Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-08-13
Trust and Love.


ed event creates quite commotion in our
hitherto quiet household. My mother says,
.'What can do without you!' And my
dear father, whose dark hair begins TO be
sprInkled with silver, says, mournfully, Il
cannot spare my Caroline, though think
he is secretly pleased that his pet Garry
is to have such noble husband after all
Ny roguish brother Tom goes about the
house singing
There Is no goose however gray but soon or late
she'll nnd some honest gauder ior her matt
And all this seems very strange to me.
| cannot realise it that the bridal dress of
snowy stain, with the gossamer veil and
wreath of orange flowers. can be for plain
Caroline Hudson But the strangest of all
is, that | am To marry John Graut-John
Grant whom learned to love Years ago,
but all thoughts of whom ! strove to put
far from me.
Ii is six wears now since that morning in
early summer. when we walked together
through the green wood, the leaves stirred
by a gentle wind, and the birds singing
their morning songs. We were a little
apart from the rest of our party, and when
we had gathered our hands full Of wild
flowers that were scattered in profusiOn at
our feet, We set down upon felled oak to
wait for them. was happy on that June
morning, AS ! sat on that old tree by the
side Of John Grant. while he wreathed the
buds and blossoms and the green leafes of
the trailing convolvulons among the braids
of nv brown hair
We did not talk much that morning, and
we had sat in silence several moments,
when John suddenly said, Caroline, l
want to tell YOU something. 1t was not
the words that made my heart beat 50 and
the hot blood rush 10 my cheeks and fore
head, for we had known each other for a
long time, and he had often made conf
dant of me-but il was the low tone, full
. of new and strange tenderness, that thrilled
my whole being. do not know, but per
/ haps nv voice trembled little, as ! said,
.'Well. what is it, John = ''Carry, dear,
/ but the sentence was not finished-just then
( the rest OF the party made their appearance,
and effectually made an end To all confl-
DENTAL conversation.
( The next day John Grant left Tunbridge
on business, which required his presence IN
Devonshire for several weeks. i did not
! see him for some time after his return, and
when he called at last, there was some
thing unGefinabe in his manner; but vet a
change, a restraint, which told me that
those words once ON his lips would not be
spoken.
Months came and went, and again he left
/ home ostensibly for business, bat il was ru-
mored that a beautiful young girl at Ferny
/ Coombes, whose acquaintance he had made,
was the real cause of his frequent visits to
Devonshire.
! In little while il was said, and upon
GOOD authority, that John Grant was en-
gagged to be married TO Mary Heating; and
II was also said that she was very young
and very beautiful. Never till then, TILL
knew he was TO marry another, was the Sc
cret of NV own heart revealed to me; bu'
then | know how | had loved him-hoW
all hope, all JOY, all earthly happiness, was
conferred in him-even now | shudder when
| think of that time, when life seemed
such a heavy burden, and longed 1or
time to Law il down in the grave; but
could not; thOrny path opened peior'
me. and was to walk in IT.
John Grant returned to Tunbridge soor
after his engagement, and in few weeks
Mary Keating came to Elm Wood, on
visit to his sister. Soon after her arrival
was invited to party given during hel
stsv | dreaded TO gn, and yet | could no
STAY away /; how plain j looked as l $1,000
before my dressing glass that nlght' IN
nlain silk. with few scarlet verbenas ha'
said once they contrasted well with my
dark hair | was early, and of all the giri
in the room Mary Heating was the mos
iIoveIv | do not wonder he loved you
Mary; you were beautiful, as you Gal,l'
floating into the room, IN a dress ol liSu
muslin. your golden curls falling over you
syeet childish face, and your blue eye
running over with happiness, and he-Du
7 dared not look at him long, for was no
very strong.
l., tho course of the evening was III
,roduced to her; and strange as IL was
f-,m that moment she seemed TO ciiilS
me She was a child in artlessness' an
soon commenced talking of ''John, ashih
;f Lner him. etc. '.Fiow strange he he'e
oen,ioned you-he told me of so many
his friends. John-JOhn, she caiiuu a :
he passed us, ''why didn't you 'ell ~
, about Miss Hudson!-you spoke oi 80 nla
n1 o,hers Our eyes met for an lnstah'
and then | said plying his emnarasslien' u
.sHe has so many friends, 1t isnt AT d
s;ngular that he should have forgotten one
Rut | knew then, as do now tha' he I'D
Just then. looking up, ! saw IN inlir, ,
opposite, the reflection & 9l our sa av,iu the coz
! Fand-John Grant. When l saw me 'ne vo'
trast between Mary Heating and myself u.
forrave him, if had ne; before, .,aN Noi VI, VI,
j I was so very plain-I do not thlnh f,,fa;r ",
but she was so beautiful, 50 o,n co"p he;u
and loving, no one could help p, h1em Te,
charmed with her; and couiu lo, no, o,a, odm
him for he had always been great a'i"
rer of the beautiful.
Mary Keating came to see me an@s,;me ireasigne
while she staid at his sister soinefr 7, W,
not often. accompanied by John Ii WI