The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-07-02

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his reach than she had been "The
week has passed, BY. Mary. and sup
pose that now you can give me an am
swer." Then she found that she was
in his power. She had told him her
story, as though with the understand
ing that If hslwonld take her withJheR
'.fancy" she was ready to surrender
herself. "Am I not to have an answer
now?" ..a., .,..,
Il suppose So"
What Is 1t to beP''
''If you wish for me, I WIN bo yours. -
"And you will ceass toLthink of MIR.
Gordon?" .r.A,t ti
II shall think Of him. but not In .
way that you would begrudSe me" =
"That will suffice. Iknow that yuti
are honest, and l win not ask you
to forget him altogether. But there
had better We no speaking Of him. IL
ID we'll that he should bo banished from
your mind. And now, dearest, dearest
love. give me your hand. She put her
hand at once into his. ''And q kiss. y
She Just turned herself q little round,
with her eyes bent upon the ground.
"Nay, there must be kiss" Then he
bent over her. and just touched her
cheek. MARY, you are now all my
own" Yes; she was all his own, and
she would do for him the best in her
power. He had not asked for her love,
and she certainly had not given it. She
knew we'll how Impossible it would be
that she should give him her love. ~
know you are disturbed he said. al
also wish for few moments to think oi
it ALL Then he turned away and went
up the garden walk by himself.
She went into the house alone, and
seated herself by the open window in
her bed-chamber. AS she sat there she
could see him up the long walk, going
and returning. AS he went his hands
were folded behind his back, and she
thought that he appeared older thar
she had ever remarked him to be before
What did it signify? She was sure thai
she would be true to him, as far q;
truth to his material interests was CON
cerned. His comforts in life should be
her first care. Ii he trusted her at all
he should not become poorer by reason
of his confidence. And she would be a,
tender to him as the circumstance
would admit. She would not begrudgt
him kisses if he cared for them They
were his by all the rights of contract
He certainly had the best OF the bar
gain, but he should never know how
much the best of it he had. He hnC
told her that there had better be n,
speaking of John Gordon. There Ger
tainly should be none on her part. Sh,
had told him that she must continue t.
| think of him. There, at any rate, sh,
had been honest. But he should no
see that she thought of him. H
| Then she endeavored to assure her
self that this thinking would die out
How many women there were who ha'
not married the men they had love'
first How few, perhaps, had done so
Life was not good-natured enough TO
smoothness such as that. And yet di,
not they as rule. live well with thei
husbands? What right had she to ex
pect anything better than their fateP
| Then her thoughts could not be KEEP
from turning to John Gordon. He ha
been to her the personification Of man
liness. That which he resolved to d
he did with an iron will. But his man
ners to all women were soft, and to he
seemed to have been suffused wit
special tenderness. But he was char
of his words-as he had ever been t
her. He had been the son of banke
at Norwich; but, just as she had be
come acquainted with him, the ban
had broke, and he had left Oxford t
come home and find himself RUNE
man. But he had never said word t
her OF the family misfortune. He ha
been six feet high, with dark hair Gu
very short, somewhat full of sport o
the toughest kind, which, however, h
abandoned instantly. "Things hav
so turned out" he once said to Mary
"that | must earn something to eat in
stead of riding after foxes" Sh
could not boast that he was hanC
some "What does it signify?
she had once said to her ster
mother, who had declared him to I
stiff, upsetting and ugly. "a man is nc
like poor girl, who has nothing bt
the softness of her skin to depen
upon" Then Mrs. Lawrie had d,
clared to him that she did no goo
coming about the house, he wei
away.
Why had he not spoken to herP F
had said that one word, promising th'
if he returned he would come to No
wich. She had lived three years sint
that and he had not come back. Al
her house had been broken up, and sh
though she would have BEEN prepare
to wait for another three years -thous
she would, have waited till she h;
grown gray with waiting-she had no
fallen into the hands of one who had
right to demand from her that 81
should obey him. "And it,is not that
hate hin" she said, to herself. II {
love him. He is all good. But 1 a
glad that he has not bade me not
think Of John Gordon"