The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1904-11-24

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O. marry auY ouo tise. ~ pili walt fo'
h.sn.
why il be goirE ssty'
He father Il tepti tia 70 manage
large b,afch oihis basintss In Ceylon. hs
i to bs oet there three years perhaps
loager, Hls fA.her Il only sendiua him, he
says, 30 IS 10 eptrsie him from me, srd
h. eai.'t r.fuae to 60 wl,hou. raln!ng bis
prospects. spd fer m3 sake ha DOES los
war, 10 DO that, doa't care whether he
10 Itch or poor, but Richard tays Il his faih-
ar turss 80 sdrltt he vou'd have nothing
l-afd Il bsstto wait, hscauss be will
never ehsnEe. And 80 b. Is going swaY at
the era n bis week. | care bear him TO
70. might ntvcr a him agala bat II he
lives be Will come bsek TO me.
4 sse tald Il half deGantIy, haf despair
Ily, AID lad her hssd On Miss Gurrey's
! lsp again 10 hi4e ter tsarf.
For fully ten ulrutes aSi bsr q them
spoke, ibtn revising hsF5elf win heavy
slab. Mis- Carey ssis, htsiA ins'y
/ might dn sim lhirg | doh't know
shat / can -,G. ttlg lin htme With
you tomorrow ugh, ard q nc see him,
dear. |, heal hi, ! be is--hut let me
sac Lin fuf m3felf Btltg in With you
TO morrow ight
Ard the io!lo.iLg eyeti <, VII R'ea-
ard Herwo,d csmp, VII Carney vas easi-
Iy cobvtrea 10 Il s'tra oIition OF hm
Hls frank, honest ey.s. hls an Y c ed sim
pliclty spl,eh and malrer' his Ill ietea
his shy alteration Il Hester, his nrconeesi-
able love ot her-all c1nspired to win Miss
Gurney's coltiieucc ard approval, ard
won them ia spi'e q herself.
Again aod saain, willie be was there, ana
after be was 1 ne, she ownec, grudgirgly
at first but WIN growing satisfaction
that h, real . d her girlhood's ideal OF the
man she had loyed years age, and was rot
as she had feared, q artilcarnahn OF that
man as she saw him LoH in the light of
bitter rsmembrances-ciu heartless,
fai.hless.
She lay awake thst tight living through
again In thought the l)ng past happiness
and msery that the sight Of Richard Har-
woo d had brought back upon her with re-
newed intensity. She had loved and was
to have married, but seemed predestined to
misfortune. First II was her mothers
death that postponed the marriage; then, a
year later, her fathers; and her father
DIVING alkrupt, the man she loved bad
ultimately yielded to the Wishes OF bis
family ard broken his engagement with
her, but not before he had cruelty betray-
cd her, through her bi1d love OF him, aud
could leave her to bear alone u shame whose
memory was not buried i that little
grave Ia The far of country churchyard,
but, lived as 1t returned to her. She had
never seen the man since, nor written to
him; she was too proud to ask anything
of his pity, and all the love she had felt
for him hsd died within her.
She left her Old home snd came to ear n
her living In London amorg people who
knew nothing Of her history. Being clev-
er with her needle she was soon able to
support herself 10 reasonable comfort, but
the hard work and the solitary, loveless
lite were fast aging snd hardening and EN-.
bittering her, when Hester came with her
childish needs ard sympathy to melt the
frost that he'd gathered about her heart and
reconcile her to humanity and mske the
world hsbltable again.
Hester was the orphaned child OF Miss
Gurneys younger sister, and 1t was not
strange tia. the two, etch left dtsolate,
should grow to be all and al to each other.
II Miss Gurney's love was the deeper, the
more seli-ssciifi ciIg, that was rot to be
wondered at. She was no lorger young,
aud had not hoped that her forlorn heart
hunger would ever be Gath fed, but Hester
came and satil fl d it. II was enough for
ber Low that there was enc living creature
whom she could love ard who loved her,
al her love for Hester was such that to 10
sure her happiness the would gladly have
90 n red rebuffs and bumi.ations that she
would sooner have died than have fubmitt-
ed to for any advantage to tersef.
No self-in.erest could have aDnihlliated
her pride and urged her to such lengths as
ahe went unht tsita,ingly fer Htshr's sske
She rose the morning after Richard Ha--
woods visit wi h great resolve already |
fixed In her mind. She dared not rt feet
too much upon IL or upon all its fu fillment
mus. mean to her, for fear her courage
should fail her; but sarly in the evening
she Travelled westward, and, for the first
time rcsliztd her intention 10 the utmost,
and was ala m at her own temeriy when
she found herself knot hing at The door OF
the stately house In Kensngton.
II her knock had not been heard she felt
she would not have dared to repeat y, but
II was heard, and a superb ious fcotman
opened the door.
Is Mr.. Hsrwood at hcm' tfe atked
shriukIngly.
The man eyed her obviously the made
q rather shabby, quite intiknifitant lttie
figure stardii there on the doorstep
well-yef-he's at htma What might
you want him fcI
His lofty eondescension fou'ea her TO
and 20 u II ,l'd her dTooping
pride and at once r stord d her teit con-
troll.
viii you tell Mr. Hsrsooe, my man,
that Mis- Quincy wishes 10 see hiuf Say
Miss Gurncy, formerly Of Iarncere, please.
he fulenly obeyed, ard sfter an interval
rcturned to hsr Ia The hal with rerpie1'
Cd expression daiksnirg lis coun'eaarce.
Mr.. HsrTood will see ycu. This way,
pleAse
she followed hin Into spacious, elegsnt'
Is appointed draslugrcom aad iat down
there, feeling cagl5aly ou. q place aud