The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-05-31


fRov few who from their youthful day,
| Look on what their life may be; -
Painting the Visions OF tho wsy
szes. ae= =hess s:.s,: :,s.i.s - i.se..sh.
Abe hops and dTesms Of early tkosghtI 5.s
For God. through -ways they h.syo not
win lead his own"
A knock at the door interrupts her
Ieyefis. To Mellieis ',Came in," enters
ninah'a comely black sisage with,
rPiease, Miss, there's q gentleman In the
patlor TO SEQ you"
That Mr. Beody I suppose" says
Mollis to herself With Sigh. To Dinah,
VERY veil, Dinsi. ! Will bs down
presently"
Mr. Boody was missionary recently
arrived from Indis, la purspit Of sue
cessor to the second Mrs, Boody. To
facilitate such preiseworthy designs, he
bad been introduced 10 the whcle senior
class, had become, in O measure, domes-
aeatsd @ Ct the !nstitate. From tbs frst
be had felt % strong T leading Of the % spiS;i
in her direction. This leading had man
ifestad itself In desires for frequent con.
veraatioDs with Sister Brown on her
| spiritual condition, In prolonged deten.
ton of Slater Browns hand Oh all occa-
aions Of arrival and departure, and In
various other ways equally disagrecable
TO the recipient. This offering Of love
that was not love, seemed to Mollie a
cruel nockery in the iates. at least,
| she might have had peace, when that was
all sEo asked now. 30 her descant TO Che
psrlor was marked by anything but fiery
limpatience.
She opened The door with sri sir of
weary indifference, lifted her eyes Ian.
guidly to meet the oyster-like orbs of Mr.
Boody, gave great start, flushed Grim
aon, turned pale, gasped, "Why, Dick I"
For this tall, manly man, with the big
tawny beard and brown face, holding her
two hands in bis as il he would never let
them go again, and gazing down az her
With the old glow in his eyes was really
Dick, the veritable Dick. Coming on to
Washington on territorial bussness, he
had stopped at Elincr's, in Chicaa
Eiinor, after some judioious sounding of
Dicks feelings, hsd given him sufa-
ciont hint as: to the probable state of
I Mollio's mind, TO encourage his calling
at Wilmington,
I But Mollio, Of course, knew nothing of
this. 6esides, after the first surprise was
over, all the possibility Of change in those
hye year9 Of separation loaned up be-
tween them, casting certain constraiut
over both. And, by the perversity OF
the, fate9, Miss Smith, another of the
teachers, was also receiving visitor in
| the parlor.
So Mollio fell to calling him Mr.. Be-
man, and talking ahout the weather. A
listener might have supposed the one alb
s0rbing interest in the life of each had
been tho state of the thermometer, and
that Dick had travelled two thousand
miles principally to startle Miss Brown
with THE striking obeervatien. "Al-
though the summer had been cool,
think We shall have mild, open win
4 ter.1 - 80
| To which Miss Brown sparklingly re-
Ispopded:
eve are certainly having o delightful
| September"
Then 0 dead pause.
Finally Dick, feeling that although
Miss Smith might be the worthiest of
young women, yet his was one of the &c.
casions when ne could bear to deprive
himself Of her society for a while. was
is,dGuuiy ssizua with y desiro 10 SEP tii,s
heentjea Of Wilmington, and proposed a
walk. e9S'
The walk of WalkH In Wilmington is ND
1.-THE trandywine. A broad, level path,
4 raised up between the red waters OF the
Brandgwine on one side, and on the
other q deep. dark, fern. .ssinged moat
that proeaic people wonld scan q canal.
/ suppose, follows the rivers Riudinpa a
fmile OR tW5. Over it meet larpe. 'oId
ttfees. whose jnterlnced branches make it
one continued alcove. It looks like pic-
tpres Of wallis in Oxford, England only
wider, and more retired.
1 Thn mellow afternoon, when the sky
Looked all the bluer, perhaps: because
the trees were BEGINNING! 70 be alightIy
tnged with yellow, and when the s.zing
IcFick5ts wefo esagihg the iirge Of bam.
naer gone, dcWn this path HloWlY styollsd
tG couple, deep In tender converge, utterly
! obliviona' OF all the beauties aFonnd them.
I For Dick had managed to blnEaef out
Esomething about hia long loyefor Mollie,
and how - thought abe was engaged 10
EDawless, and how he tried 20 get over, il.
and .corldn't, and could nhe care for 4
rough old fellow like hinf
And Mollie had cried little. After
one has nlade up th6ir mind to O bleak
| life OF self denial and single blessedness.
TO stumble right into bliss, 10 bewilderine
TO say the least. But then she had cried
on Dick'B shoulder, with his arm, the
strong arm thss would shelter her forever
| more, around her, which made It rather
comfortable distress, after all. 30 the
t4isundeTstandings and perplexities we're
iall over, arG .wo hearts formed for each
tofher ha1 !.~'.a their own at last.
L About Thanksglving time, there waB
quiet wedding at Elin0f's, ami then Dick
and Mollis went out 10 add aone more To
the Now England homes fr. e sae far West. |
| Perhaps thdy were all the thappie. that
| time and he1d expee-i5ii1iss had inatured
and developed their characters, that ab.l
ssnce had tried end strengthened their
love, had taught them now 60 value each
osaer. Perhaps things always ore "forI
"A eufgeon had occasion, lately, TO
prescribe o couple OF. pills for an Iffah-
man.. which were ssnt home in 8 slanll !
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