Milford chronicle., 1885-02-06


g for a long time. Then a hoarse voic
! said
'You have seen Barbara %
eyes, I have seen her."
''As you describe q
eyes p
''And You despise me as faitbless {,
her and to you2"
'No, I do not despise YOU an
sorry that you did not know your owl
heart better, when You came to ask m,
to be your wife"
All her pain and love was well hidder
IN the cold, proud voice which Fanni,
tleasanton assumed, to cover her break
ing heart But after moment, she said
more gently: S'''''
Barbara has been verv i'll. and il
still too weak to bear any great AGITATION.
You must be patient and ieave ber To me
her. - '''''- 9''
Fannie, you will break our engage
meat? You will dare the gossip that
will be the result of any change now .
You will not trust me to tear out this old
love and be ever true and faithful TO
you? am not so weak but 1 can do so
If You will trust me. ="
''But / will not p was the quiet renIv.
Il will marry no man whose heart is
not all mine. 1 will have no memory of
another love for my constant rival We
can still be friends, Cyrus, but never
again lovers.
He had no words to meet the steady
resolution Of her voice. but vet he foof
no towards plea for shelter. He would
not say, even to his own heart, "She
never loved me; she is glad to throw me
on lie knew she had loved him. be-
ing TOO purely womanly to give her hand
where she had not already given her
heart. He knew the sacrifice she was
He took both her little cold
hands in his, lifted them revere,s,,, ). ,'S5 q,
bis lips, saying FH'y 70
"May God bless you fossSorr oooI
less to her. viii come SSoin I gJOG, gxSon
you SEND for me-" e''H wien
So he lettss hssg, CARRYING the dream of
uture happiness she had carried six
months next her heart with him.
She would not trust herself to think
obtaining the doctors permission. she
rought Barbara so her own stately
ONE and nursed her back to health.
sstoring her to her lover, but telling
er nothing OF her own sacrifice.
Before the winter SHOWS came there
as a quiet wedding, for the doctor had
rongly urged a warmer climate for the ,
valid.
She was very happy, this pale. little Y
arbara, when sheltered by her bus-
and s love, she took leave Of her kind
lend' and went away to seek the soft :
z OF FLORIDA, to court health in balmIv =
uthern breezes. She was yerv bappv g
her husbands tender care, his caress- :
g affection in the winter months when =
en- the warmth and fragrance Of =
orida air would not bring back tbe y
1t strength. Little by little she faded '.
ay' always gentle and loving, always q,
ppy, even when she lay dying. in "
husbands loving arms never guess
any divided love Or duty had ever al
.eatened to separate them. Gently p
l palnlessly, as a babe sinks to slum- 81
,. little Barbara sank into the last Ai
thly sleep, her head upon her hus- w W.
Id S breast, his tender words SOOTHING III
, his loving touch caressing her. an
ioftly they laid her under the ever tr'
EN- verdure of the southern grass sn
Cyrus turned his face homeWard
owed and sorrowful. tn
Wo years later Fannie Pleasanton re res
led from her European trip. taken to
ledlately after Barbara's wedding me
old home was unchanged, her amt be,
to come back to her housekeeping ito
friends. Tn
little paler, a little graver. Cvrus VIII
~ her when he came to call bnt
the gentle, dignifed woman he re. NO,
lbered, the true companion his SOM sin g,,
ed. 'ou' sil ~.
sver to living ears did he tell fne So Sno ~,
ne learned IN his brief married life. mn,
secret that Barbara, sweet, gentle sto,
'ara, whose girlish beauty had won oc,r- oo,,
owe, whose deepest pity had stirred no,, o,
ieepest pity, was not the souJ wife m
oped to find. Gentle, loving. suf- 1
g, she appealed to his protection. cisc Ci.
'lty, and he gave her both in full !l On!l
ure. arrl'
t he knew, only too soon. that she non
never meet him heart 10 heart os says
le could could never be his true .or
ompanion. He was loyalty true to 70 70 ~ y
memory, speaking no word of his enga
disappointment. ''' PI
he sought Fannie with a lovers pal {
ness, LIES devotion, and Fannie conn
, him with her whole heart knew; knew; heigl
no divided homage he offered her. grain
for the second time. he asked her weig
his wife. will
had made her sacrifice, and knew grayyi
ne had soOthed Barbara's passage yertic
grave, not fastened it. And with tn
conscience, a deep, abiding love. cred
ce more put her hand into that Of pickle
Lennox and became his faithful scratC
loved wife. days