The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-17
NELLIES WAITING.

brown eyes, usually 80 full OF mcrrlment, now
shone through glittering tears.
"But you, Fred, away off in that great city,
with so much new that is to please you, viii
find some one else to--to love, While snail DC
forgotten and alone"
And the sentence so bravely commenced end
ed in a great choking sob; then covering her
face with her hands the maiden on whose brow
hut fourteen summers had left their blooming
freshness, yielded to the first great grief her
Young heart had ever known and al! Tor the
sake of her childhood's friend and playmate
who had come to bid her long good-by.
"Nellie, dear Nellie, how can YOU speak so
You will break my heart, indeed You will, ii
YOU are going to make our parting still harder
by your distrlst Of me-
The boy lover gently drew her head upon his
shoulder, with il. darl, cllrs ripping in shining
waves against his breast and withdrawing one
little dimpled hand from the lovely teaF-stalAed
face carcssed it tenlcrly with his own.
"Do YOU not know, Nellie that it is the hope
of one day being able IL ask for this little hand.
and of obtaining home worthy OF the Jewel
that may grace it. that alone cam reconcile me
to our separation And know, for am older
than YOU. Nellie, tiat it IS VINO VII! have
most cause for doubt
ooh, Frcd,'
now. and you will be very beautiful You are
the only child OF q proud ambition. father, and
the beautiful heiress OF squire ricdin@'s fine
estate, and will not want for suitor>. and these,
too, more eligible than the son O! = poor widow,
if not more hattcrm" 10 n:aidcn.s pride, For,
give me- Nellie YOU may not a! ways regard
the friend of early youth Is you q" now
"You think me Il child. Fred, and that timc
will teach ne to forge: hut feel to-day that
/ have a woman'S heart, and know ihat TO yo'l
this heart can never change. will w&i: for
you, dear Fred, and never, no, never, love al
other though am sure riches cannot make Us
happier" -, IN, ,,,.or.
beneath the chesnut trees. under whose vide
spreading branches they had played many q
long summer day, and where now they en-
changed their pledges of eternal consistency
and not until the lengtlcning shadows fell
around them did Nellie watch for the last time
his reccdng footsteps as they pressed the beat
en- path down to the village cot that was to bc
his home no longer; while his lips, yet dcwy;
with the tears she had wcpt for hiln, murmured
again those precious words that were to be Ills
solace the coming years Il Will walt ior you,
Fred, darling; will wait.
Nellie Fielding was bcreft Of mothers love
ere scarce those infant lips could lisp her name;
= ~
ted the little orphan, who crcpt into her heart
with her pretty. winning ways, until sfc became
scarcely second to her own boy in her affections.
It was Fred who trundlcd her over the lawn in
her baby carriage, anu culicd for her the first
snrinp blossoms and his the hand that led her
to and from the vitae school, rs proud OF his
little charge as she wa+ grateful. Tor his protcc-
His mother watched with .end deli the
growing int!nac, !c.wccl these two a. each
passing year dcvc.orcri the in:'7-c sWectncSs OF
the little girl aud ,hosc who ;nc" hcr noble boy
might we'll have pardoned the nipt4srS partial
ity in the wish that their lives might ever iiow
together as smoothly aud naturally as now-
But mother and son would equally have scorned
to offer her an inferior position, anu together
they had maturcd their plans for the future
in furtherancc Of which they must bid adicu to
the home they had learned 70 love, ana where
the wanderer now lett his treasure 10 watch an'!
wait.
Mrs. Truman lad known better days but
her father havn" died in-olvcnt, she married Il
Door artist who had long loved hcr; and nov
her fatherless boy was left to carve his fortune
BY his own eXertlon.
If Squire Fielding had ever given the sub
iect thought, he evidently saw IN this lntlma-
cy nothing more than a child's preference on
he part of Nellie, and deemed it only natural
ehat any one should admire his little pct, But
certainly he entertained other visions for his
daughter than that Of her marriage with the son
of poor tenant.
Fred Truman's prophecy had been more than
realized for Nellie Fielding, at twenty, wa:
more beautiful than his fondest dreams l;;'i
ever pictured her, and GOOD as She was bcall-
tiful. She had many admirers, real, true lovers,
r. ht;i ~ "A
deemed her fathers bread acres 10 inicrie.
consideration, even with 50 Charming an en-,
cumbrance. To all ,le @>;I = kind bu, decided
refusal and to her iall,i, who w:ls III no haste
TO part with her, when he :antered her OH Ec!
fastidiousness she ever cave the +aaic quaint
snswer, II ala waiting
Among the last mentioned class oi snitors
was Louis Mhitford whose father VIZ !: gen
tleman of rcputcd wealth, and being an old
friend of Mr. Fielding, the son possessed the
prior claim upon III lavo.. lie not only en-
couraged the young Ean, sat, bIt urged his
daughter acceptance ct him VIII: vclcHenrc
that surprised no vs- t!.:;n 1t a!He'i nor. lc
embraced cvcrv opportunity to :.N l.cr clE-
with praises OF LIS ia"or.lc, 'ad Icccrli' t:e i
advantages of union ,n 'rilich he la'. sct his
heart She informed them Of her bctroihai "a
her old PLAYMATE. and l;ow long and patiently
they had loved. and that ia one short ;ear hc
was coming L. c!aiil hcr 81. lis uWi.. iht hrr
father rcp.oachcl hcr i'.I 'Ai!.J di,oic'3 '3ct13.
and her lover d.J NO. cease to pcirecUtc &c.
with his attentions.
She at length wrote "a E.ci Truman o! hcf
trials and received ia q .,iril q c.i c"H.raiu-
Iatory letter. hai.A~ ,,lsl ic w.I< ,'':,-'d a.
term her prov,cntla! eGo! iostnc - pt"il-
tous to the hapi.;mo,- u b";i5 ina m,lrl he
had formed an attachment tha' ..@'' ta!@'ll