The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1871-04-19

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GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA, April 10 91s7l~

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against whici. the breakers con,in.
ually dash without making any
impression. ] must. admit that
this last surge Of the ficklo goddess
ill-favored wave has made il to tot
ter in its firm foundation, though
it is no more than was deserved by
a young outlaw from the Military
Institute Of this State, from whose
time.honored walls l was expelled
in 1861 to join the army against tn.
wishes of my kind lid father. For
thus disyracing myself. and being
a good, easy somebody, after the
Pennsylvania campaign of last
year, my comrades were whimsical
cnough to corfer on me the rank OF
senior second lieutenant, and yon
know the weight Of such heavy
honors! was more than sufficient
to tnrn the head Of a young jacka.
nape like myself, not then ont OF
my teens. Therefore, / pray you,
throw the veil of charity over my
nnknigbtly conduct. am a
pduUre oyster fed cavalryman and
not worthy'of your anger or con
tempt. May God bless you and
make you happy, is the earnest
wish of
RoBERT G. WILLIAMS.
When this letter was received
Ella was both astonisbed and
pleased. Here was romance. The
only difficulty was, how could it be
continued |! She thought O. er it for
two days, and al her resolutions
never to write to another stranger
vanished before her love of adyen.
ture.. Still she could not think of
signing her own name. Therefore
she went with all her difficulties to
her cousin Nora Stanhope, to
whom she told the whole story,
and how much she wished to con.
time the correspondence, vet
shrnnk from giving her true name,
while she felt it would not be right
to continue the name Of jamie Pur.
cell. Nora was in raptures. She
read all of the letters, and declared
them splendid. She had several
soldier correspondentslbut moth
ing in her experience could equal
this. She had been reading Maca.
ria, which had just come ont. and
made her head ache over Irene's
scientific words. They were regu.
lar brain splitting jaw.crackers ;
and she was delighted to find some
thing to divert her thoughts from
such sclfsacrificing hcroines, and
gave hei full and free consent for
her name to be used, always pro
vided she was to know how it was
carried on, and be first brides
maid, in case anything serious ever
came of it.
Ahl Ma belle cousin" she
said, 81 have imagined You a he.
roine after the Irene and Beulah
order, but am really pleased to
lind yon flesh and blood, after all.
A fellow feeling makes us won.
drous kind and I am glad to find
that your heart is not stone, and
you have a little of woman's pecu
liar prerogative, curiosity. I dc
test these model women, or rather
monstrosities, snch as Miss Evans
makes of her heroines. God never
made a woman such as Irene
Yon know dislike sniveler and
croaker still ! wonld prefer a
N"be, all tears, to a woman who
never enjoyed that luxury: Why.
actually shed tears over the de.
scription of the death bed scene of
only n private in the ranks while
Irene held the head Of her dying
LIVER whilc all around were i'm
tears, without so much as a moist.
ening of her eyelids. know what
you wonld tell me, that the sorrow
that cannot find vent in tears is
deepest. / grant all that; still,
the fonndaii rs of tho great deep
must be broken up, sooner or later !:
hnman nature cannot long bear
such an unnatural strain, or viola.
tion of her laws"
| Ella replied that she had ".no
inclination to initiate Miss Evans
hcroines.2 Had circumstances
thrown me into society as much as
they have you, Islonld, il all pro.
babilitv, have be- n as much of a
fiirt as you are. always provided |
had been as mnch coml,limented.
| hope, however, my heart would
have retained as much Of goodness
as yonrs, and my poor giddy brain
l mn f,tn,a