The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-04-02
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earnest, 81 can never want him, even if
he should want me-"
"Love never sees nothing but what it
chooses" replied Teresa, oracularly.
"But look. woman" cried her mistress
suddenly, there's cloud oyer the sun;
tell you it will rain to-day"
"What if does. say? He'll come all
the same. and you'll see him just as you've
been counting on for the last three months.
You said he never broke his word.''
"That'c no merit, Teresa;I kept mine
| for week, and see what came of it!''
Yes, clouds had clown up, as they 10
| sometimes on warm September day;
but as we know, rain does not ALWAYS
follow.
1t was now time for old Teresa to think
about DINER; and great feast, of course,
it was to be. 49,.
1--WE must do our best, miss, to-day.
All old men are fond Of good eatin's."
| "Old men! What do you mean,
woman2" cried Miss Prynne, Indignantly;
but she laughed. ,.E ..
| Wonderful preparations they made
not fatterlng to Mr. Richard Clifford's
appetite; you would have thought they
were providing for an Eating Tom," or
some other gastronomic ce: ebrity; chick
ems and ducks, ham, every imaginable
vegetable, six different desserts-enough
for three or four of the largest. sized
| giants.
! But it continued to cloud up. Poor
Miss Dinah peeped out and upward every
five minutes; but the weather was hone
less-at half-past one the sky was dark,
with faint flashing and rumbling in the
distance; and he was expected at two.
AS the minutes went by the thunder
grew louder and nearer and the lightning
tiercer, and after awhile down splashed
the big, rcund drops which always pre-
cede a summer storm.
At five MINUTES of two Miss Dinah
stood on the balcony looking down the
road. The rain was terrific; the flashing
and roaring overhead, as she remarked
to old Teresa, busy giving the last touch
es to the table, 'beyohd anything in her
experience"
! 'Ain't you afraid, miss, to stand there?"
''Nonsense. I must see him as he gets
out of the carriage. Have an umbrella
ready"
In her excitement I doubt if she
thought of the uproar about her. Sud-
denly she cried, with her hand to her
heart, and her face pale as death:
''Here he comes!'
It was quite true. The buggy was rat
Ting up the avenue; but nothing could
apron which had been stretched from top
} to dashboard. The horse was dripping.
And now it wheeled and drew up at
the door. Poor Miss Dinah stood with
outstretched hands and dilated eyes,
white, trembling-thirty long years
her love, her darling so .ong lost-now
to see him again!
I don't know how it happened; but at
that instant there was flash from the
sky, followed instantly by a dreadful
peal, and every living thing was for a
few seconds shaken and stunned.
When Teresa came to herself she
} glanced out, terribly bewildered. and
, saw her mistress lying on the porch.
J She ran out, with a dreadful cry of ''God
, ha' mercyp' and lifted the PROSTATE
woman.
7 An old gentleman had by that time
; got out of the carriage and was ascend
1 ing the steps.
as she injured2" he asked, STOPPING to
7 take her pulse.
Poor Miss Dinah heard his volce-in
, thirty years she had forgotten many
things. but not that--and the sound re-
: yived her even from the coma in which
e the thunderbolt had cast her.
q "Richard," she murmured, with pale
! smile.
|. They made her sit up, Teresa prop
:; ping her back with her own stout knee
= Are you hurt, Dinah!" asked Richard
j. Clifford. She moved her head with 8
e strange helplessness, striving for some
" thing, they could not tell what. Their
e she said:
II II can't see-I am blind. | shall
e never see you again, Richard. Thi
I tightening has done it;'' and from those
1 sightless eyes came two or three srea
IS tears that rolled down on his hand ane
b hers, locked together in greeting, afte
ID so long.
E. They took her in, and gave her some
ID stimulants, and very soon she was quit
g herself, IN all things but one; but tina
IS was never to be any more-never.
d. He remained; but the great Dime
I, went begging. A doctor came and es
at amined-'No use-sight quite gone
lis smitten and efaced by that fiery shaft.
ch Poor Miss Dinah cried. Her vow. Wa
ne it a Judgment
to Richard Clifford fingered there man
n weeks, and she became more resigned
ID. One day they went quietly to the vlllagg
ly church and were married.
nd II am so changed, Richard"
lie "Not to me-" he said. =.
10 But there was dlsenchantm emit te
as him, although he thus denied 1t, WHO
se the poor thing never knew. Perhal
~ that was some compensation for b
inn great loss. To her mind Richard Gu
ell ford was not as to others-gray hesdet
N, wrinkled and bowed; but the proud an
l splendid lover Of her youth-the bri
Mt liant apparition she had looked on Il
lat the last, last time thirty long years b.