The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-10-18

ms dIlils, ne gALeu uOWn upon tIe Deautl
full face. Tears trembled in the brown
eyes, but she bravely kept them back.
Maud, my love for you has become
} part Of my being. 1t is the one desire Of
my life to marry you. Say that you will
love me always as you do now.
''Oh, George, can you doubt it; some
day you will know how much love you. 7"
The powerful odor of the jasmine was
all around them, and George, reaching up,
plucked spray Of the fragrant bloom, and
giving it to Maud, said:
IL have heard my mother say this flower
never loses its fragrance. 1t will fade and
crumble away, but the odor is still with it.
lie it be an emblem of our love. When
cease to love you it will be odorless."
II do not know if what you say be true
or not, and | wish you had not told me
anything about the flower. If it Aduld
become odorless should doubt your love,
she replied.
81 did not know you were supersti-
tious.
Nor am |, but somehow feel that the
flower ,rW lose its odor, and that"
My love will change, he said finishing
the sentence. Time will prove it Maud
Good-by, little darling. Study hard and
remember you are to grace a lawyers
home"
81 will try to be worthy Of the honor,
she gayly replied One last embrace, and
he crossed the bridge and disappeared in
the woods
Pressing the blossoms to her lips while
the hot tears fell upon the snowy petals,
the girl retraced her steps homeward.
Reaching the orchard gate, the brave little
heart filled to overhowing, and throwing
herself upon rustic bench (which George
had placed there for herr she gave way to
her sorrow-the greatest of her young
life He was really gone. His familiar
step and voice would greet her ear no
more for long weary months.
These early childhood SORROWS; how soon
they fade before the bright child nature,
leaving no grey hairs no lines upon brow
or cheek No tbs the troubles Of after
years. The contrast between those happy
childhood days and now that make the
face written page ere the pen Of time is
used. In how many hearts is the cry Of
the poet echoed.
Backward. turn backward. q time in your nght.
Make my child aga'n, just tor one night.
How many have sighed to feel the Low
ing pressure Of a mothers fingers; to hear
once again the gentle warning and admo-
milton.
In few weeks after George left home
Maud was carried to fashi Dnable board
ing school for youb- ladies' There she
was not allowed to correspond with any
gentleman, unless it were a brother or her
father This fact was made known TO her
bv one of the girls Ia former acquaintance
. 4 -. MAJ -, fha In
hours. That was blow she had not ex-
pected, and going in the parlor where her
father was. she told him her trouble
''Oh papa; Leila Mason says will not
be allowed to write to any gentleman but
You. What am ! to dor
'.Why, my daughter, whom do you wish
% write to-GeorgeE
''Of course, papa. Gou know | have
been writing to him ever since he left
home"
swell, | will speak to Mr. Leaton about
il. though don't think he will want to
break the rules of his school for one per
son. 1t might give offence To others, you !
know"
1t was Just rs Mr. Hinton expecteS.
'If break the rule for your daughter,
said Mr. Lsaton, II will have = do 1t Tor
Others. am sorry, but it can not be.
sir
Maud wept bitterly wAen her father told
her the result of his ,''nversatlon with Mr..
Leaton. aud wrose last long letter to
George. telling aim OF the stern decree,
which she SCR by her father.
Tbaschc,lterm was drawing to a close and
Maud st,ddied harder than ever to gain the
prizes Her father and mother and Mr..
and .,Irs Lyle all attended the commence
p,snt exercises. George had not yet re-
turned from college. The prizes Of all her
classes were awarded to Maud.
81 have never had pupil Of whose entire
department ! vas prOuder, said Mr. Lea
ton to Col. Hiiton, as he was preparing to
take Maud hone after the exercises were
over.
''I hope you will return her to us this
fall"
Certainly, il nothing happens to pre-
vent. | wish her education to be thor
ough, replied DOL Hinton.
GEORGE reachld home some two weeks
after Maud. Tie JOY of their meeting is
beyond descript tn.
''You are md Re beautiful than i ever
dreamed You tould be, Maud" said
George. 81 do not wish to fiatter you,
but you know it Is well as do"
And you are Improved, too, more than
have.
II tell you, Maud, said he, dropping
the subject, I'll ah going to give Mr. Lea
ton piece OF NM mind about not letting
us correspond. The letter you got your
father t. mail td me, and your picture,
and those letters written before you left
! home, were all had to remind me of my
| little darling. tell you | made some
hard wishes about young lady's boarding
schools, and Mr. Leatons in particular
And had thdtiowers you gave me the
day before you lef home. used to open
the box, that | kept them in, every day to
see If their oder vAs gone"
"And is it gone r.
''No, indeed hey are as fragrant now
as when you BROKE them from the bush.
wore jasmine hoters in my hair at our
commencement, because their odor re-
minds me so much Of the evening | walked
with you to the bridge. 1 don't think !
will ever smell them without thinking of
that evening. Do veu remember how
heavy the air xas with their perfume r.
every well. !, too, like the jasmine
flowers, Tor they remind me Of you"
The vacation months passed quickly by.
and our young lovers were again at school.
We will drop the story Of their lives,
and take it up again four years later, when
Maud has graduated, received her diploma
and is again at home, and Gesrge is still
at college, with one more sessfSn before
he can apply for admittance to We bar.
As soon as Maud left school they rcs,med
,heir correspondence. George was in. A.
tient for his school days to be over, am /.
insisted that their marriage should be
consummated as soon as he graduated.