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

stammered.
| 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 maddeuiug
if nut=aMadgs 8Iadgd B06 4G &c : aS - i sssS q
He had tskea Jhst haatis ,agaip, aud
was looking down ipte her fase, rwithta,
gleani ofcsuch intepseopleadiug Affection
that for u Zmomant he wasahor asorld to
her. 80 81 So .aalsas5 sas,v ess -.
'Ifirhad known you 6rse,,.tsts sOBBsa,
but didn't, you sJe and Ee Dundees,
never break our word. And-ohtl you
had bettee. go after all ]; but forgive,
mel "TagaEL GEs TESTa9 q
Forgive feFAtItT wasaeapy enough to
sayihe would, and to IN ke an end Of
this miserable iscenc; 'bdsIit was very
hard to do it. Had she s6dtzspok kanshis
name with all her heart Id her Voice
only q minute ago, leading him on hy
the tore she used to tell his secret to
her in tho hope that she would be
brave, and avert eventful misery from
inhem ali ? And now she was telling him
that if she had known him first she
would have lovod him best, aud that she
could mot for her names sake brenk her
| word to his uncle
1t was a CHASTITY state of affairs, and
as soon as he could, rTbeo lBligh ysnade
an eud of it, by going away. The two
men had no verbal ex planhtitoJu on leave
taking, but they parted us comrades
who had been wounded in the same
fight might part. And then Theo found
that, though existence was not embit-
tered to him, the SAVIOR had gone from
the ole, pleasures.
1t was desldadsy not @brthl lxhiies now
he felt, to try and do anything good or
defnitey f5fAhe could never find womhii
to share LIS glosy or suils upon his
success, @hoscoaid put Bonnie Duadee
out of his mind; after her other women
did uhtl would always dppear to abc'
wanting in, se,peshipg. She had the,
Etrick OF making others appear tame, anaa
pale, and insufficient, and we'll, the man
who has bpens shown, upon by q star.
never feels tlat there is much warmth,
in a taper. " S''' ga "a ''S ?
He banshed himself SO Sclfcctuallyl
that he heard no tidihgs from the Chase
for six months, and then he vsntnted to
send his address to his bunker, and to
have letters forwarded to him; = be-
fore these letters are read, n rospcc
tive 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, 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 theAsecret
of many women keeping right, and 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. TINT
which remained to her. Il am so sorry
for | was so fond of him. she said to
her lover, with that disarming fnnkness
which women OF her calibrc know so
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ing her, did not wonder that his nephew
had been scofched by the fiery ordeal
through which he had been pass cd
There was this about it, tina, it was
such clean fire thut even her own sex
could not despise 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
loved: and though it nude her danger.
Gus, it never made hor despicable. And
somehow men understood this, and so
fostercd her other foibles, 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 ventured to speak decsiyely to
her. Very earnestly and gently he
spoke, beseoching her to open all her
| heart To him. and To tell him If my