Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-10-27

. - Nh 'lN man q NHIl1 hll Olt il"N
t second childhood, ! care not b
, what name you call it; it is enoug
Y that tonight the image Of thC
g young girl stands before me splen
didly beautiful in all the holmes
/ Of her glad, young life, and coul
bow down on my knees and wor
ship her now again.
, Why did ! say again? For fort,
Years | have not ceased to WORSHIP
her. III kneeI to pray in the morn
ing, she passes between me anc
God. If would read the prayer
at evening twilight, she looks a
me from the page. If l would wor
ship Sabbath morning in church
she looks down on me from somC
unfathomable distance, some unap
proachable height, and | pray tC
her as if she were my hope, my
heaven, my all,
Sometimes in the winter nights
I feel a GOODNESS stealing over me
and icy fingers are feeling about
my heart, as if to grasp and still it
| lie calmly, quietly, and | think
my hour is at hand; and through
the gloom, and through the mist
and films that gather over my Wis,
ion, | see her afar of, still the same
angel in the distant heaven, and
reach ont my arms to her, and cry
aloud on God to let me 60 find her,
and on her to come to me, and then
thick darkness settles on me,
The doctor calls this apopleXy,
and says ! shall some day die in a
fit of it, What do doctors know
of the tremendous Influences that
are working on our souls? He, in
his scientific stupidity, calls it dis
ease, and warns me against wine
and high living; as if did not un-
dcrstand what it is, and why my
vision at such times reaches so far
into the deep unknown.
have spoken Of Tom Lewis, her
cousin. Rumor said he was the
old mans heir, in equal proportion
with the daughter; for he had been
brought up in the family, and had
always been treated rs a son. He
was a good felIowif he was rough,
for he had the goodness that all
who came within her influence must
have.
/ have seen her look the devil
out of him often, Iremember once
when the horses had behaved in a
way not to suit him, and he had let
an oath or two escape his lips pre-
paratory to putting on the whip.
We were riding together down the
avenue, and he raised the lash. At
that moment he caught her eye. She
was walking up from the lodge,
where she had been to see a sick
child. She saw the raised whip and
her eye caught his, He did not
strike. The horses escaped for
that time. He drove them quietly
the gate, and three miles
and back without word Of anger
Did ! tell yOu | was her cousin |
also? On her mothers side. Not
on the Generals. We lived not
far off, and | lived much Of my |
time at his house. Tom and my
self had been inscparahlc, and we
did not conceal our rivalry from
each other
Tom, said !, one morning, why |
can't you be content with half of
the Generals fortune, and let me
have the other half|
Bah jerry said he, 'as if that
would be any more even, when you
want Sarah with it, In heavens
name. take half the money, if that's
Ill you want
Can't we fix it so as to make an
equal division, Tom? Take all the
fortune, and let me have her. and l
will call it square
Just what | was going to pro
pose to you. Be reasonable now,
Jerry, and get out Of the way, You
must see she doesn't care copper
or you
! twlrled rosebud in my fingers
hat she had given me that morn
ng, and replied;
Poor devil | did not think you
would be so infatuated, Why, Tom
here is no chance for you under
he sun. But 90 ahead end it out
Is you will. l am sorry for YOU
A hundred such pleasant talks we
lsed to have, and she never gave
ither of us one particle more en- I
enlargement than the other. She
vas like a sister to us both, and
either dared break the spell of our '
'erfect happiness by asking her to
'e more. |
And so time passed on. t
One summer afternoon We were
fl together on horseback, all three 6
f us, over the mountain and down {
he valley. We were returning to- {
yard sunset, sauntering along the t
Dad. down the side Of the hill.
Philip stir the fire little. That $
owl Of punch is getting cold, it |
GEMS to me, and lam a little chill c
Y myself. Perhaps it is the recol- 6
sction of that day that chills me. c
l had made up my mind, if op- t
ortunity occurred, to tell her that
ay all that l had thought for years. /
had determined to know, once for v
Il, if she would love me or no. Il
If not, l would go I cared not h
there; the world was broad enough +