The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-04-21
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r. evening Of that burning July
80 cat in her bedroom and
ont upon the moonlight heius,
,Io. che he'd been living oae or two
oo~.n-;es in this world, aud ali the
,ime dreaming golden dreams oil
only to find them sh'yerea
10 atoms at the last 49,
For Elihu had come. Ana tuc
limo and the manner Of his coming
were SO unlocked for and so uneA-
nected 10 her, as well as to every
else that the girl sat there 10 INC
moonlight saving to herself ne
here. I need never watch OF "al1
for him again. In the next champer
- mine he is sleeping-that Is II be
can sleep, poor Eiihu'
The earliest stories she could re-
,,or,ber had been told to her by her
r.o,ber about cousin Elihu" and
he eaormous fortune be bad made
down South" at q time when Tor
\ could vet be made in that IN
bappy land. She bad heard fabulous
,oies az the palace in which be lived,
Of the negro slaves who few to do
his bidding, Of the beautiful carriages
and horses that bore him from place
"a Mace. and Of the jewels, the silks,
satips and y~elyets that the fortunate
woman would possess who would one
day become Elihu's bride.
Other girls had heard these stories
also and the belle of the school at
Uolmesdale often said that, when she
was sixteen, she could ego travelling, ,
and find her wav down south, aud
oset her cap" for Elihu Holmes.
That the result would follow for
which she looked, 10 girl among them
al doubted. for even "tbe master ;
s,crp face softened and smiled upon
Rosanpa Meadows, when she shock
back her golden curls and lifted her
large blue ewes. with a blush, to his
Poor Rosanna. Sara leaned her
check on her hand, and looked over
the hill top toward the village grave
ward. where the village beauty wa;
now LAYING. with her blue eyes clos
ed. her golden ringlets smootheI
back from her white brow, and be-
hands clasped in an uncarthly que
on her breast. Eiihu bad neve
known how her girlish heart wen
out toward him. And now Elih'
had come homel
4 Sara Holmes grew up, and de
veloped from the tall angular girl 10
TO the queenly and self possessed
Young woman, the thought would
sometimes occur 10 her, as she stood
before the mirror braiding her hair
'If he should come back, would be
think me pretty, now that Bosanna
is gone ?n The broad, low brow.
the oval cheeks and dimpled chin
answered: the healthful color, the
deep. dark ey es, the sudden, bright
bewildering smile, said, Yes" For
here was now a higher beauty than
R|osanna's pink-and-white loneliness
had ever been. and the treasures OF
her mind and heart might well have
won an older and wiser man to love
her lcng before Elibu came home.
And now she drew q long breath
and set herself to recall all the incl
dents Of that sudden and startling
return.
Tea was over-the milk VAS strain
ed-and they were ell sitting on th'
front piazza, under the shade of th'
maples and %locusts, while her fathe
read bits from the weekly pape
aloud. Her step-mother was kni
ting: her sister Grace was lining
hat. and her brother Ben vas VIII
ding out a toy boat from a bit {
wood. while she Sara, sat beside bin
and held bis tools as be needed then
and lost herself in a reverie abou
u hero in the sontb.
A carriage drove up the viilag
read and halted at their gate. tn
driver descended to his seatand becI
oned to her father, who hurried dow
20 the gate to meet him. After tall
ing for some time together, a sma
trunk was lifted down and left besiC
the gate. Then the ~carriage-do'
was opened and a tall figure descent
cd. aud. directly after, Ben, who ha
followed his father in a fit Of boyis
curiosity, galloped back with distenI
ed eyes, whispering loudly:
"Mother-girlsl Cousin Elihu hi
come! And be has lost every cent
his property down south, | bear
the driver tell father So Aud the
have sent him or up here, alone, b
cause they thought he was going
he sick; and there be is, you Sc
leaning on father and the driver, al
he can't but just walk. Isn't it
blamed shame Of these southeners
Mercy exclaimed Ben's ste
mother, rising, as they all rose, whC
the tall, slender figure approached.
Sara looked up with her heart
her ewes, to greet cur hero-no lie
a hero to her for the pitiiul history
loss and ruin she had just heard
lie was a tall, upright, elegar
looking man, with o fair compleXiO
large, melancholy blue eyes, a lOr
straight nose, dropping eyebrow
fine lips, and a firmly rounded chi
that somewhat c~ounteracted the lii
less sadness Of the face. His BIZ
was turning gray, and the heav
golden brown ,moustache had sol
one or two threads of silver, 3
with that exception be wore no 10
of age.
Elihu was well but plainly dress
in O travelling suit of gray. He
moved his hat as be drew near I
ladies, with a courteous grace /
ne looked in vain for the warm W
come from the second Mrs. Holm
and her daughter Grace bat
would have received from his o.
cousin had she been alive.
Mrs. Holmes bowed to him cole
though civilly and Grace, an2
with him and with herself for
sudden collapsing of sundry am
tious hopes whish she had never C
fded to anyone except her moth
swept him her latest dancing-sch
courtesy. and affected not 10 see
hand he held out
Elihu colored slightly, and turn
10 Sara, whose large dark eyes We
fixed with a leok Of tender pity up
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