The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-06-07

throat rose up from lts tilmy lace ruttlln
like white lily steam above sea foam
The face was lily far and lily pure
Masses Of red.brown hair made u bronz
framework for tho white forehead
whose temples were definitely veine,
with delicate blue lines. The dark, del
icate brows over.arched the lids lik,
white rose leaves; from beneath ttles'
long fripges cleaned pair Of langui,
sapphire eyes. The full, red mouti
dropped at the corners, and the oval fac,
was fair unto marble paleness. She wa!
tall woman, and slender without be
ing thin. She arose with a start as tn.
door was softly opened to admit tai
man, who entered hastily and came II
greet her with nervous, passionat.
eagerness.
ut was kind Of YOU" he said, in hi
quick, fine voice, ito give your butler
orders to let me come right up. l hope
you ure at home to no one else this
mornins2"
mo. You wrote that You wished te
see me alone. Sit down." she herself
sinking into the chair she had vacated
AS he took the one beside her the
long, magnificent room seemed to have
grown small in his presence. She gave
au amused little laugh.
"What is 2" he asked.
~ was Just thinking one ought to re.
ceive your visits on the top Of Mount
Lima" H..T
"Why?" .'a5s 49,.
because you are so lofty and 30 i'm.
pressive and go impulsive. You'd make
the Crystal palace seem diminutive."
II don't Seem to awe YOU"
"No. Sampson didn't awe Delilah.
Now, I don't mean to compare myself
with Delilah, or you to Sampson in his
mad passion ior her. I simply mean
that you are u man and l am the woman
you like best, and that no woman is
awed by the man who prefers her above
all others"
He bent over her and compelled her
to look up into the light OF his dark,
deep eyes. gE
"Why don't you cay loves above all
others?" he asked beneath his breath.
II didn't think it sounded so WE'LL"
she answered, guilty.
at makes no difference how it sounds.
It is the truth, and have come to tell II
to you" -
She started to arise, but he laid his
hand commandingly upon her arm.
"Don's go-don't say anything-un,il
I have said all I wish to say" he hall
demanded, bali implored. II do not
mean you any harih. I would not ia,-
suit your iair womanhood by one COW.
ardly persuasion or suggestion. I came
to-day TO tell you that leave Washing.
ington tomorrow. I am appointed
Minister 10 Austria"
Her face grew panied and wondering.
She repeated the words mechanically
after him.
"Yes," he went on, II have been try.
ing to get away from your, love, since
I found out how it was with me-
There was nothing else to do"
Nothing else" she said, conclusiyely.
"But one has to speak sometime.
believe most men speak out their souls
on their dea.h-beds; that is, if reason is
with them. l may be out Of reason, but
this is my death-bed."
"Isit?" she eaid, in tho tender mother.
tones women use TO men they love.
"You know it is" he answered. 81
don't know why should say all this tc
you, save that am hopelessly un'
happy" 49,, .
swertd. ."but L can't comfort myself
Oh! have tried hard, SO hard, all these
many years. I've filled my life with
everything I'd been taught to hold dear
and the filling OF it with these ,hinst
has made it all the emptier. wa
launched out in my married life Will
the creed that money, position, socia
honors, were the things which gave
happiness. believed it until I had {
surleit OF them all. lam tired. I wisl
I could 20 away to some strange land
and never know anything OF the life
live or the people I know now.
III l We're q novel hero'-with .
strained, cold smile-"I would elias,
you in my arms and beg you to fly Will
me-" 3N 20 N n
"And if I were novel heroine" sh,
answered, II would consent and ",
would run away, like the folks Ouid,
depicts, and live happy forever after
Instead, l an IN honest, respectabl,
woman. II I were Tree to marry you
should do so and we would live lie o.
perfect as any on earth could be. As /
is, If I ran away with you would ruiz
my own nature, disgrace my family an,
my husband, and wreck your iutur
ambition and success. No matter wher
we went our story would follow ue
When men looked at me askance m,
regarded yoa as unworthy hand-elasE
would we find all perfect compensation
in each others love?" 5{ia. I,gfS,Y
NO" he said sadly. TT would mol
Love is the only God.giyen emotio
man has. It must be founded on trutl
and honor. It cannot live otherwise.
s"Why wasn't fate kind to me 2" 'sh
questioned, lifting her great eyes sadl
to his own. ."Why did ]. marry like
child that gives kisseo for baubles?
had not reached the growth Of my nj
turc. regarded marriage rs necessit,
| all in the drama Of womanfs life.
made in the height Of my belleship,th
best marriage Of . the season. S though
myself blessed. Ny husband was kin
and induisent. It might have been m
4 inclination to love HIM now at Is, If
had not married him. As it is, l neve
loved him at NIL, and now l find 1 loy
something else. Ineed something els
I My, nature my life, my heart is cryiu
: for you. I knew it. from the nome,
. your hand touched mine and your eye
Z looked down into my own. III had n
seen you again my life would have dive
with that knowledge as il does now.p
His face showed the lines OF ono
deep, suppressed pain.55J Z J.
! "Don'ttalk to me this way. he sal
his lips quiyering beneath the long, da
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