The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-01-04

Sketch" from the San Francisco Bulletin of De-
cember I'd, is no fiction. 1 first cast my eye upon it
~supposing to be 80, but had not read far before
memory carried me back to childhood's days when 1
often saw the unfortunate heroine of the story.
sc Crazy Lucy" Often in early childhood have I
met her in her wanderings. The people were always
kind and sympathizing their doors were open to
this poor harmless maniac. remember her, as she
would enter my fathers house and take her place,
with her bundles, unmolested, for the day or night,
as the case might be. but the early dawn always saw
her ON the move. 1 had heard that it was disap-
pointed love that dethroned her reason, but the par
ticulars of the opening or close of the sad drama I
never knew till 1 met this sketch in the Bulletin.
Disappointed Affection-A Thrilling
Sketch.
Some forty years since, in the interior of my ma
tive State, New York, lived the father of my heroine,
an honest and respectable farmer. He had two
children-Lucy, a noble girl of nineteen, and Ellen,
q year or two younger. The first named was win
ningly rather than strikingly beautiful. Under a
saran;t, CO. for its seriousness and nun-like
80 , q concealed an imprisoned nature, and
emarkable from her earliest childhood for a yoica IF
thrilling and haunting sweetness.
Ellen Dutton was the brilliant antipode of her
sister, a "born beauty whose prerooative Of
beauty was to have her own way in all things and at
all times. An %indulgent father, a weak mother. and
an idOlizing sister, unconsciously contributej Ia the
ruin of a nature not at first remarkable for strength
or generosity.
Where. in all Gods creatures. is beartIessness On
detestable as in a beautiful woman?
Lucy possessed a fine intellect, and as her parents
were Weli-read new Englanders, she and her sister
were far better educated than other girls of her
station, in that half-settled part of the country. Tn
those days many engaged in school-teacbinc from
the honor and pleasure it afforded, rather than from
necessity. Thus a few months previous to the CON-
mencement of our story, Lucy Dutton left for the
first time her fre-side circle. to take CHARGE 30
school, some twenty miles distant from her native
town.
For some time her letters home were expressive
only OF happy contentment, which surano from the
consciousness of active usefulness. of receiv;no Viii
Imparting good. But anon there came n Chance
Ihen were those records from home characterized bv |
niul gayety or dreamy sadness undefnable hopes 7
ana fears seemed struggling for supremacy in the
writer's troubled little heart. Lucy loved. bnt
scarcely acknowledged it to herself, while she knew
NOT that she was loved. So for O time that second
Dirtn OF Wonlan's nature was like a warm sunrise
struggling with the cold mist of the morning.
But one day brought a letter which could NOT he
forgotten in the home of the absent, and a letter
traced by a hand trembling with happiness. Lucy
had been wooed and won, and she but waited her
parents approval of her choice to become the he
throthed of Edwin W., a man of excellent family
and standing in the town where she had been teach,
ing. The father and mother accorded their sanction
win many blessings, and Lucy's next letter promised
q speedy visit from the lovers. To such Natures ne
what an absorbing and yet what a revealing
OF self is a first passion-what a prodiealitv of oiy9
incalculable wealth of receiyinp.wbst a
breaking up is there OF the deep waters of the soul,
and how heaven descends in a sudden star-sbower
upon life If there is a season when an onoeI mov
looR with interest upon her mortal sister. IL is when
she beholds her heart pass from its bud-Iike inno-
cence ana g'rinood' and taking to its very core the
ferVid light Of love, glow and crimson into perfect
womanhood. ~
At last the plighted lovers came. and Welcomes
and iestlslt.ls awaited them. Mr.. w.. gave entire
10 father, mother, and even the exactino
beauty" He was a handsome man With 800
P etension to fashion, but in manner, and annarentIv
N -haracter, the opposite of his bethrotlled'
he pifi s si9ssq h that n kkaaz ss4 %sasa not again leave
of ner ardent lover, was to be celebrated within 49,
months ana On the birthday Of the bride. 1t was
therefore arranged that Ellen should return with Mr.
to take charge Of her sisters school for the re- IN
mainder of the term. \
The bridal day had come. 1t was ushered in BY a a
Nay morning of surprising loneliness the busy Q
md neither the bridegroom nor Ellen. the first a
bridesmaid, had appeared. Yet in her neat little
sat Lucy. nothing doubling, nothing fear k
ng. She was arrayed in q simple white muslin, and "
her few bridal ornaments lay on the table by her r
'ne. Miss Allen, her second bridesmaid, a BRIGHT p
eyed Observation-Disclosures girl, her chosen friend from j.
was arranging to a more graceful fall the 8
Geath OF light rlnglets which swept her snowy neck. D
t2 the anxious inquiries of her companion respect ID
y the absent ones, Lucy smiled quietly, and replied 81
20, something has happened to detain them u
awhile we heard from them the other day, and ~
VAS we'll They will be here bye-and-bye, pfer 49,
sar.' W
Evening came. the guests were assembtA.a and yet ce
be bridegroom tarried. There were Sdspers, sur ie
and wonderings. and ssb<Iow Of anxiety an
assed over the face of the bde ele:t- At last a pc
arriage drove slowly to the iSor. 49, tn
"They have come !" cried many voices. and Ellen til
ntered. In reply to-the buried and confused in G,
uiries of all areand him, Mr.. W. muttered some ru
hing about IS unavoidable delay, and stennipg nm 10
the s~idebcard, tossed off a glass Of wine, another nc
nd aeetheg. and another. The company stood still an
~. a~saazsH eat- Finally, a rough farmer ex- tb
laiaad "'
ssetses late than never, young man 50 lead oat -
W.su -oOn ard placed him. -
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