The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-08

church. Oh, the little church in the
west countrie, hid In the bowery orchard
hollow Oh, the sudden delicious gust
that Uttered the graves with blossoms
your mothers grave, Charley has
the dear woman the violets planted
there2 or did they die like the faith and
hope she set in me I fell in love with
Fanny Vale before knew her name: I
learned that from the farm house folk
with whom lodged. They told me,
moreover, that she was a young widow,
and still in weeds when she came to
lodge very humbly in the village six
months before that the Squire's wife
and daughter had taken fancy to her,
and had adopted her into their family.
as kind of reader and companion Of
all work. I made her acquaintance by
o note which I threw at her feet over q
hedge the first time spied her walking
| alone. need not swear to you that I
never had an evil wish or thought about
her. To me woman was q holy thing,
desecrated by no lowness of condition,
deserving of any gentleman's love and
reverence, if endowed with certain
| qualities. These qualities I now took
on trust, and, being enchanted by her
beauty, saw also the perfection of moral
loveEness in her face. Such an angelic
/
Squire's pew, beside her ugly patron
esses, with such intelligence in her
melancholy blue eye and fair half f-moon
of brow, such a breathing sensibility
in her silence and when I came to
know her, what sympathy in her smile,
what silken manners, SO soft, graceful,
caressing, yet modest and full of suave
dignity She did not answer my note
; but when went to the copse behind
Ringwood house, where had implored
her to meet me, she was there. She
came, she said, on1y to beg me to come,
and write no more. She was poor
/ falling on her would cast her homeless
; and friendless on the world. I will not
dwell on this stale love story it was
perfectly commonplace of its kind, ex-
, cept that the dupe was not, for once,
? the humble beauty, but the gentleman
) from London. She consented to be my
wife and at the summers end, without
| asking her a single question as to he1
past, without knowing more of it than
, the farm folk had volunteered to tell me
{ the first day saw her, brought this
! girl to London and married her. That's
. what came of being too good for this
! world, incapable of evil, or the compre-
hension of it. I had written to tell my
father of my intended marriage to q
| frankly confessed) perfectly obscure
/; and penniless young woman, that had
: of course, everything but position and
wealth to recommend her. / wrote 6
/ respectful letter which received bach
, in blank cover. Yet my heart yearne6
the glory and Joy of my fools paradise
/ emerged voluntarily, before the hon
: eymoon was over, to seek reconciliation
with my father.
i "When got to his door, he drove
| me away like beggar, like q strange
) dog, with his lifted stick, with his
mouth full of curses. This is the las
| ever saw of him. He died six months
t after, implacable.
] 'I hurried back to town, to be com
} forted by the angel in my house.
opened the door by latch-key. anc
[ went softly upstairs to surprise my
: wife. It was about in the afternoon
Our little drawing-room had folding
doors, which were now ajar. No one
8 was in the front room, but heard
, heard my wife's voice in the other.
heard her voice and a mans. had
! but 10 step forward. and I saw"
!, It was quite dark by this time, ant
) here the voice that had come out O.
Urquehart's black corner suddenly
"Don't go on" said I, much dis
/ tressed.
"Let me alone," gasped Urquehart
) In less than a minute he resumed,
: ct saw my wife with her arms round
! q mans neck. She was passionately
/ entreating him not to leave her he wal
! trying to release himself. The mex
: moment they saw me, and started apart
Then, instantly. my wife, that tender
angel, flung herself at me like wild
= cat. She did not scream, but through
z her shut teeth she said, IN kill you
2 III kill you, if you touch him 7 Hel
q q blue eyes glared much like yonder blut
. lightning tnat keeps flashing out there
and something glittered close to my
. face. She had snatched up her scis
9 sors and verify believe would hav.
Dug them into my temple if the man
. her lover, had not come and pulled
down her hand. She was going to fall
3 into his arms again, but he put he
= = from him, not very gently, and told he
: = TO sit down. She obeyed him instant
= ". I cannot in the least describe m,
state of mind all this time, which WA
+ only minute or two, suppose. M,
impression is that had ceased to feel
= that, If my brain and heart had beer
ecooped out, I could not have beer
3 emptier of emotion and thought that
= was not conscious of any vindictive rage
: or any transport of despair. Some PEG
= pie may think I ought to have Ecke,
= : that man downstairs. I neither die
3 so, nor felt any desire to hurt him.
was he who took the initiative, an,
!. made me g sign to go into the from
= room with him. which did. Then
: when i stood there face to face with him
= I said suddenly, and, as it were, invol
= unfairly: