Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-187?, 1870-07-22
LEXINGTON, MISSISSII

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wbolo bostG 1vora oL;IlfrIIv tbrnw
mo and with tboae twolve ros,
men on her deck tbe WARSAW
da6enco 70 on1 numhr-
canooe ThatonSailo wer
and everything trimn
ranidlv with the other
had the pleasure Of sb
INV former sbinmate
mand of the Calyps
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geetnd II hni tb
iioted in tho orn,
Harmed the Who,
which she had
small ann of g,
fa,har,s effacta
toward ber cIotbir.
bidding her tcndc,
follow IN NV nrntess,
madr two Voyages
each return T fonnd l.,
fondest and most carsrnl
dnsire Tn all resnccts sh,
snma .unerinr to INV sister.
heen twins thev corld not
each other better.
Jessie was twenty years old at tL~
I arrived home in command of the Grel
wich, know not at what particular tin
during that voyage l began to think
was possible that she and | might love
each other. | think this feeling came
upon me very gradually. Perhaps it may
have been something in the tone of her
letters; for she always wrote to me much
as sister might write to an elder brother;
but her letters, on this voyage, were not
quite 80 alTectionate as at first. There was
a little embarrassment in the manner and
style. Yet this was but natural when
reflected upon it. But it must have been
this very change that put me in the way
of rejecting There was, after all, moth
ing very awkward or anomalous in our
position toward each other. She was
simply member of our family, an adopt.
ed daughter, as it were, of my mother.
But, wishing to support herself, she had
found employment as a teacher, and in
sisted upon paying her board This l
had learned from the various letters re-
ceived end, of course, admired her in
dependent spirit.
kent Wondering the matter till it
formed The chief subject of nv thoughts
through many n long nipbt watch. did
not know of anv other woman whom
could love 80 WE'LL was only thirty-three,
even though I had been a bearded second
mate when she was a wee snrite of child
After all. the disnaritv of ACE was not 40
yerv great, and nrrhans-
Knit T could not hear the Thought Of
inc her marry meas nerbans'
if I asked heT-trom anv feel
tude or obligation. ThoHoh
since that 7 wronged her
ing she might do so.
Sho hod do,olo,od
NJ, on9 >'ne, nau tn,Iar ueYeIopto e,' lyt
IDENTIFY as fond of me a.
came into her ewes at
she did not, of course,
and kiss me with the old
All Of which was natural emo
came to consider upon it.
I took occasion ycrv soon aft
rival to sneak to nv sister, alone, a...
Je.sie I think I asked if she had anv
suitor, And perhaps I was transparent
enough TO betrav the interest I fell in
Maria's answer, At any rate she looked
at me very ropuishlv.
"No." said She, "none that 7 know Of
7 wish she might have-that is an ar.
cented or an accentable one, I didn't
mean TO saw that no suitors had annlied-
onlv that she had none now"
"Is she so hard to suit, then ?" 7 asked.
"Verv" said Maria "Yet 7 think 7
know man whom she would not re.
fnse"
"Indeeds Who is the favored oneW
"You are the last nerson who ought
to ask the question. Go look in The
glass" she added. AZ she rose to laave
me. -
"But I am too old Maria" This in
snite of having long AGO ARMED mvself
into the belief that was not.
"To0 old to look in the glass do YOU
iheah II ga asho' ,t ny sls'ol' lhnocehI,y'
again.
stay" said l, detalnlng her, and be-
coming very imperative ana serious all at
once am your brotner, Mara. DO
not Jest or trlfle with my teelings.
mot Tor worlds!' she returned, even
more seriously than myself had spoken,
" Neither with yours, Prlam, nor with
hers, for is she not as my twin sister !"