Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-08
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEVIS SUNDAY, MARCH s. 1885,

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that | was sleeping well: You know /
/ used to pretend TO be asleep and you
1 would 90 away satisfied, and the next
morning when had emptied the stocking
/ you had filed would confess. Dear old
| John. how l used to deceive your
| "Ah, those we're sweet timesl"
''But not better than tO-day-dO you
/ think so, JOhDP
ENo, no, God is good. Great joTs come
/ with our added pains.'
| 'You would not have had it all other
wise. John. Look back. You would not
have denied yourself the privilege Of low
/ ing her if you could"
u Understanding what was to follow?'
Eyes, even understanding what was to
/ follow.D
( He drew his bushy eyebrows together.
! mo, surely no. Not to have known
| her-that Would have been the greatest
| calamity
alt is very hard that You cannot marry
1 her." she exclaimed, abruptly taking a
/ look at the matter from the other side.
PRAY don't consider it N that way. |
| am sufficiently inclined 10 rebel as it is"
/ "My dear bf0Iher, dQu'C mistake me. 1t
| is hard, but you are taking the only
/ right way. [ applaud your courage in
! giving yourself the + mptatlOn. feel its
/ difficulty, but YOU know ought not
/ even TO speak of it as pOsslbIlity-yOu
/ know how | should despise you il you
| should yield"
! Her hard words cheered him.
! "Not a thousandth 50 much as | should
I despise my self. And yet am living upon
! the edge OF II every day. DON'T talk of it
as impossible. 1t is It's very possibility
that gives il value as trial."
sit is prodigiOus trial.
He stroked her golden hair upon which
! the freight played.
! ktDnpSf fhfrE nf II GiGfOr II ic on rh
| that one should bearit. You speak of my
| courage. 1t was the poor courage OF the
moment. Ii l had tancied the load which
/ it would bring with it, which l carry
about with me every day-even now,
since you have come, since l have won
comparative peace, my most shameless
| self-natteTY Will not let me believe /
should have found the strength"
/ Rose fell into deep study, gazing at
the fire. She took her arm from his knee,
and setting her elbows upon her lap sup
ported her cheeks between her hands.
''She was in love with some one else"
said she, suddenly.
"What makes you think your"
| because If she hadn't beeh she would
| have done more than esteem you. She
! would have loved you as you loved her,"
| exclaimed the girl with conviction.
She clasped her hands about her knee
/ and sat staring into the fire, allowing the
weight of this assurance to reach her
| brother. She had at least secured mis- ST.
lence for few moments.
u can't think 80 we'll of my self as that"
he said.
"You need not, brother; only think of
! him. VINO was hep Didn't you speak of
young Englishman-?
''Mr. March2 There was certainly"
| began Mr.. K5ator.
"March, that is it'll" cried Rose.
"Where was ae2 Where did he stay while
| he was hereP'
AT Or. Van Cleers," answered the
minister.
'Ot course. And there he met Miss
Van Cleef and saw her every day, and"
"Don't, don't, Rose! Don't make me
think that. | should be grieved to think
that. Remember, my victory isn't thor
Oughly won, even yet"
"Oh, pardon me, brother. L don't mean
to hurt you. And yet it was the natural
conclusion. He icaS IN love with her,
wasn't hep'
mono, no, hope. can say truth
fully now that it was not so. At one time
il was my selfish tear-as If, if | loved
her. should not wish that she should be
happy in her own way-but no." he said,
slow ", mo, think mott
"DJn't you mean that you wish to think
not? What reason have you for thinking
| that it IL not so!'
Rose turned her face mp toward him
earnestly.
'You don't ask easy questions, Rose"
No. CHE assented, gently
"Aud the answer u this one would
take "a long time. Aren't You tired and
sleepy after y ar work alb ut the tree"
"Jobn." she exclaimed, reprOachtully.
"DO you think shall ever be tired when
can do anything for youg"
l. was characteristic OF Dir. keatOr
that in telling her the history of his pass
sion for Constance he should have omit
ted all mention OF the barrier to mis- union
with her. lie had said that, complying
with her fathers wish, she bad offered 10
yield 10 his desire and marry him. She
Waa, however, not member OF the
church, and in other ways, not stated;
would not prove acce.table TO the Con
ference. TINS had been the temptation
I before which be had fallen. To have
spoken OF March, of his warning TO Con-
stance aud the final reproof in the church
would have involved "a certain reflection
upon Constance, and especially would
put his own conduct in light which he
feared would win her praise and pity-tWO
things from which he lnudestly shrank.
In telling the story now he put the worst
face be could cOnjure upon bis Rcts, but
as he would not depart from the truth,
and the truth atits barest was so beautiful
| a IccOfus Rose muTmuT6 Vi duLulIdlOn
interrupted him.
sit was bitter temptation" be con-
cuded. And when she was good
enough to say that there might be worse
lots IAN to be my wife,
"WOrse lOts" broke in Rose, with en-
phasis. 81 should nope son
Nay, was it in any way high lot!
Remember her breeding, her education.
Looking at it superficialiY, dear, what
RI Pa ri h4r a az lacc--ah mn IN
less if she looked benearhy This is not a
large place and she was born for the city.
l used always TO see that in the midst OF
the blind hope that hoped against all
these facts. A clergyman upon small
salary in a small village-the home of a
people with whose faith and life she had
no sympathy, what was there in that
prospect to lead her to fUrsake the assured
! prosperity and brilliancy of the life L
| knew she had planned for heTselt?'
"YOu forget that you were that clergy
| man." said Rose, with the softest sugges-
ton Of d smile.
"Ah, no! That is what | remember
/ a cripple, man Of meagre parts"
She clapped her hand over his mouth
| caressingly.
"Hush, hush you shall not SANDER
yourself in tEat way. she ought to feel
| glad and hOnored to marry such a man:
and some day, if she is half so sensible
as you think her, and is not in love with
Mr.. March, she would be if-ah, John,
! isn't it dreadful! You can't do it, and /
wouldn't have you. But it's hard. What
| could be worsel Let me help you bear it.
1 can't tell you how ] feel for you. But,
! Oh, John, HereT, never yieldW
| III ought to marry at once. The elders
| wish it. My people would be glad. 1t is
| the one thing that would put the wicked
! lure forever behind me-"
mo, John, don't you see that that would
| be shrinking, not to speak of the crime
| you would commit against the poor wo-
man whom you married, not only without
| loving her, but loving another? You have
accepted the temptation. You must bear
| all that 1t brings"
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