Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-09-25

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Oh, / should never think of any thing but
Patty. Surely you could select better name
than that Ruth is much prettier-what a
pity you do not like it. | admire it great
ly, but my taste is not much-well, do please
yourself, only | am sorry you cannot fancy
Ruth
How would you like Lucy, There can be
no objection to that on the score of nicknames,
and it is easily spoken
Yes, and SO is Polly, if that were all. But
you must think of some other name beside Lu-
cy. once knew girl by that name who was
my perfect aversion, and she has spoiled it for
me. Ruth is the best name after all, pity you
cannot think so. But choose something else if
you please.
Various were the names suggested by Mrs.
Bennet, and rejected by her husband, some on
one ground, and some on another, still with the
same ending-'1 wish yon could like Ruth
until wearied by the discussion, and hope
less of gaining anything by its continuance,
she replied to his request that she would please
herself
Let her be called Ruth, if you prefer it,
How delighted | am, that we are always of
the same opinion at last-it quite repays me
for the concession some might imagine me to
make, in submitting these things to the judg-
ment of my wife,
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importance came up for decision, Mrs. Bennet
was sometimes compelled from principle to
abide by her own opinion, though at an expense
OF personal comfort, which few could appreciate.
She had yielded so long and so often to the
wearisome pertinacity of her husband, that
when she first dared to do what he had always
boasted of permitting, he could hardly credit
his senses.
Do you really mean,' he inquired one day,
long after the scene we have just described
to forbid yonng Barton visiting our chill
dren!'
Did you not tell me to do just as pleased
about it =
Yes, to be sure-but thought you would
of course take my advice about it-as usu-
al
/ could not, because know what you do
not, that Young Barton is depraved and dan
gerous character, and Ruth and Harry are just
of an age to be attracted by false glitter of his
external advantages. Where the temporal and
eternal welfare of my children are concerned
my dear husband, you must allow me to follow
my own convictions of duty. In all things
where conscience is not concerned, shall, as
have uniformly done, yield my own preference
and wishes to yours!
WELL said MIR. Bennet to himself, as he
turned away women are inexplicable beings,
and | begin to think neighbor Wilson's way of
managing them is better than mine after all
If you give them even loop-hole to creep out
at, they will be sure, sooner or later, to rebel
openly and set up for themselves. am too old
to change, but if l were to begin life again, l
would manage so as to secure submission from
mo wife on all points. 1t is the only way to
preserve domestic harmony
1t was at the close of lovely day in the
month of roses that Robert Manly brought
his youthful bride to their own pleasant home,
and for the first time, welcomed her as its
mistress. They were both very happy, for
young love shed its roseate hues over all
around, and they had just spoken those SOL
emn words which bound them to each other,
in joy and in sorrow, in sickness and in
health, prosperity and adversely, till separated
by death.
What paradise it isl exclaimed the de-
lighted Ellen shall want nothing on earth,
but the occasional society of my friends, to rem
der my felicity complete
A kiss was the only reply of the husband, as
he gazed tenderly on the bright face so fondly
upturned TO his own, for though he had early
learned the sad lesson of which she was vet
ignorant, that perfect and abiding happiness is
not the growth of earth, he could not rudely
dispel her dream of bliss, by reflections that
must have seemed unsuited to the occasion-
Young as he was, Robert Manly had been
trained in the school of adversely, and its stern
but valuable lessons had not been thrown away
on him. The only son of his mother, and she
widow, he had been compelled, almost in
childhood, to depend upon his own exertions
for support, and carefully guarded by his ex-
celent parent from evil companions and nflu-
I,l LoI ola e.
ergy and integrity, which was worth more to
him than thousands of gold and silver. He
was now partner in respectable mercantile
firm, which he had first entered as poor and
friendless clerk-and was reaping the rich re-
ward of uprightness and honor, in the conf
dence and respect of all with whom he was as
sociated in business. While still very young,
he formed an attachment for the daughter of his
employer, a lovely, dark-eyed girl, whose swee,
voice, and endearing attentions to the lonely
boy, won his heart, before he had thought Of
regarding her in any other light than that of a
playful and engaging child. She had grown
up to womanhood at his side, and every year
strengthened the tie that bound them to each
other, though he could not but feel with pain,
that the education she was receiving, was far
from being useful or rational one. As the
youngest of large family, and the pet and
plaything of the whole, Ellen was trained in
the very lap of luxury and indulgence, and her
lover was compelled to admit to himself, that
however highly educated, amiable and accom-