The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-10-01

daughter of ole of the most aristocratie
, families of Europe ended her lite in the
, waters OF the Mississippi.-Muscuti7at
(louu) Jou,w4l.
Mars Consistency.
The tremubus moonbeams toyed with
) the restless laves, and the whispering
Windsof Ine August nfgA 1rkv the sigh
of some passing spirit, seemed the kind
of sort of-like it was-or something like
that.
As he held her for one moment in his
passionate embrace, holding her to his
breast as though he would concentrate
all the wild, burning love of his life in
that one caress, there was sound like
a hawser parting in a gale, and she gent
| ly stopped him.
"Darling !" she said, tenderly, sit is
sweet to be- loved, but corsets are cash
this summer and there goes the third rod
since Sunday"
The ardent boy held her off with both
hands-he vas only child of forty
two-and looked. at her face as though
he was examining suspicious Treasury
note.
my own" he said, i" how well l love
You your heart can tell. What have l
not endured for your dear sake? Twice
last week your father kicked me off the
moonlit stoop; on Tuesday last your
brother licked me in the public street:
the taste of my blood is yet fresh on the
fangs of yon sleeping hound; and
should your mother find me hear to.
night-oh, help me, immortal gods!
But l will die, if they should find me, l
will die at your feet. This it is, nv
own hearts darling, this it is to love
fondly, eternally and unselfshly. Fly
with me now; We will to wonder
"But there is such difference in our
ages, DEAR" she sighed, smoothing the
rumpled ribbon at her waist, " the DAYS
OF the years Of your pilgrimage are forty
and two, and am but little girl Of
nineteen brief, but happy, summers.
And OH
"Think you," exclaimed the gray.
!, boy, impetuously, "think you
that | am proud beyond my love, and
would spurn you because the world NAV
taunt you with your youthp Oh, NO: in
my arms 1'would shield you from its
cruel sneers, and for your sake l would
forget how young you are. Beside, is
not my ripe experience old enough for
+" And you are poor,n she said, once I
more nesting in his arms, "you are 50 !
poor, they say"
:" Poor!" he exclaimed, rapturously, |
"and they who say it do not know how
poor am, sweetheart; by yon bright
moon l swear am poor enough for ten
men. With me, you could not ask for
more poverty and fewer clothes than I |
would bring you"
"And ! am rich,' she said, turning
her face 90 that she could look into her
lovers eyes. 'sPa says that when he
dies l will have &29S, 900.
But there was no shade Of sadness. NO
passing shadow Of remuneration in his
steadfast eyes. Twining his arms
around her yet more closely, he said,
more earnestly than he had spoken vet:
"And am / base enough to give Won
up for that? Think you l will tear YOU
from my arms for thatp Fairest and
best, believe me. ! do love you well
enough to overlook your wealth, and If
You will but come to these arms Of mine. Fl
bring it all with you-nay, do not start.
believe me, for me heart is in the words:
bring it with you, every whit, and see II
% me constant heart It will not make
you even doubly dear.''
The sound of an old man was heard
q the shadowy distance, and with one
embrace the proud youth fed.
And on her pillow that night, long hours !!
he maiden brooded DER his constancy.
INC. the exceeding faithfulness Of lis /,
Owe. And murmuring stHe loves me !:
Or myself and all I hsve; l am, indeed.
lis very own" she fell asleep to dream !
And how did she reward his constan. :
y! Oh, faithlessness Of woman's tickle :
ows! Oh, bleeding ruin Of mans loving !
onstancy! It has ever been 20. Within '
nree months that girl married = young
GLOW nom Arizona, son Of q bank
resident and himself . big operator In =
mines, worth about S5OO, GOO in clear !. !.
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