The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-11-26

LOVE WINS.
mr. srarfk m'cAarns.
Paul and Virginia, IN their palm groves
md rladns NJ trvpic Arcadia, were not
happier, simpler, more truthful and tender
hvcrs than Josephine Ascot and Walter
I~Iexion, up 20 . certain hour when Jose.
phlne met with q piece " unexpected good
fortune. Josephine was an extremely prvt.
y girl, tall. slender, and faif Walter WIS
0 robust, mther angular and awkward
young man, with a big broad brow, and
heavy jaws, and gray eyes. They were
near neighbofs, and they lived In a small
town In the north Of England. Walter
Hexton was the son Of a decent tmdesman.
and was studying chemistry, without any
higher view, as yet, than that of obeninr a
chemists shop and making a respectable
living. Josephine Ascot was the daushter
Of a clerk In an ATTORNEYS Office. But
Josephine's mother had some rich rein.
tons, who, although they had never
thought her worth doing anything for
while she was yet unmarried, thought her
quite worth denouncing and repudlating
when she made her 1nssaHiaRce. Mrs. AS.
cot, a weak woman with a love Of gentili.
ty, venerated her relatives all the more be.
cause they had cast her off, and could new
er bear to hear a word said against them.
In her mind, to be rich was to be endowed
with celestial grace, and almost to be
armed with celestial authority. She was
not sorry-at least not always or perhaps
often s~orry-that she had married an attor-
ney's clerk, but she quito recognized the
fact that, in doing so, she had committed a
crime Of ~ese.amieste against her genteel re-
l%ations, and she did not ask, did not hope,
to be forgiven.
She had only one daughter, the pretty
Josephine, and she was rather glad thxn-
, sotherwise when Josephine fell in love
with SO steady and promising d young man
as Walter Hexton. For Walter was a
steadfast, high-mindcd young fellow, with
strong aspirations Of his own, and no taste
whatever for dissipation, idleness or friv-
onty' Josephine and he walked together
every fne evening-took long walks on
quiet roads and over breezy downs, return
ing bitten by the tender light of the moon,
deal and sacred TO all lovers, though Virgil
may call its light malign, and Danish Och
ZEN ihlaeger allow his Aladdin to de-
noullce II as q pale angel of destruction
HAPPY, exquisite, ~ecstatic walks were those
10 poor Walter, as he held the hand of Jo-
sephine In his, and poured into her ear the
unvarying, neycr-wearving story If his
love, his hopes, and his sspirations and nro.
jects for their future. Poor lovers have
one advantage over rich-they are under
far less Of conventional restraint, and can
have more frequent walks together Of even.
ings. The lover of Sally in our alley had
some special class privileges, after all,
which the favored admirer Of Lady Sarah
IN the square might perhaps occasionally
have envied.
hut good fortune, ~unscught, hunted out
rich relations, and a childless widow, hap
pened to stay In town for a day or two, in
returning from Scotland to London, where
she lived and meek Mrs. Ascot fell bound
to call humbly at her hotel and ask to see
ner. Mrs. Selby Glare was not a bad sort
OF person, and she consented to look upon
ana speak with her poor and degraded rel
atlye; The poor and degraded relative was
polite enough TO bring her daughter with
ner, and Old Mrs. Selby Clare's somewhat
withered heart warmed to the graceful,
pretty, iady,iike girl. The visit ended In
q ~ten-pound note to Mrs. Ascot, and a
peremptory command that Josephine
should, the very next week, go up to Lon
Hom, ana there spend a fortnight In the
mousse o. her newly-found relatiye.
You don't think, Josephine, you will
say longer than q fortnight away from
meg' These We're Walters words, spoken
somewhat plaintivelv, the night before