The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1866-02-28

may as well say adieu at once"
Tie slender neck arched haughuly, as
Kitty answered =
"As you wish !"
But, already, the Young man had re.
Pen'ed h's bitterness, and fiom his lips
came burning words of love that found
each one AN echo in the heart thew
coveted. Loving with all youths fervor
and frankness, these Two hearts elunp
closely together. Vows, that were but
repeti'ions Of the past, wsro renewed, and
the long evening coming creeping on,
, found the lover. still together.
The mex: week a large travelling car
riage bure away from Mill Village, Kitty.
Miss Lee, her governe>s, and the one ser.
want OF the small Establishment, leaving
Edward Curtis, nearly broken hoarteA.
watching the idol Of his dreams as she
was whifled away from him.
Remember 427--S,. shall
expect to see You often, and see you soon,"
were kitty's parting words.
See her soon. Perhaps so; but ,h.
young lawyer shrank from this parting.
Two years before, when he had come
An orphan boy, to finish his law studies
with his uncle, the lawyer nf Mil Village,
his one dream Of the future. his one am
bitlon had been to become eminent in hi.
profession, and make the world ring with
his name. His inheritance from his
parents gave him small but certain in.
come, sufficient for all his expenses, while
waiting for the completion of hi: s,uii.s
and admission to the bar, and the future
held out only golden visions Of fame and
wealth.
Then he met Kiuy Beautiful and
accomplished, full of grace and winning
charms, she seemed, to his country bred
s.es, a personI!icalion OF his ideal dreams
of woman. Living in n quie, lt,ls cottage,
near his uuclss more :prs,sutious brick
building. dressing with simplicity, and
bearing in the household arrangements
every mark ofiimired means, he had never
thought Of her worldly position a, supe
ri"r to his own. Her own radiant ssfhe
~orshipped, and i. was not long before
he found his own manly beauty and fine
intellect winning their WAY 10 the heart
he coveted The course Ct true love an
very smooth, until he screwed up hi.
courage and made proposal Of marriage.
Then kity's father, 4 gentleman who
seldom came from New York, and was
bu, little known TO the aspiring lover,
suddenly appeared on tho scsns, and
contemptuouslv rejected the offer. They
were too young to think Of marriage,
said this arbitrary papa; and so matters
stood when tho overwhelming news Of
the successful lawsuit broke upon the
young lawyer.
Fearing The worst, he turned from the
deserted cottage, after tie carriage was
on, of sight. TO make his preparations to
reside in New York. He had been ad
mt,ed TO the bar, ard was resolved 10
seek the frs! fruits OF his boysh dreams
in the metropolis. A great lswrer, per
hsps Judge Of the Suprsms Courr,
might aspire TO Mis-. Kitty's hard were
she ever so rich.
Full Of these dreams he made all his
arrangements, writing daily to New York,
and wondering. with quick fear, why no
answer came TO any OF his arden, epistles.
Weeks ghded by, when one morning
there came tiny note. IL wa. the first
he had received in the weISkno sn hand
writing, sincs hh darling had left Mil
Village, and it contained only tbi.:-
"Sr. VALExrIsE's DAY.
"Father has forbidden me TO write 10
you. or tbink Of you, bur I send you A
Valentine. We ssiI for Europs ,o'morrow,
TO be gone two. years. Do not forget me,
for sm, and ever shall be,
Yours, faithfully,
KITTY"
That was all The post mark, New
York Ran I1o Til. ,~o. IL ,aI