The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1866-07-25
THE TWO ANSWERS.

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no, be your wife. Have compassion on me.
and do not press me further" '5sf9
Mary Granville stood before me as she
spoke, with her hands clasped and her head
bowed, trembling like an aspen. and as
fancie,l there were tears in her eyes.
She was beautiful girl and | had
thought her as good and pure as she Vas
beautiful, and, further than this. had be-
lieyed that she had loved me. "a
She was sn..orphsn. and had been engag-
ed during the past year in teaching one Of
our village schools.
or her early life knew nothing. save
that she had been educated and moved in
good society /; and I had reason to believe
th., at some time her parents had been
wealthy. but her father had Jailed in bust.
NESS, and II had been told TO ne, that the
sad reverse killed him. I mad known that
Mary was poor--,hat she was dependent on
her daily labor for support. and the thought
that could offer her . comfortable home,
with the advantage Of moderate wealth.
had given Increase to ny prospective hap.
piness.
But this unexpected answer dashed all
my bright hopes 20 the ground.
"Do yau mean" cried vehemently
I" that you dismiss me Am cast OFF"
81 cannst be your wife," was the reply.
"rhen." said |. with more warmth than
imight hare betrayed under other eircum-
stances, "I leave you 10 yourself, and
~hile try 20 shake OF the lore that hai
buund me 10 yuu. will only hope tha, ere
you lead another into your net you will
conclude beforehand whether you will keep
him."
She locked into my face With painful
frightened glsnce. but | did not stop TO
hear hear her speak further. turned and
left the house.
l remarked that under other eireun.
stances 1 might have been more cool and
collected in my speech; and what do yo,
suppose. dear readers, the attending cir
cumstsnces were:
III tell yau candilly.
1 was q little heated with wine. hat
drank Just cneugh TO warm my blood ant
give my.brain. an extra impulse. and ny
words were NOT chosen. as | should have
chosen them had the spirit Of wine beet
absent.
As 1 walked towards my home sough
to persuade myself tina, had fertunstel,
escaped the snare Of eoquette, and that
might be the better enabled thus to ressol
Istopped at the hotel. where | found fev
Of my companions. and helped 10 dispos
OF half dozen bottles Of wine.
On the following morning | awoke wit
the headache, and when called to min,
the events Of the preceding evening. wa
anything bu, happy.
began TO realize how much had love,
Mary Granville. There was an achin
void 10 my heart, and wept as contem
plated my loss. II was my first love. an
its influence had penetrated every fibre 0
my being. The Beautiful girl had becom
,nore dear to me than could tell. aud
arcaned IN bitter anguish when | though
that she was lost 70 me forever.
resolved that should feel VERY sngr
and indignant. but when the sweet lac
vascalled up TO mental view, such feeling
melted away, leaving Tie sad and desola.,
On the following Sabbath 4 attende
church where saw Mary once mnre. 81
played the organ as she had done the pa,
year. and as her fingers swept over the ke,
faneied that could detect a trenulou,
ness. which | had never nstced befor,
Was II Imagination. or was II really plair
tivensss--a sadness in expires sion Of h,
music.
To me II seemed at times as though n
organ moaned and wep,. Il was like n
wsiling Of the daughters Of Zion by the E
vers Of Babylon.
When the services we're over, and "
went cut Of the church, I saw Marys fac,
J, was pale and wan. as though she ha
been sick. What could Il bef Was sh
suffering ss ! had sufferedi The thougl