The Lincoln County herald., 1870-04-14

house, and then got into her carriage and
left him pidnte Ia, bewitdered, speecAless,
burning with shame and disappointment
snd passion.
Not one word had Augusta uttered.
He told me shat she stood pale, silent,
cold, with no CLEAN of emotion apparent
on her face. No glance Of sympaahy or
pity or sorrow turned upon him to help
hin, " bear his grief and humiliation.
She never looked at him-aud 50 she lett
him.
He sent for me that evening aud poured
out the story Of his repulse and his deg.
radationo and she bitter pangs of his de-
ceSed and wousded love. tAougtt
nons the less of him because be laid his
head on the table and burst into q pas.
sion of sears. Men in England don't
shed tears neither, I suppose, do Amer.
lean men. We suffer no matter what
agonies, and no locker oE ever sees the
water aow from our eyss. But the Ger
man, the Freachn9an, the Isalian are as
brave as VIC are, and they will think no
shame to cry like children, before no
matter what spestator, if the rod Of fate
Of the foundation of tears sharply enough
to bid the water to Cow. They do not
suffer more keenly than we, nor are We
any stronger than they, only We have our
different ways, l am surely anything
but Mars in bravery yet don't think
l should below aloud in the hearing Of
q multitude IL received q wound and
Homar's war god roared under such pro.
vocation louder than q herd Of bulls Of
Rashan.
H did my best to console my hapless
Trend. Everybody knows how valuable
ordinary consolation is under such cir.
cumstances, and wha: an immediate and
, magical effect it has in reconciling the
sufferer TO his fate. | preached to him
of the notorious Inconsistency and pcr6dy
I Of woman showed him how much better
it was to lose than to win heartlss girl /;
dilated on the danger of i'll escorted
marriages !; pointed out how many women
there probably were in the world better
worthy of his love than the cold and
false Augusta remained him that there
are many cases in which, according TO
l.ongfcllow, disappointment is ever so
much better than success and 80 on.
He was as much consoled by'this wisdom
as any Body else under the circumstances
would have been. Probably he diS not
, listen to much of It, Even while was
I thus trying to assuage his grieS kept
r thiHking to myself what foolish aud
shallow absurdity is every such effort to
I diminish, by mere words, the reality Of
. human sorrow. I sincerely pitied my
friend, and at last charitably forbore 90
, "argue with the inexorable." Indeed, I
! was making up my mind that the best
, thing could do was to 60 away, end
; leave him alone to wrestle with his misery
or to succumb to it.
A tap at his door aroused hi,n. lie
ulotioncd to me to open the door--indecd
the the poor fellow could do nothing
just then. A letter for him, addressed
in woman's handwriting, was given to
me. gave it to him he started at the
sight Of it, and opened it with trembling
eager hands, and read it once and again,
and smote the table, and sprang to his
feet, and flung his arms up toward heaven
and performed other such wild feats ex.
pressive of ecstasy and rapture.
"Oh Heaven |" he exclaimed, his eyes
flashing and his lips quivering, "was
, there ever 80 generous snd noble being
All, how cruelty have misunderstood
her and wronged her! Can l ever for.
give myselfs Resd, read, my dear
frlend-it is right that you should read
it-you must read it,"
So I took the latter and rad
, ~ was spcechless to day, Herman,
when you were insuitcd | could not
speak there. But If you are guilty, am
too for l love you I love you better
than all the world and if you will have
/ me fos wife, l will share any poverty
with you. Will wait, if you think It
, best to wait-I will marry you to morrow
, in the face Of all the world, If you SO
wish it. Tomorrow or in years to come,
at any time, always, sm, with undying
. love, your own AUGUSTA"
I confess that. as / read that letter, ]
was nearer to tears than when looked
on Herman's agony and despair.
Herman" I said, "for the sake oi
that sweet and noble girl, you must dc
nothing rash. You must wait Time
will settle all this, aud bring you to Q
!. happy union"
my friend" he replied. with a swee,
sad smile, "henceforward l thisk nc
|, more Of myself, but only Of her. l viii
!, , strisc for her, win success for heg, wai
for her. Owe who has the gift Of such
. owe can afford to be patient with fortune
for her sake"
/ did not see, or wish to see, the letter
> he wrote in reply to Augusta. I could
; we'll imagine how tender, fervid, passion.
!, ate would be tho love il brcathed how
noble and manly the patient, self denying
resolve it expressed. The lovers waited
3 Augusta had told her mother fearlessly
and calmly that she loved the artist, that
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