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

Of the father she had lost.
This young girl leading the secluded
life of foreign damsel +; seeing no one
but her faithful English nurse, and the
various mistresses of such accomplish
ments as her father had desired her tc
learn and her own artistic taste had di.
rected her to; her full heart yearning fol
love and sympathy and companionship
her Imagination filled with great visions
of her m Dther's home, of that large strong
England whose voice sounded through
the whole world, and whose sons held
sway In every quarter of the globe :
this young girl stored up large treasures
of poetry and affection, all the purer
because OF their depth, all the more en-
during because of their music.
Mrs. Malahide lived at Brighton in q
pretty lille house on the sea-shore, occu-
Pying herself with the education of her
four daughters her only son was al
Cambridge-in quite natural and un-
Everett fashion. Not that she was wholly
natural either; for inherited reserve and
education were too strong to be set aside,
even by the free life she had led since
her marriage. There were still traces
of Green Grove in the precise slow man.
ner in which she spoke, and in the stiff
hand held out like cleft bar of iron,
which formed the chief characteristic of
the Everett world. But she was a good
creature at heart and had been softened,
first by love, and then by sorrow, into
more real amiability than her rigid man.
ners would give one to believe.
1t was all to Mrs. Malahide, that all
Estella's feelings turned. She knew the
secret of her birth, poor child; and though
too ignorant of the world to understand
it in all its social bearing, yet she was
aware that stain of some kind rested
on her, which made her grateful for any
love as for an act of condescension.
She knew that her family's family had
disowned her, and that the very woman
who had lived on her fathers bounty !;
and who now expected to live on hers,
had written in letter to her lawyers
thus: :-"No one can feel more strongly
than the sin and shame which the exist
ence of Miss Fay's daughter entails into
our family; for the sake of my children
l trust she may continue the allowance,
made 10 me By my brother in reparation
of my fathers injustice, and that in so
doing, she will not feel that she is con-
ferring benefit, but simply doing her
duty in repairing, SO far as she can, the
wrong which her birth has done 10 us
ALL"
But although Estella knew that these
were the proud and hostile feelings with
which the whole Everett world regarded
her, yet as she used to say to herself,
whom else had she to love !-whom else
TO benefit. Her father left her his fortune
and his name; she must see the old Hall
at Green Grove; she must some day go
down there as mistress, sole and unac-
countable of all the farms and lands
around and, do what they would, they
could not conceal from the world, that
Jacob Everett had left his property and
his name to the child of his unmarried
wife. She pitied them, she would have
pitied them more but she knew of moth
ing better to do than to win their love
and conquer their esteem. and so make
them forgive her unintentional wrong to-
wards them.
She therefore, determine 10 90 to Brigh-
ton, where she knew Mrs. Malahide re-
sided to find some means of iniroduc-
ton to her; and she said, looking on the
waters of the Adriatic, force her aunt to
respect, to love, and in the end 10 ac-
knowledge her. The scheme was To-
mantle enough but it did not promise
badly. Estella and Betty Thorne left
beautiful Italy, and went, in the dull au-
tumn months to Brighton.
1t took but little time before she and
her faithful nurse settled themselves, and
then a little longer before she discovered
Mrs. Malahide's address. Then she had
to make her plans, and determine on her
point of attack !; for a thing of such
gravity she thought, was not TO be done
in a hurry. She felt frightened now
that the time really came when she was
TO see and be seen by her fathers family
and she almost wished she had remained
in Italy.
TO BE CONTINUED.