The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-02-23

deed. Il Thought he lnVe0 me ana wanted
me for his wife. wh,n became such"
s.Thank Heaven she is saved" muir
i INJURED Mrs Dare, as Annie cried long and
bitterly. And when she had dried her
YES, the old lady talked very earnestly
TO her, scnlding her n little, and advising
her very much. This scene was continu
ed for several days and ended at last by
Anne saving impulsively, AS she wrapped
the lid lady caressingly in her arms:
.' You have saved me from despair, and
perhaps insanity and to prove my graf
iude shall implicitly oby you in all
Ihencefnrth. With your aid | am sure
that shall yet make my husband atk
nowptlge that I am worthy to be his
wife"
One year of Coldsworth Lees vounta-
nv exile passed slowly and mserably to
him, buried a. he was in imagined sham
and d, SPAR IN his lonely studio IN Rome,
and during all this time be had not heard
lauuht of his deserted wife. She had
surely silenced all gosSips about his
marriage with her, for his friends were
i ignorant If it We, and all that his attor
ney could tell him was that she made no
demands upon her husbands funds, and
o herwise he never heard IF or from her.
The only letter he got from his Aunt
Dare did aot make the least mentinn Of
her.
1t very tiresome to keep up the role of
Injured Innocence at ones own expense
very / ,ng, AMI Goldswortk Lee discover.
cd this fact when he had been in his self.
impos, hermitage little ever year
He gradually withdrew from it into so
. tn n h !,
1T the corners s0 much and railing less
at humanity, while he laughed occasion
aly.
Then it was annoying, too, never to hear
; u word about hat fir, ght; and so in his
more frequent letters to his aunt, he man
Jagged usually 10 drop seemingly careless
question about her.
The answers were gratifying "Mrs
; LIE was we'll, aud never mentioned his
name" was all the information Aunt Dare
vouchsaied.
At the beginning of the third year of
:, of exile, the noted man, for he had gained
a reputation now as great scholar aud
artist, mingled freely with the gayest so
:. ciety, and submitted himself to the test
Of the fairest charms at he grand Euro
, pean centres of fashion and learning.
But still mo G frequent thoughts of his
d,s serted wife haunted his brain, and he
, was more lmpulsive in his questions about
: her lii his aoeekty letters to his aunt. The
: answers continued to be aggrayating
Mrs. Lee appears quite happy, and
seems to have entirely Forgotten you"
, Now, touch humanity s self-esteem with
. a rough hand, and something out of the
natural course of events may be expected
;, TO accrue from it. Gulisworth Lee was
! t,arfully angtred, and threatt ned never
T. to have a thought of his discarded wife
, again. He kept his word by show
4 ing his disgust Of all the traps set to
secure his affections by the fair dam
a sells ol high society, in cutting alooi
from all he gayeties and burying him
n ST II again modify in his studio, and Nv
;. working with feverish anxiety on por-
trait WHICH when fiuishad proved to be
one OF The little fright, his wife us he first
q beheld her. seated under a grand old oak
with lap tull of acorns and leaves The
;. pictured face was as homcly as its orig
= NAL when he first saw it; yet most al
9 his time was now passed in sitting be
tore IL studying It's every lIneament and
;. thinking sadly. A month after the com
pleti,n of the picture he wrote to has
r aunt:
if My conduct to poor little Annie has
e been that of a brute. She was innocent
e otany wrongful intent toward me, and
g instead of DESERVING her like a coward
. SHOULD have taken ntr to my bosom
e and protecting her in her childnke limo
t cence and trust from every shock. In
), stead OF this, wrapped myself up in
j. my own eelfshness and refused to realiz,
d how her suffering must be ,en.fo!d more
than NINE. wonder fit is too late to
n win back her lover
: When these lines were read by Annie
;. Lee, for she read all her husbands LETT
to his aunt-she was in danger of blot
n ting out the lines with her tears, and she
}. pleaded, oh, SO touchingly with Mrs Dare
. TO write tt him at once and tell him thai
0 she did love him STILL
mo, no. the old lady exclaimed with
D tears In her own eyes at the poor girls
n pleading, and yet with tirmness,- he
Y has not learnd his lesson we'll enough
{ yet. eW
D And she waited near month befdr.
t answering him that letter, and then only
r said on this Subject:
r cit IS quite uncertain, Goldsworth, ifyou
would get suc oh reception frnm Mrs
1 Lee as YOU would except on returning
here. You would probably think her a>
much of fright as ever ; besides she is
growing happier every day, and there are
some here who love her Would it be
best to disturb her in her present hap
plness ?"
All mee are endowed with more or
, loo iealOuSv GnlHswarth ION w.,
) troubled with COOL deal of it. and i,c