Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-11-09

long that he might go through the
high school Well. there are those
worse equipped, many men whose
white hairs speak OF that wisdom
whose seed arc trial and experience
would prefer Elmer Armstrong; cap
ital of youth and courage and hope
and loyalty TO two hundred times two
hundred dollars In the bank. without
those things. IL wasn't the pawn
brokers, but the youth who were
swift and strong, whom the ancients
crowned with laurel
And Elmer Armstrong passed n use
full and a prosperous and a sunlit
summer. Useful because his swift
daring in the water served TO bring
safely ashore many foolish swimmers
who were overtsken by cramp in deep
water, and many unaccuStomed
/ hathers who lost their balance and
their heads when the wind blew tenn
| pestuouS breakers out of the east,
/ and made a dangerous undertow
/ when the wild waves sought hur-
riedlv to retreat. astonished, from
the shore 10 the depths which had
borne them; prosperous because he
was well paid. and twice or thrice
had been given substantial rewards
by different relatives whose children
ne had brought ashore from grave
danger in the treacherous surf; sun
lit, because Elmer was In love
When a youth not yet OF 20 years
falls in love with an earth-bOrn god
dess OF Is, and when his passion
seems 20 find response and the jaun-
diced fangs Of doubt and jealousy
find no Judgment IN his buoyant
breast. then TO be in love Is 20 have
AL places temples, all seasons sum
mer. Sleeping. he dreams OF songs.
Waking. his unconscious conscious
ness basks in perpetual glory whose
/, beams enguIf one central shrine
, / wherein she - the hallowed saint
, I Then 10 live. 70 be, 10 feel. 20 know
= I that one loves, 20 believe one - be
. loved. 10 endure heart-piercing rap
lures, to laugh at pains. 20 WOO. q
p / mart. TO meet again daily tempest
, n mighty prayer. Oh, laughing little
: god. whom kingly poets and poe
I kings have crowned. we'll did thos'
= who knew thee first perceive tina
= thou vert blind.
. WHY Il was Celeste the one onl.
a girl IN al the world for the younl
Z life guardian Is hardly clear 20 thos
n who saw the bourgeoning, the bud
the blossom. of this watersioe &c
= nance. True enough. she was SUN
e GENTLY fair. Her lips were red he
D. black ewes very bright. her white III
p tie teeth quite regular. Her suppl
- Young body was ravishing IN II
10 maiden glories OF rounded elastioit
10 and glowing tintS, not even the eI
s. vious screen OF her modest bsthin
p dress could conceal this fact-ou
h. wei. one shouldn't be captious wher
10 40 much else was charming sltogcu
Is er. Her girl friends said Celeste Wa
I. vain. for one thing. For anothe
Is they whispered among themselv'
TO that she was = spiteful little she G.
n who cared only for Celeste and nor
be other.
.e. There. YOU bore. Go 20 ones neigl
4. bors 10 find out the truth. For n
Is mart. I merely have concluded TIL
al Celeste has no soul. But that is Il
Nv veriest speculation. One should be r
tional. and even fair. regarding one
w dislikes.
IA However Il may be, when he had N
ad Celeste Elmer fell so deep into &
its well OF love that be would Ike 10 la
ice drowned there. Nor IS this any me
IN phor Of speech.
in She came almost every day, after
he first. The young guardian Of the beaS
sss a giant With blue eyes and yellow hs
a an Antinous in naked calves and arm
,u- taught the fairest Of al bis visitors
w. gentle art OF floating, the strenuo
ny rush and swirl of the overland stroll
the restful. evenhanded, tireless pr
OF erosion Of the breast stroke. She TO
ub- TO the water Ike duck. After a mon
ne, the pupii bid fair 10 overtake the mi
eg- ter's skill
I'M She came first with her parents, a
the a younger brother or two, gracel'
by brats, canal bred. who had known h
In 10 swim at birth. and who took ID
!, a 10Y IN splashing cold lake water NJ
OF the timid and shivering Celeste at
an frat venture. After time the eli
me people came no more. They made
mer's acquaintance and had confde'
II 10 him. They saw at one keen gla
alb the strength in his great frame.
be- honor in his clear blue eyes. To sucl
his he IL Is good 10 commit children. e
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