Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-03-26
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..Why is there no law made and enacted
m nnnisb such heartless crimes as this
For crimes they are-black. treacherous
crimes. even though perpetrated so charm
;nolv nv beauties like Pauline Sedley and
her sister coauettes. And this fair. inno-
cont hoy. whom | loved like brother,
( the coolest heart might have spared him.
/ Rv Cupid and all his attendant deities.
will be revenged on Pauline Sedley for
tnis,"
/ At almost the same moment Ralph
Montacu,e came slowly up the piazza
steps. The lghtness and elasticity of his
/ gait were gone he walked like one who
I had received mortal wound.
/ Ralph
\ ,iontacute started at mis- cousins voice.
You mere, Harry 2'
YES all alone. Sit down beside me.
old fellow: why are you not out with the
boating party?'
/ II lid promise this morning to make
one Of them-but--but- don't
feel like it tonight"
! Livingstone took his Cousins hand and
pressed it with firm. loving grasp.
kuON All hDOLt II hN obad.
mildly. Don't be cast down-she isn't
worth one pang of memory. The world
is wide; life is long-you'll outlive this
blow. if you only have patience to wall"
Mon,acute's head dropped on Harry's
shoulder.
''Oh Harry, / did love ner-I loved
her dearlv.''
Take courage-she is not worth it,"
And the stalwart soldier. soothing away
his boy cousins woe, was gentle as a
woman. even while he wondered to see
that Ralph took it so keenlv and bitterly
to heart.
From that day the gay little world OF
the fashionable watering place was aston
ished at the devotion accorded 10y Major
Livingstone to Miss Sedley. Pauline
herself was more than astonished she
was elated and overioved. Major Living
stone was man who was sought and
courted by all the bellies OF society," man
whose .magnetic eyes" Gas she herself
had phrased iO and tenderly modulated
voice were enough to set any feminine
heart in Il blaze. He walked with her, he
rode with her. be read poetry to her. he
sat with her during the long, golden Sep
TENDER twilights. until Pauline felt that
lite beside him was the brightest boon
Providence could accord. She heartily
discarded her other suitors. She cared
no longer for ball room or picnic parties.
To her. the whole world held but one
man, and that was Harry Livingstone.
But still he kept just outside the charm
ed circle of love-making; he did not pro-
pose. Pauline. growing almost sick at
heart. counted the days that still remained
of 1.-The season."
''lle will propose tomorrow or perhaps
the day after" she whispered to herself.
"Oh, surely, it must come SOON
1t was the evening before the breaking
up of the gay party that had enlIvened
the seaside hotel all summer, and bril-
liant ball had been gotten up to celebrate
the close of the brief. happy season.
Pauline Sedley had dressed for this festiv-
tv with unusual care-somehow she felt
that it was to be a crisis in her life She
wore a lemon colored Grape dress. on lem
on-colored silk. like a fair aureate cloud,
and her hair was looped up in its shining
braids by slender chains of gold Her
toilet. she knew by the murmur that per-
vaded the ball room the moment she en-
tered, was success-and Harold Living
face with evident admiration.
But the evening passed away. throb-
bing lis brilliant hours in music and per-
tune, and Harold never came near her
She had cavaliers in abundance-she was
the cynosure of all eyes-but he, the man
of men, kept obstinately aloof.
Take me to the balcony. am sitting
for want of fresh air." she said almost
petiishly, to the partner with whom she
had Just glided through the redowa.
Thank YOU need detain you no long
er."
And Mr. Guildersleen. feeling himself
abruptly dismissed. left Pauline by tne
side of Major Livingston and slalked
away in high dudgeon.
Harold - she breathed softly. with a
pleading glance upward in his eyes. You
have not been near me all the evening"
Il have been busy with the companion
ship of my own thoughts" he answered
coldly. 81 start for Europe tomorrow
morning"
''For EUROPE"
ITO be gone hardly know how many
years. may visit India and the east be-
fore return"
Harold ~
He bent down his head in cold courtesy.
81 beg pardon, Miss Sedley-did you
speak Pr
"fou will leave me. Harold ?" .
81 shall be obliged TO leave many kind
friends" he returned indifferently.
There was cold chill in Pauline's
heart-a dizzy blindness before her eyes.
But still she commanded herself. With
her it was no idle matter of etiquette-it
was a struggle for life and death
"And you can leave me so calmly.
Harold?"
| He lightly whistled the bars of pop
ular tune.
Beware, beware Of the gay cavalier,
who loves and rides away
! Harold she cried, forgetting in the
moment of agony all her feminine train
/ ing. all her womanly impulses, 81 thought
| YOU loved me! Oh. Harold, cannot let
you go!"
IL am not aware. Miss Sedley, of ever
having given you any encouragement
-"
! encouragement" she answered, bit
terly. What has this livelong summer
beene What has your whole course of
conduct toward me beer Oh Harold