The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-08-07

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le the scene should transpire precise
IS as it did, if he had only known th
g she had caught sideways glimp'
$. OF his weary, dropping head an
D. her heart had given bound 4
d warm pity and penitence. hardI
think his fine face would have pale
Ir SO deathly white.
J. But he did not know. of course
/ And although the first effect of wha
n he naturally supposed to be her os
e tentatious cruelty was a sharpening
T of pain in his heart, and an intensi
e flying of the general wretchednes
Q that had taken possession of him
] the secondary effect was beneficial
9 for his manliness and pride were
: aroused, and he resolved that h'
3 could and would endure it, for all ht
would never care for any other wo
| man.
And he did not change his mind
while Addie, thorough woman thai
she was, did-because she missed
his coming to her more than she
dreamed she would-because, when
the time passed by which she had
given him to come back to her, and
he showed no signs of SO doing. she
was astonished and piqued; be.
cause, of all the beaux she had had,
she never so thoroughly enjoyed the
society of anyone as she had enjoy
ed BERTHE Forests society. There
had been about him the ring of the
true metal, and she missed him
more than she would, as yet, admit
to herself.
Mr.. Tremaine was devotedly at
tentive in those days, and people
thought that at last a match was
imminent. But Mr.. Tremaine could
have told how capricious Miss West
brook was, and how entirely un-
founded the voice of rumor was.
She began to fret inwardly over
Mr.. Forests stubborn withdrawal
of himself.
Glow can he be so cruel? He
knows [ meant nothing. 1 shall
positively hate him if he behaves SO
childishly angry any longer. 1 will
not trouble myself about him any
more-there !"
And for five days Miss Westbrook
kept her word, feeling in her heart
remarkably Indignant, and quite
conscious that she was keeping up
a bitterly fierce state of hostility.
The sixth day she happened to
meet him in the post office, for the
first time face to face since their
stormy parting.
He was a little paler than usual,
but just the same elegant, courteous
gentleman, as he raised his hat and
pronounced her name distinctly and |
quickly, but frigidly as ice itself.
She flushed somewhat, felt a little
flustered, but managed to return the
salutation as coldly as he gave it.
Then she went home and cried for
an hour or two, and came out from
the battle weakened.
"I'll capitulate. I can afford to.
I'll give him chance. and, of
course. he'll take the hint"
So she wrote him little note on
her monogrammed, French paper,
asking him if he would accompany
her and her sister. whose escort was
Frank Sydney, for ride that even
ing at seven O. clock.
And while the messenger was
gone she was in state of pleasant
exuitement, and even went to her
room to arrange her hair as Mr..
Forrest liked to see it.
The answer came, on a sheet of
business paper, with not even an
envelope around it. and it contained
IS few words as politeness required
o thank her for her invitation, and
elling her a previous engagement I
made it entirely impossible. {
And while Addie cried over the {
erse. awfully polite note, Mr.. For t
est was sternly re-reading hers.
"I'll never give her another chance {
0 make a fool of me-"
So the early winter days wore {
way. Christmas passed, and new t
ear came, but Mr.. Forrest never {
ame near her. and Addie began to t
row pale and dropping, and refused f
0 go out as often as before. a
''I'n not i'll, not bit," she insis- /
ed, and in her own heart she knew v
he was sick to her very souls GEN. r
re. because of BERTHE Forests con-
iRuons cruelty to her. a f
''If l only could see him-if he
'onld only let me see him a min. e
te ]" she would morun to herself,
nd then her woman's pride would 9
ONE up in her heart, and she would b
eclare she cared no more than he {
id. A
Until one day her sisters lover, s
rank Sydney. startled her with the p
ews that Berthe Forrest had accep. Ii
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