Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-02-05


adding intensity to it. eff / were you, Lide
Halstead, 1 would not talk nonsense! At
any rate, have no patience to waste in lis,
tening to you utter it! Verify, your aesthetic
soul drives you into extreme measures! If
foot kicks you, because it is handsome, is that
any just reason why you should turn round,
and 20 down on your knees and kiss it p
"Probably it is Il just reason" answered
Lide, lightly, not wishing to prolong the dis
cussion of an unpleasant subject; 81 am, as
you frequently assert, very foolish kind OF
person. yield the palm, without question,
to you for strong. .mindedncss, and superiority
of wisdom"
"Many thanks" retortcd the elder speaker ;
"I will wear it, but don't think blame you
for your Stiffness VIC can't all be alike in this
world"
"It would be great misfortune five could !"
intcrposed Clarence, heartily; "One thing is
certain, would not care to see Miss Halstead
different from what she is! She is gifted with
generosity and feeling and she is to be hon
ored for these rich possessions, rather than
condemned"
"Oh you cannot start a controversy with
me on that subject. I shall not deny single
fact you utter! !" said Mrs. Park Brentz,
with a little good-humored laugh, as if sud-
denly called on to avow the truth Glide is a
darling little thing and just as amiable as
saintw
"No, no, dear madam; you are going again
into extremes! I am only sincere and jus" i"
answered Lide, modestly, while rose flush
mantled her pale features, and her soft eyes
were downcast in embarrassment.
Mrs. Park Brentz nodded her head aud
laughed again, conveying, by her gesture and
expression, that she did not believe there was
any one half so charming, clever and good, as
Lide Halstead, and that what she believed, if
she had the power, she would force as convic'
ton upon every other person in the world.
Lde certainly was very lovely! Clarence
Gadbury, as he sat opposite her, gazing half
musingly at her, could not help admitting the
fact. The head, though gracefully set on her
shoulders, was not so fine a head in its confor-
nation as that of Cecilia though the hair upon
it was richer and brighter, silkier and finer !;
the eyes, notwithstanding the fact that they
were blue as the heavens, were not full of SEN
sibility as Cecilia Fessenden's gray ones !;
neither was her nose more perfectly chiscled,
nor her mouth more sweety formed than the
charming features belonging to Cecilia.
The truth is, both Of these women were ex-
tremely lovely, and very much the same type
of feminine beauty. The difference consisted
in the mind. Cecilia was brilliant; she shone
like the sun. She dazzed all beholders with
the lustre of her presence Lide was like the
moon; she beamed upon all with mild,
chastened and hallowed light that pleased,
vet calmed every beholder.
The more Clarence Gadbury looked at Lde
Halstcad, the more he seemed to like looking
at her. His heart was wounded and bleeding
and the sight of her gentle, exquisite counte-
nance soothed his pain, and his ruflcd temper
naturally composed itself in her presence
He had not shadow Of finclination to fall in
love with Lide; that we're an impossibility
while he was thinking so much of Cecilia
No living woman could have had the power,
Just then, to thrust the lovely image Of Cecilia
from his breast. His love was not dream !;
it was an intense and passionate reality that
had possessed him, and from whose enchant-
ing tolls he could never again be released
Clarence Gadbury had his faults; but in.
coustancy was certainly not numbered among
them. He was jealous have seen that
terribly, bitterly jealous; and that weakness
now filled him with score Of agonizing tor
mens. He strove to conquer this emotion.
He tried his best TO argue himself out Of it !;
but his endeavora failed. Such endeavors al
ways do; for where the spirit of jealousy once
possesses heart, it holds it forever bound in
its calling chains.
Once again, before the young Kentuckian
took his leave of the inmates of the villa,
Mrs. Park Brentz took good care to bring up
the name of Cecilia Fessenden, in conversing
with friend, taking note that Gadbury
caught every word she uttered. Her hints
were many and malicious He was talking
to Lide IIalstead at the time, and the young
girls cheeks flushed to hear the indelicatc and
unwomanly alusions made by Mrs. Brentz,
while Gadbury's eyes flashed with fierce and
angry light. But he said nothing in reply.
He merely shrugged his shoulders His pre-
tended calmncss was too apparent, and his
/ eyebrows were elevated little--a mere
shade. But under that composed exterior
there was a terrible commotion going on; and
had he followed the impulse of his rage, he
would have seized Mrs. Park Brentz and
shaken the breath out of her ugly, decrepit
little body, and have conscienciously believed
he had dealt with her according to her de-
servings.
Mrs. Park Brentz Ead certainly succeeded
in one undertaking; she had made the young
kentuckian very unhappy-frst, by instilling
! jealousy into his blood and into his brain /;
and altcrward, by her other ungencrous allu-
sons, thereby reaching the point at which she
had aimed.
Lide looked very grave, when their visitors
had all departed; for Mrs. Park Brentz's
course had not met with her approval. She
could plainly see, too, that it had displeased
! Clarence Gadbury. She had heard that he
admired Cecilia Fessenden; but she was not
aware that his admiration went beyond that
which her talents and her lovelness had