The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-10-10

AFCu iuOiAIF0SSs auO tue OUJeCL Oh b0at
blind worship was Nina. And yet,
the girl seemed absolutely free from
petty vanity. The pIentitude OF
her charms, and the number of her
worshipers seemed to render both
worthless in her eyes. In a certain
way she was spoiled by the life she
led; she was fond of command, and
terribly proud, with hint of hidden
fire in her brown eyes that BODIED i'll
for those who aroused it. It seemed
such natural thing for people to be
charmed with her during little
speeches. that she forgot they were
sometimes sharp-pointed and cut
like knife. Yet she had so many
winsome ways and looked so archIy
pretty in her wickedness that peo-
pie generally forgave her daring.
Men adored her. and she tyranized
over them in a way that would have
been insuferable from a homely wo.
man. or a more consistent. L am
afraid she did not care very much
for her own sex, this brown eyed
Gree, who was floating with such
rhythmic motion in Rex Aylmer's
arms to the dreamv "Blue Danube
But she had never known mothers
love, poor thing besides, if she gave
little love, she got little in return /;
so there was no injustice done on
either side. There are some beauti- |
ful women who are heartily admired !
and loved by their own sex, but
they are usually of the ''faultlessly |
faultIess, icily regular. splendidIy |
nulI' type, while Nina LIE Compte
ruled as much by wonderful mag
netie presence as by physical beau
ty.
Yet she was beautiful, and as he
looked down upon her Rex Aylmer
could have bowed down and wor-
shipped that beauty, but never
dreaming that he had looked into
those brown, brown eyes before.
She had not forgotten that four years
ago they had wandered together
through the green meadows-Rex
Aylmer and the girl, Nina Beaufort.
Tonight they met again. as strang-
ers meet; what strange fate had
brought them together? -Four years
ago he ha6 been charmed for awhile
with Nina's girlish prettiness and in-
nocent trust; had whispered to her
words that no loving woman can
ever forget; had promised to love
her always, giving the promise as he
would have tossed a box of t'bon
bons'' to a pretty child that pleased
him, little dreaming of what, to her.
might be its full significance. And
Nina? she had lavished upon him
the first sweet love-gift of her warm
youth-and in her heart had reared
3 throne, whereupon sat Rex
Aylmer, love-crowned and sceptred.
A few happy, golden summer days
a few dreamful, fower-scented sum-
mer evenings, and be had gone away
to his distant city home He had
gone away to forget-she was left
behind to remember and to suffer.
1t was the old, old story. Her
image faded from his heart as the
flowers she had given him at parting
in his gay worldly life the
little Nina was forgotten, or if re-
it was only as pretty
child he had .petted through few
lazy summer days. Yet, he was not
a bad man; he only measured her
heart by his own, and never dream
ed Of the pain he was to give to the
proud, loving girl. 1t WAS hard for l.
Nina to give up this first sweet
dream Of love. but as the months
went drearily by and brought no It'd
ings of Rex, she began TO realize
that while the great deep of her own
heart had been stirred, this man had
Only looked upon her as q child.
giving pastime for an idle hour.
It was cruel lesson for girl to
learn, and especially so to one of
Nina's proud nature. BY and by
she began to hate this man who had
stolen the sweetest of her youth
away, and i'm her heart she vowed
that should they ever meet again
Rex Aylmer would bitterly rue the
day he left her to forget. She would
have revenge for the little wrong he
had done her. cost what it might.
And now they had met,-the king
" face had come into her life again
she told herself that she hated him;
yet tonight when she heard his
voice. felt his arm about her in the
waltz, something Of the o Id Witchery
was stealing over her, and she saw
again The Rex OF those summer
days. It was so sweet to know him
near her again; she wanted him SO
longl For q few mad moments she
abandoned herself to the dream.
.'to-morrow I will have my
revenge
il The waltz ended. Flushed and
vsort;y,~ Mia &c ,,,s h.,l- e. ~aal l;eo