Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-10-21

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| thing about it auywherc-as--ahem
we wish to--to--(the fellow actual,
blushed) to keep it dark little long
Gr; there's some--a-coufoundcd 9th
er fellow, l believe, who,-
"Let me see it.. | said sternly
but the fellow was too wrapt up il
himself to notice my tone. Smirk
ing like an idiot, the wretch opened
the lockct, and thcrc--ycs, there wa.
my Madgic's Portrait
"By powerful effort | mastered
my emotion, and wishing Lupu:
good-day quite coolly,I l dashed away
on pretcnse Of a remembered ap.
pointment.
'Bcrtie, | cannot tell you my des.
pair. 1t was not alone the feeling
that her heart was not, could never
hav, been mine, despite all her low
ing words and pretty, guilcless vows,
but that my idol, my goddess, whom
revcrcncod and whOrshippGd as
something 50 infinitely pure and
good, should become so degraded in
my eyes--should fall from her high
estate so suddenly, into such depths
as 20 love a man like Lupus--Or il
she did not love him, to sell herself
for little more gold than | possess
ed; it was maddcning!
MY first impulse was to rush
down to Tynywua and accuse her
crush her with the weight Of mycon-
tempt and Indignation; and obeved
it, In the train, however, caImer
thoughts came; l felt too, that |
could not bear TO face her-l loved
her too dearly to see her humiliated,
for | still believed well enough of her
to think that she vas not so lost to
all sense Of rigt as to feel herself
justified in her yreachory. | deter
mined then that would return to
town by the next train. without hay
ing seen her, and would write to her
from London.
81 left the railway station and
sauutercd through the darkcning
streets Of the little country town near
Tvnywtra for | was foo hHart % sicl
to remain in any one place, and Qazed
listiessly into Tie shop windows. try-
ing to pass the time away before the
arrival OF the up-train. / was look.
ing in mechanically at one large
booksellers window, when sudden
ly INV heart almost stonnod boatinn oo,i0n
and slammed saya~nIr L on tbn ru9, nav9
mont Intf3" t5a s5oH ~ ~ VII ui,Ep p"TC tSo
woudrCoI roIirH.brnyl5 hair on1
dccp gray cyls In ma Inv tho 1orin,, inv
gqs'li9bt, stood INV tnithirs. Inr6
smiliTg Wi,h N, ",i sweat t''73 .,niic to'y !,
answer 10 n rrInorI, of ~ IoI,, yIbn ="
stood ur1r ofgro5 ~ s Lor ,ritS ~
burning eve. md ,nol in a,,ar,- DO a.,
tail or bor a}"oro,,cn 'YN WIN VI I'VtJ rt "o
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lookinr ar her for iIo last , ti,n" ,,,' Tl", T"n
nIInlo yoJyrt jrasy bnr"ottI,, I''3. '-t-C rr i''
her. dainty Lat-inTr - ' tbo r'',.,,l, r"'"'
shadows melted on Lor aoi1o;p ITJ pI' h,ir fnI
Al Iosf aIo trrnod mi 0'(,Tn ton"a,I1 --I''' .
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what moln mn rryL ron, IN ,r;n ~ "
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snsuondcd rom1d hc1, noel. - ona ,os2 ,v7
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in hIne rs;noI ON !, Il t'',,,'';I aao,' IL
scores Of tfmas lan,[ira 70 Ii,,InLr isTn ~
Innus' wotrh cbIio a%3a n3 ~ no,' L't''Uo4 In3
no loubt--couII haJo |"'r "nno1or ~" May 1o"T
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