The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1848-11-22

pounds, and Frsnk will probably get
someihing rum his brolhsr George"
" Umph.' sid John Trasers. .The
bargain i not completely made!''
"QuiIe senled. = answered Mrs. DANNY.
with = look fnll Of satisfaction. aIhe
lease was dawn and signed . fortnight
ago. Irsdesmen are in The house. and
most part of The furniture i cine home.
Mary has not quite fixed The day. bur |
have IN idea il Is moi very far or"
Il did not expert 10 hear malieus had
gone 50 Iar," said John. graysly; i" though
guessing pretty well long ago how they
would end. As You say, their choice
does credit 10 them both; and yet ron-
fess, Cousin Dandy, | more Than share in
Mary's anxieiies regarding tie future; and
IS my notions are my own. am afraid |
cannot SO easily lay Them by. But Tell
me. how did Frank Nugent come by such
a bargainl Mr.. Jnnes has the name OF
being hard and gripping agent. and very
Few real bargains. as hear. have ever pas
sed through his hands. ="-~ >~
"Oh. bui Frank is very different from
The generality Of his tenants. replied the
widow. "No wonder il Mr.. Jones male
q compliment 10 him; or most likely the
family had interest with Sir Hugh him
self, and go. lie place for Frank without
any thanks 10 the agent. Indeed il seems
so natural 10 me that any Of the Nngenls
could gel farm whenever they chose 10
look for il, that never thought OF making
il subject ofinqniry." I
"In,ere.t-inlerst-ihe Irish look too
much 10 doing things through interest,""
said John Travets. composedly.
"And all right. hoo, il they have not a
fortune oflheis own" replied Mrs. Dandy.
" But Tell me. Cousin John, what you
would have recnmmendedl''
"Tha, is som done. should have ad-
vised Mary and her intended husband 10
wait little iill heiier times, or al oil
events moi TO have started with heavy
farm on their hands, but in preference, TO
have opened shop in The town. know
one. with a stock 10 boot. which is al
present TO be had for comparatively
small sum-"
"a shop! Did you say shopi Our
family have never descended to the mean
* Tl ss. pc $50. Ia sl.
Jess well-meanmg. but unsuitable propo-
sal. II would i'll become any OF Mary's
relations 10 teach Frank Nugent that his
position was lowered by his marriage.
"Well, cousin, no offence meant either
10 you or the Nugenis, or least of all TO
dear little Mary. wished to see her and
her husband independent, what they never
will be at the fag end Of what you call
their position. Gladly would have done
something to spare Mary the weary slrug-
gle Of keeping up false appearances-done
anything but quench her hearts young
ioy. Remember that. Cusin Dandy, !
would not ,hwart this marriage-l would
| not even say il was inconsideraie or III
j advised, though many might agree with
me-for know them bolh thoroughly;
they are good. honest. loving. and in the
end they will pull through" -
Luckily, as Mrs. Dandy remarked, the
advice and the foreboding were both too
| late, and John Travers was too wise and
too kind 10 offer superfuous counsel: so
he bided his time. contenling himself Tor
the presen, with forwarding their prepa-
ra,iens as far as lay in his power, avoiding
all discussions of ways and means. Mary
alone, perhaps, read his silence arlght--
his forbearance; bu, as this was APPOINT on
which her doubts had been slitlcd by the
hand which was TO provide for the iuture'
she determined, in the fullness oil womanly
trust. that no other should revive them
again; and thus the subject was tacltly
dropped, while both in their own way
looked as happy and hopeful on the day
of the wedding as If no cloud from the iu'
lure had ever Swallowed their minds.
| Happy and hopeful Those were M
words for Mrs. DANNY; she was actually
radiant as carriage and jaun'ing-car drove
M 10 her door, and the full tide oil com
piimcn,s and congratulations poured IN
,, 10 do her justice, her hopes and he
, plans we're all centred in her daughter
, her dreams of ambition only through her
, she still had her dreams, bn, they Ssr
abou, 10 by realized, and she was con
. tented 10 shine for the future with retiee
/ ted light.
4 Mrs. Dandy was the widow OF an 9th
!, Ger, who, some twenty years before, whe
y quar.ered in this her native village, capt
1 waited by her bloomiag fare, had marie
9 and taken her away. She returned al n
o death with one lille daughter, lndgln
- from experience that The slender proviso
n which was scarce better than poyeri
+ amongs. strangers. would seem quite
ri fortune in the eyes of her humoler co..
3, nections al home; and by good manag
n ment, and keeping her own counsel,
}. really answered all the purposes Of 70
d tune in her hands. Every one has.en'
!. to welcome her-eyery one tried to ASST
4, - L.. o.ad., c,r rronuino fepli,