Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1885-08-07
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FOR LOVE OF HER"
Tomorrow | CO."

Tomorrow | CO."
The speaker said this softly, sitting
upon the piazza Of the Swan hotel
which overlooked the lake. Beside her
sat a man, young, handsome, romantic,
and evidently, to the most prosaic spec
tator, deeply in love with her. Within
the windows a cantatrice lifted her voice
in phenomenal trills and quavers One
by one the other guests had crossed the
stills of the French-windows to gather
about the piano. Only these two re-
mained-the woman and the young man
He was years her junior, and she was
the object of his first passion Had you
told him her color was not all her own,
that she had "dono something to her
hair" to change its brown tint to gold,
he would have given you the lie direct.
To him she was the only pure, perfect,
and beautiful woman in the world Men
love like that at one-and- twenty
Tomorrow GO" she had said, as
it she were sorry for it,
And the youth had answered
Don't go, Miss Chalmers. Why do
you go? Must your"
Yes, ! must" she said. al do not
want to leave this place. One could
stay here forever, it it were summer for
ever. But | must, Mr.. Lester"
"For ever !" said the boy ''Do you
know what | should do if | could? You
would not be willing, perhaps; but |
would stop Time just here, and we two
should sit alone together on this piazza
for ever. The moon over the wator
yonder, its light on your face; tho music
within thcro-I----. Oh, you ought
to be able to read my hearth You know
| love you"
"Poor boyl rm afraid I'do," she an.
swered
"What | do not know, and want to
know, is, whether you love me o. he
said whether you love me enough
to be my wife ? Will you try to love
me so much 7"
"lts not Il question of how much /
could love you if tried, she said. II
need not try much, | believe, to love
you great deal. But you say enough
to marry you. Don't you know Don't
you read the society papers2 Haven't
you been told of the engagement Of
Miss Charlotte Chalmers to the man
worth millions You surprise me In
three days | shall marry old Mr.. Totty.
We have been engaged year He is
eighty years old He is. richer than
even people think Mamma is so great
ly pleased. We are in debt everywhere.
Poor old Totty He is not half bad"
Her eyes went out across the water
again.
The boy made no reply. She waited
for his answer, and, in surprise looked
towards him again
She saw only an empty chair.
How he had gone, when, or where,
she did not know.
$50 much the better for me" she
said.
She sat and thought strange thoughts
how women had married old men, and
been left widows very soon, and had
married old lovers who cared for no one
else.
She went to her bed in n sort of
dream.
At breakfast some one said TO her that
young Leonard Lester had 'gonc of
somewhere without settling with tho land
lord"
ale will come back and settle with
him, she said, adding TO herself "whcn
the coast is clear of me-"
Mr.. lofty met her with bis carriage
at the station A coachman drove
fine pair Of horses footman folded his
arms on the box beside him. Mr.. Totty
was ford old gentleman, with little
white hair still left at the back Of his
head.
When they arrived at her mothers
door, that old society lady met them
smiling She was for ever anxious now
lest there should be some slip between
the lip of her handsome daughter and
that cup trimming over with gold which
the millionaire offered.
She smiled and Hattered, and spoke
to the son-in-law who was to be, as
though he were gay young man. He
liked it all the better because she was
twenty years his junior herself.
And now began the excitement that
an approaching wcdding-day brings to
any fashionable household.
Dressmakers, millinors, caterers, were
at the door; crates of china, baskets Of
wine then a crowd of poighbors' chill
dren stared at tho carriages which drove
from before the striped awning with tho
wedding guests, tho brides relation, the
bride herself
Then they returned, and there was a
breakfast, and a pretty figure IN silver
grey travelling dress entered carriage,
followed by an old gentleman. A small
cab received waitng-maid within,
valet on tho box by the driver. The
bride was of on her wcddng-trip.
IL was Mr.. Totty's wish to go to Swan