Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-05-06
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ELLEN CAMPBELL; !; !;
KINGS MOUNTAIN.
BY MRS. MARY ( EWART.

of cb;valrv and tournaments. Then dreams
of love and ladies' charms would have mingled
with deeds of honor and of arms" said DAVE
"Bah you know no bride but honor. you
could not stoop to love. Your heart Is 1ro'
zen -trenched in ice."
"What do you argue from, Graham.
ooh! you know lovers and madmen are
alike, and have never seen you yield your
self to the mighty ill., -,
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with
the mind, and loves heralds are thoughts.
replied Davie. "He who can show all bis
love, loves but lightly, l have heard"
GAS if it were possible to conceal its pres
euce! As if we could not read the hearts
hushed secret in the changing cheek, the
soft dark eye; as if we would not call her
"mine," though our reason cursed the false'
hood" replied Graham.
"Ah, Graham, we must get back to camp.
life, lest inglorious ease lead you to forget
"pone but the brave deserve the fail" replied
Davie
"Hush, Davie. I would dream forever,
Secure from trouble toll and care,
A world than earthly world more fair
replied Graham, bending upon Ellen look
of fimpassioned tenderness. "say, Miss Ellen,
shall speak my dream ?"
"To tell me It's as fair, as fitting, and as
frail, as idle dreams generally are?" said she,
turning coldly from him. :,
AYE" said he, in low bitter tones, "to tell
you tbs mild and broken, to tell you the fairy
bliss is lost, to tell you the surging wave OF
despair has forever buried the fair vision" ."
NAY; to tell me the trumpet call of duty,
of fame, has thus aroused you, and shaking
off the dreamsr's shackles, with logic akin
to Falstaff's, conclude that when war is at
hand, although it were shame to be on any
side but one, it were worse shame to be idle
than be on the worst side, though7blacker
than usurpatiop could make it" she replied,
with a manner of playful reproof, intended
to soothe, but which more frequently bewll-
dered, "like fire to heather set" .
care these your paintings, Miss Ellen I
said Davie, taking up her portfolio, wishing
to change conversation that be saw annoyed
Ellen. 49,
"They are nominally mine. They owe all
the merit they possess to my teacher SAID
Ellen, with a graceful inclination to Graham,
who was standing with knitted brows leaning
against the mantel.
Davie glanced over several, with words Of
commendation, but at length said
"Why, Graham, where did you ever see
such blazing sky as this2 You robbed your
pallet man, to spoil your picture. Miss Ellen,
you should have protested against such waste
of colors."
81 was in brilliant humor, 1 suppose"
replied Graham, at once perceiving that 1t
was the picture Ellen had refused to soften
"Lrt me see," said Ellen. "Oh that was
my obstinacy. He wished me to shade it,
but faucied the rich autumnal tints."
"Yes; buS your coloring is not natural /;
you need some feecy clouds in that royal
purple, and that gorgeous crimson would be
better caught in glimpses through those
arching trees. The blue of your zenith is
too intense-it needs softening, and vapory
clouds would not be amiss there also"
81 see," said she, ''it all needs a greyer
cast softer tone."
"Yes; you lack twilight haze. Now here
is one All! it is Graham's-it is perfect.
This was your model was it? Now, fancy
hear the lowing of the cattle as they plod
YEARLY home; the falling of that brook and
all the drowsy sounds Of evening quiet.
There's rest in that picture. You have not
done your model justice, Miss Ellen" and
with the eve of a connoisseur, and the taste
of true lover of the art, he criticized the
work. Graham listened, amazed at her un-
wonted patience. He had never dared, but
in the gentlest manner, to correct her; and
Davie was really unsparing in his criticisms.
And vet she was not only patient but eager
to discover the faults he was so cody point.
ing out.
81 see the faults very plainly now," said
she, "and wonder they never struck me be-
fore; but will correct them"
"Well, Davie," said Graham, "you have
done more in ten minutes that | have been
able to do in two months. / have repeatedly
pointed out these very faults to Miss Ellen,
far more tenderly than you have ventured
to do, without being able to convince her IN
the slightest degree; or if she was convinced :,
the remodeling was done after she thought l
had forgotten it."
Ellen colored deeply, and drew back the
unfortunate sketch.
"You know, Graham, some peoples chari-
ty is so sweet as to be sickly. Perhaps your
rebukes were too tender to correct replied
Davie. with quick glance at Ellen.
"Ellen must either rule or be ruled said
Mr.. Willoughby. "She knows no middle
course-listens to no compromises"
"And only bows to master mind" said
Graham, scrutinizng her glowing face: DO
you know, Mr.. Willoughby, think Miss Ell:
lens education has spoiled her for yielding
Instead of the stern and rigid studies which
she has followed, would have taught her the
gentle Una; given her the romantic, poetic
fiction Of Spenser and Dryden; and checked
the fascinating theme by the sterling lessons
of Shakespeare and Milton. Again ; | would
encourage the brilliant fancy by the powers OF
my own luxurious and brilliant land; the ro
mantle memoirs of the French, and their daz
cling histories. 1 would have taught her Of
war and chivalry, from the splendid and heart
stirring pages of Froissart, and from the ro
mantle love and Knight.errantry of the Span
ish Cavalier. And l would have read such
legends in the corner of some sombre library
where the deepening twilight conjured up the
ghosts of the past, to scare us with their I'M
aginative terrors; or, stealing to the tireslde
with no other light than was afforded by the
glimmering brands of it's deep and ponderous
hearth, the sorcery of thought should raise
the spirits of forgotten generations to people
my ideal world, and thus chewing the cud O.
sweet and bitter fancy, her vivacious talen
should extract honey from every study"
eff your object had been but to awakeI
the ina gination, you would have succeeded
no doubt" said Davie. "But the sickly fooc
would have enervated, perhaps destroyed thu
understanding.
"Poh !" said Graham eve only need wo