Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-08-03
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1864.

appearance dt WITS. iuuIolon ). helnem-
Der, you will be subject to many remarks
and will look very plain by the side of your
shOwily dressed companions
Il promise. Now. Fred, promise in re-
turn that you will then and there comply
with my request
Your hand, Sis And row remember.
as long as you will wear drab, and that
without ornaments, | will refuse fashion
able glass. But you do not know what
sacrifice you are making. | should not be
surprised were you to retract any day
well, Fred, we shall see And now a
kiss as seal of our contract
And Lita threw her arms about her
brothers neck and covered his forehead
brow and lips with shower of kisses, aud
then gllded away through the hall, up the
l2ng oaken stairway to her chamber, where
seating herself, she bowed her head and
calculated:
Thank God, Charlie Chester may yet be
saved
And the tears rained down her fair face;
and when she had again looked up, there
was suhducd, tender light in her eyes,
never there before
And this was Lita Ro-s, the pet play
thing Of the family, the sparkling, fashion
able belle Of the season, the coquette, so
accounted. But Il ere was in her heart
leaf as yet unread by any eye save that of
her Maker, and on it was inscribed her
love for Charlie Chester
We'll, now, who'd have II ought it p
Fred exclaimed, as he found himself alone.
| thought | had touched her dearest idol,
and that she could no more deny it TO her
self than she could give up her right hand
But, she'll do it; | saw it in her eye
Faith, | never was so proud OF her in ny
lille. I've iookei upon her as mere chit of
girl; but all at once she stands before me
noble and self sacrificing woman, And
she's right about Churle Chester: for,
now think of it, he's in danger of being
drawn into a whirlpool Of dissipation =
Strange I've not thought of that before
used to think they had quite partiality
for each other; but they have outgrown it,
[ reckon
How mlch we pride ourselves upon our
own dlScernment, ana yet how widely do
our conclusions sometimes wauder IRON
the real truth
Thursday evening came; Frederick Ross
sat In the drawing room, awaiting the Ap.
pearance Of Lita There was a liz int, rust
ling step, and she stood before him, with
her soft brown hair drawn smoothly from
her brow, and confined plainly at the back
Of her pretty head, and amidst its glossy
abundance were few sprays Of heliotrope,
her dress was a simple drab silk, with low
cOrsage and short sleeves, relieved by
tall Of white blonde, while her tiny foot,
with its dainty satin slipper OF the same
shade as the dress, laid coquettishIy hidden
in the thick, rich carpet
Come, Fred, am ready she said. Am
[ presentable p
why, Lita, love p
Here he paused. Admiration was writ
ten on every feature OF his speaking lace;
but he adroitly changed the expression,
and concluded with
Yes, Lita; presentable, perhaps. But
one would take you at least to be twenty
FIVE, instead of nineteen. Faith, | had no
idea it would alter you so much Come
there is an hour yet; run and put on that
Tose-cOlOred Grape, and take the fastenings
from your hair, and let it fall in curls about
your shoulders. | hate to see you, NV
little Sis, looking SO prim, There's an
hour yet, and Bell will assist you. Do it,
now, to please me; there's good girl
Lita's cheek turned crimson and her
eyes filed with tears. To think that Fred,
her own brother, should tell her she look.
ed twenty five and 'prim' at that What
would Charlie Chester think of her? For
a moment the temptation was strong upon
her. But she did not yield, for she saw
in her minds eye Charlie with the wine
cup at his lips; she heard her mothers
voice crying, Enter not into temptation
as plainly as she heard her whisper it
into his ear as be turned from his cottage
home few weeks previous. 1t was those
words. and the look Of gentle sorrow that
filled the mothers eye with tears that first
aroused Lita's fears in regard to Charlie
and ever since that time she had watched
him closely. She did not care to betray
her interest in him, as he had avoided her
studiousiy for more than year; and, be
SIDES, she feared to wound him by forcing
upon him the thought that she imagined
him incapable of self control But now
she had devised way in which either of
these contingencies could be avoided
And having obtained her brothers consent,
should she yield it up simply to CRAFTY
her love Tor dress and admiration No,
no; she would not More than that, she
dared not Laying her hand, in its tiny
kid glove, upon her brothers. shoulder,
she said
Brother Fred, | shall 90 as | am, though
| would gladly consult your taste and my
own by exchanging this sombre dress tor
the rnSe enlnred Crane. hnt II ,un,,la ~. Ia