Western Reserve chronicle and weekly transcript of the times. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1854-1855, 1855-01-24

of serious music, and patronised orato
rios. They thought it sinful to be il
love, and called it making idols 81
they married their children comfortably
among good families with money. ant
told them that esteem was better thar
romance. Miss Tabathy Everett wa.
once suspected of tender Partially fol
a young Mr.. Aldridge Park: but the
family hushed it up as scandal, for un-
converted Mr.. Aldridge kept pack o
hounds. Afterwards they married hel
to the rector of Green Grove, the Hon
orable and Reverend Humdrummle Hib-
bert, eldest son of the Dean, and heir
to an un-apostolic fortune. The Ever
etts were exceedingly undemonstrative.
Miss Tabalhy accepted her husband,
and concealing her feelings made very
good wife. For marriage was not their
forte. Not an Everett was ever known
to stoop down to kiss husbands fore
head as he sat before the fire reading
not an Everett wGs ever known to talk
nonsense in the nursery-neither to ride
a cock-horse, nor to bewail the fate of
Humpty Dumpty, neither to rock-a-by-
baby upon a tree-top, nor to perform a
monody in a minor, all about " Kiddlie,
Coosie, Coosie, Coca song l once
heard from dear mother, and which
1 thought the most beautiful of songs.
The Everetts were not given to any such
follies; excepting Jacob, who loved
children as they would be loved, and
who used to play at boo-peep with the
cottager's children.
Some years ago-just at the time
when pretty Anna Fay, the Sunday
School mistress so suddenly left Green
Grove-a strange alteration took place
in Jacob Everett. His cheerfulness,
which had been his strongest character
istic, was exchanged for the most pain
full depression. He talked frequently
of his sins, and gave more literally than
ever to missions and charities. His
friends could not understand this de-
preston /; which at last became habitual.
He gave them no clue to it :; but with
scarcely days warning. he left home
to travel in the South of Europe. He
had been looking i'll, and more than
ever harassed of late and every one
said it was the best thing he could do,
great as would be everybody's loss
His sister Tabathy alone objected, on
the score of the Jesuits.
However, Jacob went, discharging
all his servants and shutting up the beau
tiful old hall. To the infinite surprise
of everybody, he openly and unblush-
ingly took from the ne;ghboling village
a certain Betty Thorne, a fine, hand
some looking woman, farmers sister,
aged about forty. And Betty Thorne
travelled with him in his own carriage.
Five years passed away, and Jacobs
letters became rarer and more rare
He wrote ever in the same depressed
condition of mind spoke often of "good
Betty Thorne, who had been such a
blessed comfort to him, and hinted
vaguely at some unforgiven sin. Then
for two years more no letters came, even
in answer to business inquiries and all
trace of the traveller was lost. His very
bankers did not know his address, and
"Sardina 4" left wide margins. Mrs.
HILBERT one day grew quite warm when
she spoke of his neglect with Paul and
Jessie, her two children; almost agree
ing that Paul, poor child-who, 6y the
way, was three and twenty, destined
for the church, but preferring the army,
and so making acompromise by studying
the bar-that Paul should 20 to Italy in
search of his uncle Jacob. But the
Jesuits and the Signoras fright ned her.
And as their deliberations went on, a
letter came to Mrs. Hilbert sealed in
black and written in ccpper-colored ink /;
which letter was from Betty Thorne,
telling her that her "honored master
had gone to rest, the seventh of this last
September past, and the letter would
tell the gracious madame all about it. "
The letter enclosed was from Jacob
Everett himself, revealing the mystery
of his life.
"Oh Anna Fay with your nut
brown hair, and Quaker eyes, and dove
like ways, who would have believed
that you, so good and so demure, with
Jacob, the best man of Green Grove,
would have given such a hostage as that
round, red, laughing, loving little being
that flower plucked in forbidden for
est; that unauthorized, unsanctioned,
unlawful little liege-Estella, star of
the morning !" God forgive you both.
You sinned, and you suffered you fell,
and you repented perhaps your burn
ing tears and your prayers of penitence
and grief II ay have effaced the dark
record in the Great book above You
are both cold in your tombs, now
Heavens mercy rest upon you There
are enough in this hard world to cast
stones at you both; for US, VIC will buI