Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-10-19

| readiness for morning, to see that her key and
purse were there. At Two o'clock she dressed
herself and sat by tie window watching the
ieastern sky. for the first break of day, and by
thinking of the possibilities of her being left
| she worked herself up in such a state Of ey5
citeuieni that She felt certain it was late, and
that something had happened to the sun on the
other side OF the world. She stretched her
1 head out in the darkness, while her heart beat
faster, sure that she heErG the cars whistle at
| the station. After she had calmed herself on
that point by making another journey down
to the kitchen, and opened the clock to see
that it had not stopped, so it could not deceive
her when it said six hours before car time, she
was sure David would oversleep himself, so
taking her candle she went to his door and
1 knocked loudly.
I Ugh, what's that /? .
David !"
Ave, ave- Aud there was a jump to ths
1 floor, followed by slide and a thnmp and
heavy jar of the whole house as some one fell.
characterization growled the farmer from
| within, aud still the knocking continued at the
I door.
eWhat dc you want Hdlda? ?" asked her
brother in few moments peeping through a
crack. IN the door.
t".En't you afraid you will be late I? You
know tie cars come along at nine O'Clock"
Well, is that any reason we shonld not
sleep any all night, should ike to know, ;"
and the door was shut in her face, and she
heard his bare feet crossing the room, as he
muttered something about " a tarnal fuss"
1t was on beautiful October day that Hui
da, or rather Nellie Clyde, as the young peo-
pie called her, reached Delaware, quiet eoIn-
/ try town in central Ohio, that is surrounded by
trees and dotted by churches, the people of
which are orthodox i'll religion and sound in
polities., On taking seat in the only emni
bus at the depot, she asked gentleman near
her it lie could tell her what part of the town.
! Miss Clyde lived.
l. "If you mean the Clyde sisters, ma'am and
they are the only C4ydes know in the place !;
! you will find theu On street." 5s
The driver went as directed and threw off
her trunk at the gate OF a low white cottage
peeping out of vines and between trees elegant,
fural and simple the windows draped in white
and the door. shaded by luxnriant Flllroses.-
Nellie stopped at the gate IN the shade of
{large tree, looking at two women in an arbor
I in ccrrer of the yard: She knew they were
her cousins and each had perfectly fulfilled the
i promise of her youth. The tall slender one
was Kitty Clyde, and no wonder David Bond
could never find courage to tell his love-
: She might have been fifteen. judging from the
smooth skin and luSpriznt hair that was drawn
4 close to the head at the sides, and wound in
heavy coil at the back and from the perfectly
rounded. yet painfully delicate form and she
I might have been forty from the depth of wis
dom that peered from her large hazel eyes, aud
the t-ertutous smile that ffttef over her lips.
She was as it were an embodiment OF immor-
ital youth, and lingering age-the child and
the sage There was in her eye keen love OF
life. an epioymem Of al that is beautiful on
earth, combined with a mournfuI. heartbroken
expression, as though the heart within had
found all ashes that it had grasped and a
! yearnng for the better, the higher, the holier.
< niinglfTg Of patient resignation, and eager
, expectation. AS a honfcsiess .si~ild waits for
its mother, she seemed to be waiting for
some great good that was drawing near, aud
in her pale face was more of heaven than earth.
;. Nellie felt the tears chasing each other down
her cheeks as she looked at her. She could
not go and fold her In ter NJ her arms as a few
found friend, but felt as though she could on y
kneel at her feet and kiss the hem uf her gar
r mant. All. Kitty c yds was of such stuff as
! God makes poets. and in her face WAS seen
that through sorrow and bitterness ana c. uci
fixion she had risen to know more than her
d fellows of intellectual ami spiritual things
t Nellie turned Eef fearful eyes from Kitty 10
r her sister Minnie WHO was sitting on bench
hor
d cheeks and the awe fitted from her heart. Min
ME had suffered no woe in this life. Nothing
r but long nights of the soundest sleep, and
abundant dinners could have so fattened the
y good natured looking girl. Her cheeks were
- full and rosy, dented with dimples each side o
4 the full porting lips; her chin was fat. and
p cleft in the miGstile with large dfmple and II
< rested on the iattest Of necks. The little
D, round full ears were almost touchedby the
plumpest of white bare shoulders, below which
,r rose full round bust, and large waist. Hel
y arms were bare, the flowing sleeve had failei
o. back, and there were dimples at the elbows
n and dmples on the knuckles of the soft, pulpy
c white hands, and at the wrists, and on tl
d, arms were deep ridges such as you sometime
re see on fat babies. She seemed hardly to 81
ly on the bench, but her dumpy figure, whicl
is seemed more like an old fashiohed apple-dum
ty ping than anything else, appeared to leal
" it, Incapable of bending enough to sit down
lis A pair of feshy feet burg below her dress
he skirt, squeezed into slippers, over the top c
lie which the fat foot rose ike pin-cushion.-
W, She was watching Kitty; who was arranging
1T handful of autumn colored maple leaves in
he garland with a half lazy and half eomics
10 look. anon letting her plump hands slide fror
ed her lap and hang by her side, as though ines
ny pabe of the exertios Or hoiding tl.ent' up
his Her eyelids would slowly drop over the ey
Die and then with a yawn she world fix them Q
he Kitty again. A suppressed laugh Broke frol
all Nellie's lips at this specimen of happy ind
en lence, snd fat good nature.
= The sisters turned towards the gate, and a
~ ter gazing moment look Of recognize
flashed over both faces, and each went to me
no. the cousin characteristically Kitty glidir
YET over the ground like creature Of air, her pl
no. face flushed with eager joy; while Minnie 81
lau from the bench, and slowly wadded towar
the gate as though she did not think it Wor
at while to be surprised into hurry, or W
= to take new joy scalding hot.
'5 We have nothing more to do with this ha
~ py reunited Clyde family at this time, reade
Ia there are places where no third party shot
~ ever be, especially at the reading of love ]
~ ter, and the reGnfonsof long separated frien
I in --e-==-<
men pourpTvt