Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-08-30
instantly dried her tears.

that he flung his arms around his s'cara spo-
sa's'' neck, and imprinted kiss upon her
lips; an act which he had not been guilty of
for many long year. Mrs. Bantem was dis
mayed, and began to fear he was laboring I'M
der hallucination of mind.
.sMr. B., - she exclaimed, 81 am surprised!
How very ungenteel you are; what bad Gx-
ample you set for your daughtersl
y slight blush and a faint smile passed over
Arabellas features at this remark. She had
beau and perhaps he was in the habit of clap
ping lasses,'' as the editor of the Bunkum
Flagstaff has it.
Mrs. Bantem was in ecstacies with her hus-
bands good fortune vision of coach OF
| their own passed before her eyes.
ssPapa, we can go to Newport this summer,
chimed in ArabelIa. That morning she adj
dressed him as pa, but fifty thousand made
him papa.
The youngest daughter had her own plea and
thoughts, but they were far different from
either mothers or sisters. But more of her
anon.
There was Immediately great revolution
| in that house. The drawing groom furniture
| was removed to the sitting-room, the sitting
room furniture went to the basement, the
| basement went to the kitchen, and the kitch-
ems went to the auction room. Several more
| servants were added to the revenue of one-a
coach was bought-the 'sgrocery in a small
wav,'' was closed, and II. Bantem, Esq. could
be seen daily on Change.
Arabela and Alice, the two daughters, had
each a beau, or sscavalier;'' as Miss Arabella
expressed it. Her cavalier was Augustus
Hyacinth Potts, a knight of the yard stick,
and quite dashing young gent, enjoying a
| salary of three hundred year. Alice's beau
was an enterprising, generous-hearted, indus
| trious mechanic.
| AS Alice is our heroine, it would not come
amiss to introduce her to our readers. She
was not beautiful, as most heroines are, and
| had but few of those charms which captivate
drawing critics, but she was woman in
her gentIeness-loving and true hearted, three
| of the greatest virtues woman can be en-
dowed with
| Mr. Bantem did not look with a favorable
| eve upon the suit of his youngest daughters
admirer, because in the littleness of his soul,
he thought that Harry Edwards, who earned
his livelihood by mechanical employment, was
not an eligible match for Alice. He wished
to keep her for some one who moved in high
er circle of society.
Consequently he refused Harry the hand of
his daughter for the present, as he said. He
did not wish to give him fiat denial, thinking
that in case there should no such opportunity
present itself, he should rather have her mar
ried to Harry than remain single. As they
were two loving hearts, difficulties of this ma
ture could not separate them.
That evening Alice could not wait for the
tedious moments that brought round the time
for Harry to call upon her as was his wont, but
putting on her bonnet and shawl, tripped out
with light heart to meet him. She fondly
| imagined that the barrier to the consumma-
tion of their complete happiness would now be
removed. Her father had now become wealthy,
and he could have no objection to their union
now, for he could remove it by giving her a
dowry. Poor girl! she was sadly disappoint-
ed on that score.
s'Oh, Harry, L am so happy! I have got
such good news,'' she joyfully exclaimed, the
moment they met.
ssHave you, dearest? l must participate in
your happiness said he, taking her hand and
gazing fondly into her eyes. s'Suppose we
leave the noisy street and seek more tranquil
walk %
They bent their steps towards the Common
and wandered slowly along the hard beaten
walls, seeking those less frequented. The
evening was beautiful and serene, 4 warm
summer night-breeze was tanning gently
through the noble elms through whose vault OF
quivering leaves the moonbeam's mysterious
light glancing. a quetness reigned
around only broken by the soothing dash OF
the fountain, a confused murmur of voices
and the tramp of footsteps.
The lovers needed not these sounds, but
sauntered slowly along the paths where the
Ieafy branches overhead were thickest. Alice
hung upon Harry's arm, who drank in hel
: sweet, musical voice as she pictured vividly to
him the happiness in store for themselves.
4 81 am confident father viii be liberal to us
now he has become wealthy said she. ssThe
only reason he objected to our union before
must have been his inability to help US, and
his not wishing us to struggle against poverty
which certainly would have been the CASE
Harry listened, but made no answer. He
readily excused her for her wish to soften tht
asperity and selfishness of her fathers disposi
ton. He inwardly resolved, if it was in hi
mower. that her bright visions of the future
should not be dispelled. He had bold hear
and strong hand, with a determination t.
overcome any difficulty that rose before hi
path.
When they parted that evening, al the pre-