The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-04-13

Are there no underwriters for human
hopes FOR the most precious OF interests u
there no insurancef
had been tempted all day, tempted
hy fate and the devil. All summeriong
had been irving to clasp hands for
life Journey with man / did not love:
man noble Of soul and born 70 the
purple. who set up high lineage against
my poor gifts 81 beauty and song. He
threw some love into the scales. too, but ],
Golhelp me. had none 70 give in return.
| had battered erewhile my whole pos
sessions for few glances ola dark,
dark exe, and my note bad gone topro-
test
Conld I. couldI? It kept following
me about with fateful persiSicncy, for
Tonight | WAS 70 give my answer 70 my
high-born lover.
tried 10 look things in the face, 70
count the cost.
Money was a good thing: 1t insured
one warmth ia winter and delicious cool
ne.s in summer. and prettiness and
dalntiness. and the entrance into good
society. Yes. money was good thing.
and position and power. and houses
and lands. 30 far. good; but my soul
hungered and thirsted for love com
mensurate with my own. which this
man. who offered me purple and gold.
had il not in his power 10 give, or, let
me qualify that, had II not IN his nature
10 give.
The stars came out golden and soft.
and the fragrant summer dusk crept
around me where sat inhaling the scent
u the roses. Ambition and love tore
my heart BY turn, and WEAKNESS, too,
put ia poor pitiful plea, for ! was 50
tired. 80 tired.
i was brilliant future that Reginald
Dacre offered me. wherein toll and
WEAKNESS could never come Thought
a the purple and fine linen; the lux
urious rest: the emoluments! Then my
daily life passed in review before me-
that ~ companion 10 naughty, fine
lady. and . singer in fashionable
church, among fashionable saints and
sinners ! began 70 Groom over the old
satire:
III = church which q sarnished with mullion
and gable.
Win altar and reredoa with sarroyle and
The peniisnts' dresses arc scai~kin ana sable,
!, The odor u <anctitys eau d. coloTne.
hnt surely n Lucifcr flying from Hadcs.
Could rare ~ this crowd. with IL paniers
mwouId Nv, looking round o the Lords and
2 s xasTs 4. An sinners 4 this . Az
had entered upon this life from an
unloved and unloving home, home
doled out 70 me BY the tardy Justice q
4 grand-unclc who hadrobbed me Of my
inheritance. thought At first / might
md the sangrcal somewhere in this
new country. which seemed 50 fair. but
alas' ! had not even heard the swish
~ wings
1 thought Of II all--thc fever and the
fret; the petty jars; the misunderstood
ings; the pain II incomprehension; the
unguerdoned toll; the tagging hours
the awful pauscs.
This & marriage; this or marriage.
II seemed written like = placard on
earth and sky. II seemed bound like
phylactery upon the brows Of the PEG.
PIE a. they passed 70 and fro; and soon
The word marriage lost All IT. signif'
canoe for me. as words do after oft re-
peating. Did II mean misery or happi-
ness, bliss or wocP This marriage
that rung IT, changes through my brain
was \ God-appointed? Did Il mean
God blessing or His curseP
lon know did not love this mar
who offered me rest from my labors
hc had not power % evoke one thrill q