Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-06-25

N0u'u 'eacu neT. one was looking pale
ana had lost the delicate bloom and soft
roundness from her cheek. Once made
her pause as she was hurrying past me, and
tell me If she were i'll. She was very well
she said. Had offended her? Oh. no
that could never be.
l did hope you would have dismissed en-
tirely your low associations, said my moth
er as we sat at dinner that day. Obi you
need not stare, she continued, who, great
lady as she was, could be vulgar at times:
did not see you talking with that little
seamstress, the widow Mason's girl this
afternoon, and then bowiDg low to farmer
Kings daugbter2 I'm ashamed of Won
John Andrew Mallowbie.
But IN not ashamed of myself, mother.
Jennie Mason is the prelticst, most loyeable
girl in the county aud the most perfect
lady, and Minnie King has been friend
and ally OF mine since the days when we
went birdsnesting together.
Oh, she's of no account But the seam.
tress, the girl who made the very shirts
yon ure wearingl gave ber a piece Of nv
mind on the subject Of her buldness aud
presumption when she was here last, and
think she will not be inclined to play of
her airs on you very soon.'
Mother! is it possible; Have you
spoken to Jennie 10 that nanneI?'
did not wait for reply. All my soul
was on fire. Anger, Indignation. sorrow.
love, was warriug within me. did not
want to forget that the euemy who had
done this was my mother, and | rushed
from the room 10 bury my grief in silence
For two hours l paced the ground with
rapid strides Olt of the chaos of nv
thoughts. but Que rose with form clearly
defncd--the thought Of my life long love
for jennie. Ii seemed hopeless now. Gen
tie, sensitive, refined, she could never for.
give the wrong she had received. could
not ask nor expect it. Aud yet how could
L give her up? Suddenly it occurred to me
that she had said that she was not offend
ed at me. | might then venture 10 ask her
to To- get The insult she had received to
assure ber how differently | estimated he"
Ito let her know how unchanging was The
respect, the reverence | felt for her Act,
ing upon this thought soon found myself
hurrshing along the village street, aud
entering the widow Mason's gate.
There was no one within. / lifted the
latch and entered the little parIor-so
poor but instinct with the air of refinement
that cbaracteriz ID everything that Jennie
touched. | sat down upon the low couch
by the 6reside to wait for Jennie was
weary, exhausted by emotion, torpid with
the chill air of the night, and while waited
| fell asleep
| dreamed: and my dream was OF Jennie
| thought she VAS mine-mv bride-that
she sat beside me aud leaned her head upon
my breast-ttaL we spoke together of the
happy future that lay before US. Then,
suddenly she was separated from me. i
sought her though half Of the world; near
her, never apprO .ching her, parted by some
vague but unSurmounlable barrier. In my
uouble and anguish cried aloud. and wall
ed my despair 10 he winds aud the unpity.
ing heavens | cal ed on all The powers of
earth aud air for aid--and then deep slum-
Der fell upon me-
Sill sleeping, an inefftble, Joyous peace
possessed me. | seemed to feel an invisible
pre- ence that filed me with bliss. | raised
my eyes aud jennie stood before me. She
look, at me with nourntul, loving gances,
aud when | opened my arms she fell upon
my breast, and felt her lips meet mine in
long, long kiss.
was awake! Isprang up! A faint rus
tie in the depths of the mellow gloom
fell upon my ca; the door shut with the
sof,est click of the latch; but my hand was
on it ere the sound ceased. There was a
dark 6gure in the little entry, that palpi-
ta,ed and shivered as clasped it in my
arms. Soon had it there in the ruddy
circle of the freight. 1t was Jennie, and
l was saying
Jennie, | love you-love you with all my
whole heart and strength, you love me,
no power on earth shall part US. If you
love ME Jennie, and will be mine, give me
as token that which think you gave me
but now, when you thought me sleeping.
Oh, the red bushes on Jepne's face! Oh
the sweet light OF Jenne's pure, frank eyes
as at last she turned them upon me! Jen-
ME was miuel Jennie kissed me!