Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-09-06
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Dora Dean, your friend St. George End
low Il wonder where he got lis uame,l
hasn't any designs on me, nor OF him
'Fie, Cons lance, to call st George End
low king Of the Cannibal Islands He's
The very handsomsst man of my scquain-
lance
Precisely. and of miDe---sn exquisite
of the first water--the prince OF dam
dies
He's not a dandy. Constance. dou't
believe you think so, either. St. George
dsndyl He can't help being handsome
any more than Constance Sutherland can.
But dandy You'll find be 10 not that,
Miss Constance
Shall II doubt it. l'vs.no interest
in tbs matter, I'm. suVe; but Isneser ea&
handsome man yet that wasn't a dandy
in his very hearts CORE
Poor Endlow! see it is all over with
him so far as you are concerned. You're
very prejudiced parsonage, Constance
Sutherland
Dora Dean whirled away in a waltz on
somebody's arm, and Constance Suther-
land remained, half hidden by the dropped
curtains of the window ct which she
sat.
Proud, uuapproachable and peerless y
was what the world said of Constance,
queen in right of her beauty Of all the gay
circles which she frequentsd but some.
what scornful queen since she seemed ut
terly careless of the homage she received,
and rarely melted enough from her hateur
to be conversational, except with a select
few. A beautiful proud girl, more preju-
diced and vain than she suspected herself,
! great deal; but a woman with a heart
and an intellect, a woman worth winning,
q woman who orly needed melting to make
/ her half divine, If human creatures can be
so, and in loves vocabulary the possibility
| is certainly much talked of.
just outside the window at which Con-
stance sat, and hidden from her view by
an immense Towering shrub tn at stood
! there, sat during the whole Of the priced
| ing conversation, St. George Endlow -
! Accident had placed him there at irst.
and very natural feeling had made him
shrink from changing bis position after
ward, lest Constance should see bin aod
know that he bad heard her ungraciOus
comments upon himself Besides, he said
! to himself, bitterly, being a dandy, he had
| O right 70 know it, even under such ques.
/ :ionable circumstances as these. He was
sitting there still, unable TO quit his post
| for fear of Constance seeing him, when q
| gentleman. Constance's brother. Joined
her, and he had the pleasure Of bearing
himself under discussion sgsIn, somewhat
| to this effect:
Mr.. EndlOw turned soldier-it must be
a mistake = exclaimed Constance depend
/ upon it, you are misinformed. such pretty
men as be is are not likely to risk spelling
their beauty by exposure to bayoDet or
cannon ball.
Copstance's brother rose very soon and
left her. half angry, half laughing at her
| prejudice against 'Endlow.' St. George
sat moment, the hot blood rising to his
! very temples. If it had been q man who
| had spoken thus Of him, be would have
| known how to answer him 10 a manner to
seal his lips for ever after on that subject.
Being a woman, and that woman Con-
stance Sutherland, he rose presently, aud
passing from the shadow of the shrub,
stood before her, his splen lid eyes making
vain endeavors to subdue their flash as be
said;
IF Miss Constance will permit me /
should like to thank her for her maguaui.
nous expression of herself concerning one
whom she supposed not present and there
fore unable to defend himself
G, nstaoce rOse-vivid color flooding her
usually tranquil face. She blushed with
shame to the very tips of her delicste fin.
gers aud stood too confused to retort even
a reproach for the part he had played of
listner. Never bad she looked so beautis
full in the eyes Of St. George hut he only
compressed his lips, and was turning on
his heel when sho lifted her hand with a
gesture half naughty. half appealing, say-
| ing. in low voice,
Il beg your pardon. sir. Nothing could
justify the language l have used concern.
ing you
lie did not speak at once or touch the
hand she extended to him. But presently
he took it in his hand aud held it with a
vicelike pressure, saying 10 a rapid under.
tone.
Give me a chance to DO sess this hand
to deserve it as much as man can, and
l.
That W ere impossible rotorted Con-
stance, instantly growing white and stand
ing haughtily erect.
'Which-to possess or deserved ques.
toned St. George, calm again.
Either And she vanished from the
window.
PITY about St. George Eudlow, isn't it,
Con |" said young Sutherland, longing iU
his sisters sitting room one morning some
months after. oh, ] forgot, you never
liked him Splendid fellow, though. En-.
listed as q private, fought bis way Up, and
died at the head of the brave boys he wal
leading
Died =
1t was all Contance Sutherlaud's lipt
could utter and then. with her hand upor
her side, she went slowly out of the room
up to her chamber, and shut herself in
Later in the day Dora Dean came Sht
could not get adnittance to Constance, bu
she called to her from the outside. Sht
meant 1t hs q jest she was thoughtles
girl.
They say St George Endlow is badly
wounded. Hadn't you better 60 down anC
nurse him, Constance
The door swung open, and Constance
stood upon the threshold saying. wound.
ed Fred said dead
oh l believe that was the FIRST rep ,rt
but 1t is contrOdicted.' Dora said, light
ly.
The next train took Constance Suther
land toward the battlefield. doubt i
she knew herself, till that rumor of BIZ
death came, that she loved St. Georgt
Endlcw.
She found him. 1t was long enough
Tristan agony of suspense-and there
was frightful cash across the LroaC
white forehead that had been too hand.
some.'
lie needed her long before che reached
him, and did not know her when sb,
came. But he lived to owe his life to hel
care to love her with fond tenderness
that 10 the old distance he had peyeI
dreamed of; and to receive at last from
Der trembling lips the ackDowlsdem
that he was more to her than oil III ..n.ll