Show 7 J 1 l from the moment that jm inife sted the arst glow erf passion for mi me lie be was the most sin sensitive sittie lover anny girl ever had vat not jeal jealous ofis and as ad many lovei lovers s gire are hut but proper land and p punctilious ah in hla bearing toward me and allowing nothing from me e that wore the slightest app appearance ce of in difference or neglect J tom tam and I 1 were s sweethearts and engaged why we nev oz married alwill I 1 will te tell 11 you also perhaps you would no been interested ft b this story froin the i s start i tar had bad I 1 told you I 1 am a spinster men no longer look YM yes I 1 have lost thi the laurel wreath of youth and beauty and oon consequently se have no friends among the other sal sex I 1 am a spinster loveless and lonely and do not know in all the world where tom 1 Is if indeed lie be be in the world at ial all ITIs strange that 1 I can control my etheart heart to speak of all ray my woe and disappointment ind fend 1 would not were were it not that others may profit by the warning this love tale will convey when 0 wo o bad been engaged about six mo months tom went away to live in another city with the hope of making more money before asking me to leave my fathers home in which I 1 lived a ufa life of ease binm and luxury at first we wrote to each other very every day but of course coarse that grow grew tiresome at the end of a few weeks and by mutual consent we limited our letters to two a week now it was generally acknowledged that I 1 was a pretty and attractive girl and certainly carta it was not my fault elther either the opinion or the fact and I 1 was wai cot to blame either that as soon as tom left lt it got out that we wore were no longer engaged this brought other suitors about me I 1 was modest odest anddie and did not stand on the street cornera or climb to the housetops and shout 1 I am engaged to daml dont look at me or speak to tome mel Mylove my lore and betko betrothal were 9 so sacred to me I 1 never felt inclined to td discuss them teem with the world moi moreover iny my nature was human nature girl nature at that and I 1 could not for the life of me feel offended when men man admired me and asked my hand band and heart one of the ahe hardest things a woman is ever called on to do is to turn t her back on admiration and conquest they seem essentially a part of her existence and mission god lais aias given her a queena hip to abdicate her throne is renunciation not to be asked nor expected expect edL now evil has many agents and emissaries saries in this world and they serve with willing hearts and prompt action therefore etwas it was not long until T I 1 got a letter from tom telling of his great anxiety occasioned casio ned by the reports which had reached him of my interest another in other men he said add he had strong reasons rea soni for believing that 1 I was tired of him unfortunately for several weeks before the receipt of this letter I bad been prostrated with ah an unyielding cold and on an two dates had not written to tom just on time putting this and that together he be credited the rutn rumors and wrote as I 1 have described I 1 replied promptly to his letter denying that there was anyone any one in gill all the world beside himself to whom I 1 T gave va a thought I 1 poured out many sweet things ing in that dm t letter which I 1 would not be willing to repeat here bere I 1 had the right of course to utter my whole heart to toni tom and iund I 1 tried to make him believe how bow impossible it was that I 1 could be untrue to him I 1 waited anxiously for the answer to this affectionate letter reeling much pain in my own heart to think 1 had caused tom suffering when a week passed and no letter came ca ei freouf him I 1 wrote again ten te n A ing ng him of my former lettier letter and begging an immediate response with assurance that he still loved and trusted me this i was the iff sweetest most pleading letter VOM tom ever got fromme from me and AW alas I 1 tarn I 1 am waiting ngI still though 20 years have fled I 1 heard beard through the papers that tom engaged for with a rich trad K ing 00 company an and d had gone away to in india and that wa the th last I 1 ever knew of mm is au a woman can do 0 taken tom billy silly Adle idle rc ro that could 4 not te fo for my mir letters contradicted them eivind all and oer talula tom knevi zif I 1 win will not dwell online ango loof gocr that year and abd of ia ahat 41 lowed wide people xv bay aa they h ey often do tiac s woman to in weak and foolish to 1070 8 alili man after cioban diwi been aae and jhb W himself unworthy TOM asael their the tawfiq sor 3 femi tho inocent ino ment thab thu areat MT row fell hf ea had bid a reason for and faction edw and thai ome day it wald bo gatny A 1 41 N fm A at ea tn L 1 1 1 F wip pa sod ana iram a bay agry gi I 1 had daon a bd intal fad JE inert mt r ifrid WM K MV abil led r chome aad go UT wite re totiTe ta V i lb afta X t ittia A boat and eafen x took it from too the hook wondering g who of my td md and Z lost ones had worn w it it r brothers c coat mobert bobert who lm now married and happy iti in ahls own home 1 I dropped on a little stool near nar by and bagi anito jur pros in the pocket iC oreb 0 godt adli my two letters to MY loir loverl erf in a ingmen I 1 ws w weep weeping in g and calling callin toms name blond and begging ing him hajni to bome r 1 me bade back to my lonely heart aes had kiven given them to bobert to but here they were I 1 the that wrecked V tor we life and mine was waa explained that coat had abad traveled 0 over o ver mountain and stream toying carelessly and cruelly with my destiny as it 16 cari carried led about my last assurances to tom of a love which I 1 will never ilovar die but I 1 have never revealed to my diar dear brother the part pan his bla thoughtlessness played in my tragic lonely life now the only compensation I 1 hope for is that heaven will restore resto re to me what 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