The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-05-22


her window, and whistle three timet
on bis fingers, and bring her down in
one hand and her trunk in the other,
and a band>5ox and an umbrella un.
der each arm, and q whole lot Of
Bundles, and then got into the onb
ahd fly to some distant sb6re. That's
The way it would have boen in q
7 sovel but Bill said he wasn't on that
] ~, and SO be just wcpt out i'll the
y ard, and out OF pure Joy; he skintied
tn Q cat three or four timos on tie
gr spe-vine arbor, and tlen went and
got in his butcher cart; ard drove
Mary right down to the magistrate
to get the job done for a Quarter
for he said he was some on low priceS,
he was.
But the very queerest thing of. all
was, that Bill had no tall, dark, rufflan.
ly, ,ival, with scowling visogo and
blac B whiskers, who few ut him with
o da gger, and horse.pistol in each
hand and n muttcred curse upon his
lips, and cried wildly for "Revenge."
Ha ! la and said "Death |" and
"Vill ain, thou diest % Not auy.
There was another fellow in love with
Mollis,; to be sure, but he was weak.
eyed 'ouug man, who had sandy hair,
and wore spectacles and ch6ker col
lar, and always looked scared when
you bo llered ut him. So, when lie
saw tn, " Bill had the best of the girls
affectio ns, be looked and said eco
in, Billy, if you banker for her :"
aud as Bill was d trifle on the
banker, sailed right in.
So William you see, had no trouble
at all and you couldn't get up an
agon,zinHg novel him If you tried.
He did'p't have any urgent business
that cal led him to foreign land, and
80 had TO bid her foud goodbye,
and swc ar always to be true, aud then
60 awa'f and forget her, aud fall in
love with darkeyed, Italian girl,
p;cki ng grapes in vineyard, with Il
sqnate towel fold ed on her head,
while his forgotten and forsaken Mary
gradually faded and pined away, aud
bafAed the physicians skill, aud grew
p' Ter, aud at last, VI en- the June roses
wore in bloom, lying gently down to
d ic, while through the open window
fioated in the balmy odor of jossa.
mine and huneysuekle. And Will
liam didn't come home at last. and
filed with deathless remorsc, 20 daily
to the sweet cemetery and sttew
flowers on her grave, and teach his
children to lisp her name. Not at
all. Thnt is the way Mrs. T.. D. E.
N. Southworth would have done it,
but size wasn't round. Billy vas
butcher who wore a white shirt and
shiny hat, and he stayed at home
and killed beef and sold it at price
mud stuck to Mary, and she kept
heulthy and wasn't much on the pine,
or the fade, while if any fellows got
to lurking around, William went
right out and battered them in The
eye, he did.
And then; at last; when all wns
over, Mary didn't sit in the room
while they dressed her in white, and
mixed orange blossoms in her water.
fall and theu 50 gently down stairs
with six bridesmaids at her heels, and
staud tip with her William, and weep
gently while she was being married
by the mfoister, and then get lots Of
presents. and then to go her new house
and five through all the happy years
with Billy, and never know sorrow or
trouble any moro. Why, Of course,
'she didn't, for it wasn't her style you
| see:
She just rushed UP stars and put
on her pink muslin and her old sun
bonnet, and had nary bridesmaid, and
went to the magistrates and never
wept q particle, and got no presents
but fifteen cents from the old man to
pay her car Care home, and when she
got to the magistrates she just rose
off the bench and told Bill she didn't
see much use in splicing, and that
she didu't like him anyhow and SO
she went home, and Bill he went with
her, and, told her he wasn't sorry, as
he didn't want her, and he guessed
she was hard on her clothes, anyhow,
and SO. they never got married., and
the whole thing turned out wrong {;
but couldn't help it ): for 1 amt
going TO put facts on'reoord that amt
SO. But IL amt bit like any novel
that l ever read, so there must have
been something strange about this
fellow and Mollie that never could
find out, so 1ell Have 70 let 1t slide as
il Is.
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Characteristic.