Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-05-31
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From Arthur's Home Gazette.
Ellen LaWton:
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| Yes answered Ellen; but wish TO go over TO
Aunt Mary's just to say goodbye to her..
But my DEAR answered Frederic, there is not
Time looking at his watch.
Just moment, persisted Ellen. { | will hurry
promised Aunt Mary, and she is sick and cannot
leave her room'
| And, as Frederic answered not, she could see the
impotence expressed on his countenance, and she
hastily departed. Aunt Mary had innumerable kiss
es to bestow upon her avorite, and many words and
wishes to utter, brokenly, in a voice choked with
tears; and 1t was many minutes ere she could tear
herself away, and on her return she met several
oteIers from the church, who stopped her TO look at
her sweet face once more and listen to her sweet
voice again. She hurried on-Mr Gorton met her
at the door, and said, sternly:
Ellen, wish you not to delay moment in part
ing from your friends. You have already kept me
waiting too long,
| There no tenderness in his voice as he ut
tered this and it fell as weight upon Ellens heart,
already saddened at the thought of the parting with
her mother and friends.
| When 1t was over, and as the carriage rolled
away, Ellen grieved bitterly. Mr.. Gorton, who re-
ally loved his bride, sincerely and fondly, encircled
her waist with his arm, and said, kindly:
Do you feel, Ellen, that you have made too
great sacrifice in leaving home and friends for me'
80, no y said Ellen. No sacrifice could be TOO
all had to love, before | saw you /? And they will
miss me at home, and will think Of me, how often,
too, when shall be thinking Of you only. Think
| it not strange that weep
! But nevertheless, Mr.. Gorton did think it strange
He had idea of the tender associations clustering
around ones home. He had no idea of the depth,
and richness, and sweetness of a mothers love, of
sisters yearnng fondness, for they ever had been
denied him consequently the emotions that thrilled
the heart of his bride could find RESPONSE and met
with no sympathy in his 1t rather with
wonder, than with any other sensation, that he re-
garded her sorrow Was she not entering upon
newer and higher sphere of life? Was she not to
be the mistress of splendid mansion? Was she
not to be the enved of many and many who
had eiened every attraction and exered every effort
for the station she was to assume; and should she
weep with this in view?
Thus MIR. Gorton thought-as man often reasons.
After having proceeded a little distance, they came
within view of an humble cottage, when Ellen said:
. must stop here, Mr.. Gorton, and grandma
Nichols, (she was an elderly member of the church
Of which Ellen was menber) and when | last saw
her, she said, she should not be able to walk to
church see me married, must call on her, or she
should think me proud. will stop for moment
gust Fer moment, she added after pause, OBJ
serving he did not answer
They were just opposite the cottage at that mo-
ment, yet he gave no orders to stop. With fresh
burst OF tears, Ellen EXCHANGED:
please, Mr.. Gorton, let me see her. I may
never see her again, and she will think | did not
CAFE to bid her last farewell
But Mr.. GOrton said:
REALLY, Ellen, am very much surprised at the
apparent necessity Of trfes to make your happiness
You went to see your aunt after had assured you
there was not time. | wish you to remember that
your little wishes and whims, however important
they may seem to you, cannot seem of sufficient i'm
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What matters it if my bride does not say farewell
to an old woman whom | never heard of, and whom
| never shall think Of again. and who will soon
probably die and cease 10 remember that you slight
ed her ?
And he laid Elleu's head upon his shoulder and
wiping the tears from her face, wondered OF what
incomprehenslbe nature she
| But it did matter to her in more respects than
one, that she was not permitted to call at the cot
tage A mind so sensitive as Ellen's feels the least
neglect and the slightest reproof, and is equally
panied by giving cause for pain, as receiving. Be-
sides, how much was expressed in that last sentence
of Mr. Gorton's accompanying the denial OF her SIM
pie request. How much contained in that denial,
too Hoy plainly she read in 1t the future: how
fully did it reveal the disposition Of him by whose
will she saw she hereafter to be governed
Though her mind was full of these thoughts, there
was no less of love for him--love in Ellen could
never change-though she wondered, too, how he
could refuse what seemed to her so easy to grant,.
And SO they both silently pursued their way, won-
dering in their hearts to the nature of each other
This however, did not conue long, and soon Ellen's
tears ceased to flow, and she listened, delighted, to
the eloquent words of her gifted husband, spoken in
the most musical and rich Of all voices.
Woman will have love for her husband, so long
as she has admiration, and Ellen knew she would
never cease to admire the talents and brilliant ac-
qulrements of frederic GOrton.
After several days travel through delightfully."-
romantic country, they reached the town of M,
where was the residence of Mr.. Gorton 1t was an
elegant mansion, the exterior planned and finished in
the most tasteful and handsome style-the interior
equally so-and furnished with all that young bride
of the most cultivated taste could desire. The eye
of Ellen was delighted and surprised even to tears,
and inaudbly, but fervently in her heart, she
INJURED, How devotedly will love him who has
provided for me so much comfort and splendor, and
how cheerfully will make sacrifices ofmy feelings
my wishes and my whims'-for him who has
loved me SO much as to make me his wife;' and she
gazed into her husbands face, through her tears,
and kissed reverently his hand
why weep you, my Ellen, are you not peased''
80, yes! but you have done too much for me.
can never repay you, only in my love, which Is so
boundless have not dared to breathe it all to you,
nor could L.
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