The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-03-12
THE JUDGES FIRST LOVE.
BY LIZZIE A. s. CHESTER.
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2SumptIonS f0F my 1uIuFo success IN
iis3 were in my favor. L said IN my
announcement Grafton that the real
Ia urels of life were yet to be won by
tho untirIng, courageous efforts OF res
1lute wills, and when we had won
thsm-sueh only as God grant we
should care to WIn-unfadIng as our
own laurels grown on our granite hill
ides, and watered by the dews OF
heaven, we would ever wear them
consecrated to the high trust OF en-
noOling humanity.
Mary Jane sat In the corner during
my oratorial burst. She wore pink
barege and a pink silk bonnet, and
] bought / had never seen more
lovely creature. When | fastened In
mr. button hole the dainty boquet she
had flung me, l felt like a leader In
lie first Crusade, bearing my mis-
tress' colors, and ready to storm
J rusalem single handed, if need be.
Mary James father invited me to
rde home from the commencement in
hi8 carriage. The moonlight was en-
ebantiDg, and I could have ridden
81 ID Mary Jane alone. l shouldn't
We been particular about the Tau
s. of life;" but it was warm, the
riage small, and Mary James
her squeezed in between my angel
a myself. He was a very heavy
IAN, and he led the conversation on
81 ssical themes, smattering of which
q had picked up from odd volumes
intervals in the dry goods and other
lcery business, and that also was
aeavy. Mary Jane went to sleep in
corner of the carriage, and talked
monosyllables, and tried to remem-
ass What Bishop Butler says about
being a state of discipline.
( read a little law with Judge Petit
Nv, that summer, and a deal of po-
with Mary j ane. l delivered an
dress at a Sabbath school D icnic,
ID a poem at an agricultural fair
and became otherwise distinguished.
hadn't doubt to my future; when
mmy Sloper again appeared upon
2 stage. Sammy reported himself as
ing in business with wealthy un-
In New York. He spent money
3ely, and wore a heavier watch and
ain than / ever dreamed of. Mary
ane said she thought Sammy had
mproTed. but she never quite ap-
Eroved Of his principles. should
we resented it strongly if any one
ID dared asseverate that / could
3ubt Mary Jane, but was glad that
appended the last clause.
Sammy hired carriage and span
On the city, and Mary Jane went to
ie with him one evening. She had
headache. and thought it would
her good.
I said nothing.
Sammy attended her home from
9rch two or three times; presented
II with beautiful boquet, and took
Or to ride again.
I demonstrated
Mary Jane replied that she ac-
aowledged no right to censorship
rer her actions in such n slight mat
as the acceptance of few flowers,
I'd q ride with an old school friend.
| argued that circumstance made it
small matter.
She remarked that of all persons,
jealous lover was the most contempt
s. ole.
| said that no true lady would have
aseepted the attention Sloper had
aid her.
She said thatI was overbearing and
npertinent.
[ said she was shallow hearted and
7ruel.
After that we passed in the street
aithout seeing each other. Mary
ane held her parasol between her
Elf and me with as much persistency
40 If l had been a whitening sun.
aiked with a very firm step and a
dgniGed air. She rode out with
sammy Sloper every day, and Sloper
iciously exulted in driving those
flooded black horses past Judge Pet
iigrew's Office, or dashing contemptu-
oasly by the little house back of the
osp factory, l philosophical grimly
n The cold truth that humble virtue
1alI at last meet its rsward-yery
tile did l care for that, if the reward
asn't Mary Jane.
After a fortnight's experience of
ieWing the earth as ashes and the
Nv as lead, | sauntered down to a
end in the brook beyond the grist
nil, one afternoon, to reflect In soli-
ude. At the same hour of the
ay Mary Jane wendell her way down
the bend in the brook, beyond the
-ist mill, that she too might enjoy
olitary reflections. She came out
-om behind clump of alders pen
ively while / was savagely strldlng
o and down under buttonwood tree
jur recognition was instantaneous
saw that had there had been q
Iank across the stream at that point
he would have rushed into my arms.
sprang over the cruel waters and
ret one foot, but elapsed Mary Jane
my heart.
She said she'd been so miserable 1t
semed as if she should die.
no
poke those harsh words to her, q
thousand times.
She said that it was all her fault
er own fault, and that she had been
erfectly miserable since / left hel
hat night, and that she was so sorry
nd ashamed, and would L ever for
i've her2
| said that she was my love, my
arling, my angel, my-Well used nj
&c usual vocabulary.
She said that shehated Sammy Slo
er-perfectly hated him, and always
hOuld, and that / never, never should
ave occasion to reproYe her agalr
Or receiving undue attention from
ny one. She sobbed so much that
vas greatly distressed, but my terms
endearment only seemed to have
exhilarating effect upon her tears
" e walked up the stream to the point
where we had fshed for minnows a
oxen years before, and / pointed out
e old log on which she straight
ned her pin, a little more decayed
I'd with more green slime around it,
lt the identical old log. We walked
the brook and sat under the but
-ngood tree, until long after Mary
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