Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-06-08
DELAWARE, OHIO, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1856.

I ~ AAukAEus anu EdAQ
Well, then, you shall not +; Miss Milly
| shall go too"
''ARl if that could only be; F.; but Milly
would die IN India. We came home be-
| cause the climate was killing her.
And you will not leave her 2"
II promised mamma, before she died,
that I never would that if I married it
should not separate Us; that my home
should be Milly's till she did not need 1t,
I answered, faltering under something In
/ the look of his face that was new to me,
/ Up to this time, / had been thinking of
I myself; now l was reminded that l was
giving pain to him.
He was silent two or three minutes,
| looking away into the distance. He had
I taken his hand away from my shoulder.
well, Hester" said he, presently,
| gravely. not Unkindly-but ab as 1t
! seemed to me very cOldly-"yeu have
/ simply to choose between your sister and
myself You are best able to Judge of
your sisters claims upon you; ofmy own
1 viii only say that l love you. 1 never
| thought or cared much about women till
1 I saw you, so l am not likely to change
/ my liking or to forget it; and if you had
/ married me-But [ will not try and plead
my cause against your sisters. 1t is for
| you to decide and for me to abide by your
! decision"
! 1OOACu uoa JoIdLelg up 20 t46 bl4dlug
/ blue heavens at the calm stream flowing
on its tranquil path to the sea, at all the
sea- -basking peace around, and prayed,
/ with prayer so passionate that it seemed
| like a loud demand that I might not be
forced into Staying with my own hands
| the young happiness of life. II cannot,
and viii not do it, I said in my heart
yet knowing the while that I must and
could.
Then Mark spoke again.
Nv ould you like a little time to con-
slider the matter? I need not leaYe the
Hollies till tomorrow evening, or per-
haps the next day.
mo" I answered-whether with OF
without my own will, 1 never knew. II
know what l must do. cannot leave
Milly"
And Milly cannot go. That decides
it, then. Well, [ have nothing to say, I am
the last man in the world to try and per-
suade any one against Judgment
He rose deliberately, but did not go, for
I sat still.
Are you going home ?'' he asked, after
a minute Hester, don't look so sad ;
| you are feeling for me-don't do that. [
/ should like to think of you when l am
over the seas, as happy as I would have
| tried to make you. Think of me some
times as friend. don't expect to for
[ S6G yOus 46SG6E- UOOu-Dy.
! His hand, as he held it out, shook ever
so slightly, but he held mine In q firm
/ pressure for an instant. Then he let it
/ drop, stopped over and picked up his gun,
| whistled his dogs around him, and strobe
away again along the sea wall, without
once turning to look back.
Milly and I were orphans. Our father
and mother had both died In India, and
we were sent home to the care of our sole
IL
" maiden lady, living in kind of a lady
like poverty, at dull little village In
Kent. Aunt Coley died when l was sew
enteen and 1illy twelve, leaving US the
little cottage that had been her home and
ours, with everything that it contained
no very valuable bequest, but all the poor
soul had to leave; and here MilIy and
: not heiresses, no, but not destitute,
) either-continued to live with the dear
old servant who had been our aunt's
faithful friend and our own kind and af-
/ fectionate nurse ever sinse fatherless and
; mOtherless, we had been sent to En-
gland
There were not many people to visit al
Hillstead. The rector, the doctor and
the family at the Hollies comprised them
: l think we were the most intimate at the
) Hollies, for the children there were Mil.
ly's contemporaries, and her sworn admi.
rers and friends. [ first saw Mark Suth-
/ erland at the Holhes he was Mr.. Suth.
erland's cousin and I heard of him before
seeing him. He had led a wild, adven
turous life, wandering all over the wOrle
3 for his simple pleasure, L suppose, since
never heard that he had any other objec
in doing so. I had formed my idea of him
? to be sure, the reality was not In the leas
} like it. No, quite otherwise, and yet, at
ter the first five minutes, I would no
, | ,Ic .oI- e. 1o 10,
? for worlds.
9 Do not suppose that [ speculated muol
t upon Marks character, in those days sucl
as he was I loved him, dearly loved hin
t -ah he would never know how dearly
/ for had l not given him up?
2 As one in a dream l went home, as II
a dream I crawled slowly up the steel
?, winding lawn to our cottage saw Mill.
D hanging on the garden gate waiting fo
q me, come flying out in the lawn to NEE
b me, all her golden hair streaming straigh
t out behind her, heard her call me, scOl,
/, me for being late, my own voice answer
ing. saw and heard all the familiar sight
and sounds of every day life as we d
70 sometimes in dreams, all made strang
,, and perplexing by some dreadful sense 0
e pain and trouble.
1t 'Het, said Milly, as we sat at tee
it you're not eating anything, you look pal
I
9, marshes till the sun has made you sick
E. I shall not allow you to go there agar
" mind that"
y 1t pleased Milly to play the eldest siste
5 and l was always content that the httl
one should do what it pleased her. Sh
,e was my darling, the one thing that m
Ot solitary life gave me to love till l sa
t, Mark; I had set up my idol long ago, bJ
it cost me dear. l remember that th
0. child was more than usually high spirite
? on that evening, that she teased me t
talk to her, sing to her, and finally hs
! | up 20 bed in a childish fit Of anger bt
i'll cause I could do neither one nor the Othe
as At any other time I should have gone a
ut ter her, coaxed and carressed her in GOO
" temper, but now, with a feeling Of reli
that she had gone, I sat at the windo
40 staring out into the dark, scented nigh
and counted the cost of the saerifc
be Long, long [ sat there, long after tE
or moon had risen, had set, and the sta
s. began to grow dark before that streak
gray light in the East. l thought
We Mark, of what had done, of what l hi
it given up, until | was nearly mad, f
at when l stood up and closed the windC
before going up to my room, l said to m
ag self that I would write to Mark Suthe
0y land when morning came, and tell hi
to that / had chosen once more between {
of two [ loved, and chosen differently.
in Therefore [ hope that [ was mad, but
went up stairs quite resolved and quiet
I undressed without ever once glancing
"a wards the bed where my little sister lay
ny meant to lay down on my pillow Witho
We doing so; but oh ! I could not say I
prayers and leave Milly without the k
I l always gave her before | slept 81
~ / ~, - Aha had and DRAWING hack [