Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1883-08-01
Seven Times Three.
BY EMMA LEE
ooh sweet nightengale, wait
TIL | listen and hear
If step draweth near,
For nv love he is late !"

INl lily lONC uN 20 AueN
Pretty Mamie Harrison scowled her
low, piquant brow with white tangIe
of discomfort, routed her sweet red
lips, drumming on the wiudow-pane
and strained ter blue eyes to try and
discover solitary figure against the
bleak gray of the wintry twilight.
'Oh, dear! y The words, spoken be-
low her breath, Lad disappointed
qniver in them; the saucy eyes grew
misty, and their sparkle was angrily
bright, " hhe her eyehds dropped to hide
lali-rt bellious tear.
A slight, girlish creature, with slen-
der, wlllowy grace about her golden
brown hair growing low on her fore
head, and swept carelessly back in a
fashion that would have ruined utterly
all claims 10 beauty in rineiy-nine OF
a Hundred women. The warm intense
face with its clear outlines was not
sharp, never angular, but rather thin,
with delicate, voluptuouo lips, bewild-
erlng saucy and bewitchlng in joyous
moments, and mobile enough so that
in sad hours their piteous. pleading sor-
row well nigh melted you to tears.
Oh, Dick y With wild glad cry
she sprang up, as tall fair rosy-cheek-
ed young giant opened the door; letter
for me!'
Not to.iight.'- not even Richard
Hamstead's sympathetic hesitation and
general answer. and his hopeful COM
ment, 1T will come tomorrow, Miss
Mamie could keep the tears from ris-
ing, and an audible sob from escaping
her.
She Lad waited so in patiently, poor
Mamie, for his coming and three long
weeks expected her truant lover, Guy
Faynostock, whom all her friends called
un worthy, and Of whom many dark FORE
bodings were expressed.
What an age these three dismal,
dragg ing, wearing weeks Lad BEEN
'Twenty.cne long days. thought
Mamie, counting the time, girl fashion,
as her thoughts went flying back to the
evening three weeks since. when in her
cardinal silk and cream.whne Glorie
de Dijou roses. she had received her
friends IN royalty hospitabls style,
dancing away the fleetiDg hours in such
errant, careless fashion.
Eluding her aunps waichful eye, she
,ole away 10 the conservatory 10 bear
Guy whisper of his devotion. 4 will
come, my own love, will write every
day.' was his last passionate words as
be snatched a kiss from the glowing
cheek in the shadow of pink olean-
der.
Il might have known she murmur-
cd TO herself, Tot wholly doubling him
vet. 4 will hope, and he will come
oh, I know he will, and 10 the mean
time
Hastily she repressed the unruly
emotion and turned quickly to say, 1,
hone so. Dick Pm greatly obliged
t,ke a seat, won't you ?
Thank you. l come up 10 have a
lit le talk with you, This seems like
old times, Mamie
Indeed it does.' The riotous dim
ples bagan to dance in a suEsbine OF a
rippIing smile. Her heart bravely Or
dered 10 tie dungeon Of secluslon.
Mamie began at once to gain her old
coouetisb gaiety and light hearted mer
riment. For the poment Guy was for
gotten. and all tie week hls faithless-
ness had caused her.
She sat rapidly thinking ere she
spoke. Idlewild was the Prandesl
country seat in the universe The besl
place for genuine good time Her
| lot was cast here for two months at
least. Six weeks might liberate her
| ii she was specially amiable, for Aun'
Lue thoroughly mIstrusied and disliked
her hero, Guy, aud had urged her visit
| for tbi, very reason, impelled by the
real sense Of womanly duty to willful
Mamie, and the thought ofmaOl true
hearted Dick Hampstead, united to q
lbopc that she feared even her eyes
might beiray, as she bsde Ter niece 9
tender good-bT. iis +.
'Guy must surely come reasoned
Mamie ; he had promised, and be hac
| throe weeks OF grace, for three weeks
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