The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1871-07-19
A CASE OF TRUE LOVE.
By ANY RANDOLPH.

tEUuA. quo WAS SotAiS OuI do Sof-
erness. Her fast friend, Miss Sa-
rah Honeycroft, had called to bid
her good bye.
$50 you're really going, Lilly ?'
sighed that elderly lady, viewing
the preparations for departure
that strewed the floor around her.
eyes, Miss Sarah, am really
goinyp
"To be governess?'
"Yes, to be governess
''It's a hard life," sighed Miss
Sarah again.
"No harder than many Others"
answered Little Lilly, folding O.
nest Of white aprons.
"And to think you've always
lived 50 easily until nowr'
''That is the very reason [ should
be willing to work when the ne
cessity has at last come upon me-"
courageously asserted our heroine.
Il really think your aunt should
have invested her money a little
more carefully, in mere justice to
You. Any fool could have told
that those South American mining
shares were mere bubble"
Little Lilly dived into the trunk
after a string, pursed up the vel
vet lips, but said nothing. Miss
Sarah took snuff and went on:
"And how much do you have a
ycar?"
"Three hundred dollars !"
'It is a miserable pittance, Lii
lyH
1T will be a small fortune to
me, Miss Sarah" the girl answered
= smiling.
Miss Sarah shook her lead and
said:
II think Charles Austin ought
to have married you. Every one
thought bis isintentions meant some
thing serious !"
Little Lilly suddenly grew rosy
all over, she dropped pair of
Cinderella-likc slippers on the
floor, and came near putting the
poker in her trunk.
"Mr. Austin was very kind to
me always" she said, hurriedly,
"but--but be never gave me any
reason to suppose"
ayes, yes" said Miss Sarah. /
understand. You're q good girl,
Lilly-and if you'll give me those
slippers, III sew on the black sat-
in rosettes, while you finish pack
ing"
It was late when she kissed Lit
tic Lilly goodnight, and trudged
homo through the snow-but as
she battled her way through dusk
and wind she still muttered reso-
lutely to herself:
"She may say what she will
shall maintain to my dying day
that Charles Austin, after all his
attentions, ought to have come
forward like q man and married
her nowI'
1t was something like a month
subsequently to the scene above
sketched when Mr.. Charles Austin
sat in Herbert Ellyot's library
contentedly sharing with the last
named gentleman the luxurles Of
q cigar, a CRATE FIRE and a tete-a-
tcte.
"Woll, Ellyot," said he, after
one or two topics of conversation
had been exhausted, "aud how
goes on your wife's new COVER.
ness ?"
GAS good as gold and as true as
s;eei" answered the gentleman
addressed. "She's worth a score
of city bellies, with all the stars of
Newport and Saratoga thrown in,
Austin; and if you don't marry
her, I'll call you out-pistols at
ten PAGES, aud no compromised"
"Yon needn't give yourself that
unnecessary trouble" answered
Austin. 81 am going to marry
her"
"And why in the deuce haven't
you done it sooner?" demanded
B,iyot, peremptorily.
81 wanted to try her-to prove
the solid worth and resources Of
her character"
"And are you satisfied new ?"
"I am satisfied. She has been
weighed in the balance and not
found wanting. I mean to ask
her to marry me tomorrow"
II am gisd Of it from the bottom
of my heart. I know you, Charley
Austip, but the world does not.
Do you know what Mrs. Grundy
has been saying about you?''
"No-That?"
"That you deserted Little Lily
because her aunt's fortune was
dissipsted in those South Ameri-
can mining schemes"
Austin colored q little.
aLes the world talk" he said
impetuously, "what care L for it's
idle buzz? Up to this time I have
been unable to support wife as
one like Little Lily ought to be
supported. To-day [ received the
anoointment to travel in India for
the frm of Msllington & Melting
ton. Ieshe will 60 with me"