The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-11-03

! ly; and before my daughters, too"
"But am Married." vociferated Percy.
"Kate's husbandl' exclaimed her lady.
ship, who fancied the objects in the room had
been multiplied ad / fnitam.
The domestcs caught the expression, and
''Kate's husband passed the round of the
amazed group.
"Forgive me, Reginald! dear Reginald, dc
not look so. Kill me if you viii, for de.
serve it; but do not, for mercy's sake, hate
me!' said Kate in tone of pteous entreaty
"WomanP' said he fiercely, "is what they
tell me true?"
"It isp' sobbed Kate.
| "And your name is"
! "Kate Brown"
A deep groan burst from the young man'>
chest, and sinking into a chair, he buried hi,
face in his hands.
"Woman, have you dared?" said the peer
angrily.
'Leave this house, mink" cried her lady
ship.
"Such brazen effrontery Well, Inever-
a prison would be too good for her!' were
the charitable remarks OF the sons and daugh.
ters.
The servants were silent; but they drew
away from her as if she had been pesti-
lence. All this reused Kate from the leth
argy into which she was sinking, and, spring.
| ing to her feet, she confronted her ta!nters
with the aspect of lioness. Her eyes
seeTed actually to rain sparks of fire, and
her nostriIs dstended like those of painting
steed
"Cowards!" she cried; chow loud you can
bark at solitary, frendless woman. You
would bite, too, if you dared; but | defy any
one of you do as much as wag his little lin
ger at me-
Reginald, upon hearing this spirited de-
claration, raised bis wan face, and regarded
her fxedly.
"You heap reproaches on me-" she con-
tinued, "and never think Of blaming your
selves. Who first suggested this retaliation
to me? You!" addressing Lady CastlearIen
"by your contumeious treatment of what
you considered worm. You" addressing
her husband, "by your naughty codness
you?' to the daughters, "byyour tyranny
your course, cruel tyranny; to you!'' the
sons, "by your insuts-your cold blooded
insults. Was | meek, poor thing, to en-.
dure all this uncomplainingly? No: studi,
ed my revenge, and determined to have sat
isfaction, by casting slight on the whole or,
der The beauty that made me envied and
hated by you"-this was the young ladies'
land tormented by you"--ths was to the
sons-"I swore should avenge me. Acct
dent threw this gentleman in my way. He
became enamored ofthe peers daughter and
offered her honorable marriage. Would ht
have done the same to Kate Brown, the 90
verness? / doubt it; and as | loved hin
and distrusted myself. l allowed the decep
ton to 90 on. The result you know. am
Lady Percy"
TEis was delivered with an air of lofty
disdain, not unmingled with the fondness o
the woman who unreservedly loves
Reginald groaned audbly, but in his in.
most heart he could not help but admring
his courageous and extremely beautiful wife
But his pride had been wounded, and he
stood aloof from her. Kate noticed the ac.
,ion, and tears started to her eyes.
"Reginald," she said in a voice broker
by emotion, "say you do not hate me! The
law will perhaps release you, and then you
can wed another, in your station of life, bu
never was a truer OF more spotess girl than
the one you are spurnin5. Dear Reginald
say one kind word to ne, and will pass a
way from YOU like dream" . -.
AS she said this she flung herself at hi
feet, and clasping his knees, looked up be
seechingly in his face. The appeal was ir
resistable; he bent down, imprinted on'
burning kiss on her icy-cold forehead, ant
/ then darted from the room. Kate's HUSBAND
was meyer more seen in Caslearden House
Kate left almost Immediately after he did
but not before she had with her little hanC
made the cheek Of the Honorable Russell
Castearden tinge again. ...
The same night she was closeted with he
uncle--a Mr.. Brown, bachelor--who ha,
large transactions in the general grocer
] line. The old man seemed highly please,
with her; and as he chuckled his niece un
der the chin, jooularly said---''That he
having gone into the world little ha
done her good. She had bagged live nc
bleman, an exploit never before p4rforme
ii by Brown, and that he honored her fo
the deed. .''a .afs-1A .aa %
"But have lost himt" sobbed Kate; ''h
: is gone-gone foreverI'
| "Not bit of it," replied her uncle, al
suringIy. "His vanity and prejudices, an
e all that, are touched; but he will come roun
v in time, depend upon it," 3.a n.Ht at
''He may get a divorce, or the marriaa
$ may be Illegal" AS this surmise fitte
through Kate's mind. she evnced stron
!, tendency to Mysteries; for Kate was prou
. and virtuous girl, and keenly felt the pre-
: spective disgrace. Her uncle was alarmed
" and forthwith consulted his legal advise
who consoled him with the positive assn
ance that the marriage was perfectly legal
q five hundred years hence, when the unite
! streams of the Browns and Percys fowe
into one channel, there might be some diff
: Guilty in tracing the descent-tliat was a
His next endeavor was to find out Kate
D husband, and accommodate matters bctwee
Y them; but the search was fruitless; for Rig
nald, dreading the ridicule that was attachc
! to this singular misallance, had fled 10 OF
whittier Kate in time became quite sootl
! ed; her womanly strength was great, an
I an imperative duty quite weaned her tho
8 from useless grief. Five years elapsed
8 during which time she constantly reside
under her uncle's roof; but notwithstandin
Y all his diIigent inquiries, no Reginald coul
be discovered; so that Kate's husband b
came household myth. and many were tn
Iportentious shakes of the head indulged i
: Iby theiold ladies OF his acquaintance ce whe