The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-25

you know all. I have deserved this from
you. ! will take anything from you-I
was gong to say, even broken heart; but
tnat Is already mine. But God has for
gwen : me, tor he has sent you back to me
Esi;Do /, not talk Of forgiving, Angel, he
SAID, kissing her on the forehead; II for
gave you, my poor child, long ago; but
now all that IS left for US is to be true to
ourselves"
The young and singularly lovely Girl
raised her dark, wondering eyes to the face
of her beloved: Suddenly it flashed upon
her mind that he was trying to break to
her that some insuperablc barrier still ex-
listed to their future union; and putting her
hand into his, and looking into his eyes,
she said, You have something to tell me,
Steenie; that there is something between
us still. Tell me at once; it is the punish
ment Of Heaven for my faults towards YOU.
But it is almost too bitter to bear; tell me
gently, but tell me at once
1t was now Lord Hautain's turn to look
wonderingly at that fairsupturned face be-
fore him, which he believed to be the face
Of sister, as he said, ".Anything between
US still, Angel? Why do you mock me in
this way, when there is everything between
us, as you must best kno7w-yo;i who axea
the immutable barrier by your own free
will You must let me be brother to YOU.
or nothing, Lady Hautai7e"
The last words were said in 50 sad a tone.
that they sank deeply, painfully into poor
Angels heart, for ffS. they told cf Years Of
weary suffering, like those she had herself
undergone. With her they had purified
and elevated; with him they had STRENGTH
ened, and perhaps a little embittered; but
then the ne had been cruelty injured, and his
nature was loyal to the core.
Such natures are embittered, when they
are betrayed as his had been, when the no
plest emotions Of his soul had been concern
ed. But she had balm to heal all these
deep heartwounds now; and her eyes shone
with a new light, that illuminated her pale
face as she answered, "Steenie, you are mis-
taking me for some one else; am not your
sister; 1 am not Lady Hautain Is it pos
sible that you have not heard that / an,
Angel Temple stize I broke of my en-
gagement Of one day with your brother,
even before you had left England and me.
!; could not give you up so easily as you
thought Oh, Steenie you do not know
how sore my punishment has been, but I
fully deserved it ah:o
As the poor girl pronounced the words
the talismanic words = am 4ngez Temple
st.u, her lover sprang. quickly to his feet,
while his whole frame shook with the
strength of his new-found JOY; and tears
streamed down his cheeks for the first time
since the paraly wing stroke which had fallen
on his heart in that very room four years
AGO. ~. ~. So
= They had both suffered much. owing to
the fault Of one; but Angel as it was Just
that she should had suffered: the most
She had lost. her mother and her lover III
those few years, and the sable ssrobes which
she wore for the former were the emblem
Of the desolation which the loss Of the other
had caused. She had moiuirned for him as
few. can mourn and live, and her sorrow was
now telling upon her health: In Lady Hau-
tain she had found another mother, one
who had directed her thoughts to the only
fountain of consolation for such sorrow as
hers; but the place of the lonlg:-lost lover
would never be filed by other than him
self sfaE.a a:= s:.s.'. i. ..-.''i II
he had been living wild life in the far
distant prairies OF the west, cut of, as it
were, from the land Of the living, as regard
ed those who loved him and whom be loved,
and /, chance onAy.had revealed to him the.
fact that he had become the possessor Of
the barony Of Hautain a circumstance
which he heard with unfeigned regret. u Il.
She asylost.to him still =. What were
titles and lands to him .nowl y He would
have to meet;-Angel next, as a brother, with
an immutable: barrier between himself and
her. But his duty called him to Eng land;
and an duty with him was q power stronger
| than DEATH It took him home; it took him
to theHide Of one who, asa sister, he would
have prayed neverto- see again; and IN: the
end it brought him his reward. There was
nothing between them, after all; they were
Tree; they were each Others; they were
blessed indeed a ss5sy,'. :
s.gW ords-could not paint the. rapture, Of
those two tried hearts, united now forever,
without cloud or speck on the dim hori-,
zon Of their future fates It was Christ:
mas Of the truest rejoicing that the, sold
Court" had ever known, for it was JOY Joy shat:
trod upon the very heels Of death and des-.
pair; and as the morning Of that holy day:
dawaed upon their waking eyes, two fooina
and thankful hearts offered up mute adora::
ton to the giver ofall earthly good. Stephen
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