Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-06-03

ing with yourself? I wanted you, and could
not find you anywhere"
81 have been in Edna's ROOM"
"Oh have you? Then I know she has
been talking to you about her letter."
EYES, she has. Oh! Jennie, you were right
after all p
"Not exactly, but it was from her lover
her former lover, at least"
"Only her former lover p said Jennie in
disappointed tone. "That atspoils everything"
"Indeed, it does not wait until you hear
ALL" And without farther preface, Claribel
proceeded to unfold her tale. Jeanette, Of
course, listened with profound interest; for
when does girl of nineteen not find love-
story interesting?
"And so guessed right! Never say that
I am not true prophtess again. Only think
of Edna going to be married 1t does seem
funny"
"But that is not settled, by any means,
Jennie"
"Oh! we'll, it will be- Of course, they will
be married-and soon, too, most likely. How
nice for Edna not to be an old maid after all
I really thought she was going to be one'
didn't you p
eyes but if she leaves US we will miss her
dreadfully, Jennie"
"Of course we will you will, particularly,
because you are her pet. But people must
get married, I suppose. Dolly will be the
next. 1t would be fun if there could be
double-wedding."
"Rather premature arrangement, consid-
ing that neither of them are engaged yet,"
said Claribel, laughing.
II think I remember Mr.. Thornton" said
Jennie, musingly. "A tall man, with dark
eyes; of course it is only vague remembrance,
I was so little then. I wonder if he'll make
a nice brother.in-law. What would we have
to call him?"
"Hugh, I suppose"
"Or brother Hugh; that would sound
more atfectionate. I wonder how old he is"
"Not more than thirty.fve, I fancy; Edna
did not say. Oh yes, I recollect now; she
did say he was twenty-five when his aunt fell
sick, twelve years ago. That makes him
thirty-aeven."
"And she is nearly thirty.one; that's a
difference. But it did seem to me that Edna
was cut out for an old maid"
edna is transformed by this letter. When
she was talking to me she looked just as young
and pretty as possible-not but what she is
always pretty, of course but she is generally
quiet and serious, and just now she fairly
sparkled! You would hardly have known
her."
"Poor, dear Edna," said Jennie, meditative-
ly. Why she should pity Edna she could not
J we'll have explained to herself But young
girls, not yet out of their teens, are apt to
have sort of underlined compassion for their
/ elder sisters, who have passed the mature age
of thirty without escaping from the state OF
e.blessedness. And it is difficult for a
woman of thirty to feel young, if there be half
dozen Junior sisters in the house to Haunt
their youthfulness forever in her face, and
revel, though it be unconsciously, in the su-
perior freshness of their own charms. Ed
, monia looked young, but there was nothing
girlish about her; the responsibility which
she had borne so long had added to her nat
, ural society, and made her appear much older
! than she really was, so that it was not much.
wonder if to the volatile Jennie there appear
, ed to be an immense distance between them.
There had been an unseen listener to this
; dialogue, who now crept quietly away to her
, own room to ponder on what she had heard.
!, Virgilia, sitting in the front parlor near the
open window, had, unknown to the two girls,
shared in the information Claribel had i'm
parted. AS soon as she had gained the re-
tirement of her chamber, she locked her door,
and with clenched hands, and frowning brow,
commenced to pace rapidly up and down.
"It is always the way" she burst forth,
vehemently. II am fool to care, or to ex-
pect anything else. 1t is always Clarie,
Clarie, before every one! Claribel, who does
not feel one tenth of the love for her that l
do, must be the recipient of her secrets; she
must coufide her dearest hopes, her most sa-
cred feelings, to her, while II am nowhere!
She forgets my very existence I, who would
lay down my life for her! Yes, would suf-
fer anything to save her from pain. But
from child I felt that she never cared for
me-not as I would have her care. Why
should Clare have so much of her affection ?
She does not deserve it. She does not care
quarter as much for Edna as she does for
Jeanette and yet Jennie cannot compare
with Edna in any particular--no, not in one'
To hear those two talking about this as if it
we're some commonplace affair-as if Edna
were some commonplace person-it made my
blood boil All if she had told me-! 1fshe
had come to me for sympathy But no, she
does not want my sympathy; she wants
Clarie's-Clairie must know all about it be-
fore any one else. All shall hate Clarie-
yes, feel that I shall hate her before long,
if she is always preferred to me-"
And then in passion of mingled jealousy,
rage and selfreproach, Virgilia cast herself
upon the bed and broke into storm of weep
ing. Long did she remain in solitude, COM
muning bitterly with her own yearning, rebel
lious heart; but no one missed her, or asked
for her, for they all supposed her busy with
her books.
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