Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-05-02

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union with the beautiful young heiress as an event
with the nature of things, nnis still felt violent
repugnance to remaining inactive and obscure; to
the idea of spending his life upon the lonely tract
beyond the mountains, content with his unknown
lot, and aspiring to no higher destiny.
His love for the young lady, and the native as
piration of his soul, impeled him to action he
thought with bitter smile of his probable future
of visiting Haddon year after year in the charac-
ter Of q poor relation-of seeing Honoria the wife
Of another, and of growing old in his lonely home.
For some months, these thoughts had never left
him. His ruddy cheek grew pale with bitter med
itations, and he scarcely knew where to turn
With the pride Of race then deeply ingrained in
the gentle class, he shrunk from trade, and yet
there seemed no other resource. There was no ar
my or navy to ente. the medical profession re-
quired long and expensive apprenticeship; the
law alone was left and upon this, the youth finally
fixed. Lady Brand warmly encouraged him, and
he had embraced the occasion Of his recent visit to
Williamsburg, to consult with the eminent lawyer,
Mr.. Wythe, upon his design. p
Mr.. Wythe strongly advised him to carry out
his intention, and insisted upon taking him into
his Office as student, without charge. Occasion
al assistance in copying papers, would more than
remunerate him, said the smiling counsellor.
The result was, that Innis had made all his ar
rangements to commence the study of the law in
January; and his cheek flushed when he thought
that Honoria, too, would spend the winter in Viii
iamsburg. .....= ... -.--..-.......,,i ,..ra-
Of what might ensue, the young man scarcely
dared to think. But the hopefulness of youth
buoyed him up, and he trusted his bark to the sea
of chance. ...s. .., ..r ~ =. ,,f;t ss-.sf
"Who can tell! he now muttered, gazing into
the fire, whose brilliant fame filed the small rude
apartment with warmthand cheerfulness, perhaps
I may rise in my profession-three or four years
hence may 60 to the Burgesses- she will then be
twenty only and-who knows?' .s.s-,.at .alsse
The old, old story The tale that is told Of all
the generations of humanity ri -. .aas.
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A LITTLE BEAUTY.
At the very moment when Innis was thus think
ing of Honoria, the young lady, who had finished
her mornings reading in the Bible, sat pensiyely
before the fire in her chamber busiy engaged
with thoug ghts Of the youth. -,
She, too, tried to penetrate the mysterious fu-
ture which enveloped her destiny, and read the
drama of her Life. Edmund Innis was the hero of
that drama - the chief actor to whom herthoughts
reverted, and these meditations were;
filed with bitter pleasure, delicious pain
Who can read the heart of woman; much
more, the heart of girl of seventeen, standing on
the brink of the stream of womanhood, and agita-
ted by a thousand conflicting emotions? We can
only touch, as it were, this involved labyrinth
Shakespeare, alone, has unrayeled the mystery
wholly ..-. ..-.. j, . ~.
Honoria loved herplaymate, but she declared to
herself that she eltonly. warm friendship for
him.. But did he not love herP Plainly and
what then should be her course2 The etiquette
IF society had already nterposed to check their old
needless intercourse The interchange of innocent
sndearments and cousing kisses, their gay encoun-
ters in the romps and games all the famliarities
IN which they had been raised. That happy past
Was done away with the old childish freedom had
disappeared, and Edmund Innis treated his cousin
Honoria, as gentleman treats young lady with
whom he is upon terms of simple friendship. IF
Bat was this enough, the young lady asked her
'elf Was she not encouraging by her cordial and
,aressing demeanor toward him, hopes which could
never be- fulfilled? Night not his disappointment
md unhappiness in the future, be justly laid to her
,harge2 = ..- s..s - ,a;a.1c, S.=i@!Ti 4
With deep sigh the young girl acknowledged
;he truth of her own reasoning; and sadly deter
mined to change her demeanor toward her cousin.
She did not know that:she was cheating her own
,eart - that her new. formed resolution, was
prompted by that instructive maiden delicacy,
which prompts the truest woman in the world TO
hrow veil of disguise over her feelings, and turn
.way coldly from the one she loves more than all
,thers. -, sl =. .s..2t ~
She did not love him! Oh, no mol land
he fact seemed very hopeful, for Honoria uttered
deep sigh. She loved him as her cousin VERY
learly-a and certainly this was natural He wasl
70 kind and generous and manly! So free from
anything mean or little, and they had spent sol
many happy hours together. The fact that he
vas extremely handsome, the most graceful gen.
leman she ever saw, and more elegantly courteous
han any other young man in the region, as every
me acknowledged, had, of course, no especial
weight with her - indeed none at all She loved
lin for his kindness of heart and goodness-loyedl
,im, she verify believed as much as any girl ever
owed her cousin. But that was all. Her feelings !
vent no farther, and the best means of dsplayingI
Ter affection, was to discourage now, upon the
threshold, every hope in the youths heart, of as
bring to warmer place in her regard. 49,
Having come to this determination, Honoria
ighed piteously. Then blush passed over the
eI-tale face and she murmured audibly
edmund never would be 80 unjust !"
The quick thought had come her that he would
hink that she was influenced bv his, poverty
His poverty As if that could make any differ
nee with heri And the proud, true hearted girl
flushed crimson at the very fancy, that such a
hing could be attributed to her. Why, she loved
i'm thousand times more for that poverty! The
oblest men of history had been proud to be poor,
nd found in quiet thoughts and noble labor,
-raoter hanniness than the yreakbiest nretender