Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-03-24

a but as | was not au accepted lover
dy as l did not know indeed. whether
H. ever would be Your manner no,
\ MAKES me fear | have, and ever hay
H. hao' but little to hope for-I had /
10 wait the customary conventional perio
before calling on Nom MeantiNie
thought II my duty 10 tell my fathe
y mat loved you and that | intended I,
'e teIl You so the first moment | saw Won
Is expected some opposition, My father
'e alaS' good rs he was to me, worthy n
% lie was in some Respects, had that TX
.e cessiye love of money which 50 man,
/, soei essidi bankers acquire. lie wa,
de>'rous thai should marry an h@eiress.
u hnlncr had once linked my name with
that OF Miss Marion, but hal lever
!, seriously thought Of her. In fact,
= al.er lSaW You, at that first Patriarchs'
"s!i--oh' shall | ever forget it?
: krew that there was but one woman in
Ine whole world that | could ever love.
''@l' 10 not shake rour head. Hear
mo out owed something. YOU must
h'mht' to my father. | was bound BIZ
u'N-in some degree, At least. Well
ny rather, after a stormy interview.
proposed Il compromise. If | went 70
YOU he said, ha would never forgive
me. He did not believe in my af-
feclions; it was only a youthful
fancy, were his words! AS for Won. he
had understood, from your father, that
an alliance for you had been settled
elsewhere False, You say? Thank
you Tor the words. They are the first
kihd ones-do YOU knowg-you have
spoken to me. My father, then, had
oeeh miStnformed, But it staggered
me All! You say there was some
ground Tor ii, as your father had really
wished such a match, And You would
have nothing to do with it? Bless Won
again, Oh. had | only known that! !
elhaIIy my father, as | have said, t
promised that if | would 90 abroad two :
years. giving my word of honor not to {
sec You or write to you, he would. at v
END OF that period, consent to my +
"lSI' II | still said | loved YOU. He V
that this was not much for him G
70 ask as he had always been a good "
parent to me, which, God knows"
with emotion, 'he was. Thus en-. II
reated, for he fairly begged now with 81
ears in his eyes, | consented. Per- II
lalS did wrong. | have otter thought 81
did. No? You never would have II
narricd me, you say, against my :,
''her wish? You would have torn tn
ne from Your heart tirst9 Does that m
leah' with a cry of joy, "that YOU an
aye gwen me a place thcrc-that Won si!
III marry me now? Oh! Grace, if Won st,
III only have pity. if YOU will only III
'aI'ze how much | love you, | went br
broad But my father relented at the ra
III OF the first year, and | was coming an
when heard Of his death. Since su'
lat time have searched everywhere Nl
r YOU But You had Misrepresentation
your Old world completely; no clew
you was left. Yet you say
three days ago, you met Mis-,
arlton' and that you are sure She !
your That she saw YOU again so
s%tcrdar' Why, it was only then cor
lt' Tor the twentieth time, | was tell. of
: her Of my anxiety to find YOU. In Of ,
'e with herr Ny manner like ito one
l. If you would only believe whom | wee
love All this so earnestly that and
felt She had mistaken his man. cacl
T. through her own sensitiyeness, no two
for, after all, could a gentle. bon
n refuse an invitation from a ladyo into
q, when he accepted, oughs he NOT .toIr
graciously? $50 you really" oltb
went ON, impetuously, catching her and
now forgive me all, at last? Oh, bind
1
-; 'otn"lct' as MIS-. Leigh fore
sisted IN calling it, of Grace and mt
,", '''"' " great sensation at whc;
verge and in New York. .lt was froo
.e IKE a Dit ont of a story book" wbe,
he dowager, Mrs. GOldcnrod soiJ yotio
Is like Il fairy tale said little Nav. f,ir,,
5, II 5 betterthan even Cinderella,n altbo
ed the other sister; and she danced. inc +
'fepresslbIe glee, up and down tbe M
'ol-room, "And he's a bully fol. draw
he gave me thi, pockct.knife. after
net in Master Jack, proudly dis. team
mgone with something like twenty and 9
cS. ""'
most the only one who thoucbt o, NOW
e otherwise was Mis-, Marion ono :,
had tried in vain to conceal her bnnrs
.r'n' put her efforts to cntrap Nor. Of the
had been too public, and. 70 tooctl
the sarcastic coincidence of no, ana -
uS'ha and one society friends, ease.
vas forced to 20 abroad, departing thresl
me to avoid the wedding.dav Of fndde,
inner ana Mrs Leish's goycmess. eat tn
Hraid. ~