The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-02-26

.re," And she held up her head, With
= little coquet.ish cir, for him to smell
u the roses.
lilo turned pale . little, and closed bis !;
lips firmly together, with look OF pain. ,
Was he 80 jealous - that. OF Reuben
kixxy wondered. She had seen
little traces Of the feeling in him before,
but not like this. :,
lie could not he made to smell the
roses, nor even say that they were pretty;
and the gsyer kizzy grew, the colder
and more gloomy he became.
Such = wretched drive as they had:
after all Kixzy's bright anticipations!
For Of course she wasn't going 10 try to
coax him up Il he wanted to be cross.
So she grew very cold and digni6ed, too,
and at the party tried TO punish him still
more by ilirting theoretically with the
only. willing DR.. James.
70 SOY that Miss kcziah, with her
yiolcts, was "an object OF interest"
At the sociable, would be "drawing
!, miidly." For with oil her PECULIAR.
lie. Miss Keziah had never been
eccentric In her dress before. She
,imocred and cast down her eyes when
she met the minister. He looked at the
yiolc,s-,here WAS no denying that! 1t
vas a meaning look, . delighted look.
Miss Kcziah was sure! But still he did
not finger by her side Is she had expect.
ed he talked entirely too much to that
oiieus little Anna Leighton, who was
such Airt!
III course he could not be too attcn.
tive " her, and cause people to make re-
/ marks, before their engagement was
publicly announced, still he might have
walked home with her; and the spinster
, went home . little disappointed: -.
5 But he would come and make It all
, right, and everybody could be told, on
I the morrow, Of course. And with this
|. thought Miss keziah consOled herself.
. Bnt poor Kizzy had no consolation for
!. her woes. Arthur had been worse than
v dissgreeable, he had been "pcrfectly
d savage" after she flirted so openly with
DR.. James, and the hOmeward drive had
h been taken in almost utter silence.
Kizzy declared that happiness was
q over for her in this world, and cried her
n self TO sleep. Arthur was going away u
II New York, and coming back "Perhap
next year, perhaps never" she hat
il heard him tell somebody 60, ct the party
nj And she might never see him again
IN Probably he had never cared for her
"a after oil; she had been vain little foo
q. TO imagine it. And he would 60 away
and she should never see him again!
n. The morrow brought no solace to he
M. grief, nor, alas! to Miss Keziah; for th
minister did not come!
i'm What it meant Miss Keziah could n:
X. imagine. Had she not smiled sweet
h's enough upon himl Had he been owe
Ar. come by . sense Of bis own unworthines
te. in spite Of her wearing the violetse
49,. When three days had passed, and st
siii he had not come, Miss Keziah decide
for that she had not sufficiently encourage
AVE- : ~ him, and that be must have expect
row an answer to his note. According
air. air. she wrote and dispatched the fonowi'
YOU note:
ian, NV DEAREST Mr.. LEACH Tor shall ], ov'
be- coming maidenly shyness, say ADsalom I!
ear; have delayed answering your beautiful !ett
ut ! thinking you. would understand from my 2
lear Ing you tic sign you asked. that my heart
lets thrcb responsive tOyour own. Why have J
not sought me ere this? Did you need Otl
L. assurance that loved you, and that
needed only to name ,.s the e, happy Rpy, Ssy "
rick noud l s%c,V now come at once to her
;"tt ~ ''0 HEzIAH KNOwLTO
On the afternoon of the day on VIII
ster the letter was sent, the minister mi
hose have been seen, with hasty step,
perplexed yet beaming countenar
her approaching Deacon kn0wltOn's ho'
Miss Keziah did see him from
full window, where she had been on
had watch all day.
or. She tried to calm the Tutoring!
ster! her heart, while Mandy invited
Ke. minister in. -
Her Mandy Immediately atterward ca
was Kizzy.
anty, "He didn't come to zee My,
eads, came to 100 mel" said Miss Keziah,
! side dignity.
ough "No, ma'am, I asked him whic
hers, was, and he said. perticlar, it was
rews, Kizzy."
~. Kizzy had already run down ST
cling wondering what the minister could
, that sibly want Of her. :, i,
look Probably his courage had failed
Ind Il poor, modest msn-and he .
Atten. for another member Of tho
lily to pave the way to an
How terview With her, thought Miss Ke
eacon Still she would like to hear
- On. he had to say 70 Kizzy; and she
Hate. softly down tho stairs, and listent
badly the parlor door.
[eziah "Miss Kizzy, there has been
mistake" said tho minister. "l'
drew wrote you note" -
or the "Well, who said you did?" inter
led 70 ed straightforward Kiszy.
Id not The minister had evidently pref
those Q speech, and he meant to give
spite Of Ill interruptions.
y, she "But 70 find that have won
o have heart gives me . great, IN unexp
,re her happiness! will add that I had
N each tured to think Of you as wife, bu
fasten had not been for this blissful reve
do but Of your feeling toward me ! sho'
70 very course, ~ . man Of honor, han
" hor- dressed myself first to your n
Of her guardians, your father and your
} much and respected aunt" -
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