Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-02-01
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vealed his love to Ellen in plain, sober ant
earnest declarations and eutreaty, no doub
matters would have taken another and more
favorable turn but, with a heart tossed ant
turbulent with mingled love and undis
guised jealousy, he claims the right to b
informed all about his imagined rival, and
finding his inquiries unproductive of the
expected results, pass:onately breaks fortt
in Wild, incoherent and boisterous declara,
tions of a love, never before expressed OIL
manifested in any conceivable way, and
which takes the girl entirely by surprise
and shocks her by its very suddenDess.-
The reader knows the result. Ellen panied
shocked and disgusted, for the time at leas,
WILLIAMS disappointed.
Now, no sooner does Ellen recover from
the shock and finds that Williams has gone
to return no more, than she begins to re-
gret the pain and modification inflicted
upon him in so crushing and cruel disap.
pointment to all his cherished hopes. To
know that for her sake, he had abandoned
fine business prospects, kind and Influential
friends, and pleasant associations, and was
now wandering in strange land with the
burden of unrequited love upon his heart
and his future robbed of its most precious
hope-to know all this, was to be convinced
of his love, and that one conviction was
more potent than all the ,boisterous deolara-
tions of his love before.
The truth now flashed upon her gentle
and susceptible young heart. 1t had come
late-too late, perhaps-but there was no
resisting the appeal. The vacant chair be-
side the piano; the songs he loved to hear;
the hour he was wont to come; the hour he
used to bid her good bye, with that tremu.
lous voice, which she once thought so odd,
but now understood so we'll Ah these
were little things, but the potency thereof
swayed her heart with strange, inde6nable,
irresistible power, that drove sleep from her
pillow all the night, and peace from Ter
bosom all the livelong day. And yet, dear
reader, Ellen was unconscious of any real
sentiments of love for Edwin Williams,
and attributed all this new emotion to a
very natural regret for the unhappiness of
a valued friend, to whom she was bound by
the strongest ties of gratitude.
Alas for Edwin Williams, he knew moth.
ing of all this; but with the notifying re.
Election that be had been too precipitate in
the, declaration of his hearts most sacred
feelings to one who esteemed them but as
mere manifestations of weakness and un-
manliness, he wandered among strangers,
with an intolerable burden upon his heart,
which all his mental fortitude and courage
could not even Lighter, far less remove. In
the hours of his deepest sorrow, in the
darkness of the most bitter vistatioDs of
memory, he could never bring himself to
blame Ellen, or to charge upon her the uD-
happiness of his now aimless life
Neither could he altogether impute bis
present misery to Mrs Rogers, though his
outraged heart ever and anon rose up with
the keenest indignation against her for the
false hopes she had implanted in his bos-
ON, by leading him to believe that decla.
ration of his love would be favorably re-
ceived by Ellen, and result in the realiza-
tion of the dearest wish of his heart. Next
to his own want of sagarity, foresight and
tact, be felt that Mrs. Rogers was sinfully
responsible for his bitter modification and
disappointment.
Had he taken Mr.. Rogers advice, and
without step towards further intimacy
with Ellen, quietly awaited his decision,
his way, no doubt, would have been pre-
pared, and more favorable opportunity,
under more auspicious circumstances, af
forded for the declaration of his love and
the offer of his hand and heart. Or even
if Ellen had objected to further intimacy,
with view to marriage, those objections
could, and would have been communicated
to him by her father; and though even that
would have been source of modification
and disappointment, it would have been a
thousand times better than hearing it from
her own lips. From first to last, be felt
that bis own hasty jealousy and fear Of be-
ing supplanted by another, was the very
cause of bis failure. How little do we know
of the motive-the springs of action, of our
fellow men! How utterly ignorant we are
as to the causes of things which daily oc.
cur! How seldom we arrive at correct
conclusions, after all our boasted judg-
ments and lauded reason can effect! Now,
here was man disappointed in love. He
very wisely concludes, after sober reflection,
to break up every association tending to
remind him of the object that inspired that
love- He concludes that by leaving the
place at once and forming elsewhere, new
associations and entering upon new plans
of action, he will be most likely to effect
revolution of mind and victory over his
heart. This was precisely the motive which
influenced Williams to leave the city so
suddenly-aye the sole motive and yet,
among the thousand and one reasons imag.
iued and causes assigned among his
friends and those who heard of his ab-
sence, this was never mentioned, because
never suspected.
Mr.. Fortescue asserted that his "hasty
flight" was occcaioned by an anonymous
letter from the "Vigilance Committee" I"
which he had received the day before !;
MIR. Marshburn carefully examined the
books for false entries, feeling assured that