
Yngve, like fash of lightning which is
quickly concealed by cloud, and replied
suftly-'Yes'
famed to fame the long cherished fire in
Yngve's breast ; he seized Hertha's hand,
pressed It as he exclaimed.
Beloved, Heltha BE not afraid of
me love me as ! love you God has
gwen us TO each Oiher-I feel that deeply.
Oh, you are mine, mine =
But whilst Yngve thus gazed on Heriha
with burning love, her countenance became
paler, aud when his lips rested upon hers
she whispered with unutterable depth of
feeling
'Oh, Yngve, why would you break the
peace between us y
1t was not agreeable that the pastors
wife came in at that moment and interrupt
ed the conversation of the lovers, but Her
tha, after a moments pause, ayailed
herself of her presence TO leave the room.
Yngve followed her outside the door,
wheWh he said quickly, and with an anxious
tenderness, 'Hertha, must see you, must
talk with you tomorrow. l shall come to
you =
Not tomorrow, Yngve,' replied Hertha;
tomorrow | shall be prevented from seeing
you but soon, if you wish it,
Bnt there was in Hertha's expression o
sadness which Yngve could not understand
and which made him uneasy.
Have / distressed you p asked he
oh, you bear in mind that have loved
you SO tenderly and so long in silence that
i
The pastor now came and interrupted
the declaration aud he saw very plainly
that he was not welcome he exclaimed
therefore in jocular way
oh, oh ! You have got something to
say to one another which have no right
to hear, can see ! Well, we'll III go my
way, and-when you have need of the old
cleIgyman, You can just let me know, child
ren. III cCne immediately with the book =
But before he had left the spot, Hertha +,
with hssly salulation to both gentlemen,
was speeding rapidly away from them.
w hOt CuuGdNOlNu "
read her own SOUL TO obtain clear know
ledge of her own excited feelings. What
had happened to her? That which is of
the most common occnrrence,-which hap
pens to the most ordinary woman from :he
must ordinary man her feelings had been
awakened under the advalced Of Nordin,
Was she displeased 10y his bold advance ?
No in reality not. This is Gsver diSpleas-
ing to woman on the part of the beloved,
when she knows that the fire which burns
in it is not that Of earth. And Hertha
could not be mistaken in the heartfelt real
ity, the truth of Nordiu's feelings. But
still she mourned over this their outburst,
and the feelings which it awoke in her
mourned as the sylphide mourns when,
shared in the magical web, she sees her
wings fall off Although enchanting as
the fragrance-laden zephyrs of the tropics
were the feelings which now were kindled
in her soul, she still regarded them as a
falling away from the pure region IN which
she had hitherto lived and breathed with
Yngve.
1T can never again be between us as it
has been = thought she with uneasy regret,
as she felt that Yngve had obtained pow
er over her which she did not voluntarily
concede 10 him, and to which she would
not willingly snbmit herself And then
the old serpent of suspicion whispered
Perhaps he talked TINS /; perhaps he
behaved thus to the first giil whom he low
ed, and lhen-deserted Perhaps she was,
like me, weak aud foolish, like her =
Yngve has been really inconsiStant-per-
hspS guilty--did | not once sec an acknowl-
edgment of that in his looks ? And
mighr-Nay, Yngve, you will not find
me so easily won. 1t is not for such Senti-
mental talk, for such selfish love that
have, through the whole of my life, longed
and suffered, aud now have been gracious
" gifted by God with light and hope i
No away with such weakness away with
these selfish feelings aud thoughts =
And Hertha walked with proud step
through the ruins Of the consumed town.
Then came to her mind the remembrance
OF Yngve's noble and amiable character
the remembrance Of the beautiful devotion
which he had shown towards her Of the
light which in SO many ways he had let in
upon UtT SOHl dHu Sllc hdb uitu WIN
sentiments Of unSpeakable tenderness and
gratitude. And these, in connexiOn with
her pnre, moral feelings, soon showed her
q way to reconciliation aud harmony.
i will talk openly with him, thought
she, i will open my soul TO him, and il he
he the Yngve which believe him, the no.
BILE YngVe whom can love, he will listen
to me and understand me, aud become clear,
before himself and before me. will lead
him into the most holy sanctuary of life,
and let u holy fire consume the burning
Goals OF sensual pleasure from our lips, out
of our hearts. will sanctify both him
and myself IN the service of the highest.
Thus only, Yngve, can you become mine
and / yours
And Hertha's heart beat again freely
and strongly, aud her eyes beamed with a
fire so pure and so glowing, that seraph
might have believed it beheld one of its
fellows in this wanderer on earth.
The young sisters rushed to meet her on
her return home
Hertha kissed her sisters and smiled
She now felf sshaarfnI aud hannv