The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-04-05
AB ,.sHARD RDENIAN COUNTY, TEN NEssEE,

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I Bob, ike you but Hove some
I body else. /. am engaged to Win
throp Earle, though nobody Enow
1t but Just ourselves.
ss' S5NFhewi said said the doctor. am
drove very fast for the hextten min
utes. Then he said, quite solemnly
.tAdiss Duf,sI doubt whether you'll
ever marry Winthrop Earle, but
won't insist on your marrying sml
against your will. Now we'u -say
no more about il. -F...-s -
When the result OF the doctor.
wooing was known, Daise rs parents
went about with an injured look
and talked with an indignant air
that took the pleasure out of bel
life. Time went. on and on, anc
they began to make preparation:
for leaving the farm. as -ss.sa1ss
We shall NOT last IJng after it
wife!' Mr.sDuff would say dreariiy
And she, she who had all her life
yielded to Daisy's Highest wish, went
around talking of m5ratitude and
disobedience, and the folly oi
making sacrifices for children, till
she really fretted herself sick. Very
sick she was, too, and between
watching her at night, and the
school'itself, Daisy was aim ost worn
out. Many time she cried herself
to sleep. Manya time she awaken
ed heavy-eyed and heaEy-hearted to
'.take up the burden of life again. !"
Through it all, she remained loyal
to Winthrop Earle, living on lis
short, occasional letters, scrawIed
on a drum-head or a napsack, she
supposed, and writing him long
bright ones, full of sunshine and
sweetness. as @ l.s RI
; Doctor Bob was all this time
kindness and deicacy itself. He
never alluded TO his rejected offer,
but he was more ehiYalous, more
tender, more devoted than ever.
Hewatched her mothers fever with
more than professional interest, and
displayed lavish amount of skill.
BE kept her father occupied, and
took of the edge Of many a sharp
saying that was meant for Daisy.
Was it his fault or his misfortune,
poor man, that he should bring up
the 'eWeekly Thunderer," one mis-
erable, rainy, mournful, never-to-be-
forgotten Saturday night? Daisey
opened it, and the first thing to meet
her ere was "Horrible massacre by
the Pigwig Indiansl Company G.
111th, cut to pieces. Every officer
killed." " And down below detail
ed account, and in it, prominently
named, the death of Lieutenant
Winthrop Earle. a -r aaf
After that Daisey felt that life was
over for her. She went around with
a dazed air for several days, absent
minded, careless of her looks, her
hair pushed anyway back of her
ears, her face pale, and a flr-away
lost Look IN her eyes.
"A week before the auction was to
be, her father said to herr 7 Fzas.
Daughter, if young Earle had
lived, would never have asked yon
bat he S gone, and grief wont bring
back the dead marry d ctor Sin
clair snd. save our home"
Just as you please, father It's
all tne TO me now" was Daisey's s
a f,syveT. 20 szss1 s& 80
A very pale bride she was, and not
as pretty as she used to be, said the
people who thronged the church on
her wedding-day, Doctor Bob took
her off for q tour, and when she
came back, pride had brought the
light into her eyes and the roses in
to her cheeks. 7 The Daisy was gone
forever, but the gsacious, queenly
woman, the diguifed Mrs. Sinclair,
wa, accepted in her place by most
people as an improvement. 49, t.-
!, OF course it was mistake, and
Daisy's beloved came back. Hap
ply, when he did, she held her child
in her arms, and had learned to
love her "guide man. :" DOctoraBob
had kept his promise of giving her
her own way, and it is the royal
road to the feminine heart. One
swifs throb at the sight Of Winthrop
Earle, and Daisy Sinclair'5 heart
stiIlel itself, and received him with
grave courtesy and kindly welcome.
He did not mourn zhOpelessly--
but married in a year somebody as
unlike Daisey as possible. -
sg Mr.. and Mrs. Duff are sti1l living
in the old place, and their daughter
is, after all, as happy as most wives
are, though her husband is much
like "Auld Robin Grey. "sssssa- .zs.E.
Stingy Churches. go -
Gratuitous preaching makes sell
fish, ignorant, and indolent church
es. a congregation votes its own
destruction when it decides to "get
along" with a preacher who costs
them little or nothing and earns just
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