The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1861-06-04
How a Woman Loves.
ny MARY MAITLAND.

You VIII accompany me home said q
young man 10 his companion, as he threw
himself YEARLY upon a sofa.
"No"
The answer was in low tone, but il was
firm and decided, and the speaker showed
in The troubled lines of bis face, how much
the pronunciation of the little word had cost
him.
Nor"
Harry Grey, the first speaker, repeat
ing the answer in tone of profound aston
ishment, sal up again, and looked doubling
y at his friend.
mo? Nonsense will not take that
for an answer. You must come home
with me-"
" Do not urge me- / cannot tell you
how much it pains me to refuse your invi-
tation, but ! cannot--I ought not to go
with YOU
"Why not; My mother and Kate write
the most urgent invitations both in their
own name and my fathers and have set
my heart upon having you at Danion this
summer You viii come !" and Harry,
in the urgency of his entreaty, took both
the hands of his companion in his own,
and looked up in his face; You will
come? Do not owe my life TO you In
that fearful steamboat accident, when stun
ned and wounded | was sinking a help
less, bleeding firm, did not your arm res.
cue me, and once ashore, have you not
nursed me, tended me, fed and clothed me
until this day +? and now, when my parents
and sister long to see and bless my preser-
yer, you coldly deny their prayer"
"My friend" and DR.. Hill looked low
inely down upon the handsome face raised
to his, al did my duty-no more. | saw
you lived, though wounded, ard ] drew
you ashore, for | was there TO save all /
could. When ] had once saved you was
il not natural to bring you here to my
house, and, finding you had lost all in the
burning boat, TO lend you from my own
wardrobe what you required Your kind
heart exaggerates my service"
owe you my life"
Well, well, 50 LET it be. ! thank God
for permitting me TO expiate--"
He stopped, and with shudder gently
put the young man from him.
You will 90 with me y
Harry do not urge me. IL cannot
tell you uhy / refuse, but if | did, you
would take away your hands from mine,
and look upon me with abhorreuce. You
would say with me, "Neyer shall this
man come into my peaceful home ]
cannot---I cannot go where there are ten
der, loving women, and noble men, |
have loved you as never thought 10 have
loved you again, and your affection is very
grateful 10 my heart, but were | TO tell
you all, to make you shrink from me with
hatred. -"
Never ] bate you? /, who have
seen how good, how noble you are? Do
not tell me your secret, but come with me.
Sorrow you may have known, sim am
sure you do not mean that your own sin
would make me hate you!"
No not that NV hand and heart are
far from any heavy crime as your own.--
We arc all sinful, but I--oh, why will you
urge me thusi'
Because | will have my petition gran
ted. You shall never tell me this secret
which / have seen is wearing out your life,
but implore you 10 come home with me,
My mother, whose invalid condition keeps
her confined almost entirely a, home,
writes with her trembling hand the letter
urging you to come"
The doctor paced the room as his friend
spoke, struggling with strong emotion.-
Suddenly he stopped.
Do you know" be said almost ferccly,
" how you are tempting me? Do you
know that for ten years have crossed no
threshold save where crime, poverty, and
disease called for relief, and could make
my knowledge and purse useful That
for ten years no mans hand save your own,
has clasped mine; no mans voice called
me friend DO you know how | hunger
and thirst for one hour spent in dofae
That the prospect you hold oct IS Ike
bread TO a starving man. DO you know
that ! was hunted from my native town
like a Wild beast, and should return there
to-rnorrow / should be mobbed and boot
ei Z This is all truef Now DO you ask
me 70 90 home with you z
Look in my face" said Harry. So,
full IN nv ewes now. by the love between