Connecticut western news., 1877-08-10
Love or Pride 2
CHAPTER I.

-oocOming inolsbeacC, ana the moon wa slowly rising in the heavens. y -..!After a while the twillgRt deepenet into as much of darkness as there would be in the summer night, and silence fell upon the earth. Then girl stol, noiselessly across asmall garden, ant stood beside gate that led into the ad joining churchyard. Ayew tree spread it's dark branches above her, but the sil yer tints that were slanting down upor the tall grave-stones, and bringing ou the delicate lines of the old churcl spires, touched also her white face making it winter than usual. She die notssart as atall figure approached from the further side of the churchyard. Sh, had evidently been expecting some ont and when she heard the words: "Yor are out late, Miss Jervis," she quietly answered:
 s'I was.waiting for you; wanted tc say goodbye to you before you went away"
 'I thought you had done that already" replied the young man. with some bitterness.
 ''Not quite,' returned the girl, wearily. ''You were too angry for me to say 1t as wished.' .a. .t
 ''Had I not right to be soP'' he asked. "Ever since have been at Shelford you have been deceiving me. l believed you to be as earnest as was myself, and now"
 He paused. ---a
 %And now ?" azHsE < .
 Her voice had a sharp ring in it, as she repeated his words, as though she would give denial to what he had said, but her face looked like stone in the moonlight, white and immovable, and she continued:
 ''I did not understand that you could really be in earnest, otherwise 1 might have told you before what have, told you to-day" -,..s ...
 "You did not believe in me-you looked upon me as heartless-as a de- ceiver. You do not believe in me now."
 s'I do."
 "What do you believe?" he asked, impetuously. tNothing good, or you would not have given me the answer you have given me-"
 .EYerything good, except the know ing what is good for yourself. l want you now to say good bye to me without any anger in your heart. The day will come when you will perhaps bless me for what have had courage to do to- day." s k
 And she held out her hand. a ,-
 The young en@ hesitated. a5s- -ss- .-
 els there no yhope2" ~ =~ ---
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 Her voice rang low and clear through the summer air. Again he hesitated, thenlsuddenly taking both hands in his, he bent down and kissed her for the first time. Sf'-+- ...-
 She gave faint cry, and disengaged herself.
 "We part in peace" "
 And with these words she turned and fled, not looking back or perhaps she might have repeRted her decision.
 Once in the house she sat down in the empty sitting-room, made light as day by the moonbeams. The old dog rose as she came in, and when she threw her selfinto.a a chair he laid his head in her lap.
 There came sound of clattering plates in the kitchen on the opposite side of the narrow passage, and her mothers voice sounded sharply, giving her directions about supper. ~ .-
 
 Presently she entered. M .
 "Where have you been, Ally? How i'll you look! and you're all shivering. Come into the kitchen, child; Annie's gone off to bed, and there's bit of fire in the grate. It might be winter instead of midsummer, to feel your hands,"
 Alice rose mechanically. She walked dreamily into the little kitchen, where her mother drew chair to the fire for her.
 Presently, ruddy, good-humored looking youth entered, saying: a
 "Let me have my supper here, mother: the fire looks pleasant though it is summer time."
 When she went to her own room, in. stead of undressing, she opened the window and gazed out toward the yew tree under which she had parted with MT. Scrope, and then suddenly un- twisting her long hair, she turned to the looking glass, not with any feeling of vanity, but in order to find " hat had attracted him. It was more than handsome face that answered back her gaze, one which showed an amount of earnestness and intelligence not often met with. Of this she was no judge herself, neither of the continual change of expression which MT. Scrope had begun by curiousIy ob- serving, and ended by being thoroughly interested in. He was passing the long vacation at Shelford, reading and fish ing, and had made the acquaintance of William Jervis on the banks of the river, and. through him, whom it was a condescension on the part of MT. Scrope to notice, of Alice herself. -.,
 Alice perhaps understood the footing on which they stood better than her brother, and the innate pride in her nature caused her to accept 1t with fe. servations. She felt the gulf between them and measured it by the worlds standard. Therefore, when Mr. Scrope made his somewhat startling offer. she,