Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1856-08-28

phrases began TO have a v,yro,na ~ i'Itt tn ,
charming htfe notes IN ansser were suffered r. re-
NUN unopened Tor hotrs, and when read 49,. 10 y
about the table uusealed Sqnarsh enval',,ay Il
vulgar wafer seals, seemed, un the otLer Ga,d -
possess an increasing interest These he -ansyTnrr.d
sometimes on the instant and aiw,ys w,itb -r.at
pans. Ills constant visits 10 all places Of amuse.
mentor professional purpose Brooke declared in
order 10 make articles out OF them-dpped consider
ably INTO his scunty purse his exravagant habits
were, generally, little changed and in short nr;fbe
love nor money were in great abundance with him
For all these misfortunes he did not become less
proud, and was boastful enough poor fellow unon
What rev mis- he made; nay, when Leonard Gray.
IN the course of few wears was elected head mas
ter OF Chilburn, and lad ii in his power to cffer
brooke the position he had himself quilted, the pro
posal was rejected rather scornfuy
Cne day q long tale OF his in which, as he thought
ne had put forth his best powers, came back to his
ioagihgs, from magazine Office rejected 1t was
the drop hat filed bis cup of bitterness to the brim;
anu, al night ne left the house, and strobe out into
me roaring street with rage at his heart Although
lie mad taken N,l DesPeraHdam az his motto no as
nor mace OF such peIsevering stuff Young au thors
should be, who would grow to be old ones He had
written anew after each failure, but he had written
worse Easily inspired, but quite easily depies-
SEQ, the encouragement he net with was small, and
inc snubs were many As lie waited moment at a
croSsing 10 let string Of cabs go by the gas light
Ill up his haggard face
'Brooke, Brooke PorseY' said q friendly well re.
memoered voice; Why, il is you. surely though
you are SO white and thin Come along with me
BOY. And the good Pnrson Farmer of Hilton who
had hrst taken him out of the workhouse led him
WIN gentle violence into his hotel At first in an.
sWer TO manifold questions, Brooke enlarged upon
ne eject his genius had produced rather than com.
planned OF It's not having been recognized but the
unaffected kindness Of his Lej efoctor soon broke
down the barriers Of PRIDE and swept all deceit be.
fore it.
I do not succeed, lie said in the least. l do not
now think shall succeed for have neither Leart
nor head to write any more, and Lcforo they part
cd, he confessed, 4 am in debt, too and there is
no one can call my friend in all this town
quietly, anu as II by accident, for the good cler
gyman know tie young mans character, Sir Wi
heLn and his circumstances became the topic 0 their
tax he told how the kind hearted baronet yet be
walled the encouragement OF his adopted SON that
though there was now far distant cousin Ia Young
LADY, at the Hall, that he missed his nGmcSake still
how the bedroom Brooke used to occury was never
slept in and the books lie had studied III, were never
taken down; moreover, how old ago was creeping
apace, aud that ii was our duty TO forget and to
forgive. believing himself swayed by those last
in partc uar Brooke kept at this chance of
reconciliation, and Mr. Farmer promised to do all
LIE could to bring it about
Within week from that niglt-spont by the
young author in futtcr Of hope-a new sort Of let
ter came TO his door, with arms "pon the seal and
words, if not Of affection, yet OF diifed forciS eness
within within, too, was enclosed a check for more
than two years income. Alas, by the post also
OF those loving notes of Constance urging him.
not without tender complaint of his long silence to
patience and fresh endeavors, Brooke did not an
SNer lulS iue ulFeCtiy, bQ1 came uOWH by the
coach as soon as he had paid lis bills Ia Hilton.
1t was early in the merry mouth of May when he
reached the old lodge gate and strobe up the
When the well known prospect once more broke on
him, such as that which greeted the Scotch 1hane
seemed through the clear air to whisper These shall
be thine Al the door st God his ancient patron gray
enough and bent, with stick in his right hand
suspiciousl Y like crutch and a Young woman with
hard eyes, and the naughty lersey forehead
My cousin Gertrude, Brooke; you must love
one another, said the baronet, sententiously after
having embraced the prodgal. The young lady
shook hands promptly, though without feeling, as
though al the word of command.
1t was q full week before the young man brought
himself to understand that sentence matrimo-
NAL decree but by that time matters had gone too
far to admit of any doubt of 1.-THE lady and he
were sent out on long walks together were seated
next one another at table Wore continually spoken
oil by SIR W lllams as his two children. whom he
hoped to see, shortly, one. Gertrude perscy would
have had no objection, Notwithstanding her pride
to have married any human being for any adequate
remuneration; hut 10 accept the adopted workhouse
boy seemed bitter DEGRADATION. She hated him
having suppianted her own family in tie haronets
favor. Nevertheless she he first ofthe two TO
preface Tema k, ~ one Of their solitary rambies
with when We are married, Brooke Sc, &c. She
never fy any accldent GATED am lcieey; that he
ing Tie one tnission she pcriti ed herself 10 make
IN her systematic observance OF every within and
pred udlce of lie relative
CHATTER THE FOURTH
In the meantime Leonard Gray, the head master
of Chilbnrn High School, aud Constance, his sister,
dweit IN quaint old brick mansion that had once
formed part Of roy al palace The humorous ques
tlons he had been wont to ask Of her in past times
concerning tie bard, or the author, or HE organ of
public opinion, now heard no more In the
evening, when the tolls Of tie day were over. and
they sat by the freight there was little conversation
Night after night, indeed she had said nothing but
remained with book before her whore leaves were
never turned, or shading her face with ter hand
though she could hot bear to he look ed upon On
q sudden, and without Brooke, name having been
mentioned, Leonard observed, drily: He is gone
back again to Hilton. Constance
~ know il, knew it mustbe So, poor fellow ~ she
answered; 81 should have sent Tins before Size
produced from her nosom, a letter in her own hand
writing, and handed il Ia her brotLcr to read VIXEN
be had done so, he quietly, kissed her ON tie
forehead, and sad:
fright, right, dcarostl" and took the letter with
him into his own chamber ii coEfained Il reuurca-
lion OF her claim upon Persys hand IF, Us must
believe she wrote. dis chain IS beginning to gall
Wehaye been both foolish, perhaps and if SO. 1
ain tie most 10 blame And 50 I'm she'd with
preston of sisery sffectien and good will
Leonard had his part TO do lie was by nature of
friendly although firm disposition. His letter wos
more decided than that Circumstance, openly hoping
that tie match which would have connected him and
Brooke so closely, would now be broken Of but lie
wrote il with sorrow and not harshress and there
lingering kindness towards his unhappy freud
from the beSnins to the close the knowledge that
his sisters happiness depended on VII at should come
of this, alone made him stern.
lie might have spared himself Ills decacy, and
Persy the humiliation which attended IT, had he wni
ted another day. The letters from tie two houses
crossed; one from Hilton Hall, enclosing another
from SIR William, arrived The very next afternoon
Brookcs act forth that his marriage with Miss Gray
vas absolutely imterdicted by his patron and tic
baronet's contained simp forbddingof the bsnsi
passionate declarations OF love, the coolest cacula-
tons of prudence cxtenuations of himself entreaties
for pardon, complaints of too much having been ex-
peeled Of him, made up the strange Of the young
mans farewell.
.Pniful" Leonard excla imed, when lie had read it.
Ir is better so, sighed poor Constance, she wept
for tie lover that worse than dead. And it WAC
better 50 Her heart in ne recovere from the first
s:oYming Of its citadel Perhaps it only the out
e works that were ever injured for. in lpier years
she was beloved If not rapnrousy, yet far less sell
fishly, by another, whom she married
Brooke himself became the pOssessor Of almost oil
the Persy lsnds--for Sir William died Immediately
after lis marriage; Ia him and his hers forever lie
left the old Hall and the park land and the and
and the pastures towards the sea- bEt, alas! I've
had child to inherit them. lie dWeit with his bit
ter, barren wife awhile, in grandeur md great
Indebtedness, and afterwards, wien driven ~ ON
his hone by her sharp words, lived as hard as the
persy's Of the oden time. Like more than ono Of
them too, lie met his death in huntBg-drngecda AZ his
horses strrup over fields with his ire fen
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