South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-08-18

! iSSVNbSf OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
her honor aud purity. She yielded
for once, at least. to the customs ol
/ the society ia which she lived, and
was indulging IN AN innocent ilirta
| ton
'it was easy to imagine il more. Tie
general saw as often from distance.
as he entered the cabin. Nv manner
was free and imprisoned. She was
kind and gracious, and inaocentiy. but
most tboughilessly happy, ms she was
gifted AMI beautiful. Shc should have
Known should have known that the
consciousness Of his age might have
rankled in > sensitive fpirit.
She loved him and honored him, and
trusted him too much.
My good general she would saw,
he is a little cold and austere in socie :
ty: but such good childr
we passed these long, dcsolate shores
through whose forests the devastating
HOOD rushes ever, ever on. One morn.
ing our steamer rounded TO ant. M ade
a landing at Natchez. The hight be-
fore we had been very gay. The gem
eral-as | said good night, and kissed
the jeweled white hand kindly held out
10 me-was more pale and CHASTITY than
ever had seen him lie was not at
breakfast next morning. | saw him
rapidly pacing tie hurricane deck.
LA SONORA and | had a bargain to
60 on shore together at the next land /.
ing and try To get some a,wers. The
weather was like June. and she saw the
roses in blossom, with childs delight.
4 don't know how it was, but nv
heart was heavy, as we walked over the
gang-plank ut the Natchez landing. /
remembered the pale, sad face. But |
was too Intoxicated with the beauty that
seemed TO envelop me, like On atmos-
phere, to have the impression last.
'We got our roses anil came on
board. AS we entered the cabin, the
black chamber maid met US, wrinyiug
her hands, and wild with CONSERVATION.
oh, massa. . mistress = she ex
claimed 'whar's de captain? Thar's "A
man overheard | know it's a man.
They. needn't tell me it's a billet of
wood. Don't l know man when
see him Z
Il did not believe her-still, with en-
underlined apprehension that seized US
both, we ran aft. The moment we got
to the nursery windows in the stern.
there rose from the boiling flood far
down the stream, hut near enough TO be
distinctly seen, the pale face OF the gen.
eral. lie threw up his arms and sank
beneath the surface, and was never
seen again.
with one wild shrek she sank into
a swoon. The woman took her from
my arms and bore her TO the s,ateroom.
/ rushed on deck. The alarm had heen
givcn--the yawl was pulling down the
stream. but it was useless. The body
OF the drowned man was sweeping a
long the broad, deep. turbid rivc-. new
er to be found, perhaps, till the sea
gives up the dead. On the after part OF
the hurricane deck. found the gene
ais watch. poctet-book and miniature
OF La Signora.
Seventy miles above New Orleans.
on the beautiful coast, which after the
dissolution Of the thousand miles above
opens upon the traveller like fairy
land. there CLEANS among the orange
groves, the white walls of q convent of
tue Sacret Heart. As we nearei it. the
whistle blew signal of land. The
chamber maid came to me with q re-
quest that | would come aft and see
the lady. [ had not seen her. She had
not left her stateroom. When | entered
the cabin where she stood, dressed IN
black, with a black veil, ready to land,
scarcely knew her--so pale, so ghost
ly pale, and her eyes req with weeping.
She held out her hand TO me - the
tears gushed afresh.
Forgive she said forgive me, my
friend, and pray that God will forgive
me. | was educated with the ladies' or
the Sacret Heart. | have no mother on
earth but them. Ny folly has murder
cd the best Of men, who loved me more
than life l have 10 reproach for You
the fault was all my own. am 60
ing to ask these ladies TO give me an
asylum; God bless YOU
She gave me little cross led her
across the ang-plank, dropped tear
npon her hand, and took my last lcok
Of one Of the lovelicst of women on earth,
who in one little year was an angel in
heaven
Il don't know. Write il out. at any
rate. II may keep some young fellow
from being TOOL. L. may make some
beautiful young wife more considcrate.
And so / have written IL.
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