The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-12-16

y Half frightened, she drew back from
n iaua sss engaged engaged =. hin: him, che
stamnered.
Yes, but you have made me love you;
yen knew your chance, and you have
used it If you love him, lot me go
without another of those appeals that
you know how to make so maddeniag
if NO ut41AEads 8iadga y 0d Re a4af3
He had tstaa lher hautis sagaip. aud
was looking bdoYn ipte hst faes,4Eiths
gleani ofesuch intenseo oplesdiug affectionl
that for raXnonentlhe whsahe EaSorld to
her. Hs a esa ieaiaass sSs.r e~s ss'
'IfIrbad Known you first,,.Ss .Ssts soBbs t.,
but didn't you see aud se Dundcesl
never break 9sRr word, AndTTTobsl you,
bad better. go alter all S't5rt forgive.
meP "TaADAL aEa TEsT4g ~
| Forgive hef, y &c Z waseasy enough to
sayihe would, and to IN keF an end OF
this miserable scene; sbdszit SasJ very
hard TO do is. Had she yne.zspcgeAA 80 AAsssss =:
name with all her heart Id her vuics
only 4 minute ago, leading him on by
the tore she used 20 tell his secret to
her in the hope that she would be
brave, and avert eventful misery from
fsshem all (? And now she was telling him
that if she had known him first she
would have lovod him best aud that she
could not for her names sake break her
word to his uncle [!
1t was CHASTITY state of affairs, and
as soon as ha esslfdb Theo EGBfigh ypade
an end of it, by going away. The two
men had no verbal xplanGtiSn on leave-
taking, but they parted as comrades
/ who had been wounded in the same
fight might part. And then Thco found
that, though existence was not embit-
i tered to him, the SAVIOR had gone from
the ole, pleasures, ....-.,.,..
1t was decided. net worth While now
he felt, to try aud do anything good or
definite; fofAhe could never find woman,
to share his gl6sy or smila upon Ills
success, siioscodid put Bonnie Dutsdssi
out of his mind; after her other women
did aud would always appear to Abcf
wAatipg in asReshipg, She had the
Etfiuk Of making ofEefs appear tame, aud mo
tpaie, and insufficient, and well, the man
who has bsens shown, upon by, q STAR,
never feels that there is much warmth.
lin a taper. ~ t1'''''' sSS r
7" He banisl,ed 'liimsb!f SO seiTeetaalls'
that he heard no tidiBgs from tic Chase
for six months, ahd then he vehtnfed to
send his address TO his bunker, and to
have letters forwarded to him; but be-
fore these letters are read, retrospcc.
Rive glance ut the Bonnie Dundee must
be given.
She bore his departure very bravely
Remember how many other interests
were claiming her attention at the time,
and remember the ardent, impression
able, changcabe nature of the girl
There was good deal of the W. man
She had the faculty of feeling intensely
for the time, and of getting oyer things,
Is not that last Characteristic thcisecrot
of many women keeping right, aud of
many others going wrong?
1t brushed the bloom of the beach
roughly when he went away, for, that
| yelled idolatry of his had been very
pleasant to her; nevertheless she bore
It bravely, and made the best of that
which remained to ber. Il am so sorry,
for was so fond of him., she said to
her lover, with that disarming frank ness
! which womcn Of her calibre know so
well how to use. And Mir. Fligh hear
ing her, did not wonder that his nephew
had been scofthed by the fiery ordeal
through which he had been pass ed +,
There was this about it, chat it was
such clean fire that even her own sex
could not aespisg and condemn and
prophesy evil things concerning Miss
Dundce's warmth. Just as she lived
light, and dancing, and flowers, and
sweet sounds, so did she love to be
i loved: and though it nude her danger.
Gus, it never made hor despicable And
somehow men understood this, and SO
fostered her other fobles, because of
their gladness that she was free from
greater ones.
1t was only about week before the
day fixed for their marriage, that Mr..