Litchfield enquirer., 1869-01-07

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 upon her. s4s1L .,.. .,.. ......s ss g.s.. gfl si "My head aches slightly, but it is nosll- ing, she said withdrawing her hand, j, land
 seating herself at distance; from the sofa
 they usually occupied together. ..' ~'''' - E
 They passed amiserable, formal evening,
 Even the wretched faint of polite converse was given up finally and Philip; had sat star ing gloomily into the fire for nearly 10 min
 utes ,, taeiturn and 'unqtusstioned, when haidah' voice, clear and hard, addressed AtM,T,i.8 as.f i'aasissia 4.< ya i,ss:s}~lliit& 1stPhilip, will yop lend me tue cross, and chain gave you on your birthday" u..
 lie started and colored, but did not look around, = 'aWhat do you want with it?" he
 "A lady showed me one something .. like. it not long .sinoe--s but she was too truth taa tnt so carry on the the hypocrisy, and stopped
 "Where did she get it?" with an an a appear ar ance of interest. tos.t,j .,.....,.s ..,t N-.,f
 ...she won it as aphilopena. ; -'
 He was silent ;t@S- ,i.Sr .5sht t@3!s .t It1f you have yours with you, should like to look at it, 7 persisted Huldah. .s..,s.. He put his hand into his bosom. 1T have not it on, The said coolly. s.1 remem- Der now that Ileft the chain off this morn ing. Won't another time do as well? Or, shall go home for it?'''. m.,t ,i...,'.Tsl
 '"Ry no means. It was only whlm of mine. s1 '''" f--f3,.:.' AF. ''Ti.sa~.e,' E.1. If he had only given away her keepsake, she could have. forgiven him. But this Icontemptible evasion. this cowardly equiv ocation was unworthy of a true man and she could love no other. Before she slept that night, she made into a packet his gifts and letters, and wrote 2 note releasing him from his engagement. Being convinced, ; she, said, ''sthat our temperaments and dis positions, ouriprineiples and our aims are 80 unlike as to forbid the hope of our hap piness. in the married life.'' She tles- patched this iii the morning and received his reply before night He returned her notes and the few love. tokens she had pre- sented to him, all except the cross. eo That, he wrote, he lost, while sleigh riding, sew eral nights prior to her inquiry respecting it. He had offered a reward for its recove- ry, and in the event of its recovery to him, he. would send it back, Nota. remonstrance Ok d 1cSIOe COupdulcU tllS 1uLOIHatlOD. On the contrary, he believed that she had consulted his welfare and peace of mind with her own in. her decision.'''.as4 k. .a
 At her parents suggestion, Huldah, the next week, went to pay visit to an aunt, living in the far West, and remained with her until summer,i Philip Norton left Marshfeld in May to enter into practice with . city lawyer But in the autumn, she had a 1,dta frrry bis lepidn..; t:n Feli ii
 MY DEAR Mss WRIGHT: I have just learned from my husband that the accom- panying trifie, which he thoughtlessly gave me in payment of a ephilopena forfeit last hlm hou pnneyng f9% you by nseess expressions of my pain and modification at the discovery, Il hasten to offer the only reparation in my power, for my uncon- scious offence, by returning the cross. The chain I never had. it'a A'''' ''' '''''' a1 Respectfully, aal,mith profound regard,
 ya51 9,i! iH f ita { ETHEL NARToN. .
 il From that day to. this she had. looked np- on the face of neither husband and wife. Rumofs of their gay ana Ip;rospe1rto,iuis life had reached her from tfrneato time. The episode of his fancy for her had had no appreciable effect upon Phillips character and happiness. She believed, until with in three days past, that he had forgotten it with. the, very iicircumstance of; Gher exis- tence. n When the death of 2, her father, mother, and her only sister, and the remo- val to the Southwest of her two brothers, lefther alone and mistress of her actions, she had bought this comfortable cottage, and established herself. therein. Already young people had fallen into the habit of calling her" Aunt iHuldah,p and among the sick and; the poor she had abundant scope, for the exercise of her benevolent impulses, work enough to exercise misan- thropy and ensti. Yes, she was busy, use full. and far from desolate, but the old Aeart,ache was never .stilled.~ She remem- bered continually all that was most dear and most sad in that one year which had given tone and colon to the fourteen weary cycles she had counted since, although she seldom allowed herself to dream it over, as she was doing now; the northwest wind
 whistling shriily about the house, the eoals signing aand !. cracking in the; grate, and herself-middle,aged and plain, clad in the simply fashioned mourning for her dead friends, she meant to wear until her own death-reading in the red coals the record of a misplaced aad wasted attachment, of hopes that had i, withered, when .ialready half blown. and faith that might better have been given, to the restless wind. "' Tn all her dry yseyed, but bitter mourning Ion this anniversary evening, she felt only spity for him who had been her only love.
 She had forgiven his pfdelity years agone;
 made excuses Tor his deceptions, long be- fore the receipt of the letter she now drew from her pocket for the twentieth perusal She paused tp look. at the superscription-
 her name in his hand writing then open
 ed the envelope. ''''''i '''' ''''' i'' s'''.'''. HuLLD1sAHH: Last week, through the failure of certain speculations, I became pecan- iarily;a ruined man. I awoke, this morn
 ing, to find myself disgraced as we'll. My
 wife eloped during the night with rich f Spaniard. E" She left one child Lthe only Esurviror of four born tosus since our mar
 riage. I was yesterday offered place in
 mercantile house in Buenos Ayres. The
 fear lest she would be obliged to accompa- fny meit ithither, probably ihastened Etheps flight I cannot expose nay little Amyr who is not robust to the rigors of a sea- YnYaRa at ffliS season f11d .tha nhani n al llf