The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-01-20


cor sometimes fry. 1t depends upon
whether It's doughnus or bread. would
rather fry than bake; it is more exciting y
81 should think so indeed Why, Redo,
lctte, these are the turlures Of the lnuuis
ton for YOU Fry and bake! They might
| us well roast you ut the stake. or course
| these things have to be done We must
have shirt bosoms and bread, and i, is right
that you should learn how to do them, or
now to have them done; but spend your
| life at such tasks? the idea is absurd We
might as well harness doves TO drays, or
burn roscbuds in our CRATES Every work
has its own workers. My dear child, there
| arc two rules for practical lfc-irst, the
greater must not he sacrificed TO the less,
and sccond-' Here Willie was going TO
quote Darlyle at length, but he rccolcctcd
That he was talking to girl, and he mohi-
lied the grand sentences OF the philosopher
ending in, "know what thou cans't work
! ut, into "And you should do Rcdolctlc,
hut you can do best. Now if you can
really do nothing better than stitch and
cook, then that is your work. But in this
age OF the world you are not forced you
can have choice, and you must remember
that we are living in the time of sewing
machines and scientific cooks. There is no
need OF innlolation int!,ose departments of
labor. We arc living III Il time" Will..
hesitated in the midst of his ciu,ucncc,
Hurried by II little thing just the touch OF
| his hand by Rcdolctte's.-an action softly
done, but causing him to descend from his
speech to look into her face. He paused
for moment, enchanted by the serious
sweet gaze Of her dark eyes fixed upon his.
But he recovered himself and went on;
''Do yon know what age of the world you
belong to, Rcdolctte? DO you know that
you are Il citizen of Christendom2 You
have no right to g. back to an age that you
were not born in ; YOU have no right to
marry man who belongs exclusively to
that age, and avail yourself of nothing that
has occurred since in the great march of
Progress. You can % back if you desire
it. You arc free; you live in Il free land.
But If you do not desire it, if you feel that
there is something higher in you than life
OF drudgcry, unliybtcd by liberty that
makes drudgcry DIVINE unlightcd by love
and, oh! lIedolctte, you do not know
what you are relnquishng when you rcin-
qulsh the possibility of lovc-if you feel a
stir in your pulse that beats with what is
highest and nearest true in the time we live
III, darling ltcdolettc," 0his time the cmpha-
pcnsatc for the former rcstraint), 'thcn |
would die thousand deaths rather than sec
you met in these woods by selfish soul,
like Riding. hood by the wolf, and lurcd
into matched hut, and eaten up, with no
ear to hear your poor innocent cry of, oh
what big eyes you've got! : and 'Oh what
sharp teeth you've got 2"
Willie was excited now. lie frightened
Kcdolcttc. She sprang up before him with
low cry-a genuine cry of pain, like a
hurt child y sudden pallor swept her
face; the pnlcness rs Of womans panr
swept over her childish face.
Then Willie took her in hi; arms and
called her his precious love, and soothcd
her with his tenderness, as he had aroused
her with his wrath. And then and there,
in the mountain solitude, witnessed only by
lonely height and lonely earth and sky, he
made her make one solemn promise
Not the promise that his heart burned to
have her make. For what he wished so
ardontly, that nothing "bcfore or after"
could compare in ardor with that hours
wish, was 10 make her promise to be his
wife. 'te remincd himself that he had no
right TO do this lie was young fellow
not yet graduated from college; and after
his Senior Year, just commenced, there lay
before him course of professional study,
and then the establishing of his professions
practice, for his patrimony was by no means
commensurate with his wants. lie had no
right to ask her yet.
Hc only made her grant promise form
ed disntcrestcdy and exclusively for her
good.
by this time the sun had set. Shu,lows
mingled with shadows. The airgathered that
strange pure cool tone which seems to blend
and at the same instant define the precious
woodland scents The soft rustic of leaves
the twitter of sleepy birds, the faint crash
ing sound Of ''thc long rank bent" as they
entered the fields, the Intinitcsmal fine vet
clear sound OF the summer night raspcd not
unmusically by the tiny sharp cries and
beating hum of the insect world. these
were the vocal accompaniment of the
homeward way, for Rcdolctte and Willie
hardly spoke. Casping each Others hands
they went down the rocky steps, and across
the meadows home.
And at the garden gate he kissed her
"good night and kissed her "good-bye,
Tor on the morrow he was to leave the
mountain farm, and she would not sec him
again.
Rcdolette fingered on the porch some
time before she entered the house. She
watched Willie's figure pass down the road
and disappear at the river turn then she
thought and thoaght. And when she went
into the lighted room where Judge Hunt sat
in his arm CHAIR reading the evening news,
Aunt Rhoda looked up from her needle
work to greet the child with some rcproof
for staying 50 late, yet rcproach died on her
lips, such strange new look was on Redo
lettc's face. ~ s# @ 4
''Shc never was the same GIRL" her aunt
said, long aftcrward, when this evening
was remembered as a part of the story of a
lifc-''ncver the same girl after that walk
to Block Height. But never seen her"
(Aunt Rhoda's grammar had grown rusty
with her drudging ]ifc)-w never saw her
look 50 beautiful and proud-likc as she did
when the Judge got up from tic chair and
was agoin' to give her a kiss. She drew
back her head like a queen, and Just put
out her hand for his lips and he started at
her astonishcd, a moment, and then Kissed
her hnger-tips 'Rcdolette,' said he, you've
been imprudent you've got chilled through;