The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-05-26

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his comfort went over Tredegar Al
mont as he returned to his empty draw
ingroom, but he soon put the feeling
down. He had sat at tables with bis
entire fortune depending upon single
card, and won or lost without the quiv-
ering of a. nerve- Mignoni had simply
staked her fortune upon such chance,
and, whatever the result, he was out of
the game. ltnl6 D Babe 1dl obs IS .
For the young couple, there was a
month of bliss, of Glove among the
roses;''a month during which Rodney
put away a lurking sense of uneasiness
that he did not attempt to define, while
he breathed the sweet incense Of orange
blooms, and tried to believe that he was
the most blessed of men. Once, and
once only, Mignon referred TO her past
life. go xrDt Uni1. LIl.
| Rodney she asked, "hadn't better
| tell you all there was of il, for fear YOU
may think worse of me than deserveP''
my dear child, y said Rodney, (" does
any fellow ever care to remember what
| the swamp was like where he plucked
his lilyP L only know that saw you
! first in a church and that you looked
| like q saint. l have yet to discover
anything that is not pure and sweet and
womanly about YOU sd .i t,si
A saucy look flashed up over the RANT
face. alh}7
! g think / must tell YOU, then, that |
have very horrible temper when it is
| once aroused. Fortunately. it lies
deep; has never got complete possession
of me more than twice in my life. NV
old nurse used to say: Little missy,
dem tantrums like dejIappleplexy; you
lneber stan it to hab, more dan free OBJ
'em, and that prediction makes me
careful to avoid the third. You are to-,
erably safe. Rodney, if You are notify"
rannical beyond endurance .
! "You would vanqliish me with one
look out of your beautiful eyes, if it ever
} came to, a pitched battle, my love-
! The ':beautiful eyes were cast down,
| and a graver expression replaced her
VI gay smile.siYibni bGA iumno 9i II q
,ht :. 1 suppose, you, would be as hard and
Ipitiless as men generally are, and that
4 you would conquer in the'cnd as men
,kgenerally do. 4 Newcomer have not the
gift of endurance, however strongly we
\ may feel for aitirie.n 5"3 II a1tn7 - 81
Eoq'f Hardito you, my lowell cried Rod
,ney, reproachfully 81. L... e
! The thoughtful shade fingered on
4 Mignon's face.Io She wondered that he
d could so thoroughly trust her, that, he
could so readily forgive her own lack of
Y trust 1filAlMl}l mon tlinudmf a
d "YetifI had told you what was in
the beginning, Rodney, you would have
dropped me like snake"
4 He reached both his hands to take
hers in clasp so fierce and strong, that
her color changed with the sudden pain
\ "Lsten to me, Mignon" For Gods
sake let that past which / am willing
to ignore, lie as dead as if it never had
been If I did not know that every link
y which bound youto it was severed lcbni-
pletely, Liquid not feel as, / do, If
found, you going back to it, even in
! thought with one regret, I would curse
the hour that brought you into,my life.
AS | am, you have taken me; as you
are, / have taken you. The rest is all
before us, and there is to be no looking
baek.'fua h8mu IN ra1J1 si3 ri
But it is, not always so easy to turn a
clean page in life. Words and acts
4 work out their Inevitable consequences
which must be entered ON the record
there are links which may be invisible
and unsupported. but they make them.
o. bselves felt in good time. s1oilE7r
NE The honeymoon month wore away
Mr.. and Mrs. France went North in the
late spring, and Rodney took a Cottage
/ ON the. Hudson, until he should look
about him for some lucrative business
opening. He had $4,000 inherited
: capital to invest, and, with youth anC
\ health and industry, he held the key tc
prosperous future. Two weeks later
[ he went to the city to call upon hi.
: former, guardian, Mr., Sangerford.Q
That eminently successful merchant
: sat in dim, close counting-room
stepped in business to the eyebrows, bu
he turned away from lists and invoice:
at Rodney's entrance.
The latter was prepared for a acoC
: reception, yet hardly prepared for thu
| sorrow more than anger with which hi
: was greeted. Mr.. Sangerfordr had no
I been willing to intrust the happiness o
, his own and only child to this untrieC
: young fellows keeping; he was no
I wholly sorry that that affair was at al
end forever, but he was shocked, and
grieyed, and solicitous for the you'll
, who had been admitted to his househol,
2 and made one of his family upon tn,
: death of his parents. ,s,oc,1.Q
: Rodney, what is this you have done
? | know the facts, of course, from you
a letter and Killuth's following it, but
can hardly credit the latter. You hav
| been rash and foolish and headstrong,
daresay, but certainlylnot to the eNten
& off, Z" ''t't ih.+
: DO" OF what, sir?'hwith a defiant flash
E Say il ifiyop. must. Linking my DIES