The huntsman's echo. [volume] (Wood River, Buffalo County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1860-1861, 1861-02-07

ly, down the path whence she came.
Clarence Har iard broke into mer.
~ laugh, in wlich after moment Of
anger, his companion Joined him.
.You deserved il richly" said Cla
renee. "ffs a capital nickname 100
shall call you nothing else. aftei
this than swapping turtle. r
Hang the .jsde!' was tn, reply.
One wouldn't think she was o.
smart. But what shrew she'll make
I sfitg the clod-hopper she marriesi
she'd henpeck him out Of all peace,
and send him TO an early grave."
Nothing more was sail, for at that
moment, dinner horn sounded, and
the young men rose to return to the
road side inn, where they had stopped
the night before. Their time was lin.
led, and that evening, knspsack on
back; they were miles away from the
scene of the morning. 4 week later
they were both home in the city. Cla.
renee hard at work perfecting himself
in art, and his companion delving at
Coke and Blackstone.
Years passed. Clarence Harvard
had risen 10 be an artist of eminence.
His pictures were the fashion: he was
the fashion himself. Occasionally, AS
he turned over his older sketches, be
would comg upon "Cobwebs," as he
was accustomed, lsughingly, 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 even
thought of hor.
not SO with the child herself. Mel.
lie Bray was poor orphan, the daugh-
ter Of a poor gentleman, who, after her
fathers death, had been adopted by a
maternal uncle, living on wild, up
land farm among the Alleghanies.
Her childhood, from her earliest re-
collection, had been spent amid the
drudgery Of farm. This rude, but
free life had given her the springy step
sud ruddy cheek. which had attracted
the young artists attention, but it had
failed 10 satisfy the higher aspirations
OF her nature, aspirations which had
been born 10 her blood, and which came
OF generations Of antecedent culture.
The first occasion on which these
higher impulses had found congenial
food was when she had met the young
attist. She carried her sketch home,
and would never part with it. His re-
fined, intellectual face haunted all her
day dreams. From that hour a new
element entered into her life: she be.
came conscious that there were other
people, beside the dull, plodding ones
with whom her lot had been cast; she
aspired 10 rise to +he-level of such; all
her leisure hours were spent in study
ing: gradually, through her influence,
her Incls's household grew more or
less refined; and finally, her uncle him
self became ambitious for Nelly, and
as he had no children, consented, at
his wife's cntrta atty, TO send the young
girl to firsl class boarding school.
At eighteen the bare footed rustic.
whom the young artist had sketched,
had dawned into a beautiful and ac-
complished woman, who after having
carried eff the highest prizes at school,
was the belle OF the county town. near
which her uncle's possessions lay
That uncle had been growing rich. like
most prudent farmers, partly from the
rise 10 value OF lands. and partly from
the judicious Investment OF lis sa-
wings.
But in spite OF her many sui,ors,
Nelly had never ye: seen a face. that
appeared 10 her half So handsome as
the man!y one Of the young artist,
whose kind, gentle words and manner,
eight years before. had lived in her
memory ever since. Often after a
brilliant company, where she had been
queen Of the evening, she found her.
self wondering, in her chamber, if she
should ever see that face again.
Are you going to the ball, next
week?' said one of Nellie's friends TO
her. They say it is 10 be the most
splendid affair we have ever had. My
brother tells me that Mr.. Mowbray,
the eloquent young lawyer from Pha-
adelphia, who is in the great will case
here. Is to be present. a- N
~ expec, to co. was the answer.
"But Mr.. Mowbray being there won't
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"Oh!you are SO beautiful, yeu caa
afford % be indifferent. Bl. all the
other girls are dying at the very
,iiousn :"
TIE tall came eff, aud was superb.
Mr.. Mowbrsy was there, too,S with
al lis laurels. The ''grcat III case p
which had ugltated the country Tor so
many months, had been concluded
that very day, and been decided IN
favor OF MS client. No such spe cl,
as Nj, Mowbrf,'s, il was rc' ivrsaily
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