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In short, her heart beat so quick when
ever Arthur Burlinlon's name was men.
toned, that she had but lillle philosophy
at her disposal for the consideration o
their mutual prospects. She wepr, in
deed, while listening to her mothers ap.
peal and Mrs Wyndham augured won.
ders from her tears, without suspeciing
that they flowed from the consciousness,
OF having already entangled herself in |;
solemn betrothnent with the object O
her mothers repugnance. Dreadmg d
still more express and sacred prohibition
she even consented to fulfil the engage.
ment by secret IDarrlage (; Arthur hay.
lug assured her that The mother who had
dealt towards her with such underwriting
indu genco, could not and would no,
withhold her benedictiOn from vow al
ready solemnized.
And so far he was right in his calcula-
tions Mrs. Wy ndham did consent to
bless the p' intent bride ; she did extend
her hand III pledge of peace to her un-
welcome son-ln-law she did even has
ten TO slay the iatied calf, and make
merry in honor Of these i'll omentd nup-
tIals. But there was touch of bitter
ness in her voice, and glance of rngulsh
in her eye throughout all these reJoic
lngs 1T was PLAIN that she was only
Iaborng TO spare the feelings Of her re-
belIIous grl. Within II few weeks she
sckened, died, and was buried, without
aGy allmept beyond the secret pang, be-
traylns-
How sharper than serpont's tooth it is
To have tbankess child
Perhaps OF the three, Arthur Burlint IN
was the most 10 be pIIicd. lie knew
himself 10 be the active cause Of Caro-
lines disobcdiencc, the passive cause Of
Mrs. Wyndbam's untlmely end /; and
whenever he sat watching The tears that
stole down the cheeks Of his wife, he
seemed to note anew the nournlul waive
of the dying mothcr's head, which was
ever present in the daughters memory.
His means were too small to afford TO
the delicate Caroline those luxuIies or
rather necessuries Of her station, which
the loss of her cheerful home now rem
dcred doubly necessary and, worse
than all his own parents were still living,
aud fnr more bitterly ncensed by his im-
proyident marriage than the mild and
nilecionale woman whom it had hurried
into the grave The letter in which
they acknowledged the avowal OF his
rasnncss was, in fact, OF too harsh aud
sordid nature to be shown 10 his wife.
She was aware that Arhur's father
was man of nean extraction, gagged
in commercial life in a manufacturing
town that he had placed his handsome
son in II hussar regiment IN the hope that
he would achieve greatness, and have
greatness thrust upon him, both proies-
slonally and matrimonially but she did
not know that on learning Arthur'S al
lance with porionlcss girl instead OF
the hciIess anticipated by his cuPdlty,
he had readered curse for II blessing
and forbidden the young couple his house.
I For some tine, Captain Bulint"n
managed to persuade his wife that the
peremptory nature OF his military duties
alone prevented him from introducing her
to his family and she, who was so ac-
customed TO the cndearments of family
affection, vainly sighed after those un-
known parents who she trusted, would
some day or other de,gn to replace her
own amcnted mother. But she was not
yet fully sensible of the Importance Of
that bereavement 1t is in the day Of
our humiliation, rather than III the trl-
umph of our pride, we turn our hearts to
God it is in our season Of sorrow, rath-
er than in the lulness OF property, we
miss The tender hand that sheltered our
infancy from harm, and wiped away the
transient tears Of youth.
" hen herself on the eve Of becoming
a mother, when "lear came upon her
soul" she recollected the possibility that
the little being about to see the light
might see II t-nIoiheress and wept anew
for that Lind parent who would have
loved aud sheltered her babe for her
sake. Then, for the first time, terri
bic sentence seemed whispered in her
ears, THAT tender mother is in her
grave aud thou, even thou, dldst lay
her there"
Fortunately, her evil augurios were
premature she survived 10 press living
child in her living arms. But even the
JOY OF that most JOY Gus hour was damped
by the same morbid scli-upbraidlng
While she listened in ccsiacy 10 the
feeble wall of her infant, and felt her
heart grow big with rapluie, beyond the
relief of tears, beyond The expression ol
words,-tho thought glanced into her
mlnd that-"Evcn so tag mother rejolc-
cd IN thy birth thy mother, whom thou
dldst hasten To the grayeW
/ 1t was in VAN that Arthur attempted
TO combat tins affecting notion, Nhat
ever evil awaited her, Caroline : Inst I'M
pulse was TO recognize the blow as a
chasiiSement for her dIschedlence ano
rom the period od-and 1t came but too
soon---whcn poverty made itself appa-
rent in their little household, she sceuo q
to lee every prlvallon and every hunn-
liation as a sacrifice due io the memory
Of her departed. She struggled, indeed,
against such evils as operated against
the comforts of Arthur aud his chlld ms
well as against her own; laborsd dit
gently, and laid ASIDE all the dainty