San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-04-13
THE WHITE LADY.
BY THE AUTHOR OF 'IIIS Welded WIFE,"
"A FATAL DOwER," "SIR PHILIPS
WARDS &c.
PART Try JEAN TREDEGAR.

PART L-RY JEAN TREDEGAR.
Guy and 1 had been orphans from our
childhood and we had now arrived at years
of maturity. Our father, Guy Tredegar of
Tredegar in Cornwall. had been killed by
fall from his horse while out hunting twenty
nine years before my story opens, and Guy,
my dear and only brother, was born on the
day which followed his fathers death. i,
though | was three years older than Guy,
could but mdiStinctly remember the tall hand
some man who had tossed me up in his arms
one fine morning, laughingly bidding me be
a good girl and not veX little mamma" while
he was away, and who was brought home,
few hours after, a corpse. Scarcely more dis
tinet were my recOllectiOns of the little
mamma" he had loved so tenderly. had
dim vision of fair sad face, bright waves of
chestnut hair, and a smile that had no sun
shine in it, smile sadder than tears.
Such was my mother as remembered her,
totally unlike the bright lovely girl whose
likeness smiled down at us in the old gallery
IA radiant face, graceful head thrown back
with a laughing glance at the baby which
she was carrying pick-a-back and yet that
picture represented my mother and myself
thirty long years before. Happy years had
they been. only one heavy cloud having pass
ed over them five years ago to dim their sun
shine-years passed in the old Hall which we
Tredegars held so proudly and dearly-years
of childish joys and griefs, of the hopes and
aspirations of boyhood and girlhOOd, of the
fuller sweetness and beauty of manhood and
wOmanhOod, of the bitterness of great sorrow
and the fGnesS of peace. II is with mingled
feelings | recall them now. Yes, the bitter
was very bitter, and the sweet was very
sweet; but-ah me that il should be 1.-THE
bitter remains, while of the sweet we can
never taste again. Still, looking back, auntie
Oracle and can think of the happiness with
gratitude, though we cannot yet think of the
trouble without pain, if indeed we ever shall
be able.
Auntie Oracle was my fathers only sister,
and on his death had come to Tredegar,
where she has remained ever since; and she
has never let us miss either of our parents. |
was educated at home by her and my govern
esses; but Guy went to EtOn and Oxford,
finishing up with the grand tour" after
which he settled down quietly at Tredegar
with us, his great ambition being to spend
the vast fortune which had been accommodating
80 long in making his tenants and the vii
layers perfectly happy and comfortable, turn
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settled things for me here, | felt sorry that
he should not know the happiness of reuuit-
ed love: that il would come later did not
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