Shreveport semi-weekly news. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-06-20


form both strange and fair met his
eyes--a girlish creature, standing
half i'll the outer gloom and half in
tho indoor brightness. and apparently
hesitating between an Intention 10
enter and desire to run away. Her
travelling pligh. gave him assurance
who it must be, though she differed
SO widely from the parsonage that
had been skrtched more than once
BY the different members of the
household to tease and territv the
little open-cyed Augusta. thr.t he
could scarcel refrain from smiling.
The Young girl who stood thus
unwelcomed upon the threshold of
the mansion to which she had been
summoned, appe alrd quickly to his
tender and manly nature as she stood
forlorn and unsupported. and h., came
quietly forward, pronoUucluS her
name and words of welcome in kind
! ly tones.
/ The new conner did not seem quite
abashed and overwhelmed, but, with
a little air of gracr resolution, re-
sponded in lndy~like manner,
, though tears trynbled rs well in her
voice as in her eyes.
After Eustacc had escorted her to
the library. which was the only ple &C
below stairs where the least degree
of privacy could be obtained, he with
drew and dispatched 4 servant to
Mrs. Shelby with information Of the
arrival
He did not know, but he could
have given shrcwd surmisr, that
that lady simply gave orders tina:
Miss Hall should be shown TO her
room and provided with rc!reshment,
and that she permitted the young
stranger to sleep, if sleep she could.
beneath her roof, without the words
Of welcome or cheer. which are 50
sweet to those whom circumstances
condemn to be wayfarers on the by
paths Of life.
Those who find shelter under one
roof. let them be separated rs widely
as they may by tastes and habits,
must in the end arrive at 4 degr"" OF
intimacy; and il was not long after
Madelairo was established as govern
ess TO little Augusta Shelby, before
the house seemed to have acquired a
new charm, and the occupants TO be
drawn more closely together.
There is nothing which can give
SO sweet an Interest 70 the home cir
Gle, as an intelligent. unaffected and
amiable girl. who in this respect
owns a power belonging to herself
alone, if she bu: choose 10 exercise il.
Mrs. Shelby soon discovered that her
sons had grown more domestic; and
in the person Of the fair stranger,
found one whose presence seemed for
while at least, to larmonise the dis
cord which had always been moro or
less apparent in their lives. She
toresaw that il was not improbable.
that one of them might love her; bat
then, she did not consider that occur
renee as being irrevocahlc: and in
deed, in time, she came TO think tha;
even should it prove serious. she
would not object; for her tastidious
taste and critical eyes could see moth
ing Of which to find fault in the intel
ligence, beauty and quiet elegance Of
the young girl, and it had always
been her won. TO remark with n glow
of satisfaction that her boys "wcre
not obliged to take money into con
sideration in marrying" Sh" had
an idea that it was most probably
Thornton who would Ct her: but
some knowledge of a never c"asing
tenacitv Of purpose, which belong",.
to Adrian, made it doubtful, should
his desires clash with those Of his
| brother
1t was 4 strange thing, hu: none
the less true, that this fair and unpre-
tending flower, Of whose Very cXis-
tence they had been in ignorance but
n few short months gone by. was now
famed b. the signs and suaned by
the chances of these two cUrled and
perfumed darlings Of prosperity. who
desired nothing better of fortune than
to be allowed to transplant her per
manently where the fragrance of HEY
life would cxhal- away, untouched
by tn" frosts of poverty or care, and
sacred alone to them.
Each loved after his own fashion
and temperament. Adrian, with a
meek supplication, the powerot which
J lay in tn. fact that he exacted moth
ing, claimed nothing, and yet expec
ted all things of the generosity OF the
beloved. Thornton with the deep,
fervid and consuming passion which
could better brook the destruction of
the thing he loved than yield it to
another. Each wooed after his own
fashion, and Yet each was quickly
conscious that they not only con
tended one against the other for the
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