Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-07

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sweet friend Clare" On the inside of the |
paper was written:
sob knowest thou why to distance driven,
When friendship weeps the parting hour,
The simplest gift that moment given,
Long, long retains magic power"
She had many treasured keepsakes !
which he had given her-all Of them |
trifies. A very pretty port monnaie in /
mother of pearl, silver mounted, which |
he had asked her to accept; said it suited |
a lady better than a gentleman. He did |
not tell her that he had bought it in Paris |
on purpose for her, which he had, togeth- |
er with a splendid fan, some choice books |
and engravings, and large and elegant |
oil painting.
she had preserved, too, several of the |
bouquets he hadbrought her. He seldom |
came without flowers, but she had only |
retained such as he had given her emble- |
natieally, and they had together studied |
out the language of affection and compli- |
ment which they breathed. One of these |
treasured flowers was cape jessamine |
which he brought in as he came one day, |
and walking up to her took a small comb |
from her hair, and with it fastened the |
flower among her luXuriant curls, saying;
SIT is thus that the pure and the lovely should |
Stainless with stainless and sweet with
sweet"
All these souvenirs, dear for the giver's
sake, and dear because of the associations
connected with them, she had placed to-
gether in a drawer of her bureau, and she
put the pencil with them after having
shown it to her mother. Though it
mad M, iut,itneT name nor date, she knew of
! course from whence it came. She lived
and breathed, and had her being in an at
| mosphere of love. The sense of disquiet
= III; - ThA had imDued her
with, when she was trying to make -
lieve that Mr.. LIE Verrier was in love with
| her, had passed away.
No doubt ever crossed her mind with re-
! gard to his love for herself. She had en-
shrined him in her heart, and no persua-
sions could have made her believe that he
was not sincere in his expressions of af-
lection for her; nor did she think it
strange that he had not proposed
to her. Their acquaintance had
been very short; probably he was waiting
| to know her better. Any way she had the
| most perfect confidence in him. What
! ever his reasons were they were good
| ones. Life was beautiful to her now.- Oh,
how beautiful! Her nature had always
been an atfectionate one; now she loved
everybody. She had so many happy
| memories. She trod alone every walk
that they had ever taken together, and re-
called the conversation imprinted on the
| scenes she visited. She read again the
books they had mutually enjoyed. She
sought out and pored over passages he
had marked with his pencil until she
knew them all by heart. She always took
the same seat in church which she had Oc-
| cupied when they went together. She
sung and played only the songs he liked.
His presence was recorded everywhere.
And how was it with him?
"Man's love is Of mans life thing apart,
IT'S woman's whole existence"
Yet Mr.. LIE Verrier left her not with in
| difference, far from it. His heart was full
of her, yet it bore not in it the happy
hopes which rested upon hers. He had
enjoyed as much as it was possible tor
him to experience of happiness while he
was with her-his nature was full to re-
pletion-he could not ask for more. Yet
his memories of her were of a very differ
emit nature from hers Of him. His |
were all past-hers had flu |
ture mingled with them He regard |
ed her as one who was to be at some time |
or other the wife of some other man. He |
felt as if his separation from her was an
eternal one, as far as this world was con- |
cerned, for he could never bear to see her |
the wife of another; he would go to the !
ends of the earth rather than subject him. |
self to such meeting. She regarded him |
as in one sense her own. While she was |
LOOKING LOT the IuAI ITullIO0 OF happiness /
in some perhaps far distant future in a |
blessed union with him, he was studying |
out the question how ne might best forget |
her. He wanted to take the beautiful |
past, and as a picture Of memory glaze it |
and lay it away, and plan out future /
which should inevitably separate him
from her. He entered with fresh VigOr |
into hiSbusiness, and hoped by immersing .
himself in its perpleXities and cares to |
heal the wound in his heart
The winter passed with Glare, as usual,
dividing her time between duties and
amusements. The latter consisted main
" in reading. sketching, riding AID at
tending to her birds and her green house.
She led rather a solitary life, though their
house was often full of company.
Miss Thompson spent most of the win
ter with her friends in New Orleans, and
Miss Cochrane was so engrOssed with DR..
Morris that she seldom had any time to
give other friends. But Clare cared not
for society. She lived upon her own
thoughts; and they were COM
pany enough for her. Frank
HOughton wrote her frequently, and
she replied always to his commu-
nicatiOnsy but there was great differ
ence in the spirit of their letters. His
breathed only of love, while hers were
simple record Of the daily and c0mmea
occurrences OF life. She never alluded in
any manner to his prOtestatiOns of atfee- |
tiOn, nor did she ever open her heart to
him and make him contidant of her feel
ings; on the contrary, she sought by every
means in her power to increase the dis
lance between them.
Miss jamie returned TO her home about
the middle Of FEBRUARY, and had a great
deal to tell about her sscharming visit"
She went everywhere and saw everybody.
and Mr.. lie Verrier was perfectly devoted
to her all the time of her stay.
k.Dxr -aTrr fTT1rr ho |
is, Clare" she said. "You should see him
in society; he had nothing to draw him
out here-he is so gay, and so fond OF par !
ties, and the life Of every circle. The
girls almost worship him; they are all
pulling-caps about him, They said they
were glad was coming away, then per-
haps they would. some of them, stand a
chance. l told them they might share his
attentions among them, but l should not
suffer any one of them to engrOss them
all. / am going back again in few
weeks. l should rot have come home but,
mamma got frightened about herself, and
thought she was going to die and sent for
me. l cannot see that she is any worse
than she has been For the last ten years.
but she got very mad with me for telling
her So"
mamma considers her very ill.," said.
Glare, ''and does not think she can live
very long,0' shocked beyond measure at
nearing C&uIe SpSdA III SuCu d uAduuel u
her mother.
'.You all don't know her as well as do,''
replied the heartless jamie. ''She gets into
these hysterical fits and frets and pines
and makes herself sick. If she does
die and ] get to be my own mistress l am
going to New Orleans to live. There is
nothing worth living for IN this dull place.
One might as well be dead as to stay here
all the time"
''And can it be possible" Glare said to
herself, mentally, ''that Mr.. LIE Vernier
can be pleased with this heartless crea-
ture?t ] cannot believe it. He may have
forgotten ne, and, from my not having
had a line 0Aa WNd from him, suppose
perhaps he has.N t 1 am sure he could
not admire char ter like hers. She con-
cluded he must h altered very much
since she had~a%W him if the picture
one. He told u once that he rarely at
tended parties-never if he could avoid it.
If be had become so frivolous lie was not
the friend whom she had known and
loyed.,
Miss jamie made him the SIeme Of con-
varsatiou eVnrV time they met.