Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1877-08-22

81 reckoned you mought want
somethin',' she said, with q slight
stammer aud a very deep blash.
With a promptness which showed
precocious experience in flirtations,
and with an air of benign confidence
which was wonderfully winning. he
stepped up to her and took both
her hands.
$50 ! did want something" he
said, laying his smooth young cheek
againstJhers. 81 wanted to see you,
my dear little pet.'
1t was the antique story of i'll.
matched making; it was the
thread bare European drama of the
peasant and the noble. This com.
mon.pIace, bali wild, truly low down
adventure wouid not be torth re-
iatiug did il not bring face to face
those two immemorial types OF hu.
mainly, the patrician and the plebe.
ian. In. our time it seems an an.
aChr0nlSn;- Oh the soil of rarRhlie
1t il an exotic, u mOnstrOSity and
Hth't tht fHttttNt vi oHt b"thttNt,
if it has any. This girl, who had
been made lowly hy the breath of
slavery, WAS so happy at receiving
Il few words of endearment from this
boy, who had been made grand by
slavery, that she could not speak.
"Do you know what pet is" he
asked with a smile, holding her ont
at arms length. \
"lis, | hcv a pet
'1tfhIt is it
"a pig; tame pig. She followed
me lalf mile t'other day.
lie could not help laughing ut her
rnsticity, and yet he thought it very
charming.
81 am luckicr than YOU" he said.
IL have much nicer pet than n
pig. Such a nice pet that want to
kiss it, -----
Luce did not turn away her cheek
and further than would make things
perfectly convenient TO this won
drous lover; and the frankness, the
whole heartedness, with which she
presently put mp her lips to his was,
to thoughtful eye, nothing less
than pitifui. Patrician as he was,
aud by birthriGht desp,ser OF low.
down people, he was stricken with
respect for her conii1ing simplicity,
and treated her with the chivalry of
youth.
- iood. bye, my dear child" he
said, loos;ng her hands; al shall sec
you often while l am here, and 1
shall never forget YOU
Then they walked OH tirtoe TO
tho door and parted, both uusatis-
fed with the interview. Oh, this
uHaPpeasablc hunger OF young
hearts for love, and Tor love, and
still more for love.
III. :
Parson Seymour soon discovered
that his pupil was n person of praise
worthy regular habits. May field
studied hard every morning, recitcd
admirably nsthc hour before dinner,
and took a walk every afternoon.
The parson admired hard students
and persons of regular habits. and
consequently he reported tavorably
OF the youth 10 the college Faculty.
Meantime Luce Raddle was at.
tanning to n much more thorough
knowledge of the rusticated ones
character without making any ne.
port thereof except TO that one con.
tidante whom every love loru female
must have. Every afternoon she
met him in pine grove near her
home, and thence stole with him
down the secluded course of the
Saluda to grove of oaks, curtained
i'll from the world by a close edging
Of underwood. There, seated on
the bank of the whispering little
river, with no spectator but a
wooded and uninhabited slope
rising from the opposite shore, they
passed the time which Mr.. Mayficid
was supposed to devote to walking
for his health. Was it altogether
spent in talking, laughing, and
throwing pebbles into the swift,
waterl Ah those were the DAYS
of holding hands and waists-days
which, as every ancient maiden lady
knows, have long since departed
days which the literature of ON
time cannot treat Of without hesita
ton.
In Justice to Luce it must be
stated that she did not prefer this
clandestine sort of courtship.
- "Why don't you come to ace me
thar at the house - she repeatedly