St. Landry democrat., 1879-03-01

"Whell lived in my country home l
wa1 YOUR ger, and trusted your sex more
fully than now do. met young
lady, lively, fascinating, and beautiful
who was visiting some of her country
friendsa Fhort distance from my fathers
store kaa in Daik.
house. We walked: RODE, sailed to-
gether, and she put forth all her power to
captivate me, AMI succeeded. But when
| declared my love for her she rejected me
scornfully, and you cannot conceive the
revulsion of feeling that took place when
her utter heartlessness was laid bare to
nav gaze. For 8 time I vowed / should
never seek the society of another wo-
man. and for three years after | came to
the city kept my vow. But the love l
had for ner bears no more resemblance
to the love now feel for you than the
light OF yon fair planet does to the sun
at MONDAY. That experience has taught
| me to prize you more than l might other"
wise have done.
"Do you know the place of residence
of the LADY," asked Irene, and have
you since met her7'
She is in London, and | have met her
| Her name is Miss Warner. She did not
rscoenize me, but I knew her face al
once she had not changed as have. :"
"Why she is an acquaintance o
mine. and was here this afternoon. w
were talking of you, but l never dreamed
that there wss romance like this II
YOUR two lives. She spoke of seeing you
once, and am sure she did not know
YOU were the hero of her former tiirta
ton. She has had SO many love affair
that she has probably forgotten tina
one. y,
The magnificent parlors OF the wealth.
Mrs Howard were rapidly filling wit
forms of grace and beauty, clad in tn
mostl elaborate costumes that artist
, taste and skill could devise or boundle:
3 wealth procure.
+ Rather late in the evening Miss Eide
entered the room, leaning on the arm
t Ernest Clayton. They had not appeare
r in public SO conspieuously before, and
y murmur of admiration at the beauty
o the Lair ran round the room. Ladies n
f marked On the gentlemans distinguishe
appearance. SO different from some of tt
e specimens of mankind around him, q
e with erect bearing and manly tread, /
r, walked proudly, yet with a protec;ir
g air, by the side of his DetroSed wife.
# Nellie was there, exchanging live
- badinage with Clarence Neville as the
> passed near her, and she looked up
W encounter the dark, handsome eyes OF M
I Clayton fixed upon her with a searchil
!. gaze. For moment she reviewed t
n buried memories of the past for sor
L. clew to the half-recollection that came
a. her, for his glance was one Of recognize
E: and as her eyes searched his face, the
ar flashed across her mind the revelati
ot that this was the man whom five yes
m before, she had treated SO shameful
ID Her eyes fell beneath his look, and s
N would have turned and made her escal
a. had he not oxen in low voice:
to b - Miss Warner has not, I see, forgot
rt Ernest Clayton, nor the little episode
b. q summer five years ago in E"
'e. H. bowed and turned from her
Va speak to Irene; while she, covered wi
in confusion at the unexpected meetil
-, left,the room to recover her self-poasessi
~ Gould Ernest have known the feelil
at of regret and shame that swept o
,es her spirit he. would have felt him;
as amply revenged; but he was too haE
he in Irene's love to wish revenge.
So those were wed, and merrily rang the bells
ret and in after life, as quiet conjugal q
" piress took the place of the ardor
a early love, Ernest would often say to
in loved wife:
O "Miss Warner did a kind act for
in. when she refused me, and left me
vn to seek you, my dearest earthly trt
- ure."
Nellie did marry Clarence New
and led frivolous, fashionable life.
49, had money at her command, but prom
- ings she may have had after big
life, when she sometimes called on Ii
red and witnessed her domestic happin
for were effectually checked by contact v
it'll the world, and by the lack of those q
[iss tiles which a woman should possess
ans her husband if she. would have her n
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