Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-05-10
CHAPTER Nv.

CHAPTER Iv.
"Come, girls, put on your things"
~ don't believe il will pay to 60, Charlie"
"Oh, yes it will, Mary. We're to have
the finest lecture in the course tonight. l
forgot the speakers name, but I'll promise
you barquent which will not do to lose."
They were sitting together in the parlor
alone-the gentleman and the two ladies'.
Both were young and both we're beautiful;
she who answered the gentleman was
stately brunette, with brown eyes and oval
features. I think that the mouth was some.
what cold and proud in repose, but it could
nestle into smiles which told their own story
OF the good and loving heart beneath them.
The other lady sat by the table quite ab-
sorbed in the book she was reading, and
looking on her you would have thought of
lily opening its luscious life amid still. deep
currents in the shadow Of great mountains,
Ten years had gone over Evelyn Lenard,
and if you had linked that day when she sat
on her horse before the blacksmith's shop
with this night you would hardly have be-
lieved 1t, for the child-look had not gone of
her face, though il had softened and .matur-
ed.
The squire had been dead for three Of
these years. he had engaged in some eavy
mining speculations, which had greatly dis.
appointed him, and his chagrin and anxiety
brought on the fever of which he died.
Evelyn was the sole heiress to his proper.
ty. but his speculations had well nigh ruined
the squire, and only few thousands fell to
his daughter, enough, however, to support
her comfortably and Independently, and she
had removed to the city and resided with hei
Cousin Charles ever since his marriage
which transpirsd soon after the death OF his
uncle.
al don't believe the lecture will be half a:
good as my book" said Evelyn,as she CLOSED
her volume half reluctantly.
"You'll think differently when you return
but it wont do TO delay, Tor the house will
be crowded." answered the gentleman.
The lecture was closed and the yount
speaker sat down with an air of exhaustion
while the plaudist of his hearers fairly shool
the lofty building.
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effort at oratorca display dazzling and over
whelmng the hearers with brilliant & start
ling rhetoric, but its sound logic, its gras
OF thought, its nte llectual air, were all EN-
bodied in simple, earnest, forcible language
His Imagination was rather clear and cfys
taline than fervd and tropical, more like
limpid brook than rushing torrent, thoug
his peroraticn was set with mary gorgeou
arabesques of thought. Z. %,
But what was more than all the rest, wa
the moral power of the lecture. None.
that vast audience had listened to it withol
4 being stimulated to higher life and noble
purposes, and all must have felt anew ii
sublime beauty and granduer Of that trut
that there was a living God rcigning in
the affairs of nations and of men--takin
!, counsel OF none, but ou. of his own 'infni
4 leisure, going on calmly and setenely labo
:, all the storms and darkness Of time. to tt
accom- pishment of His own blessed pu
+ poses Of peace and good will to man..
"Well, Eva, you're not sorry you left yo
=. book tonight" ..'pr,'t 80
" "Oh, moi this lecture has done me GOO
rv Charlie"
> They were passing slowly out amid I
crowd, when the young lawyer made Il
remark to his cousin, and it happened tn
~ they were on one side of the platform, a
~, Just in view of the speaker. who was nj
~ surrounded by several gentlemen.
= His glance suddenly swept on them,ant
;, halted at Evelyn Lenard's face. chan
90 came over him, he leaned forward and th'
M was bresthless interrogation of her fac
% Then, with hasty apology, Ihs ,spra
"a out and intercepted the lady and her cous
IA at the door. - So - =
;,o "Excuse me, madam, but Go | have
Nv NJ honor of addressing Miss Evelyn Lenar
,n .Thst is my name, sir" and the faces
Wv the three told their bewilderment and
prise. ~
"A sand you do no. know mel" '' ."
,nn Evelyn Lensrd looked into the thin Fl
-. $50 bright about the eyes, so sharply
, around the mouth" and over the 1.-the, sic
ava or figure.
81 do no. remember you, sir"