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Street and Smith's New York Weekly : a journal of useful knowledge, romance, amusement, & c. , v. 53, no. 44, August 20, 1898.
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Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs., 1843-.
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9 January 2014
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English
Publish Date
1898-08-20
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New York : Street & Smith
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New York Weekly. A Girl in a Thousand; or, Imogen's Intrigue / by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon. Imogen's Intrigue.
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New York (N.Y.) > Newspapers. Popular literature > United States > 19th century > Periodicals Story papers > Specimens.
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VoL. 63.—Nos 44,
THE NEW: YORK WEEKLY.
“ "THE BRIDEGROOM’S SOLILOQUY.
Sleep, loved one, Sleepy tangled bai
Flows loosely o’er thy bos
ue sleep in peace—no. prying ve
Save thy lover's own, is nigh
Steep, dearest, sleep—thy Tover's breast
Pillows thy rest.
Sleep on, steep on—nay do uot start—
“Tis but iy lover's ‘sbea
Whose pulses throb against thy cheek,
Tokening the love they cannot s speak,
Sweet dreamer, sleep—thy lover's eye
Ss watching nigh,
Sleep on, sleep on, sweet folded flow:
Tit roy morning’s dawning hour;
Sleep and dream on—thy lover's arm
‘analy sheltering thee from harm,
p and fear not—thy Jover’s ear
Is listening near.
Diana’s Peril;
By Whose Hand?
A.D. HALL,
sn mh ea te
CHAPTER I.
> -""HIg LADY'S KNIGHT.
id Harry.
young fellow though’
acknowledged to be, could discover ‘no clue
whatever © the enig:
He had ra
Mainwaring, clever
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2
B
the heart was dee,
is he was sincerely ratefl
ed by the memory of
was unworthy of her.
whither he had to
witness the beauty and gayety of the carni-
val, that his heart for the first and last time
was taken ca
wt 2 zeae te sae one evening when he
strol
Baglais, which ned at that how
be almost telnet in.the Srl
ling effervescence of that air which only | j
e Riviera ean furnish, that he henrd coni-
x Mainwaring to think was to act
leaped into the centre of the road
threw wp his arma. The aighted stecd,
tal surprise, paused, preparatory
further onward charge, but that pause was
suiicient for Harry to heize the bridle,
rom your saddle!” he, cried, in a
commbading
The recognized even in
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caught the half-fainting equestrienne in his
arms.
soon asshe had somewhat recovered
With a brief farewell, he delivered her
into the hands ts who ca:
running in farm to meet her.
yhen he returned to his hotel, witha
curiosity ‘which under the circumstances
was certainly pardonable, bi tail
guarde: and learned that the oc-
Eupant of the Villa Mariani was Lady Dia
Poindexter, the daughter of the late Earl
of Castiemon and the wife of a rich Am
can,
young girl o
seventeen whom she introduced to Mai:
waring fs ber daugh
many beautiful women,
there ero: ion so lovely a
specimen of girlhoo
rather more than medium height,
1 the ex
every
‘wag that subtle
essence of good-breeding which is soindefin-
word, her eve:
able and yet so unmistakal
She said little, arias the conversation
chiefly to her who, as Harry was
swift to discover, en man of more
than ordinary brilliancy. (He learned that
Vivian had been educated in a convent,
Which she had left ealy ‘short time before,
d was now spen. wee Nice
with her mother, nro saat ory to returning
England.
Lady Diana also mentioned incidentally
that their home was at Castle Arvon, not
fa # from the village of Fordmead in Devon-
. ““Fordmead !! cried Harry in mingled
surprise and delight. “Why, in a letter
have received fram my father, Sir John
Mainwaring, h is me that-he has re-
ie
to join him there before very long.”
It was certainly an odd) inexplicable state]
universally
cked his brains, but all in vain.
to
mperament t ‘the
‘most important matter of all, one in which | p,
only
» | greete
the ‘eyes without fear
@ past | tre:
ade des
. | poor Harry was driven almost
of
¢
‘
eae Nyet sawing x desperately at) rival ia Fordmea
e | and he starte
pat he’ thoughts to himself that never before | other
pected
cently taken'a place in that very spot. Tam | da
‘This of course was a bond between them,
ng Mainwarin;
cy of feeling, which is as in-
is admirable, Harry shrank
he spotless mirror of her
ature words of love, And s
r of a Bewatiun daughter
rather than to the latter
bg a she did
consequences his acts were destined to have.
days sped by likea dream of enchant-
ment 0 sill th ime came when
the ladies were oblige ton rela en to Eng
land and Harry accompany the
ya promise nat it it ehould
again.
Vivian's deep bl
eyes as she bade him Mtarewel that started
ago, a as again in England,
down i in mht little Dev onshire village, to-
ward whi
een tu OEnIng
But, alas, ‘hata cruel disappointment it
had ail be
he first day of his return had belonged
to his father, as was only right and just,
but the very'next morning he had called at
aS ie ‘iclight-he had found that the tle
box of a place hii is father hai id taken, for tl
sake of the fishing, a pastime to “which t
old gentleman was dev: otedly Attached, was
Close to the spacious grounds of the castle,
which were surrounded on all sides “Oy
high wall. .
e had watched the lights of the superb
wonder-
her
ushered into a magnificently
furnished reception-room, and afte ra short
delay was joined by Lady Diana, But a v
different Lady Diana from
cious thay own, ya
olitely enough, but w
Slight cordiality, and her’ manner during
the w interview was freezing in the ex-
e
Harry came away, feeling as a man migi
feel should his best friend suddenty and ‘oe
po a
“The next day. he called again, but was
met with the statement that the ladies were
not at home, ‘The day after it was the same,
yet he was certain, ashe turned to g
ian at one of the window:
Tewas certainly, most, inexplicable, and
tto frenzy at
the thought that he was so near and yet 60
far from the one he had longed s0 constant-
tly for during all those weary weeks, ti
lay since his ar-|}
ww the fourth
not a glimpse had
un-
But all in 3
e leaves 3 ivan
very breezes s seemed to bear to his ents that
charmed nai
Suddenly, impelled by some intuition he
could not explain, he looked up from the
which his eyes had ‘been mood.
with a feeling almost
comi ng tow im the one
being who had silted his thoughts to the
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. exausion of all o
eh
ith her white robes clinging about ther,
rst he thought it was @ Pirie,
thing evolved from his ow: magi
ger but then almost immediatly he real.
ized’ that it was a thin of flesh and blood,
rand
articulate cry of unspeakable
mile, a mingling o
played about her lovely lips.
larry paused and involuntarily removed
his hat, as one .wou! lo at entering a
eburch and suddenly facing a statue of the
i
a low, in:
ide elight.
f timidity and joy,
recht it is. you,” she breathed, “it is
y
you
weneally “I,” responded Harry, with diffi-
via. surprise! Ah, how glad I am to
out
‘He made a step toward her,
“Tt was only to here.”
_ She cinsped her hands ingenuously, m
1 conee eal
h yes, why should it be
wise. Else, why are you here? You
have not forgotten me the age
not,” he answ
Shee rave a little sigh of tatisfaction.
“Of course not, I can see that.” And then
she ndded with charming naivette, lex:
you.”
“You did” eried Harry, delighted be-
yond mensure, “It must have been a pre
sentiment.’
“Tt was,” she replied, casting down her
exes, go, that the lashes veiled the
meaning contained in their depths, “And
yet not entirely. Thave nen you when you
came to the je."?
(cBut, then, why have I failed to meet
°A shade of sadness passed over Vivian's
sweet fac
Ida ‘not know,” she said, sorrowfulty.
notunderstand, but still did ‘not
rs now, aid some-
what lamely. “My father lives near you.”
“Sir John Maiowaning an
one. d her eyes gad looked at him
witha halts Locking smi
“Don’t you ose T ienow th hat? Why,
‘ou told ime ‘al that in Nice. Why, of ¢ paarse
Tknew he was y lather, and I hi
been ‘on the point vt telling
him thatIhad met you. But 1 did not
re. Every time I tried to, hecame as
red, as red aa—'
0] "No, n
tur is foniy natural.
nths | to be!
ich the eyes of his heart had ever Pi
a you tell it fom
rent reason strike him full in the! estin;
and hy
away, that he had enught a: glimpse of vhel
the pleasure that key.
ok rose, the loveliest rosebud in all the
jen of roses,” cried Harry, all his love
came the devoted aiid. “inseparable cavalier entnion in his eyes and pon hi .
f the two Indies. Excursions of al Then, indeed, his. simile became correct,
ere planned and executed, and the days for the colo: ted i: r cheekr,
pped by like magic, every successive | making her, if possible, even move lovely
our fi ry more and more in love |than before.
with his “rare, pale Vivian,” as he fondly| | ‘Have—have you said anything to your|
is own heart. it he strug- fares Wout me?’ she ask:
sled ii pak with himself to allow no ations although she was far from
sion to appear. Although, suspecting Se, iol sher lover: t ole
ent and well-educated, the | story, all that he had been craving to know,
innocence itself, ai him long: to clasp herin his
new littie or nothing of the world. |arms. But he was afraid, afraid of shock-
ing her maiden
“No,” he anne
“dy er
me ered him.
morrow.
Vivian ughed, such aimerry, confident
laugh, which yet had ja it nothing of ego-
ism.
“You are ateaid T will mot please him?”
she asked, ar
liarry caught his breath. In that one sen-
tence were contained both confession of he
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evn feelings and the anost. supreme con
dene im, She had divined what he
felt for. SrGth complete, ingen
the most natural
ped, sture
pressive of the sieariiy of such a thing.
She laughed happily
‘Oh, Iwas a little fearful, of course, That
Sir John, I a
call wpon us, ob,
You see,” Colonng a litle, and 9 yet
e least embarrassed, “a se
tome: * Vivi:
ease that man, for your happiness lies in
that direction.’ Weil, without it vanity, I
really think T have sucseede
ceded 1” cri
with the 1ov ¢
his breast, and u
hat wai ing up in
le longe: “ to fai in
himself, “Succeeded ! How could su fail?
ht Vivian! Vivian! Tlov
She turned toward him with a "Took whieh
¢ | suddenly threw open the gates of Ede
Harry Mainwari!
hat for a longtime.
ow?
‘Hevslowly extended his arms, and sl
stole into them, as.a child goes to its othe
.
there is always some-
thing of imprudence and fatuity. But i
this ease, fortunately, that was of m0 co
angelin heaven could
e sacred ain
Wonteked her love for him
ality, one is always the
shadow of “the ine and both ma
wi
even
loge their color.
Then followed those soft murmurings,
those disjointed sentences that are so inter-
to lovers, but to lovers alone.
fast Harry remembered the reception
he had received at
q hat it’ meant.
SR
“nde jndeed, 1 don’t know,” she said,
sadly, “a ‘m afraid mamma will never
give her consent. to
“But wh;
tshe seems to hay
once or nice when
‘The
Vivian could throw no light upon the sub-
ject, But Harry, conscious
no way to blame, dete mined to
explanation wi y Diana at the very
first opport
“Ob, if she should forbid me to see sou!”
suddenly ¢ cried Vivian im unfeigned alarm,
Ww her em \derly to him,
eRnd ith
Vivian nooked oD at him with a smile.
“Dm afraid 1 could not obey,” she said
with a chavaing can
Touched to the depth of his being,
murmured ardent!
ns, my darting, never
Rem mber
tl ed ard you.
Yor my duty, my truth, my virtue,
roe! day- Star of my heart, my own, my on!
drew away from him, just a little
teighiened atthe passion in’ his words and
larry at once realized what she was
feeling and hhe hastened to say much m
ealmly,
“Forgive me, but I could not give you up.”
jock given to her
sty ene away,and she
Zhe extended a small. key which she drew
from her
Harry ‘bok i but iis face showed that
did not understa:
tits little green door in
ill come?’
inaing to le lengthen, and
long cool shadows darkened the woodland
Remember tt thie “Gear heart, remember
Came weal, come wor.
Tam nie dats hide,
And iu her servien Met oy wsthatand
my ton fu allt te world's despite.”
"CHAPTER Ir”.
Na WO.AN’S HEART
here were certainly few wom
ad, or in any ‘othensountry for thi
could vie in beanty. ‘with Eady
na Poindexter, It might well have
y
‘usb ing back the
ga
ied Harry, Beside himself
wi
y," she said, with a little laa at
tal
thd hands of Lady Diana
mystery was deepening, when even] fi
scape
{Oh M she ened, have delayed too
Jong. ‘must return at once,
‘One moment, only one moiment,”|"
pleaded H
She paused irresolutely. He caught her
ands in his, and looking down into the ’
luminous depths of those eyes ere
so modes ly © trustingly to his,
uurmure
wrote his famous line, “divinely tall and
: With her stately posse,
classic features and regul air, she looked
like wome goddess of the olden mythologs:
Her hair, which w
and her deep tawny
er marti ee,
love, of love on noot “aides
When very
Oo was
wih an only c shi 4 vide viel of about two,
is first wife hi
‘bus-
ad had nothing to complain
er short wedded life,
After his wife's death, the widower went
wus fairly good
f io eharia manners,
certain barcination which ‘counts
young life,
the pro
fi her hea an
he young couple were married and took
je Arvon, which
marry
. “Thi faint cloud earried nothing menac-
well afford to laugh at the
anger of an ill tempered old w
But
thi
imperceptibly,
ings chan
yy ofndexter egan to chafé
at the excedingly quiet life be
a
aly by fur the greater pos
8 spent in the metropolis. Sia net Lady
Diana had notecen her husband ‘now for
nearly @ year, when at last he came to Castle
his da
«| they should come to
Englan
a had
‘nade no objection, but had cold-
who & sharming, sweet:
her way to her
Y but, fro:
wiekly w
no less proud 4
were at dagger's points,
not as yet come to open
ady Diana ha
although the
watrare.
Li T COM)
di
which
{ have reecived it, denied her.
man of her ‘temperament,
a position is na perilous one, nd if disaster
had 0 n his marital’ relations, Clive
indexter “would ‘have bad no cnet
tine for fe but hitaselt
0
"The Burden of « See,
6 Sin
Wt End," ete.
CHAPTER LXX.
It must have Deen a reliet to got away from, ber.
Leonard drew 9 decp nizh of relief whew he stood
money. and 1
mathes
8
io
an redenpbione
Prononneed her Sineraine
Qnatntatces called her disasteow
iad
Married en Tanehed at Leamaet, ani told dian hi
had not
ie
fecrat of Holding the rein
with ber,
ity her Meversth
a ve
n her nat rhe used
‘ueree, of control over her shary
tinue, Bie AVL that no longer and Leonard owned
Miselt one of the moat miserable wen undes the
t _ (
_
etd
been in description of her that Tennyson/
a | eyes fixe
not
t, had been one of
ad | no correction is
| wor
an ng, h
experienced Dak title diicutty i in Pohang i
of Ler hand and the surrender |c
ing in it, and, in their happiness, they could | Ary
neonsidered rr
01
+ Patrice and | thi
ined either | now?
“Beerna MLLAY.
Woman Betcwers. Them,
“Ome Woman
{Enered according to an actof Congress Inthe vert
1308, by Sane & Ser
‘Congress at Washington,
(A Hann Wrenont a Wenorse Rixo" was commenced tu No.19, Back nusst
‘bers cant be obtained of all newadeaters.)
f hey
a pu
| Ainsietel ‘a
on came to an enh
tion, and
bad
hecame almost. Rinendurahi,
8, of ale
went
disap | ell »
How near she had been to danger, a
{danger which was as Dot yet ent entirely past,'no
Diana herself,
were occupying her attention and
much more affectionate in tone than an’
his "wife had received from him, for many
a long month. is gave Lady Diana
no pleasure. On the contrary, it filled her
with a sort of terror and something nearly
akin to remorse, Before they are bound in
the records of the Almighty, after which
sible, few of the leaves
of the book of life receive the final approval
e's conscie
sciousness of v sronesoieg eitherin thought,
ee
But was it 6
[She asked h herself this question with many
ward t ad a selt-contempt that
she found it {impotsible to drive a
nflinchingly, §; erself nov in the
First she
what promised happ pines, even thoi ough that
happiness w guilt: e Land dy
Diaha fully believed that Mai
her, although she did not
into words elf. Nor did she real-
ize the brink on which she was standing,
at least noe until, after ber return to Castle
ace’
ut tha ae beket
>
error
rs
thoughtlessly, fatuously, like a ra
shame rushed over]
tha: Mainwaring
with the icy. reception which had so Tueled
y| both him
nd how “hiv ‘mornin » alone in her bou-
doir, Lady Diana was exam! er own
Every word of tl the journal seemed to
Repke that of an accusing ju
ing and would pro
fear all her soul, the thanked God
for thi
Then ‘a strange feeling of loneliness stole
‘h of teats came to her eyes
and blinded her. With a long shuddering
sob, she ben! nt her beatiful head upon the
desk, and wept like a child
CONTINEED.]
Kt tt
FF AK SA FH HH HH
FH tt tt
They, 8 deantifnl
laxuriously
nisnedy they had every
Whine co could dentre, asi
Bigg’ fanraes
et nevel
he BIN Twere in 1
i Eis ’vervante need
> so (iar ree
tio'prge ot nef
an He Baten
apleouaris ne
i
mF like nis eit awucl
‘Lord jam Eoin a Sp.aud Bt,
re baal heen some meus
tion of big going tote Par
in the office of the Librarian,
D.C>
hian's fort
Ai that wae setgbtratt
The head
nines!
aod,
and to. the, fate Avelin sor who
| ta" itom ney Houne), and there Bnd tte happtive
Iy praised,
Kenrin riuly Onde balan fur
wa
mire oat for thet.
once mare autside He Rnod effects! of the marriace
q'Serves me Tight.” he said to himself, at ented. “Alice sel r. cult not
1 married ‘ ‘woiuan F did mot like. for ber sneudacast ahh ould,
ized. She had mone;
Nel ia a lady-like way, and th
Shaving tho most power, nade, the
ines elder one. Mra,
fortanle howe with. Ner
She only entered the villa by
8
er it went from
em—she w:
tier
owetiet, intend of ATSINE fo make ‘her
rent
ice'a whole time Was occupied in
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