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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton New Era, 1892-07-15, Page 31, ..,111111110Rfillaigit BIA2twRIa. GARY. Om...•••••••• ' corm -rum Jessie had thought no harm of the secrecy of their engagement. She was accustomed to live'a life OQ totally apart freOr .0114 Of ,the PlUmmets, to have interests .and affections so alien to anything they could share, that it did not i even occur to ber t4at Iter friends Phogla be told, any more than it occursetO people to tell their eines and interests to their young children. Her whole iaward life was necessarily clandestine;• as far as they were con- cerned; and from the days when she studied secretly at night at, Mies "Bluish- forcl's till now, she had been aocustom- ed to keep silenee on the things near - lief she suggested keeping the engage- love, the strong, selfish passion of a To Claude's intense surprise and re- mettterecretinntil Philip could be com- himself; against the reverence , with man who had never learned to deny onneleated, ;with: The naivete . of her which woroen are taught to bow to easily be procured ainazed him. usan's mental powers, the sturdy self. that Philip's consent could As for Sir Arthur's wishes, ther confidence with which men are (quite seemed natural to her. Parents usna - uownntie.cessarily) taught to regard their their chitdren's Marriages; in the mean- Never once in their subsequent ly had .these unpleasant views about time a silent patience must be observ- meetings did Jessie dream that those ed until opportunity was ripe and the interesting speculations as to what parental will gave way. constituted a real, as opposed to a con- • And in the meantime what happiness ventional marriage, had any bearing what a pure and perfect idyl of high- on her own case. She became very be- wildered when she learnt how various souled love in those golden autumn are the notions of civilized nations on days! Was ever lover so chivalrous, what constitutes legal marriage, a so considerate, so perfect as Claude? ceaernony of which she had hitherto Was ever intercourse so sweet, so full conceived as merely going to the par - of intellect art theirs? Sure, she thought ish church and having the familiar to love him was a liberal education. service read. She now learned that He really had average brains and was what one person held as ture marriage fairly well read, besides having travel- was no enarriage to another; that led and and seen much of interest, and possessing the art of presenting his Intellectual wares with ("arm and ele- gance. To Jessie, wits e ad never be- fore held intimate diseenrse with a man of culture and taste, he was an Apollo as well as a Heyde& Mr Ingle- by's conversation consisted chiefly of Paris matters and good-humored ban- ter of his sister; he had avoided being alone with Jessie since the inopportune appearance of Roger on the bridge, and he shone with faint lustre by the side of Claude. Besides, is not Love "as sweet and musical as bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair?" Surely the very mosses on the tree - trunks in those wide -spreading Maxwell woods must have been full of the fin- est essence of poetic love! The meet- ings were seldom in the seine spot, or at the same hour, they were planned with a perfect art which concealed it- self. In the hot, drowsy !loons of that lovely.autumn weather, in the warm gloamings by the light of the flaming comet, even in the fresh dawn when Jessie had risen and gone out to paint some sunrise effect, the meetings, which were not too frequent, took place. "Ohl" cried Jessie one day, "why are you a rich man? If you were but poor, how happ we might bel How I would tr to make your hc me corn- - fortahla -and -pleasant. The hardest ee. worould be a pleasure, done for yo• love is not perfect without "Jessie," he replied, rapidly, "I shall ed, het. indignation broke forth all the • stern, deep, "Thou shalt not with a reasea about it, had no power, and, stilled the wildest storm of passton. hte, his arms folded in resigned mis- e upon his chest, the picture of an inured lover. The tench of *olintie'rs ligbt, hands Wale P9Werle<49 UnCleeP the folded arms, the calming tones of her voice, and her assurance of perfect love and trust availed nothing to heal the wounded heart or chase the gloom from his face for at least three minut- ea, when he accepted consolation and she Was forgiven, with the proverbial result, and with the further result that Jessie went home convinced of the propriety of a secret marriage. She did not know what a warfare she was waging, or dream what ter- rible odds were against her. What chance has an innocent girkignorant of life and of the evils to which she is most exposed, against a grown man, much less a man ten years her senior, a man who had seen so much of the world as Claude Medway? Against her unarmed simplicity and desire to do right were arraigned age, sex, rank, education, and knowledge of life; against the self-sa,crificing devotion of a young pure -hearted woman's first < E CLINTOli NEW .ERA Jul 1L.1892, in RainiinglliRit "that rail had a Plea* I Sant ' "It is pleaeent under these cedars," he replied, affecting to filletraderetand her; osuch a relief after grinding at letter writing.' , •tLettere, indeecti" Clare. murmured bitterly, to herself; "and he thinks I don't know," "I wonder what Cecil Bendor, and all those grinning idiots near her, would give tor the chance of marrying my cousin and her acres'?" Claude re - fleeted. "After all, I never knew a woman who dresses better or has more go in her. But -to be tied for life!" .He had secured one convert to his doctrine on the iniquity of marriage, as preachers so frequently do, namely -himself. . CHAPTER X. WHISPERING REEDS. Jessie did so far experience a reac- tion after breaking the necklace as to pay a visit to the secret ivy -veiled post office on the hedge bank in the field. She did not relax in her determinatiou not to see Claude any more, but she wished to say sonee gentle word at parting, and she was not without an unconscious hope that he would see the iniquity of the step he had pro- posed. Her heart throbbed with a swift rush of joy, when after removing the stone at the mouth of the tiny cave she saw the well-knowd gleam of a white packet in the green shadow of the ivy curtain which covered her, and quickly hiding the precious missive in her dress, she went into the depths of the plantation nearest the farm to read IL The letter was rather tender than passionate; sorrowfully pleading, sob- erly reasoning, the writer placed him- self and his happiness at her feet. He implored her not to ruin his life foi a , narrow conventional punctilio. Then , camp the old arguments. Then a sup - man Catholics do not hold marriages plication for one more meeting, if only true except their own enurch rites; as farewell. The letter seemed to be that a Roman Catholic marriage is written with tears for ink. nothing in England or France without i "Think, dearest, think what it is to civil rites; that in Scotland the declar- save a man's soul," it said in conclusion; ation of marriage bef ere two witness- I "your love alone can save mine. and s is a valid and legal bond, until she redeem me from the ignoble life I readily assented to the grand inference that true marriage consisted not in conventional contracts, which are valuable merely as conferring rights in property and makine a fair show to the world, but in the union of two con- genial hearts made entirely one by perfect love and sympathy. She heard much of the perfect love and trust with which sweet and spotless Mary Godwin gave herself to the gen- tle, high-souled Shellep, and of the lasting happiness of that most congen- ial union; and she was furnished with rnany instances of morganatic marri- ages, and quicklyconvinced of the tyranny and cruelty to women of ex- isting marriage laws; and in all these magnetism of hts glance, to the a - discussions she saw Claude stand man- ready overwhelming forces of his writ - fully forth as the champion of her op- ten words. Not only her heart but all pressed sex. 1 her slender frame shook with the strife But easily convinced as she was of within her. Why, after all, should the truth of this modern Plato's rea- she think of herself, even her honor. sonings, she was by no means prepar- 'in comparison with his happiness? ed to act upon them. %Viten at last I Was she selfish, cruel to him, to this the ugly fact stood revealed in native adored man? What would she not blackness that she was required, her- I sacrifice for him? She would be con - self, to dispense with the conventional tent to forego Heaven, she would form ot marriage, and trusaber honor '1 brave Hell; but how could she do and 'happiness unreservedly to the wrong? constaacy and honor of the man in She could not reason upon it, but, in • d h he full believ- her innocent heart there thundered a dragged along until the sight of your sweet face revealed the possibility and hope of a better life, even for me. Be- lieve me, dear, a holy love like ours can alone purify a man's heart and lift him from the mire. Such is the true sanctity of marriage, not the de- graded conventional, but the true soul marriage. Will you, for the sake of your own fair -seeming before a false and brutal world, destroy the soul and body of the man who loves you so de- votedly?" Her heart shock as she read. It was well for her that he was not there, to add the charm of his presence, the deep thrilling tones of his voice, the W OSt • t. need sacrifice from you -a great sac • b • he could not heavy boom that from time to time She turned toward him with a sweet expectancy, placing her hands in those held toward her, "I am not rich, deareet," he replied, gravely, "but very poor." She smiled as if poverty were an agreeable trifle, scarcely worth mentioning, and he told her more fully of those losses and •enabarrassments which he and his father had recently disclosed to each .other. He told her how this had pre- vented his speaking to his father of their marriage. He further told her •that he must save Maxwell Court from Tale -by -his -marriage with_araheiress; lastly, that Sir Arthur would ?lever consent to any other marriage. "And so, dearest," he said in conclusion, looking earnestly into the guileless face he had taken in leis hands, and pausing for a word - "And so," she concluded for him with a tender smile fon her upturned face. "you wish it to he a secret marriage?" "Secret," he replied, his face dark- ening. public marriage with you would mean "Oh! Claude," cried Jessie, averting ruin to my family, and my lather her gaze, "you frighten we when you would never consent to it or forgive look. like that." "And this is the sacrifice?" she asked through tears. when he had soothed and reassured her. "Ah l dearest, I would do more than that for you, I who have neither father nor mother, or-" she paused, thinking of Pliflip. "Surely it is not a question of sacri- fice," she added, "but of duty. Dear- est Claude, can it be right?" He could not trust himself to meet the child -like gaze of those lincpid eyes more e g y alas! no desire to resist Claude's so- She hada deep but unconscious feeling phistry. 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DECORATING lizo "You do not love me, then," he re- This letter convinced her, and then, tproached her, in a heart -broken voice; after yielding to the conviction, that "you care only for what the world voice of thunder once more sounded a ta see= - ____ __ through her soul, and she Was again dOhl Claude," she sobbed, ""I cannot 1.-iit-a-,atia-rItee by-denbtand-conthet- I t Wil.S a he ng long wreetle that she - CHAS. WILSON - PAPER HANGING reason, I can only feel. Wrong can never, never be right,' had under the beech tree boughs of "Yon cannot give up -a mere con- which hadrustled softly over embraces ventional form for my sake, Jessie. she had never dreamed of refusing in And I am prepared to give up the • those days of Eve -like innocence, ern Whole world for you," he continued, braces of which she was now ashamed, with sorrowful reproach. "No one need since the serpent of- suggested sin had 1 ever know. We would live abroad, entered :and darkened this sweet Eden. where you please. As you know, rt. (TO BE CONTINUED.) me. He has suffered too much already from one unfortunate marriage in our family." "I know, I know," she returned, "we should never haveenet. Our mar- riage would ruin you. Your father disinherit you. It can never he. We must never see each -other again, nev- er. It has all been wrong. and I am punished. Ahl you tool I seeeit all too late." "Stop Jeseie, stop!" he cried, per - any longer; with a slight shudder he suading•her as she Wined and left him; drew the face to his breast and cover- but Jessie fled so swiftly down the ed it with the shadow of his own bent woody path toward the keeper's house over it. "My child," he said, gently, that he 'did not follow her. "you are not quite eighteen, and have "After all," he reflected, when his never been twenty miles from this own agitation began to aubside, and spot. Which of us two knows most he picked np the scattered pearls from of life? which is the most capable of among the leaves and mosses at his knowing what is conventionally and feet, "I k iv ev her, the sweet, fiery little what is really right?" soul. This childish fury will bring a "Oh! Claude," she faltered, "to dis- rea.ction and a little calm refleetton obey parents!" "I am a son, but not a child, Jessie," he said, with an indulgent smile; "sloe- ly a grown man may choose his wife." "But deceit?" "My sweet child, it would he non- -sense to expect you to understand business; but don't you see. if it were known, 'not only to my people, but to the world, there would be a smash, our -creditors would sell as out. While they think there is a chance of my marrying my cousin we can keep our heads above water. People don't live on money, but on credit. You heard of the run on that bank that failed the other day? There's not a bank going that could stand a run upon it. They have not got the cash, they live upon credit" Jessie's mind was not convinced by this brilliant reasoning on facts be- yond her ken, but she was sure that Claude was wisdom itself. "Ahl Jessie, I see how it is," he add- ed, moving away a pace or two beneath the beech -tree's sun flecked shade and fetching a heart -broken sigh, "you don't love me, after all." "Not love you? Oh! Claude." "If you loved me," he returned, in accents of tenderest reproach, "you would trust me." Then he stood, pale and handsome, beneath the trembling gold green . ch11.00n Coto, will resnit in a more reasonable frame of mind. I like that pretty rage. But she will soon yield to reason." For two years I suffered terribly A little later he appeared n on the with stomach trouble, and was for ETERNAL VIGILANCE Is the price of health. But with all our precaution there are enemies always lurk- ing about our systems, only waiting a favor- able opportunity to assert themselves. Im- purities in the blood may be hidden for years or even for generations and suddenly break forth, undermining health and hast- ening death. For all diseases arising from impure blood Hood's Sarsaparilla is the unequalled and nnapproached remedy. It is King of them all, for it conquers disease. Blue and black are unlucky colors in China. Red is an suspicions color. "August lower" terraced lawn on one side of arwell Court, *here a large party was as- sembled in the sunshine, near a dusky, wide-spreeding cedar, occupied with such inferior garden sports as existed before the advent of tennis. Nearly all the people were staying in the house. The problem of enter- taining these guests, many of whom, like himself, wean there for partridge shooting, and planning and keeping secret assignations, which enhanced their sweetness and exercised his in- genuity in no small degree. it was now high time to devote himself to seicial duties, and more especially to the service of his eousin: who was, as usual, the centre of a little circle of men, to whom she was more or less fascinating according to her mood, this afternoon a gracious one, which imparted to her ati adventitious spar- kle:that suggested, and almost was, beauty. He joined so easily and nat- urally in the pastime of the moment that no one observed his absence since lunch on- some two hours past -no one b t Clara Lonsdale; whose eyes emit td a dark flash when he appear- ed. 'I hope, Claude," she said, dryly, all that time under treatment by a physician. 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