Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-14
NO. 191.
Gales ano Sketebes.
SOME ONE PAYS,
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If You mean of honor, fame. and good
repute. yes, rs never heard of any one !;
but of that success that includes wealth
and state, luxurious living. and the rest
of it, he could not have been. for he has
said over and over ut our homely board
Tia is indeed what delights me II is
here begin to feel how unworthy are the
vulger slaveries rich men submit to- 2"
''He had, then. some experience of the
! life he cenSured ?'
Il don't know that he had, except from
hcarsay. But he had read and conversed
| almost rs much rs he had read"
| Had he served rs n soldier ?"
NO; he could not bear any settled ca
reer. He called it bondage, and that all
men who followed any distinct calling
lost their identity in the craft; he would
laughingly say, They become smaller
than women
"IIe loved you very much. Marion,
and
"Why has he not returned ?" said she.
rs her eyes flashed iicrcely. "Say out
your works. or if Yen have no courage
for them, let me say them. II was this
you would have asked
II had not any right
'Of course You had not but | will
give the right. that | may shame the
qucstioner.
If he has not come back will YOU be
prepared TO say that he may not come to-
morrow This very night ? At first. in
every football on the road. in every voice
heard have grown wiser now. and
can wait
"Such truthfulncss honors you," said /.
thoughtiully.
ut Is no more than owe him. There,
look there said she; there is II Levar-
ter coming in already, and but Il moment
back that sea was like a mirror.
is not life just such another ocean. and
can he who plans n voyage be more GER
tain of his weather 4? How can know
what difficulties he is now combating,
what barriers oppose him P''
81 should he glad to feel that some one
would. one day. trust me in that fashion,"
$50 she will. if you inspire her with the
same love. A wOman's heart can be as
good or rs bad rs you like TO make it.
She has but the keeping of it. the cul-
ture is another's.'
This was the tone of many conversa-
ton we had together, through all of which
could gather how a girl of Il strong will
diu All uttiItu DetH gTuuuiilN
moulded to opinions so new and strange
to her by one whose temperament and
character were stronger than her own.
That she loved him with her whole
hcart-that she felt toward him that al
most worship with which fervent I'M
agination will inspire its object of dcvo-
tion-was clear enough. But own that
my greater anxiety was to learn. if /
H.. L
and how came he here? II was not diff
cult to believe that even man of culture
and refinement might have been in love
with this girl. She was. with certain
traits of delicate health and pallor. of
great beauty; her large. lustrous eyes,
more expressive from the dark color of
the orbits round them, could change from
Il melting softness to "A glance of wild de-
tiancc and her mouth, of which the teeth
inclined slightly inward, had character
of winning sweetness there was no resist
ing. Her figure might be called fault
less; all ] have ever seen of the statu-
esque in symmetry was realized in that
1.-THE and gra .cful form, which even under
the coarse drapcry she wore, betrayed i'm
every pose and movement the perfection
of form. And just as the conscious grace
of the beautiful woman blended with the
bounding elasticity of the happy girl, 50
IN temperament she united all the thought
full moods of reflective mind with the
fresh. wild impulses of the child.
II know" said she to me one day. IL
see it; you are puzzled about William
Hope"
IL own it, said I, half sorrowfullv.
''And you cannot imagine how this man
Of refnemeDi-this creature OF gifts and
graces, this eminent gentleman. for know
your comprehensive phrases-could have
| loved such as me-"
Far from il. Marion; my wonder is
how he could tear bimsclfaway from you.
| even Tor u season.
That was duty
"l,nt what kind of duty? lie had no
| ties-no cares of any calling you say he
had no relatives To dictate to him how
could he explain necessity where there
was no pressure?'
What he said was enough for me-
And. said she. after Il pause, "it would
have been bolder than either you or me
would have dared to question him.
This chance speech explained in full the
ascendancv that this more powerful ma
ture had gained over her. and how it was
easier TO her to believe than to distrnst
him.
Does he write to you ?'
! NO"
Nor you to him ?''
mo; he did not ask it,
And still you know he will come
back 20
II know it, and she nodded twice,
with little smile that seemed to say how
sure she felt in the avowal.
! If there seems scant delicacy in the way
| dared to question her, let me hasten to
say that our intimacy warranted the free
dom. which her manner beside invited !;
for have not given here the details of
those conversations that occurred between
us. nor told how we were led on from
word to word to closest confessions.
Strange girl in every way. She would
suffer me to walk with my arm around her
waist and yet would fire Indignantly if
dared TO call her "Marion mou,'' as in
Greek phrase Hope had called her.
Anything more hopeless than the at
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