The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-10-29
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country mansion, buried in the midst
of stately woods,
She was eminently beautiful, highly
accomplished, and possessed a good
and kind heart. Her being an helreSs
also added to her great attractions.
She loved a poor cousin, Henry Nor
land by name, who, at an early age, had
been left an orphan, and whom Ellen's
father, Sir John Vernon, had brought
up and educated. From their earliest
years, at intervals, such as his holl-
DAYS and college vacations, the young
people had been, in a manner, brought
up together; and as their ages were al
most alike, and Harry was q we'll
made, handsome fellow, possessing
considerable mental and personal at
fractions, their assimilation OF taste,
as much as anything else, had con-
tributed to waken up feelings between
them that neither had as yet given
vent to in words.
Henry loved his beautiful and
wealthy cousin to distraction. But
the sense OF his own dependence kept
him from advancing his claims.
Sir John Vernon had the most per-
feet conf5Ence in Harry's honor. Not
thinking that there might bethe slight
est danger in permitting the young
people to be together, he continued to
regard them both with the same ten
der solicitude as ever, as though they
were in a manner brother and sister.
1t was "Leap-year," and the vaca-
tion which Henry spent at the hall
proved on this occasion to be to him
a source of pain and agony. The
beauty of Ellen, her art~lessness, her
affectionate manner, and her frank
ness, raised his affections to such a
height that the very excess of his
love magnifed his difficulties, and
made him look with a sensation
of fear upon his passion,
which once or twice prompted him to
speak, and by consequence become an
migrate to his benefactor, to whom he
owed everything in the world. He re-
solved to die rather than to incur the
displeasure of his uncle, the sting OF
his own reproaches, and the possible
rejection OF his suit by Ellen. This
thought beyond all others was most
pregnant with pain. He therefore
Stunned her presence as much as he
could, and spent whole days in the IL
brary brooding upon his lost pros,
poets.
Ellen noticed this change, and, with
O. woman's tact, comprehended the
reason OF it. With a mixture OF griel
and pleasure she engaged herselfin the
execution of a plan, which vas that
of awakening his jealousy, and driving
him into a confession to which she
was only too willing to listen. A ri.
NOR was accordingly spread that q
sporting baronet of the neighborhood
hadnoto only determined on wooing the
young lady but also of winning her, hav
ing laid a very heavy wager upon the
result. Henry's passion was instant
ly aroused, and rage, and vexatlon anc
love by turns tormented him. H'
would have called the insolent riva
out, having accused his cousin o fplay
ing false, forgetting that she had new
er plighted faith to him; he accused
the world of unkindness. his uncle o
tyranny; in fact, like a lover utterly
beside himself, he would have beer
guilty OF a thousand extravagances
but the intolerable idea came, wha'
was he to her, or she to him? Wha'
right had he to dictate or 10 question
and thus he was as far off as ever.
Ellen found that her plan OF awaken
ing his jealousy had been effectua
enough, but that no other result at
tended it. She also fonnd that he
poor cousins sadness and detection
increased, and its melancholy began t.
communicate itself to her.
1t was therefore absolutely neces
sary for the happiness of both tina
matters should be brought to a crisis
Tor, in addition to the annoyance sh
felt at Henry's silence, the marriag
which was rumored in jest began t,
take an aspect Of serious earnestness
aproposalhaving actually come, from
q rich and estimable man in ever,
way, to her father, which propose
Sir John Vernon had just communi
Gated to her.
Holding in her hand the letter whicI
had been sent to Sir John, she on
morning sought the library, an d he
heart beat a little strongly as shere
Elected that she was about to pres
her cousin, SO that he should eithe
be compelled to declare his passion a
once or give her up forever.
Ellen" said he, 'let me beseech yol
TO tell zoe what is the cause OF thl
agitation; you alarm newly areyo,
30 moved?'
DO you behold this letter." aske,
Ellan fannino IL nonnSnon..sa IL