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Her remark a moment later convinced him to the contrary. "Adelpha is a lovely maid and as good as she is beautiful. Her lot is a happy one." There was no bitterness, no regret in the remark; yet her words were so sad, that they went to the heart of Charles. "Cora, there is such a difference in the lots of people, that sometimes I almost believe God is unjust." "Charles!" she cried, quite shocked.
Adelpha, who was a merry, light-hearted girl, in love with all the world, insisted on forming the acquaintance of Cora, until Charles, to gratify her, granted her request, and the maids met. Cora was distant and conventional, while Adelpha was warm-hearted and genial. They came to like each other, despite the fact that each looked on the other as a rival.
As she glared after Charles and Adelpha, her fertile brain was forming a desperate, wicked scheme. She watched them until they disappeared over the hill, and then, turning about, walked hurriedly to the parsonage.
In order to explain the sudden danger which menaced the father of Adelpha Leisler, and which she, like a true, heroic daughter, hastened to brave, we will be compelled to narrate some events in our story of a historical nature. Jacob Leisler was an influential colonist of an old Dutch family, as has been stated, and a Presbyterian.
Since the evening on which the name of Adelpha Leisler had been mentioned, Cora Waters had been strangely shy and reticent, so that Charles Stevens could not tell her of the interview with Mr. Parris, even if he would. Cora was a remarkable girl. She united in the highest perfection the rarest of earthly gifts genius and beauty. No one possesses superior intellectual qualities without knowing it.
Adelpha, who had watched the sun sink beneath the distant blue hills, as she listened to Charles, now chanced to glance over her shoulder at the sea behind, with the moon just rising above the watery horizon, and with a merry peal of laughter she added: "Charles, your heroine is more dull than modern maids, or, when the sun jilted her, she would have wooed the moon."
Jacob Leisler was tried and condemned early in May, 1691, while Charles Stevens and Adelpha were hastening to New York. Charles, who had heard something of the offence of Governor Leisler, and who, young as he was, had come to realize that royalty yielded nothing to the republican ideas, began to fear the worst.
She was a girl of a light and happy disposition, and, as yet, cares sat lightly on her brow. "Watching the sunset, are you?" said Adelpha, breathless with rapid walking. "We have been," answered Charles. "Well, it is a pretty thing to see, and I wish he would always be setting," declared Alice Corey. "A child's wish," answered Adelpha. "What would become of your flowers?" "I am sure I don't know.
Every old playground and hallowed spot was visited once more, and they lived over those joyous scenes of childhood. "I sometimes wish that childhood would last forever," said Charles. "Childhood brings its joys, but its sorrows as well," Adelpha answered, as she sat on the mossy bank at his side, her bright eyes on his face. "One would grow weary of never advancing.
Her father was to come in a few days and take her away to the far-off wilderness, so, if he spoke the promptings of his soul, he must do it now. Long they sat on the grassy knoll and watched the declining sun. "How long have you known Adelpha?" Cora asked. "We were children together." "Has she always lived in New York?" "Yes; but our grandparents knew each other.
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