The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-02-18
A sHAroWY LOVE-; AND HOW
IT PROVED REAL.

L was much too ac!y for The train,
yet 1t occurred TO me thnt there had
been NJ Least / tJ-eiRht hours in the
day, n rs | neared the station was
sure that my watch was slow, ond hur-
lied OF last. 81 il happened that now ]
found myself, heated anl out OF
breath setting down my valise before
the stii! closed ticket. office, and the
great round clock boldly asserting the
hour TO be 10. The train didn't leave
till IL. / aaf down on my valigo op,
to'te the clock, and taking from
my breast pockot u note, occupied my
self with reading il mud thinking il
over. ] viii not be rash enough to say
how many times | mad read it before.
nor how many interpretations | had put
upln it's ample words. M
. Your letter came to mo yesterday.
My OILY s'irprise wa. that il found me
unable to give Won IN answer. Whit
shall | say Perhaps fac to face the
difficulty would seem less. | do not
understand myself. Can yo, have
patience with nae and forgive me If in
The end ] hurt who has been my
true friend 2"
That IVES all. Tdere WAS no begin.
f., ming or end, no signature. There was
nrush OF people, and | was half con-
q scIous OF being dragged and s~honldered
and pushed into n car while | held a
ticket IN ono hand and nay yaliso in the
other. Tnere was an empty seat near
the window, toward which q wei2hty
Old lady in spetGclce and Il green veil
drove me, aud occupied it with mo.
The even beat of the moving cars seemed
saying the words Of the note over aud
over, choppinp them mp, and changing
the pronunciation. The on tOpy OF
this had Il soothing effect upon my ex
cited nerves, and for tho first time since
the Rriti1P OF the letter whiol, had
brought this note in answer to me ! was
able to look back upon the whole story
OF my love.
Qaite ~ il it woro @ tale in n book,
began st the time when | accepted Mr..
D-iancc7'a Invitation to his country
sea, Tor a tortpigtt'a tlout. fishing as Il
recreation and rest from my scientific
studies before | went abroad. L don't
know what relation Mr.. DrlGncey's late
wife had been TO me. 1t was one OF
those dlstracting problem, Of geneelo2y
chiefly concerning great. grandmothsrs;
but eho bad always treated me as a
cousin, which, as she was a very charm.
ing woman, was pleasing to me. II was
u little dull without her there, for mine
host was not an intellectual man, and
very WORLDLY, and Julia, his only child,
was but fifteen, innocent, ignorant,
pretty, but too plump, She used to
accompany me sometimes when ]
fished but was too shy to talk. Her
chef powers seemed to lie in walking,
so thit really ] had Thought very little
about her till one day when found
nor crtiD6 and Inquired the Gauss OF
her misery. .r.G. '.u.
Papa is going to make me marry
thai silly, ugly MIR. Norris, md 20 away
with him 90 his big town hots6."A
What for ~ lHI ."
81 don't know" f
"Does he 1--we ycu?'
She dried her tears, locked up at me,
then blushihg, laughed and covered her
face with her plump hands: 81 sop
pose he does"
, And you don't like him in spite of
his fine town, houae?'
She didn't answer, but ran away.
Poor child II was evident shat the.
going to the "great town house. con
veyed far more terror t. her mind than
marrying her rich suitqr.
In an Interview an hour later with
Mr.. Delaney / found that he wa. in
some money difficulty, and this offer of
rrnrringe'from Norris seemed TO him too
good to be LOST. He put it very 1clg
catcly, as Il gentleman of his breeding
sEonld, and alter n moment of silence,
during wilch ! mtntered my indigne.
ton enough to cover il, | offered him a
loan, which should assist him ut this
trying moment more securely than the
possible generosity of a future son.in.
Law. ..U. .
As va went in to dinner, Julia whis.
pered to me: cts all right. Papa's
10 good y .
II nm very gla]," I said, and was
amused to see the yittuous complaoency
s:papa during dinner.
Three years later, when / was living
IN my very loftily situated apartments
III Paris, there came "a leittr to me from
jana. Her father was very i'll. His
papers having been pui in order by a
lawyer. abe assisted in tho filing, etc,
%. she had Tor abe first time discovered
her obligation TO me, and wrote to
thank ma "thus tardily," che said. /
was surprised and interested TO lind the
letter charminglv written, and that of a
cultivated wo nap. Ibegged in my m.
sgef that she wonld write again and tell
me Of her fathers health. And so We
Z entered into a correspondence that grew
to be very Intimate. 'EF
AIR. D~slancay fingered in an invalid
safe, falling AZ last info imbt cility {;
and II was a year after his death, when
my stntont life was completed, and ]
wa ready to return TO my country, after
an absenqe Of eight years, that | found
a strange excitement in the thought OF
seeing Julia {: q strange dread, too, lest
this mlgut be the end OF our friendship
If - deep sense of tho necessity that had
lroan III me- for the c~ompsuionship of
this n ind. The depth of hor Thought
surprised mo her spirituality elevated
ne; 1 learned from her while she was
unconscious Of it | consulted her on
serious rnGttcB; hof tastes aud intui.
q ton sea med 10 me iufallible and al
the Hhile she thought herself ia my
debt because ! recommended her To the
Ieadiag 81 a Few books, whose name.
she could Rave easily ionnt in sny Ii.
brary catalogue.
When landofi in New York late il
Jane, iindifg everybody cat Of town,