The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-08-14

leading the same kind Of lives Now
We are utterly apart in habits and tastes.
You breakfast at i've in the morning, =
at ten."
"1s this the way to sum up ones All
fections? Are they to be governed by
habits?"
eyes, almost altogether. II was
eighteenth hadn't been married-PA
marry you, be happy month and mfs-,
erable the rest Of my days"
~ suppose the misery you are now
causing me is nothing. Obi Jean, don't
talk so. Don't be SO cruel. have lived
but for the thought Of you all these
years. was almost mad with tho Joy
Of coming and claiming you. Don't turn
me entirely mad by breaking my heart
at the end Of my Journey
There we're tears In his strong voice
and in his dark eyes as the woman
looked into them pityingly.
"rm sorry for you," she said; "Tm
sorry for myself. It's been a disappoint-
ment to me to find myself out Of love
with you. am afraid that It isn't pos
sible for woman who has been married.
to love again. II she loves her first hus-
band that real love can be but once, II
she doesn't, she destroys by loveless
marriage her higher nature-her capao-
ity for loving perfectly. Now tho capac-
ity, find, is gone from me, and then
our lives have made us so different that
we couldn't even be congenial married
friends"
"But," he pleaded, II can lead your
life. Any life with you would be per-
feet happiness"
"That is the talk Of very young
lover" she said, smiling. 1--WE are nei-
ther Of us young lovers. II you entered
my world 1t would seem like death. You
love me, but you can't spend all your
waking moments looking at mo and tell
ing me 80. tell you, and tell you truly,
that we can not make harmony by COM
bining our lives. II we-if I-were
madly in love with you we wouldn't be
happy married"
"Don'tw cried the man, impulsively
rising to his feet. Don't talk to me
any more. You have torn down the fab
ric upon which built my life's one hope
Of happiness. You have left me nothing
to hope, nothing to respect. You have'
cut out my heart with the cool blade OF
your reasoning. have worshiped you
lived for you all these years."
Sand you have found your idol cold,
common clay. Yes, I know 1t. You
were worth better requital. l would
give it to you If could. You are young
yet. A man at thirty need not despair
Of happiness"
"You are encouraging" he said, Bit
terly.
"Oh, you needn't talk that way. You
feel wretched now, but after awhile
you'll a nd some one to suit you. Some
Western girl who loves rancho life,
who"
Sand you. too, will console yourself
with
"Travel and social amusements. Don't
think I've fallen in love with some man
of my set during the two years OF my
freedom. A sensible woman marries but
once-marries either for love or ambi-
ton. l married for ambition, and anz
satisfied. have every thing want 7
shall enjoy my widowhood. I shall
never resign It,"
"I wonder what you are made Of" he
. said, looking down upon her. Then as
all the sorrowfulness Of his disappoint+
ment came upon him he stretched out
his fine, strong arms to her.
, "Come to me-" he pleaded passion ate-
ly. ''Come to me the same woman that
loved long ago. Come to me just as ]
have longed for you to come"
l One moment her eyes flashed out
upon him their old, brilliant light, then
Z her face grew cold and smiling again.
I ut would be untrue to myself, unkind
Z to you II came" she said. Let us
part in peace. ! hope the future may
1 bring some great recompense; then
a shall feel forgiven; and now, goodbye
He stood with folded arms and
n watched her face for a moment, ther
4 walked, without word or touch OF hand
q from the room.-Maud Andrews, in At
lanta Constitution.