The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1885-02-25
LOVE AND DUTY.

LOVE AND DUTY.
1t was a wild and rocky coast
along which ran the path that led
to the homeofol Martin the Frere.
AT ordinary times the cottage
would have possessed but little at.
TRACTION for a bold, stirring youth
like Owen Glenn. But a visitor
had Of late frightened up its pre-
cincts-a young girl named Annis,
named after the aged grandmother
who dOztd by the hearth through
the long evenings, content to watch
the bright flames as they shot up
from the broad fireplace, and per
haps tosee visions Of The past with
her dim eyes.
Dame Frere was sharp.voiced,
bustIing woman, long past middle.
age, and not having the name of
possessing a very sweet temper,
but she had a soft place in her
heart for granny, and it was to
please her that she had invited her
pretty name.child to come and
visit them a few months.
Annis was a tall, slight girl, as
straight as a pine tree and graceful
asafawn. Her yellow hair hung in
perfect name Of shining curls all
about her shoulders and far down
below her waist.
Imagine a sweet, innocent face,
lighted with great lustrous dark
eyes, anda red mouth almost al.
ways curying into smiles, and you
have some idea Of Annis.
Most Of the young girls in the vi.
cinity we're buxom, merry lasses,
with hair and eyes to match-both
Of intense blackness-and with
more or less of the hoyden in them,
Their irlaughter was loud aud hearty,
and their ways more frolicsome
than refined, So it is not strange
that when this graceful, quiet
stranger came among them, with
her shy ways and blonde coloring,
her swift changes Of expression and
native ease Of manner, she was al
once taken into the hearts of all the
young people in the neighborhoOd.
1t isa great mistake to think
that one girl is sensible to another
maiden's beauty, Sometimes, to
be sure, she may havea a feeling Of
Jealousy with regard to it when
she is naturally of that disposition,
but oftener she loves the object Of
her admiration all the more be.
cause she embodies that ideal which
exists ia every human soul to a
greater or less degree.
Owen Glenn had fallen head over
heels in love at his first meeting
with Anuis, and had not missed an
opportunity of meeting her at the
various rustic gatherings to which
he had been invited, and tonight
he was going to teste his fate by
telling Annis that he loved her,
aud ask if he could hope for a re.
sponse to the ardent feeling with
which he had been inspired by her.
Owen was not at all certain as to
the SUCCESS of his suit, forthere was
another who admired Annis, and
who was far above him in worldly
station and wealth, and as Owen,
in his freedom from vanity, also
thought, in good looks and in other
qualities calculated to win a girls
heart
Annis had received the pleasant
little coprtesies and attentions of
both in a way calculated to wound
neitheri though, as to that, itwould
have been an impossibility for her
to be other than so sweet and gra-
ciOus as not to enkindle hope in
each passionate young heart,
Thus matters stand as Owen
started from his home to take the
long aud tedious walk over cliffs,
which must be trayersed before be
could reach the cottage which shel.
tersd the objectof his love.
II had been raining steadily all
day long, and as night came on the
wind had risen 70 a gale. s..
But wrapped in his waterproof
cloaka and lighted on his way by a
lantern, Oven cared not for the