Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1853-03-17
BATH, MAINE, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH II, 1853

pounds at stake. What could Mr.. Whitehead
mean by making such will and knowing
this odious Miss too Z
For one whole week did Miss EIspeth Cor
don turn Scrope Hall completely topsy -turvy !;
never was such din and racket heard /; the
servants grinned, and ran hither and thither,
and Mrs. Scrope was nearly out of her mind
with fright and vexation. Miss Elspeth also
made such desperate love to Sam, that he, fiat
tered and bewildered, was inveighed out on
wet day to walk with the Amazon through the
woods; and following her steps through brake
and brier, fairly stuck in dismal swamp, got
soaked TO the skin, and took to his bed at once,
putting his nose out of the blankets, only to
ask IF that Jezebel had gone
No, my dear,'' said his anxious mother !;
your cousin Elspeth is not gone yet; she
wants to see you.'
TO see me- cried Sam. 'What! would
she follow me even into my sick chamber,
the impuGent hussey? I'll never see again,
mother; you may tell her so-she'l kill me
tell her to begone. Oh-Oh-what winge
| wish she had it, the Jezebel and she
laughed at me too. I'll never forgive that
But the forty thousand, SAM said Mrs.
Scrope, signing deeply; think of that, Sam
do think of that MOTHER said the miser-
able Sam; 'and it almost breaks my heart, it
does, TO give it up. wish she'd give me
up; wish with all my heart that she had
taken a dislike TO me-
An, my darling said the fond mother,
you cannot wonder that she does not do
that. The modification will be severe
enough when she has to return TO tha, pre-
cious Miss Pamela with the tidings thar you
have refused her. But, after all, she may
improve, Sam, my dear, and perhaps it is
worth while to ny; for though you possess
forty thousand pounds of your own, it would
be very convenient 10 have as much more
Mother replied Sam soIemnly, 'f YOU
wish to see me in my grave, you'll marry me
10 this dreadful woman. Tom Hicks. Miss
Pamela's groom, a most respectable man,
who has lived with Miss Pamela these twen-
ty years, and whose wife is cook there, Tom
Hicks told me, that if ever Miss Ellie Cor
don was my wife, he'd not give brass far
thing for my life.
IF she marries you, sir, she'l worry you
to death in year; ifyou marry her. sir, you'll
get - But Tom Hicks didn't say what,
though guess he meant Tartar No,
mother, my minds made up; I'll have moth
ing TO do with her, and you may tell her so
at once. She laughs SO wildly, TOO, de-
clare Pm all over skeerie like when hear it.
Let her go! and we'll rid of her at any cost
DO you really mean TO tell me ma am that
Mr.. Samuel Scrope, of Scrope Hall, absolute
y refuses to marry ME cried Miss Elspeth
Gordon in voice Of high indignation. I'll
not give him up so easIly-no, that WON'T
and the voice almost rose 10 hyslerical sob
and laugh
Calm yourself, pray MISS replied Mrs
Scrope with severity, she did not care about
calm YOURSELF pray. My sons mind is
quite made up and allow ne TO say, that
The sooner you return to the protection Of
Miss Pamela Gordon The better, as we par
ticularly desire quiet house, now my poor
son is SO i'll, an illness, miss, entirely brought
OIL BY your extremely improper and indeIi-
cate proceedings
I'll tell aunt Pamn whimpered the young
lady, taking out her cambrc handkerchief
Tm badly used by Cousin Sam, that am.-
You asked me here TO marry me TO him !; and
now I've come, you send ne off again, Just
because cousin Sam don't like my green
specs
No, miss; you well know that is not the
reason why my son rejects the honor of your
alliance, responded Mrs. Scrope, brdIing up,
and getting very red in the face; 'ani if you
had ten thousand times forty thousand pounds
in your hand to offer him for marrying you,
he'd refuse the bribe, miss Mrs. Scrope
spoke very loud. 'My son, Samuel Scrope,
will never marry, for The sake Of ucre only,
a smoking, snuffing, horse whipping, dog
batIng'
Go on, ma'amAgo on with your peroa-
tion.' sobbed the young lady, with her hand
kerchiel al her face. I'm very badly used,
that am; and | cannot face Aunt Pamela,
and tell her all this. She'll never believe il,
unless cousin Sam writes her letter all in
form, 10 say he WON'T marry me. cannot
tell her myself, MAJ am, indeed cannot,
and Miss Ellie began 10 blubber violently.
well Pm sure if you'll go away in peace,
miss, my son shall write the letter at once,
and communicate, in formal terms his reiec-
ton Of your hand,' interrupted Mrs. Scrope,
only too glad to clear her house on any terms
'Il 60 when you give me letter but
won't you LEI me see Sam ? said the green
spectacled damsel, in wheeding tohe, sid
ling up TO Mrs. Scrope, with her conica vel
vet cap vibrating from some inward emo
Iion. Give my love to cousin then; and if
may not see him, tell the dear fellow that
I'll be sister to him in hearl if be refuses
me for wife,
Indeed Ill tell him no such thing, Miss
said Mrs. Scrope, with asperity; 'he'd rather
not have you in either character. You've
half killed him and the mischief your two
dogs have done is inca leulable You shall