The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-04-05

uOA Ing HllISASISs HS F6101nQ6d her
4 oddly enough, of a print IN an Ole
copy Of the Pilgrim s Progress, rep
resenting the giant ashe starts out
/ after breakfast to rscapture 9his3 es
i capped prisoners e-z sezss 50
I '.Ebenezer Duff said the doctor
Esolemnly, 'the day Daisy becomes
nly.wife, I'll give you three thousand
dollars down! West'if never turn
UP, and you'll have to-pay it, being
IzoA his bond, and III get you out OF
il Only give me the girl I love
lIeIp' said the doctor, warming into
eleqQence-sloye her enough, to let
her ltramples on me all my life. She's
I the sweetest, dearest, prettiest thing
ever the Lord made.
s t'EFhat doy you say, mother" said
Mr.. Duff, looking up; "does this
seem tosyousrhe Lords Ray?
II don't know. said Mrs. Duff,
with indeeisien IN her voice. Its
hard to tell DAISY must decide,
It's in her hands nowtO say whether
our old heads shall lie at the last
III the poorhouse, or remain here,
in the dear homestead. / do not
think Bob Smear would make her
good husband '. Es Ess
But he's my age, WIFE sz-kez1
Not By ten years. exclaimed
the DOCTOR s'Yous ought to know,
Maggie, you remember that sum
mer." !. a..g-s -. - -...-s ~
eyes, l remember, sald Mr.. Dan,
smiling "'you courted the mother,
and now you areeourting the daugh-
ter. Well, Bob, I'll lay no ston . in
your way, though it seems. mighty
like selling my own flesh and blood
Ike a Circasslan slage-in the mar
ket Well, Daisy, pet, how gees
the dhy2
"Br. ght as ever 8Tayday was, YOU
cd daFlingl" sand Daisy, giving her
father.a raptuous mug. -E'Mammy
dear, now you've ironed all my
things, aud tired yourself out.
Why didn't you leave them for me-.
Doctor,gI beg your Iardon-I didn't
observe you-how do you do?"
said Daisy, somehow filling up the.
plain old room wi Ia her presence,
and bringing intoit thezbeautyrth that
was lying hike a spell over all the
gay world outside. s
She was tall and finely fofmed,
s her eyes. were brown, with lights
and shadows in them, her mouth
was perfect, her nose straight and
sscornfuL her hair reddish-brown,
witha natural wave to it. Her
head was set splendidily on her
small white throat, and she was al
together q beauty and belle. Love
-Iy Daisy Duff had had so many at
her feet that conquest setmed her
right. She won and wore hearts,
assethers did their ribbons. NJ.
body suspected she had lost her
aewn. s- a-.-.s
It was the fact. however. Her
tcousin Wlthrop Earle. a lieutenant,
off fighting the Indians, carried
with him a curl of Daisy's hair,
ribbon once worn round .Daisy's
neck, a. pledge in Daisy's writing,
And up IN her own little white cur
tanned room, in a tiny workbox,
where Daisy hid her treasures, were
daguerre otype, and a ring and a
s. raight lock of raven hair. It was
( 5ut Of the question: that WintmopH
and Daisy should marry-cousin,
and poor and nobody had ever
meant 1t for either OF them, but they
loved each other, andin the strength
of their Joyous youth. were willing
were old.
triumph, promising to come back
to tea! Before they started, Mrs.
Duffhad whispered in her daughters
car: -zze q: aas--s5--lszEa Fss .asls Il
sMy dear, it's all over. West has
abscondsd, and your fatnershas the
money to zpay.f Wen aII bein the
poofhouse before Christmas"
ooh, waitztill come home from
my sriie!'i exclaimed Daisy, with
the natural imPatiepce of her age.
:sDon't tell ne anything sad, nOw,.
Bother." E---.-.- -. ...-...--, 80.
So they started, The road wound
along, brown and dark, through
-gr.en fields and beside siivery
Sparkling river. The woods were
sweet with Wild flowers, and from
above, the white bloom OF the dog
wood hung down over their heads.
All was spicy anis ordolous, and
drsamlike, as spring days are
Years after, Daisy would feel, when
she saw a dOgwood blossom, as she
felt on|that day, .aRd the scent oftne
pines would set Ter backward TO the
time of her ride to Coles Hill and
Doctor Bob's offer. - sssv -
For it eamesof course, though
fromsthe moment Daisy was seated
IN the carriage, al1e had felt it IN her
bones, and had tried her best to
keep it off. NeYsr had she been in
gayer spirits-neYer had she ratified
on more Wildly ly-peverh had she tried
hsrder to keep the good doctor TO
Tnonesyhables; it was coming, and
it came. -
'sDaisy Duff the doctor,
suddenly seizfng her little hand, so
dainty hidden by a primrose glove,
in his own big ftsone, and hold
ing it IN q decided masculine's clasp,
Il offer yon my hand and fortune,
Izoffer you my heart, too, my girl
though I'm Lo speeNh-maker; if you
VIII marry me, I'll do my best 20 be
Ia good husband" II s.---.- -.
Goodness" said Daisy, for she
was sWprised-sorry, too, that she
must pain the honesb man who had
just given her the highest proof of
MS regard in mans power to give
Doctor Sinclair, please, please take
it back, and let us be friends, we
hases always been. Why, doctor,
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