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

4stamnered.
Yes, but you have made me love you;
yeu knew your chance, and you have
used it. IF you love him, let me go
without another of those appeals that
you know how to make so maddeniug;
if uut%Aradge, Madgs RCD ta 8Iat3
Hid had takcn her hands .agaip, aud
was looking down ipte her face, with "a,
CLEAN, of such intense pleading affection
that for moment he whsdheT sasorld to
her. 70 a! GER scEa1sv ssa~- e~s ~
IfIhad known you first .Sske soBbe 1,
but didn't, you see; and re Dundces
never break our word, And-oh,! you
had better go alter all but forgive
me 7 "EzEtAL aSa TEaTh4 II
Forgive her" II was easy enough to
say he would, and to IN ko an end Of
this miserable scene; but it was very
hard TO do it. Had she notFspokcn"his
uame with all her heart in her voice
only minute ago, leading him on by
the tore she used to tell his secret to
her in tho hope that she would be
brave, and avert eventful misery from
them all And now she was telling him
that if she had known him first she
would have lovoi him best, and that she
could not for her names sake break her
word to his uncle
1t was ghastly state of affairs, and
as soon as he could, ,Tbeo sBligh vmadeF
an end of it, by going away. The two
men had no verbal ex PLANTATION 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-
tered to him, the SAVIOR had gone from
the old pleasures.
1t was dssldqdly mot worth while now,
he felt, to try and do anything good or
dehnitci for,he could never find womaii
to share lis gloSy or smile upon, his
success, wboscould put Bonnie Dr:ndco
out of his mind; after her other women
did and would always appear to be
wanting in something. She shad the,
trick of making others appear tame, and md
pale, and insufficient, and well, the man
who has been shown upon by star,
netcr feels that there is much warmth.
in n taper.
lie banished Himself so 1ciTcctually
that Nc heard no tidihgs from tic Chase
for six months, and then he ventnted to
send his address TO his bunker, and to
have letters forwarded to him; but be-
fore these letters are read, rctrospcc
tive glance ut the Bonnie Dundee must
be given.
She bore his departure very bravely.
Remember how many other interests
were claiming Ter attention at the time,
and remember tho ardent, impression
able, changcable 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 over things.
Is not that last characteristic the secret
of many women keeping right, and of
many others going wrong?
1t brushed the bloom of the beach
roughly when h 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 her. Il am so sorry,
for | was SO fond Of him., she said to
her lover. with that disarmng lraukncss
which women of her calibrc know so
well how to use And MIR. Fligh hear
ing her, did not wonder that his nephew
had bee" scofched by the fiery ordeal
throuG! which he had been passed.
There was this about it, that it was
such clean fire thut even her own sex
could not despise and condemn aud
prophcsy evil things concerning Miss
Dundce's warmth Dust as she lived
light, and dancing, and flowers, and
sweet sounds, so did she love to be
loved: and though it nude her dan.cr.
Gus, it never made her despicabc. Aud
somehow men understood this, ard so
fostercd her other loibles, 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.
Bligh vcntured to speak decisivcy to
her Very earnestly and gently he
spoke, beseeching her to open all her