Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-12-03
MISS ARIADNE BIVIss.
MYfs fsSCHOOL-DAYs sWEETHEART
:. OF THE CHAMELEON ORDHR.
ssBesuty Is But skin Deep, ,saand First
Lowe, fNine Times Out Of Ten,) is
!. Fruitfess. .s. / Il
% BY EDWARD fAYsoN i HALL.

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! ! :s BY EDwARD fAYsos HALL.
-,x,q - 4 For the sertisel...
Il $. No wondrously-growing sweet
and equally luxariant climbing cle-'
] mats have mutually sprung from the
1 side-by5side graves OF Mics -Ariadne
q ,Biyinss and myself II Nor have the
like leyihg plants thence -intertwined
1 in fond embrace and gracefully as
cended, "higher and higher, to the pin
8 nacle top. and the. point of the spire"
/ of some romantic church tower, as in
the musty ballad-recorded case of Miss
Barbara Allen and her Sweet Will
liam. We. we're once upon a time
within an ace eof it, however; and
that, we positively didn't complete to
the letter a parallel. catastrophe. to
= that of tile aforesaid deceased B. A.
. and S:s<W. was simply owing to the
interventions of the small -pox-"only
this and nothing more Listen, read
er, while | mournfully relate in plain.
prose hoYta pretty girls complexion
may be "transmogri6ed" almost as
| wonderfully as that skin-shiftiag little
: llrascak the chameleon, can change his
i hae. ..fzs = s.s<gs s..sssszs's
.Ie Qur story begins, ,.as many love-sto-
ries have to, in aa5cfear. case of Glove
on first sight at school We CHANGED
to take sehts ON the same bench and
3 in most dangerous proximity the very
. first hour Of the session. fourteen
lyear-old boy and a girl Of ssweet. six
Fteen. Plat accident made the whole
session safterward a.centinuous .amato-
ry chapter.;. And this was how it be-
gan: single glance at hef made
tme feel like had met some supermat-
f:ural creature fairy from cloud
land. Il was charmed, rina .captivafed;
dumfuddled .:;'teetptally.'' Had she
turned round then, and told me, s'then
and there" as the lawyers say, to
jump down my own throat, I undoubt-
edly would have tried it. A complex
ion so astoiishingly pure and trans
parent that could plainly see the
course Of every pretty blue vein in
her face and hands, except when,
transfused by blush, the whole sur
face melted into one molten sheet of
, solid roseate lustre; a deep blue,
| speaking eye; an oval forehead that
, glistened like. a mirror; dark hair,
falling in luxurious masses of elinging,
! clustering ringlets over the prettily-
3 rounded shoulders the form of We
e nus and the face of an angel-this
3 panorama of beauty, (if 1 may SO
| speak, knocked me, nolens voleas,
r head-over-heels down an unscaled
| precipice, Gas I thought into the
' bottomless whirlpool of Cupid.
5 - By and by we got acquainted, walk
: ed talked and went to parties tegeth-
$ er, and exchanged numberless letters.
5 The school term sped away to its close
4 on lightning wings Then it was my
t good or ill fortune to be absent from
i the n1ighborhood of my Dulcina fully
8 eighteen months On my return,
> met "our- mutual FRIEND" doctor. OF
i medicine, a mile or two from the vii
!. lage where she lived. -
! After inquiring about has health,
e you may know who I inquired for
t aae1t. She hadn't written to me for
!, some time - ss7z-a>tfias as# 1
!, l. ssWell and hearty are you, Doctor
L---erT-er- Miss Ariadne ?''
ooh, my dear fellow! Don't ask
: meAI do hate to tell YOU Il
sta4 As the darkies say ~the cold chills
ed jist .runned all over me-, and gasp
q led.E assssl tssa z.5.l.. .4sszfa'
l. What! She aint dead s''';;ss.s
+ "No, no, not dead, Though she
/ came very near dying indeed. IF she
t had died, you would go right off now
Q aud bury yourself beside her, quick
e, er'n Barbara Aliens corpse found
3 Chat Of her Sweet, William. Your
e dust and hers, you know would be
/, 4 bound to mingfe.' % .sxe-
III Law, doctor, stop your fooling.
d 0nt with your~blarsted news, if II
T. breaks my. y.sheart.' = - = - :
: Not a bit-of. danger of. that, my
8 dear boy. Your, stock Of folks have
4 got too much sand il their gizzard to
5 Ecaves easily. WHY, now, don't you
= remember, the Bivins family all have
5 such very Hight complexions, and the
smallpox went. through the village
a. She's pitted So badly she's q perfect
II fright, #Yoil. couldn't endure the
Z lsight Of her now. ~ - s.s'.'s = ssAis
VI aDoctor, you you just 90 to grass. I'll
Il see her in less than ten minutes and
Fl know how it. is myself" -
- Aye, that's it exactly. Go ahead
afand you'll know how it is yonrself'' :
Il 7 Iputaspdfs te. my horse and soou
IS galIoped up-to her. fathers door
It There she sat on the porch, reading
q with the side afsher face toward me
/. Ihe moment She turned her gaze di
< Eeetly toward smes-I was seonvincee
IA that DoctqrsR Rslas had salived. longer
{. in the world and; knew b thing or tive
more.tban Z did --ssss1ssz, w. -
LA. From shat day 70 this'9 have neitk
slersseea NOR desired TO see MissiA Ariadn.
81 aBixins, ,smy sehooleiay sweet-heart re
.xl the .ehameleon order ass-s xaas3 aa 8
q L. MsKeraea,s IN G., NoU. 28. ~
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