Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1852-03-30

"N hat Is your name
"Honora Carey, sir. ;"
Go ask your aunt tell her / viii give
her Fifty dollars for parting with you.
Fifty dollars" repeated the child. in as
constituent. gazing with Der handsome eyes
upon the old gentleman.
Yes, yes, hurry over and tell her"
The child's story brought her aunt to the
carriage, where the bargain was cousummat-
cd. aud she was told to come to certain
number in Blocker street on the next day,
where her signature would be required and
the money paid
The old gentleman was one of the richest
Of New York's retired merchants. lie had
been married many years but had no chill
dren. and his heart yearuea for child to dote
upon, to instruct, to love. and to endear 70
him. Little Honora Carey happened to
catch his eye; she was q beautiful child
though dressed in coarse ffock and with
bare feet. and the thesght struck him that
be might adopt her II circumstances were
proptious. He inquired, as have told you
and II a week after, Honofa was domestica-
tedln all the maguifceneo Of prineely town
mansion. She was but uinc years old, but
still she was deemed to be old enough to
commence Der studies, aud the best masters
we're induced BY extraordinary pay. to ex-
pend unusual labor upon her, 80 that in little
more than twelvemonth, Honora's own
mother ould not have known her.
She now walked with the l;ghtness conf
dence and grace that a good danseuse can on
ly excel In: her language was well chosen,
her subjects happy and spirited, and her man.
ners refined and easy. The experiment was
successful. and the old gentleman was trebly
repaid BY the unboundcd love the child bore
him above al else on earth She seemed
only really happy when BY his side. and be,
on his part. often told bis friends that had
she really been bis own child he could not
have loved her better. He was still more
nearly drawn to he. by the death of bis wife
which occurred during the second year Of her
adoption. and Honora seered to redouble
her efforts to conduce to the happiness other
K benevolent bcnefactor.
4 Well. years rolled on, and Honora grew
up strikingly beautiful. The refined persons
with whom she had associated, her masters
and studies, had all tempered her native ac-
cent, so that every intonation Of brogue was
gone, leaving rich roundness Of articulation.
so to speak, that was an universal beauty in
itself. Her thoughts seemed teeming with
! jewels and preeions stones gathered from the
! mine Of intellect; scores Of devoted lovers
strove to win her hand. bu. she seemed we'd
, ded to her protector and bcnefaetor. aud un-
, til his Death she listened to no words of love
from any one, He left herhis entire fortune,
balfa million Of dollars. and then the simple
apple girl was an heiress. md mistress Of one
} Of the finest establishments in the metropolis
: Of America.
S There were many in tho fashionable train
e that paid her homage wlpm she might per-
haps have lked. il Gotln&eal. hat size possess
4 cd shrewd aud well halsncea mind, and
! knew how easily she might1he deceived as t.
: the motive that actuated tliosc who sought
her hand for she was an heiscss. as have
7 said of no mean ptetensions. In the height
n of the season, Honora suddenly disappeared
y from her proud mansions. whhh she lett in the
C keeping Of safe agents. nor id she return fol
: nearly year. When she did. it was as a
q wife, After Developments showed that size
b had repaired to Philadclphis in the interim
d and in the midst of family circle which were
$ her friends, made her home. Here With tbs
assistance of the family. she passed for .
d young orphan with little o. no estate; but
d the elegance of her manner and the brilliancy
!, Of her intellect drew around her many sincere
e admirers, who. Of course; sought her for her
: self alone. From them sho selected young
student at law, whose excellence of DISPOSE
: they we're married, her husband solemnly be-
n believing he welded a penniless girl
C Aladdn.like, when be came to New York
= tic place that was TO be his future home
broke with establishment upon him Rejoic-
IS ing himself in the fact that he know not 0
= her wealth inasmuch as il proved his sinceri
It ty lie acccdcd. most happily 70 her plans. ant
thcy were at once domesticatcd. Honora
the poor apple girl vas the centre of attrac
n ton in the first circles Of the town society
IS She was courtcd by oil classes Of the rich
= the proud and the learned.
NEW my dear Mss Langly, there is ar
: instance in point which goes to prove the po-
9 siiion advanced yesterday. that circumstan'
; ccs, not blood, make us what we are DC
you not yourself think so when you consider
y that poor Irish apple girl, with no better
e blood in her veins than that which warmed
Q the pulse of her aunt, who sold fruit at an OPP
Q posite corner, became the most distingut
woman in New York, celebrated for her wit,
9 intelligence, beauty, and diguiied grace
"You are SO fluent. Mr.. Burditt that you
t pune at fault; all you say is very fine but
} stil | cannot but think with Pauline. that
there is something glorious in the heritage Of
command, and that person who has ances..
tors seems like a representative of the past.
, 'If YOU think thus with Pauline. Miss
Langly, think none the less with Claude,
that brave deeds alone are the ancestors OF
/ brave men,. or with the shrewd philosopher
{ who hkened those persons who boosted Of
ancestors to the potato plant, the best part OF
which is under ground
Fie fe. Mr.. Burditt, there's no getting
along with one so ready as you are. But
what does your Story weigh after all One
must see such woman as you have desert
bed to admit that she could be so we'll en-
lowed. it is true that all this may be- but
yet it appears to me more probable that IN
your generosity Of disposition, you may have
! aeco,doa moro exeellcnce to one who has thus