Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-12-16

soto voce tone, Struggling bis shoulders
did you ever see such fellow as Stan.
ton Z" l
Never" wac Agatha's replv, but it was
so emphatically spoken that Fitz Aubyn
started.
And that night, when the courted beau.
ty was brushing out her luxuriant hair.
she paused many a time and fell into a
thoughtful reyery.
/ Moral courage" she murmured tc
herself 81 have somewhere read that i,
Is nobler far than the iron resolution which
makes men reckless in battle. / won.
DER
And there she stopped resolutely.
What glorious, bracing New YEAR.
Day 1t was There had been Just snow
enough in the night to form a white glis.
tenIng coat over everything, and afford an
excellent excuse for ths merry sIeighs that
darted hither and thithsr with streaming
turs and jingling bells. All the fashiona
Die world was astir-the gentleman busily
consulting their intermiDable list of calls,
and the ladies putting the last touches &c
their gorgeous toilettes.
There were not many upon that day who
received more. adulafion than Agatha
Milne, as she stood likea Young .empress
in her splendid drawing reoms> every mir,
Tor flashing back her loneliness. Her
dress was very simple-plnk silk edged
around the shoulders W it'll snowy ermine,
and long sprays of jessamine drooping from
her hair yet she knew that she had never
been so beautiful as now, as she listened
with languid smiles to the compliments
showered upon her. 1t was nothing
new.
The gilded chandeliers had been light
ed. and the jewelled fingers of the tiny al.
] abaster clock on the mantel pointed to q
late hour when the peal of the door-bell
announced a new inoursion of guests, and
NJ. Ritz Aubyn entered, surroe nded by a
gay party of young men.
Good evening, Miss Milne; surely I
am not too late to wish you the happiest oil
all imaginable New Years! Whom do
you suppose saw steering in the direct
ton OF your hospitablo mansion just now.
! y, here he comes to speak for himself-the
Cbevalier Charley Stanton %
Agatha turned calmly to welcome the
new conner, and the keenest eye could
scarcely have discerned the deeper shade
OF color that glowed on her delicate cheek
as he quietly came forward 70 greet her.
"tlll your glasses, gentlemen" exelaim.
ed Fitz Aubyn, holding high above bis
head tiny chslice Of engrsven Bohemian
! glass, Drumming with crimson wine, land
let US drink to the health of our fair hos
tess, Miss Agatha Milne"
The lmrsomptu toast was received with
general aeclamations of satisfaction, and
Fitz Aubyn glanced around second time
to see il ell had followed bis injunctions
| ha had liz, Il
Come, Stanton; no lack of chiyalry
here; where's your glassl"
Il will drink Miss Mines health in
clear iced water with the greatest pleas
ure, said Stanton, smiling; but never
touch wine"
/ Never touch wine! and pray why
not 2"
Because it is against my principles, !
said Stanton, with quiet frmness.
4 Fitz Aubyn curled his lips in a con-
temptuous silence, that was several de-
grees harder whom young man leaned
forward to interposs bis word.
"Offer it to him yourself, Miss Milne
surely he cannot be so lost to all sense O
galiantry as TO refuse it from your fai
Agatha had grown very pale, but with
out speaking she filed one of the tin,
goblets, and held it towards Charles Stan
ton.
Will you not take it from me 7"
Stanton looked at her with calm gray.
ity.
Miss Milne, should be coward in
deed did | al ow your persuasiens to swa,
me from the fixed principles which ar
the guiding stars of my whole life."
lie bowed and withdrew. The glass fel
from Agatha's hand, and shiysred into
thousand sparkling fragments she bit he
scarlet lip until the blood started, with
strange sympathetic thrill of exultation.-
Had be wavered for an instant in his de
termination, she would have despise
him.
"a very poor investment, those ho-se
of mine, and all this behavior a-la-good- DO
in story books" muttered Fitz Aubyu
about four weeks subsequently,, as b
strobe into the brilliantly illuminated sa
looms of the Club House. "Hsre, waiter
glsss of brandy and wster-quick W
"Whats the matter, Fitz? You look a
black as a thunder cloud" observed a BY
stander, who was leaning against maj
BILE pillar and picking his teeth in mos
leiseurely and epicurian manner.
The matter Do you remember tina
magnificent agatha Milne, the Queen q
all the Beauties?"
"Of course l do; she hasn't lost her wit
nor her property, hope ~
mo- but I've lost the latter item prett
effectually. Who do you suppose she
going to marry!"
''l'm sure cannot guess. Do tell you
news at once, and don't keep fellow i
: suspense in this sort of way"
"WelJ, she is going to become Mr..
Charley Stanton actually going to MARI
a man with fossil aunt, and principle
that won't allow him to drink glass O
wine Bah humbug that passes curren
in this world"
al could have prophesied as much be
fore, my dear boy, if you would only hay
done me the honor to listen to me,n oh
served the other, coolly unfolding the new.
paper, so as 20 get at the inside columns
you, gay. dashing young fellows are al
very well as long as q girl wants to anus
herself but when it comes to a life-lou
question, she's apt to prefer q safe maj
for husband"
Fitz Aubyn groaned deeply but con
sidered his condition too precarious TO b
worth arguing.
Meanwhile little Ruth Fleetwood was a
, busy as bee working at her Cousins wed
: ding robe OF spotless white satin, and ssk
: ing ten thousand questions, the final G
l which always was:
0 "But, Agatha, yeu never would tell m
why you didn't like him, and now you al
], just as bad. Tell me, that's darliu,
why ysu changed ysur mind?"
! And Agatha only laughed and crimson
ed, and made the same old uroyokip
. answer:
''Oh-because ~