Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-09-16
A LOST LOVE.

A LOST LOVE.
Martha Hargrave was an only cid of
one of the wealthiest inhabitants of Elms
Cross, the eXpectant heiress of his fortune
and possessed in her own right of e5, 600.
In such circumstances it may be sup
posed that she attracted not little the
attention of blushing striplings and specu-
lative mammas. These were, with the ex-
ception of one family, of her own society
for MIR. and Mrs. Hargrave were Quakers
of the old school and confined themselves
almost exclusively within the circle of
their friends. The exception was formed
by widow lady and her son.. the former
an early intimate of Mrs. Hargrave, now
living on small annuity, from which she
contrived to save a little every year to pay
for her boys outfit in the world.
Richard Temple was well calculated to
be the object of a mothers doting affec-
|, tion; he was a fine, spirited, generous,
handsome lad. two or three years older
than Martha, of whom he was the play.
mate in childhood. Richard looked upon
Martha as his sister till he began to feel
as personal injury the admiring looks
that were thrown upon her from under the
broad brims of the young Quakers, and the
affection of the boy was suffered to ripen
into the love of the young man.
While this process was going on with
Richard, in Martha the wildness of child
hood sobered gradually down into the de-
| mure circumspection of the Quaker girl
But nevertheless when Richard came
one day to bid her farewell before his ex-
odus into the world, her heart was too full
| of the memories of her childish years to re-
member it's new conventionalism, and she
stood before him with her hands crossed
upon her bosom, gazing in his face with
look of ~girlish fondness that was made
still softer by the tears that stood trem-
bling in her beautiful eyes. He was to
proceed to London, to be completed in his
initiation into mercantile business, and
might be absent for years, and Martha felt
the separation as her first serious distress
Richard was old enough to be aware of the
nature of his own feelings.
AS the moment of parting arrived he
drew her toward him with both hands;
his arms encircled her waist, and--how it
happened know not, for the thing was
wholly out of rule-his lips were pressed
to hers. The next moment he started
from his bewilderment; his eyes dazzled;
Martha had disappeared. He did not know,
when in the morning the stage coach was
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