The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15

lace-WOrker IN cIAuCc, IL you uAu,
perhaps you would not have loved me.
Since you learned this fact you have
regretted our engagement. You need
not speak, have seen change in you
Il feel that it is SO! But there is no
harm done" she went on with simple
dignity, "since | have learned the
truth before it is too late; and 80 she
held out to him little, trembling hand,
which he took mechanically and so 1
will grant you the favor you covet, my
friend. Your bride shall not wear my
darling mothers bridal veilp'--here he
kissed the hand, and she drew it quickly
away" but that is because j shall not
be your BRIDE"
No need to dwell upon what followed.
at first, then angry-his tears tnat had
no power in them to sap the strength of
her resolution. They parted coldly at
last-lovers still in heart, for love dies
not SO easily, but outwardly seeming
scarcely even friends.
She stood proudly as he left the room;
when ths sound of the street door clos
ing after him struck like knell upon
her young and passionate heart, she
flew to the window and watched him
out of sight.
"Goi gop she cried, dashing away
the tears that blinded her. "Go from
my eyes, hateful tears, and let me see
my love for the last time. My love!
And have lost himp
She sank down, sobbing. Just then
the sound of her mothers voice, singing
merrily an old French song in room
above, came to her ears. Once more
she dashed the tears away.
"He despised you, my darling
mamma-youl No, no; l will never
pardon himP' $4,000
Her parents questioned her in vain.
She had quarreled with Louis; that
was all they could learn. And before a
chance for reconciliation came, Elise
was smitten with mortal illness and died
within three days, and Adele, over
whelmed by the awful calamity, was
prostrated with brain fever.
At this juncture summons came to
Louis from France, demanding his i'm
mediate presence there. Strange
changes have taken place. Two of the
three lives that had stood between him
and the title and estates of the Marquis
de la Riviere had been suddenly swept
away, and the third, frail, delicate
child, lay dying. The present Marquis,
himself feeble old man, was also at
the point of death, 30 they sent for
Louis as the heir of the dying noble
man. --.s l5a4.. 4a .E.l
| The news bewildered him. His heart
swelled with exultation and delight,
but it sank again. Adelel Had he
not lost Adele? "I care not for rank or
wealth unless she shares themp cried
his heart. "I will beg and implore her
pardon"
He made the attempt, but in vain.
He sought her father, and said few
words to him, however, that might make
all well again had she ever heard them
but she never did. When her long and
wasting sickness was over at last, and
she began, slowly and feebly, to take
hold on life, she found herself an orphan
in very truth Walter had followed
Elise to better world.
| Nor even then had she drained the
cup of sorrow to the dregs; her
fathers affairs had been terribly in
volved; when all was settled she was
penniless. -as ID
Poor Adele! Truly might it be said
that her sorrows came not single spies,
but in battalions;" father, mother,
lover, home, all gonel What had
life left to offer her but patience and
pains?
And Louisl He would have written
her Immediately upon his arrival in
Paris, but that he felt 30 blissfully sure
that her father would make all we'll. A
few weeks later he did write, informing
her fully of his strangely-altered for.
tunes, and imploring her to pardon and
accept once more as her true lover the
Marquis de la Riviere.
i And the letter never reached her
The house to which it came was empty
and deserted, the lately happy home
was broken up, and the little English
! girl, for whom a husband and title and
fortune were awaiting in sunny France
was earning sorrowful living as lace
makerl
Such are some of the strange reverse
', of real life, more wonderful than any
! fiction.
So the Marquis waited for an answe
in vain. Then pride rose up in arms
"She scorns me-" he thought. "She
poor peasants childl / am punished
!, for my folly"
And he resolved to drive her from
MS heart. But after many months hi
/, letter to Adele was returned to him
crossed and recrossed with many ad
dresses.
1t was a messenger of hope to him
I She had not slighted, she had no
: scorned him; perhaps she bad no
a ceased to love. Before another day an,
/ night had passed the Marquis was on hi
v journey to London.
Need / tell of his welcome there
a. When did wealth and title fail to find
( warm one? Or of the friends of forme
: years, who focked to claim acquain
q anceY Has not prosperity always host
! of friends2 But none could tell him G
IT Adele, beyond the history of her bite
q sorrows. She, being poor, had falle
V from their bright world.
le And after three months search
had failed to find her. He had monel
1t influence, deepest heart interest to al
d his search, and yet, in spite of all,
" failed.
+ "She is Dead" he thought, with al
guish. 81 have come too late-it ia
ID the grave shall find my darling. If
be SO, and / prove it so indeed, l wi
{. live and die single for her sakel''
IN But such was his resolve, unsuspecte
by any one; many brilliant beauti
ID spread their nets to secure the splend
is prize of titled husband.
n, Foremost among the many was Ros
e. linda Hale; she was the fairest al
wealthiest of them all, and her golds
y hair was not unlike Adele's. twas th
ir- tnat attracted him toward her mo
es than the others-the memory of an o
We love.
mt She never suspected that, howeve
her vanity made her sure that he W
a, in her tolls. She arranged tableaux
IL which he should sustain a part wi
ie. her. 1t never occurred to her that
at was too good-natured and too indiffere
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