Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-12-31
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HE WAS TOO AsroNIsHED TO MOVE.
wounded him most was the humiliating
conviction that he loved her with a
mad, unreasoning devotion. Her very
contempt had set his soul ablazc The
more he thought of her. the more in
tense became his infatuation. In his
heated imagination her beauty was
magnifed hundred fold, till it as
sumed as exquisite a vision of lowell
ness as the son of Islam dreams shall
meet his gaze when he enters paradise.
Yet, strange to say, beneath this wild
rhapsody was an under current of vim
dictiveness-a desire to get even" with
her for the humiliation she had inflicted
on him.
Like an angry storm spending itself
in its own fury, his passion at last wore
itself out, and he fell into the more dam
gerous mood of planning future retalia-
ton.
Pshaw What fool he had been to get
into such rage. He would win in the
end. There were two ways of catching
this bird Of beautiful plumage, and, II
one failed he could try the other. II
the sillen net of honied words was use
less, he knew how to cast the strong
bonds Of obligation around her.
The Dolmans' owed him money-they
must help him; Robson, her employer,
was in the same fix, he must do his bid
ding; and Mrs. Evesham would surely
not be blind to the glitter of his world
" prospects. As for that blind fellow
but no, girl like Wanda could never
give her love to him-well, II he stood
in his way, it would be all the worse for
him.
And Wandal She was feverishly toss
ing on the bed, the victim of a thousand
doubts and fears-the past with its
phantoms of uncertainty, the present
with its disappointments, the future so
clouded with hopelessness that she
dreaded even to think of it. With
heart overhowing with the tenderest
gratitude she pondered over Mrs. Eve
sham's long years of motherly solicitude
for her, of the sacrifice she knew that
noble woman must have made for her
less heavily on that dear friend now
Kate was at work, the store was pros
porous, Alice was no longer dependent
on her. and she, Wanda, was in posi-
ton to add her mite TO the family funds.
But, if she should fail-pshawi she must
not fail; she must endure any discom-
fort, any degradation rather than go
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charge on the widows bounty
As for Damiens. with his rustic insol- |
ence, she was foolish to waste a second |
thought upon him and half regretted 1
that she had condescended to rebuke |
his impertinence. But, then there was 1
poor blind George Arundel-that was /
different trouble. II was very well for /
him 70 talk about being her adopted /
brother, but she knew that his love for 4
her was of a very different nature, and /
she was sure that she could never re-
urn his affection in the way he wanted 1
Z.
Then-ah, then-foated before her
imagination face of typical beauty.
Big. earnest, brown eyes seemed to be
oolxing tenderly into hers. so vivid
vas the picture that she could in fancy
lave raised her hand to push away the
hort, clustering, brown curls which
over the clear white forehead
The saw the pleasant smile on the we'll
urved iips-nay, she could almost be-
ieve that they moved and whispered
Ter name in tone of exquisite tender
less. Wanda" never sounded half so
weetly as when he uttered IL But she
must not think of him-no. It would be
crime of ingratitude to fetter him
vish her dowerless love. She would be
rave, she would dismiss him forever
rom her thoughts; and, saying this
he concentrated her whole soul on the
eautiful vision, till-the vearied eye
Ids closed, and sleep drew the curtain
Oblivion over her wandering fancies-
And the brown-eyed hero of Wanda's
reams was none other than Harry
,vesham, who. as Alphonse Damiens
ad truly said. was gone to New York
D make his fortune"