The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-06

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was firmly clasped between twc
larger palms
shall never forget yoa,n said
the young man, passionately, his
brown eyes looking witha trump.
ant gladness into hers. aAnd i
shall love you until the hour ofmy
death. This Ishall tell my unSle,
aud i heslill persists in refusing
% give his consent, without know.
ing you, are eyens much as hear.
ing your name, then henceforth he
and ! are strangers. For, Janet,
what youare not allowed to share,
neither will ! possess nor enjoy;
and 50, darling, for a long time
goodbye
Before Miss Iynde had quite re.
covered herself Roger Window had
kissed the little hand so closely i'm
ptisoned in his own, and was gone
For along time she stood as he
had left.herS with hands hanging
Ihelplessty al her side, and with her
head down cast.
She was nota beautiful woman,
scatcely a noticeable one among a
number, and yet there was some.
thing nobleinthe pose Of the proud
head, in the resolute curves Of lip
andchin.
Il was a face whose beauty and
Intelligence grew upon you as you
gazed- -aface that inspired inyol,
antary confidence and a belief in
truth and goodness.
Pray, Mrs. Butdett, who is the
young lady across the way from us2p
Mr.. Samuel Window was adj
dressing himself to his hostess, a
iwell-pteseryed matron intentupon
being agreeable to her rich guest.
@Thsti Is Miss Lynde, my govern
ess, really q superior, young person,
and the children are devoted to
her qexplainedth elady, withmuch
graciousness.
Janet, in a blue dawn dress and
broad.brimmed garden hat, was
seated upon a rustic bench, osten-
sibly reading, but inteality gazing
out over the fair green meadow
that stretched before her,while she
pondered absently upon the un-
scrutable ways that had brought
Roger WINDOWS uncle under the
same roof with her,
The winter was gone and sum
mer had come again, since she and
Roger had parted.
Ina despairiag letter Of farewell
Ishe had learned that he had parted
from his uncle in anger had gone
out into the wide world to work
ioGrhiEowh fortune, butnot with:
out the hope, he added, that some
day he should come back to seek
and claim her.
Janet's reverie was interrupted
by voices close upon her, and, rising
hastily in her confusion, Miss
Lynde was introduced TO Mr.. Win.
dom.
The sunlight and faint blushes
met upon her cheek and made her
positively beautiful, for the time,
as she stood talking to the stately
and ceremonious old gentleman
who had once held her happiness
in his hand, and had refused to
give it to her.
Long ago Janet had confessed to
herself that Roger Windows love
would have crowned her life with
happiness indeed. For life had
been very colorless affair to Janet
until the advent Of this handsome
and ardent lover, and now that he
was gone Miss Lynde had discover.
ed that, afte. all, she had not been
impervious to the influence Of an
absorbing love. There was a sin.
gular mixture of reverence and re-
pugnance in the girl'smind toward
this proud and self.opinionated old
man, and Miss Lynde's eyes and
lips we're very grave as she answer.
ed Mr.. Windom's courtier.like
speeches, aud walked beside him
down the trim garden path.
Evidently he was not aware that
this was the woman who had taken
his nephew away from him. Rog.
er had withheld the name and the
other had not had the curiosity to
inquire after it. The fact was
sufficient to the inRexible old man.
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