The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1851-08-13


You of cast iron? Oh, no, that you are
not You are made of aspen leaves, and
lquiver at the lightest breath. All, my dear
girl, if in the course Of things should hap
pen to be unfortunate in business and you
were thrown upon your own resources, these
lwhimsieswould have to be speedily abandon
led You would then have to think less of
your nerves, and more of your fingers
'Mr. Montell!' exclaimed his wife, eleva-
ting her hands, and her eyebrows, in the ut
most astonishment Did you speak?
'Why-ahem--y yes replied Mr.. Montell,
bashfully. 4 believe 1 did say few words.
Just few, my DEAR
! 'One thing, girls, wish you particularly
to remember said Mrs. Montell, addressing
apparently her daughters, but in facg speak
ing at her husband, land that is, when you
are married, to immpress strictly upon your
husbands the righteousness of their interfer-
ence in feminine matters. The world gives
them privileges enough as it is, without their
seeking to encroaeh upon our already circum-
scribed province"
my DEAR began Mr.. Montell, apologeti-
cally, 4 only-Agathe is
4 beg you will not say anything more to
distress her, Mr.. Montell. She is already
too much agitated. Will you oblige me by
leaving us together little while; mothers
soothing influence is sometimes the best Of
medicine for wounded mind
/ Glad toescape so easily, Mr.. Montell quiet
, ly withdrew.
Henry Wentworth, though quite young
man, had seen much of the world, and was
consequently was not near so blind to faults
ofcharacter as Mrs. Montell imagined, He
seldom saw Hester now, and yet the more
sedulously Mrs. Montel ,endeavored to keep
the fair orphan in the background, the
more Wentworth's thoughts felt drawn to-
wards her. Interested from the first by her
beauty, he was not long in discovering, that
to the charm of fair face, she united a dis
position of singular cheerfulness, with Sc
rene force of mind that enabled her to bear
up under the many vexations to which, from
her dependent position, she was constantly
subjected.
The ambiguous remarks of Mrs. Montell
when he first met Hester, led him to make
inquiries concerning the latter from other,
and less interested sources, and the result
was that he began to dream quite number
of very pleasant dreams, both by day and by
night, in which, somehow or other-tho' he
never could tell exactly how-Hester con-
stantly occupied a prominent place.
i The fine old mansion of the Montells was
, on the skirts of thecity, the streets Of which,
although they were paved close up to its
gates, had not yet intruded beyond the edge
ofits sloping and wellwooded lawn. The
, garden in the rear too, still retained, by
means of its high walls and ancient shrub
berry, shady exclusives, that was really
delightful in contrast with the glare, and
hustle, and hubbub, of the city beyond.
y Wentworth's watchfulness of Hester's
movements had not altogether escaped the
penetrating eyes of Mrs Montell. The lat
t, ter sought, therefore, by every means in her
power, to divert his evident admiration ofth
fair orphan from growing into warmer feel
ing. She paraded before him the dependent
condition of her neicc whenever she could
do so without irrelevancy. She had excuses
for Hester's non-appearance in the drawing
room as usual; and she became suddenly ex-
ceedingly timid of Hester's walking out alone;
and at length, the garden-over whose high
walls not even the tempted youths of the
city had ventured to climb--was pronounced
| dangerous to stroll in without the presence
!, of companion.
: But even Argus sometimes slept, and one
day, when both Mrs. Montell and her daugh-
5 ters were in the city, and Hester's time being
, heavy on her hands-a rare thing with Hes
ter-she ventured to disregard the awful in
terdct of Mrs. Montell and wander, compan-
ioned by her own pure thoughts, along the
mazy walks SO pleasantly hemmed about by
t hedges of roses, and altheas, and shadowed
by think clumps of eyergeens.
Companioned by her own pure thoughts,
wehaye said, and though they are very cheer
full company for Hester she blushed little,
/; but did not appear at all sorry, when Went
worth added his voice to the voice OF her own
: heart, and they wandered to and fro along
the green alleys together. How Wentworth
happened to be there just at that time, Love
only knows! Mrs. Montell certainly thought
> he had gone on an excursion that day with
some intimate acquaintances, or her own
: visit to the city would most assuredly have
been put off.
Soft was, however, and when Wentworth
t joined Hester, they walked up one path and
u down another--turned this way and then
Q that--doubled on their own footsteps, and
: treaded the maze of evergreens-un until, quite
|fatigued with their wanderings is, it is
. to be supposed they were fadgued-they sal
i down in little arbor, and he went on talk
e ling very low, and very earnestly; while she
f cast her eyes trembling upon the ground ,and
: pulled to pieces hecorner of her white hand
kerchef 1t was pity to unravel the cor
. ner of so excellent handkerchief, but we
. are sorry to record of gentle Hester thai
e she did not seem to feel any remorse at the
act AS he continued to speak, she blushed
r still more deeply, and her tremulous fingers
0 picked out more rapidly than ever the fine
b cambric threads, Only to think Of spelling
e that excellent handkerchief But now, as he
Says something with passionate earnestness,
/? she lifts her head and looks timidly in his
ii eyes, and smiles; and then how could she dc
l. so?-her little white hand slid gently int
his, and nestled there; and then-they botl
rose and went by different ways towards the
u house.
II Mrs. Montell was Just returned home az
II IllWentworth entered AS she looked up tx
welcome him, his face was radiant with hap
lpiness.
~ Agathe, whose nerves she imagined wer,
j, yet unstring, reclined langMdly on the sofa
d while Emeline--whom it was always a tasl
i Ito -drowsily occupied the large rock