The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1861-03-20

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She stamped her pretty foot, and tetorted
saucily: ..-. .... .
'rll never be yours, at any rate, you old
swapping TURTLE and, os If expecting to have
her ears boxed. IL caught, she darted away,
disappearing rapidly down the path whence
she had cone. a
Clarence HaTvard broke into d merry
laugh in which, after moment of anger, his
companion joined him.
you deserved 1t richly" said Clarence.
Its capital nickname, too. shall call
you nothing else, after this, than snappiug
turtle
Hang the jade = was the reply. 'One
wouldn't think she was 80 smart. But what
a shrew SHE'LL mokel I pity the clodhopper
she marries she'll hen peck him out of oil
peace, and send him to On early grave
Nothing more was said, for at that mo.
ment, dinner horn sounded, and the young
men rose to return to the rosdside inn where
they had stopped the night before. Their
time was limited, and that evening, KNAPP
sack on back, they were miles away from
the scene OF the morning. A week later
they were both home in the city, Clarence
hard at work perfecting himself in the art,
and bis companion deving at Coke and
Blackstone.
| Years passed. Clarence Harvard hnd
risen to be an artist of eninence. His pic
lures were the fashion he was the fashion
himself. Occasionally, as he turned over
bis older sketches, he would come upon
| 'Cobwebs = ss he was accustomed, laugh.
ingly, to call the sketch OF the child and
then for a moment, he would wonder what
had become OF the original ; but except on
these rare occasions. he never thought Of
her.
Not 80 with the child herself. Nelly
Bray was poor orphan, the daughter OF n
deCayed gentleman, who, after her fathers
death, had been adopted by maternal un.
Gle, living on wild upland lOrm among the
Alleghenies. Her childhood from her ear.
iesl recollection, had been spent amid the
drudgery OF farm. This rude but free life
had given her the springy step and rudy
cheek which had attracted the young artists
attention but il had failed 10 satisfy the
higher aspirations of her nature al aspirations
which had been born in her blood, and
which came Of generations Of antecedent
culture. The first occasion of which these
higher impulses had found congenidl Tocd
was when sbe had met the young artist
| She carried her sketch home, ard would
never part with it. His refined. intel llectuaI
face hauated all her day dreams. From
! that hour new element entered into her
| life she became conscious that there were
other people beside the dull, pIodding ones
with whom her lot had been cast she asDir
ed TO rise to the level Of such all her leis'
ure hours were spent in studying gradually
through her influence, her unce's household
grew more refined and finally, her uncle
himself became ambitious for Nelly, and, as
he had no children, consented, at his wie's
entreaty, to send the young girl to first.
class boarding school.
At eighteen the bare. footed rustic, whom
the young artist had sketChed, had dawned
into a beautiful and accomplished young
woman, who, having carried off the highest
prizes at school, was the belle Of the coun-
try town near which her uncle's possession:
lay. For, meantime, that uncle had been
growing rich, like most prudent farmers
partly from the rise in value Of lands, ant
partly from the judicious investments OF biz
savings.
'Are you going to the ball, next week :!
said one Of Nelly's friends to her. 'They
say it is TO be the most splendid affair WI
have ever had. My brother tells me tina
! Mr.. Mowbray, the eloquent young lawye
from Philodelphis, who is in the great viii
case here, is to be present.
Il expect to CO. was the answer. Blu
Mr.. Mowbray being there won't be the in
ducement.'
.OhI you are so beautiful, you can sffort
to be indifferent. But oil the other girls arr
dying at the very thought
/ The ball came of, and was really superb
Mr.. Mowbray was there. too, with oil hi
laurels. The great will case,' which ha,
sagitatsd the country for so many months
had Been concluded that very day, and beer
decided in favor OF his client. No sucf
speech as Mr.. MoWbray's, it was universally
admitted, had ever been heard in the cour
house. lts alternate wit and argument hat
carried the jury by storm, SO that they hat
given verdict without leaving the box
The young lawyer OF that ball, was like a
hero fresh from the battle field. A hundred
eyes followed bis form, hundred fair bo
SONS beat quicker as he approached. Bu
be saw only one, 10 that brilliant assembly
and it was Nelly. Her graceful form
her intelligent face, her style and beauty ar
rested him, the moment he entered ne sav
that she had no peer in the room and n
devoted himself to her, almost exclusively
throughout the evening.
Nor had Nelly ever shown so brilliantly
1 She could not but feel that it vas a grea
compliment, to be thus singled out from s'
many. But she had another motive for ex
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