Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1854-04-13

resolution to marry rich one. He thought
he was now vIgilant enough to let no i'm
portant point escape him-money, no for
felt, or limitation clause. and that the lady
ACTUALLY was a widow. So dreadfully anx-
ious was he not to be in error in this last
particular, that he several times spoke to
ladies about their husbands, though the
poor men in question had been dead for ten
years. ln fact, he SO shocked one or two
actual widows by supposipg them married
women, that they Sc, him down as heart
less wretch lrifling with their feelings.
Gradually this tendency to believe every
widow still married woman wore off;
and he pursued his former course of looking
out for those Of the right sort, but with ad-
dlional care in his investigations of their
ways and means.
AT length he was introduced to Mrs
Tauersai Hazard. She was positively a
widow; she lived in Belgravia she had an
exquisite little house of elegant furniture,
and the most per(ec, broughham and pair in
London. The only question in Mr.. Pom
taos mind was-s.Wil she have anything
to say to man with only twenty thousand
pounds of his own -
/ However, Mr.. Pontiac determined TO try
his fortune with the handsome widow, if all
should Turn ont to be right about her join
ture. BY several cleverly-put questions, and
without seeming 10 have any personal in
terest in The matter, he contrived to elicit
The date Of her husbands death, and such
particulars as enabled him to pay visit to
Doctors Commons to search for the " i'll
of Ta,tersaI Hazard, Esq, deceased He
found it; and in il he found the sum Of thir-
ly thousand pounds bequealhed absolutely
TO the widow without The slightest limi.a
lion of any kind. Nothing could be more
thoroughly satisfactory.
About twelve hundred year thought
Mr.. Pontiac. Now that, added to my eigh!
hundred, would make US very pretty in
come but Pm afraid she's rather extrava-
CANT, she cam. possibly be living at the
rate of twelve hundred year only: and
vet Con't know, these women are very
clever in ssmanaging,; as they call it-at all
events, I'Il take care she doesn't live be-
yond - income as my aOJfs.
Mr. s<Stac now set very seriously a.
bou, his pursuit of the widow. He was
more nervous than he had ever before been,
for really the stakes tina, he played for were
very heavy-thiry thousand pounds "a
periec. establishment ready made and la
dy Of beauty and many accomplishments.
Young gennilemen Of three or fonr-and-
twenty, little do you know how serious 9
matter is that of love making TO q man on the
shady side of forty. To you it is all cou-
7em de rose to him it is vastly different
Think of the visits to the dentist, the anx-
ious consusallons with the perruquier, the
desperate inventions Of :'bells' for an obsti-
nate waist, the nervous detection Of fresh
crow's-ieet about the eyes, and the fearful
discoveries of new gray hairs in the eye
brows and whiskers, Think of all these
things, and add to them the close cal
culalion of the chances of happiness, even
if success be secure, and admit, young gen.
rIemen, that Iove-making to middle aged
wine merchant is very different from what
il is 10 you.
Mr.. Pontiac did succeed. He was accep-
ted as the future husband of the charming
Mrs. Talersal Hazard; and as he was ca
ger to secure :he prize he had gained, be
pressed eagerly for an early wedding day.
The widow blushed al his empressement, as
in duty bound, but did not refuse his re-
quest.
Then came the question of settlements
Mr.. Pontiac wished 10 behave literally, and
offered to settle ,wo-lhirds Of the lady's for
tune on herself. To his surprise, and to his
delight, Mrs Hszzarj positively refused 10
have am settlement at all. She wished ell
that she had to belong to her husband. Who
could resist the effects of such touching con-
:idence Pontiac was in a state Of the wild
est enthusiasm hen he thought of the an
gel he had won for himself!
The wedding day was fixed it came--i'
passed-and we shall not describe it. Mr.
; and Mrs. Peregrine Pontiac retired to Scot.
land to pass the honeymoon in the ''land oI
! brown heather and Of shaggy wood" amid
flood and fell, forest and lake.
Pontiac was supremely happy. lie VOW
ed that he would not be bachelor again
for the wide world. And yeI he had one
little subject of grief-his darling Bella
Mrs. Pontac's Christian name was Isabella
was less lively and cheerful now than she
us d 10 be: al least he thought so; bu! she
declared that she was far happier now tha
she was away from the turmoil Of London
| life.
AT length Pontiac began to talk Of return
ing to London. His wife made many OBJ
Elections to this, and he gave way to her, 'ilI
a, las, he said he positively must return -
He wanted to wind up his affairs, and dis
pose Of his business; he had made none ol
The necessary arrangements yet, and, indeed
, he had not even written or received a sIn-
gle business Ietler since his marriage. They
came Si length by easy journeys 10 London,
and drove up TO The former residence OF
, Mrs. Hazard, having dispatched letter to
t the servants Ia announce their inleuGed aI