The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1871-04-26
yOLUME xYII-NO. 5I,s

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please, aimee, she saw her kind
friends wished il, and succeeded
beyond her expectations.
That evening Lieutenant Viii.
liams took tea with them and, a.
he had business in the country
near town, remained. two weeks,
every evening with them.
until Ella looked for his coming
with a heightened colour and
nervousness which, her friends not
ed and commented an. He and
Ella had walked out together near.
iy every evening, or ridden on
horseback in the early morn had
visited every spot of natural beau.
ty in ten miles Of Greenville and
were becoming desperately i'm love
with each other. 1t was IN the
last evening If his stay thar Mr..
Duval invited the young people
of the town to meet at his house,
in honor Of his two young friends
Robert and Ella. Lizzy insist.
ed that Ella should wear white.
and when sho came down stairs for
her friends inspection, before the
guests assembled, she did not SEQ
Robert, who had como in early,
hoping t., have her company
awhile, all to himself, Lizzy ex-
claimed
Nellie, yon are really beautiful
oniglt more SO, ifpossible. than
you were at Nora Stanhope's we'd
ding; aud | thought YOU perfect
then"
mora Stanhope! Do you
know her :" asked Robert, COM
ing mp.
Yes: she is my dearest friend,
except Nella. But what do YOU
know about her Z" Have Won
seen her. and is she not perfect ."
asked Mrs Duval.
"She is married, I think Won
said :" he grasped.
Yes, and a proud and happy
wife she TO-"
Is her husband as proud and
happy as she is Q"
Yes fully IA mnch 90, and he
has right to he so, for she ia noted
for her beauty, intelligence and
goodness. What more could he
wish Z besides she never loved any
but him"
"She was too good to deceive
another, to carry on that deception
to within o few days of her mar.
riage."
Nora Stanhope a deceiver {!
Impo o>sille. Pray, what do YOU
know Of her z"
Too much, Mrs. Duval. She
had nearly shaken my faith in fe-
male truth !" and he left her, lost
in wonder ard indignation, and
walked cut on the colonade, where
he saw q white robed figure.
leaning against u pillar, weeping
utterly. His thonghts were vcry
bitter as he lett The parlor.
True, he had never told Nora.
in 90 many words, that he loved
her; still his language must have
been understood by her as
something more than mere friend.
ship /; and sic l,aG; written as nm.
reservedly, giving free expression
to sentiments which his too partial
eye hnd construed into something
more tender than friendship.-
NV, the past came vividly before
his minds eye. and he tried i'm
vain to recall some expression of
hers that recemblcd love, and he
said to himself:
/. was nothing more than a
pleasant past.time with her. and [
should not have yielded myself up
to such a sweet fancy. His anger
vanished, and he th"nght only of
this sweet maiden who had almost
"bli,erated from his mcmory the
bitter past, aud, going up to her,
he said
Forgive me, if l have caused
this grief. IL she your friend al
80 2"
She raised her fearful face.
which was vem raIe. and, he
thought very angelic, as she
said:
My friend 7 Yes, mrre than
friend-motl,er, sistcr, everything
-thc daughter of my eainted
mothers only brother and being
Older than /, has bccn everything
to The orphan. More than that
she, is pure and good {; she could
moi bsfa deceivcr."
'sSs led her to acaf. where be
tt0llxbt they wonld not l,e inter.
supsed, and told her the whole
story. She listened with breath.
less attention to lis dcserip,ion Of
tho letters she had written. and
ielt ploased at his praises 1, how he
had learned to love one whom he
had. never seen, and wonld have
been willing to make her his brid..