The Mineral argus., 1884-05-29

KNOW L Gun marty hC"J 7
Of age the other day, and l have much
more than my pay now. Is that "haH
you are thinking of? 40
"'How could I think about that {
Why will you not understand, Klnloch 2
Your proud old father and your silver
haired, stately mother, how could they
bear for one of their sons to marry an
Irish peasant girlY
'''You have nothing to learn from
the highest lady in the land, my dar-
ling he said, fondly; and younger sons
are not expected to marry heiresses.,
"But she shook her head r%esolutely.
"'And is this how you lightly fling
away a mans happiness for lifeY
GA few days pain now, to save you
years of regret in the future $50.
"The Young man looked at the girl
perplexed. Where could she have
learnt such sentiments ?-where had
she gained the strength to express them
so freely?
"He then said slowly and solemnly,
as if taking an oath: Look, yonder,
Kitty! That is the evening star. 80
surely as it will shine in the heavens
five ten or twenty years, as surely VIII
my love remain unchanged for you.
Bid me come back when you will, Kitty,
and if I have breath in my body and
strength to do it, 1 will come
"'Come back in ten years, Kinloch.
will be true to you and wait till then.
[ will try and improve myself-make
myself more worthy of your love-
"'Keep as you are, Kitty-remain I'M
changed, said the young man, jealous
ly, lest when [ come again l shall not
see in you the last look L took away
with me, my life, my love! he muir
INJURED passionately; and kissing her
sweet brow and mouth, folding her in
one last embrace, he sighed and left
her.
"She turned to go into the cottage. A
large, downy moth which had beer
humping against the little window sailed
in before her, circled thrice round the
candle and flew up into its allurine
brightness. The candle hickered ano
went out; the moth dropped down Will
q thud upon the table, dead.
"Kittv. with eyes blinded by tears and
with shaking hands, relit, though some
what tardily, the light.
"'Kitty, my girl said the old man
pointing significantly to the singed in
sect, don't be as foolish as that silly
thing. Its eyes were dazzled, and 1
had no strength to resist the fatal fas
cination.'
"sFather,' said the girl, stopping dow
and kissing his gray locks, you ma.
trust me-"
Here aunt Bell stopped.
as it interesting! Shall [ go on?"
ooh, do! Did he come back?" saiC
her neice.
"Well, the years passed on, and TIN
girl was joked and leased, and had man,
offers of marriage but she was firm AM
would listen to none.
cat last the young fellows grew wear.
! of their fruitless attempts at love-mak-
ing and the greater part left her alone
"a few, more unkind, would ask whel
she expected her young gentleman home
and tainted her in cutting speeche
and insinuations.
mine years went by, and then ther
came the battle of Waterloo, when o.
fcers and men went down in hundred
together.
"Still no word from Kinloch, an
Kitty's heart, which had never failed
its hghtness, nor her step in its speeC
now sank and faltered for the first tim
early in the next year-in fact, {
New Years night-the officers gave
ball, and every girl and young man fl
miles around was invited.
"Girls were in great demand, and
went down to my aunt's house especial
for that night.
81 was anxious to see Kitty mysel
and to find out how the years had pass,
over her head.
"You think, perhaps, twenty-six W
rather old to be oRllad a girl-do 20
Kitty?
"Well I felt almost the same as d
when / was sixteen, and quite as rea'
!, to enjoy a dance or Irritation l can a
sure you.
kate Daly-that was her name
!, went to help the ladies unshawl thel
! selves, and to be ready with needle a
: thread when an unhappy dams
: with torn skirt or hounce should. requ
her assistance.
"She was then twenty. eight, and t
. young girlish beauty had developedir
! the most lovely of women Only VIII
! her face was at rest, and you caught t
suspicion of an anxious heart upon
9 would you have guessed her age.
q "She wore a pale tea-rose-tinted gov
! with rufaes of lace of her own maxi
! at the neck and sleeves.
! at was a wild and stormy night wi
out, Just such a one as this. but it OF
: served to enchance the brightness 8
animation of the scene within.
= "The dancing of the high-heeled sh,
4 and the silvery laughter rose hig.