Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-06-28

| nautlIy waved .ner lanG. =-F'sfs Il lh..+.s q
" Enough no more Of this. I know
your business here. You went two hun
dred pounds. and my ia her will not al
vance as many pence, were it to save
your neck. an no: your commission.
TMen | must send in my papers and
leave the
e" Unless some fool is found who will
lend money to gentleman who, on six
shil lngS day. keeps pair of hunters !"
observed the lady.
Pemberton looked sullen and disple as
ed.
"Nay. George, on my conscience.
thou art ll-favored enough. without knit
ting those beetle browS to 5ether. have
the money. Would you earn it %
" would go to the -" was the
reply. "rather than quit the -th from
sheer poverty. What shall do ,"
She tarned her dark an lightning eyes
on his ; and after pause of half a minu
pointed to the para graph that contained
the hated marriage. Then dropping her
voice into an emphatic whisper, she laid
her lips close to her kinsm4n ans ear.
"SpOil that honeymoon-the moneys
thine -
Aud without waiting reply, she hur.
ried to ker own apartment.
| Never dill the arch emmy of mln Sc
lee a bett r agent han G Gorge Pember
ton. TO a cnrish temper he united suf-
ticicncy Of animal courage to make him
| dangerous, AMI secret influences. with
which his reven 5eful kin5womAn was to-
tally unac4u4Inted, fitted him for the
task. .e knew that his retirement from
a re 5iment differed by men of property,
and to whom he had made himself OBJ.
noxious by the idle attempt Of yelling po-
verify with inSolence, would be felt tri-
nmph. But deadlier feeIin IS towards the
husband of Lucy Meadows urged him 10
vengeance. He had secretly but pas
sion tely loved her, and she had nei her
tact nor prudence to conceal personal
dislike, amounting to aversion. Keeping
in the back ground the real causes which
induced him to attempt the life of one
against whom he could plead no ininry,
an alleged slight to his fair cousin would
form very pretty quarrel. an with a
congenlal spirit rs demoniAc as his own,
he SCI OF without delay to the retired
watering-pIace where the h'nlsomcss
AMI happiest pair that COnnau3ht could
produce, were, in their own belief enter
ing an elyslAn existence.
The brrblrous puncLilllo Of the times.
provided m IN couIl bnast of genie Ii.
neage, almost prevented refusal o. his
call for satisfaction. no matter how tlimly
the prcteXt mig t be unler which he de-
m ands Il hostile meeting, an1 Pemberton
avaied himS sell Of it.
II was evening r o. had been
engaged in answering con 5ratulatory let
ters, and had proceeded with billet& 70
the post. Lucy watched him from the
window, and thought her hus and never
looked SO handsome as when in turnin {
the corner he smiled AMI kissed his hand =.
She gazed at the sun sinking gIoriousIy
in the far west. and in a fool Of gold hi
ding his broad disc in the bounIIess wa
ters of the Atlantic. Alas she little
dreamed, poor girl, that
The moon that rose,
And promised rapture in the cose,''
was fated to usher in a night, on whose
deep darkness no ray OF hope should
break in again.
Pemberton and his companion waylaiG
his intended victim; bat h felt
himself too blessed with Lucy to risk
au5 5ht that could interrupt his happiness
Against the imputed offence he temper
auely demonstrated. ami repu'liateI all
intentions of wOundinS the feelings Of the
lady whose imaginary wrongs were made
the basis to rest a quarrel on him. a
meeting he declined at least Until he
could send for and counsel a friend
From in>Otence Pembcrtnn procee le to
verbal and at last to personal insult
il was brave an IN Inly spirited !!
to feel the rutiIn's whip upon his shoul-
ders and not resent thr Outrage. His
temper yielded; he lon [ed To wipe dis
grace away in bInol. He urged Il delay
no longer, demanded instant satisfaction
hurried into the inn garden. and in ten
minutes from the time he waved pas
sin 5-li tie did he think it the last -
adieu, R- was stretched in death upon
the bowling green.
What Lucy sltfered may be rea lily
conceived. Human misery c0uI no. -
further in one sheer plum :se to reach from
the very pinnacle OF mort"! happiness to
the darkest abyss of despair. The i'm H.
gnatiOn must ill out what fancy cannot
pencil.
And how did she feeI-she, that guilty
WON tn--when
'Tho ruin that her rushness wrought"
was told her.
Before the emissary had performed half
his journey. Harriette's better feelings
had regained the ascendancy. and when
too late, she would have given thousands
to have recalled her hireling kinsman.--
In charity we will hope that her wound
ed pride sought ven yeance short Of his
destruction. Indeed. the effect Of the
sad intelligence when it arrived, would go
far to prove that such was the case. She
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