The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-07-19

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ySSM, DORM G girl
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isolated "cupid's Bower, Wednes.
day, Sept, II, ls47,' aud the
time of day is latter sunset
fascinating Robert, the
young lady starts out and then
she proceeds "The orient king
has Just shed his last rays upon
the earth, casting a golden reful,
gence upon the bright things be.
low, and nature as if weary of
her gaudy appearance, is about
to give place to the sable habili.
ments of night" Think of a man
nowadays eagerly breaking open
"a letter an1 having his expecta-
mons dashed at first by being put
of with d lot of stuff about the
sorient KING He would prefer
something local, but there is still
more Of the same kind in store
for poor Robert. She gets inter-
ested in astronmy aud tells him
that the .'stars, which have been
called the many eyes of the
Sleepless One, ares seeking the
vast cerulean vault and here
the letters are faded past deciph-
ering. but Robert, no doubt, got
itail. Father on the fair un-
known gets little nearer"
and recalls a time when. she says
Il stood by thy majestic form
feasting upon thy handsome face
and matchless grace aud, wax
ing eloquent. II almost i'm.
agipe that ! see thee now. but l
am doomed to disappoint-
ment.n She walls, "oh, that /
could surmount all space and
4 placl lover from the garden
of imagination as pure as my
1 love. I Shall not attempt to ex-
toll yon as q man of science or
literature / could not End
language adequate to the task l
would have fulfilled"
All this is purely preliminary.
She really does not show her
hand until she commences a regu-
lar bombardment of punctuation
marks.
Il think of thee on moonlight
nights. 1.-TWO exclamation
points. "Oh, what rapture in
that quiethour when beneath the
shadow Of that pearly, luminary
/ indulge 10 fond associations of
that hour when first saw thee.
six exclamation points.)
If she made him wait and wade
through a quantity of unneces
sary description at first she
makes up for it in closing, and
thus apostrophizes him "Oh,
quintessance of perfectionn Thou
modelof grace. Happiness un.
supportable y! Bliss ineffable
and felicity extreme ~! Enjoy.
ment beyond description. pine
to behold thy lace and hear thy
gentle tones" And here she re.
verts to th@t good time they once
had "oh, the memories of that
hour. | can never forget when
first thy form divine met my en-
raptured gaze What shall af-
ford me again ! that delightful
sensation but a repetition of
those golden moments ? My
mind seeks with feathery pinions
in the regions of imagery and
fancy to satiate the lopgings Of
my soul" A few more words
about tina "endless beatitude of
beholding Robert" about her
mind reveling in "all realities Of
happitied fiction, and then the
letter is ended for you and me,
for the last page is gone. It's. a
disappointment, for it would be
interesting to see how she work
ed the climax. How did she tear
herself away and what was her
name :
l am wondering what sort Of a
person Robert was. If he was a
nice Robert, of course he was
properly touched by the writer's
simple alteration, but in these
days of degeneration how a
Robert would scream with inef-
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