The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1865-08-22

biAe me Ups ny GEAR l9fc ahe
be bed ne closer
i cannot 90 10 India.
Why, no, aud he looked half
um m8yed, half amused. | could not
bear TIE glance of b. kind, dark eyes,
] shr0nk away from his arms and
said
4 cannot leave Mlly.
To my oxn thinking, | had pro-
o0r doom nov but Mark
Sutherland only laughed, and SAID
Well, then, you shall not Miss
Milly shall 20 too.
All if that could only be; but
Milly would die in India. We came
home because the ciimale was killing
her.
And you will not leave her
i promised mamma, before she
died, that ! never would that if
married il should not separate Us
that my home should be Milly's ull
she did not need it, / answered, ial.
tering under something IL the look Of
his face that was new to me- Up to
this time, ! had been thinking Of my
self; now | was reminded that | was
giving pain to him.
He was silent Two or three minutes;
looking away in the distance. He
had taken his hand from my shoulder.
Well, Hester, said he, presently
not unkindly-but ah as it
seemed to me, very coldly- you have
simply to choose between your sister
and myself. You are best able TO
judge ot your sister claims upon you;
Of my own will only say that love
you, never thought or cared much
about women ill | saw you. 30 | am
not likely = change my liking or to
forget It; and it you had married
me But will not try to plead my
caus against your sisters. 1t is for
you 10 decide, and Tor me to abide by
your decision
! looked desperately up TO the smll-
ing blue heavens, at the calm stream
flowing on It's tranquil path TO the sea,
at all the sun basking peace around
me, and prayed, with prayer SO pas
sionate that it seemed like a loud de-
mand, that ! might not be forced into
slay ylng with my own hands the young
happiness of life. ! cannot and
will not DO it, said in my heart yet
knowing the while that must and
conld.
Then Mark spoke again.
Would you like a little time to
to consider the matter? need not
leave the Hollies lIll tomorrow evening
or, perhaps, the next day
No. answered, with or without my
own will, never knew. Il knew what
| must do. cannot leave Milly.'
And Milly cannot 20. That de-
cides il then Well, have nothing to
say | am the last man in the world TO
iry andpersuade any one against judg-
lheut.
IIerose deliberately but did not 90,
for SAT still.
Are you going home 7 he asked af-
Ter minute. Hester, don't look so
sad you are feeling for me- don't do
that. should like to think of yon
when | am over the seas, as happy as
! would have Tried 10 make you.--
l hink OF me sometimes as friend. |
don't expect TO forget you, Hester.
Good hye.'
His hand,as he held il out, shook ev-
or so slightly but it held mine in a firm
pressure Tor an instant. Then he let
it drop, stopped and picked up his gun,
whistled his dogs around him, and
strobe away again along the sea-wali,
without once turning to look back.
MiIly and were orphans. Our ia.
Iher an mother had both died in India
and we were sent home TO the care OF
our sole relation, m, fathers only sis
ter, all elderly maiden lady, living IN a
kind OF laey-like poverty, at dull lttie
village in Kent. Aunt Colly died
when was seventeen and Mill twelve e
leaving 10 US the little cottage that had
been her home and ours, with every
thing that 1t contained; no very valua-
bic bequest,but all the poor soul had to
leave; and here Milly aud I--not heir
esses,no, but not destitute, either-con-
unued 10 live with the dear old servant
who had been our aunl's faithful friend
and companion, and our own kind and
nurse ever since, ,iatherless
and motheTless, we had been sent to
England.
There were not many people to visit
at Hilistead. The rector, the doctor.
and the family al The Holiies comprised
them. think We were the most inti-
mate at The Hollies for the children
there we're Milly cotemporaries, and
ber swor admirers and friends. |
iirst saw Marx Sutherland al the Hol-
lies {; he was Mr.. Sulherland's cousin
and | had heard Of him often before
saw him He had led wild adven.
iurous knd OF life, wandering all over
lire world Tor his simple pleasure,
suppose, SINCE ] never heard that he
had any other object in doing 50. /
bad formed nay idea Of him, but the
reality was not 10 the least like it,
No, quite otherwise, aud yet, after the
FIRST tse minutes, | would not have
changed the real man Tor the ideal for
worlds.
Dc not suppose that | spcculated
much upon Marks character 10 :hoJe