Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1876-09-27
4 Love Chase.

| will no: begin At the beginning ana
describe how, in my boyl>h days, l sport
ed with Miss Cillv Bu>sc. l will not
describe how we used to romp together,
90 to dancing school together. and rcclp- |
rocatc all those little innocent endearmentS
usual between children OF nearly the same
age and opposite sexes.
When had Just left college, and not yet
recovered my plying dismav At the Shall
regard in which the world in general paid
to classics, moral philosophy and mctaphys-
les when the first faint visions of nous
tachc came over nv minl. and daily cx
amncd with Solicitude the soft down OF
my upper lip: when | enjoyed the novel
excitement, and knew nothing of the aSon-
les of shaving: when my watch chain dld
not hang in sublime independence tar In
front of my lc-s; in those happy days l
renewed my intimacy with Miss Oily
BuS>e.
Her mothor and elder sister kept small
rirl's school, in which Miss Clllv was 4
sort Of supernumcrary, that Is, She attend
ed to the warlrobrs, general department,
and occasionally the moral principles OF
the pupils, and took any class which nap
pened t. be without regular instruction.
By degrees. began to regard the grim
I
with very friend V feelings.
| TO those who approached it in the morn
! inr with books in hand, and Il fearful
wrirht of unlearned lessons on their
minds, it seemed to cause a chill. like the
first aspect of Il dungeon; but to me the
DUH brick walls appeared to lnclo>e a gar
dem of Ar.,lemu-. No wonder that
wen, there often. There would find Miss
Uormoni:, Bussc engaged in the peruSal
of some formidable treatise on education
fDf cnur>e | never disturbed her. There
vn,Iid be Mrs. Busse, reading some tcarfu
RELIGIOUS work. by whose means she coult
satisfactorily disturb the minds OF all hel
friends and relatives. | never tried to dis
tract hey mind from so agreeable an occu
n,ti,n. But there would be Cilly, sitting
in a deep window seat that would Just hol'
two and looking swcetly with her llttl
: feet tucked under her, and her soft It'll
hands engaged in some inscrutablc pee
of feminine employment. 1t was but nat
: ural that | should take the other half c
the window. and that, so cut OH iron
Z every body else, we should grow extreme
lv confidential. We used to talk abou
: ,vcrvthino - about poetry. about on
/ n.iohbors, about flowers, and the las
: niece of scandal; about the stars and abor
: ourselves. enjoyed the conversations e'
ceedinoly. Sometimes we were lett alon
t. in the room. but that used to make no dl
ference. until one evening, when the co
loouy took Il turn which startled,1dlsmay
ca and confounded me. l believe we wei
TALKING about the stars; Miss Cllly w;
< sneakjnc as she generally did. She pom
e ed out to my admiring gaze the evenm
r. star-thc star of love. From thence
G lioresscd to the affections MISS ClllV
At ideas af love were OF the loftest cilaracte
O She could surrender all, endure all, accon
J. nlish all things, for the object of her low
= IF loved. she desired no other bliss;
al ccorned. she sighed out that she wou
to carry her love to the grave one khe
l. that she could never love more than OF
le her first love would be her last. 81
III could not believe in the posslblli'y Oh al
10 other marriage than one OF a11ectlon-"
ur ey-poor dross, what was 1t that IL siiou
ed take the place OF the only thing wh ,H
as could render existence happy? 1he
ed IDEAS were not precisely original, but 1
,c. inc very earnestly and tenderly, expire:
ed they touched me extremely Ii
Miss Cillv began to be inquisltlve as 10
experience in the tender passion. one
:. sisted that | had been IN love ana was q. i.
~ le tcrmined to know the object OF my ah'
~ tions. Being Il nervous ana oasillui ui'
~ ~, the state to which "a quarter OF an noo
l. ;, cross-examination reduced me c'n' T.
e., haps, be imasined-l know OF no VII
>Du D who could depict it. Alter having oo1'
~ ~! ed thorough aud complete lnfor'na'loii
o'S to the substance of every conVeioatio
:, had with any young woman IN % ,ne W
during the last month, Miss oh'y '''