The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-04-25

been the darling; but she had lost hcrsc
now, they said /; and so, though not who'll
dsld to, she was partially excommunicate
by, the family. Jacob, as head Of th
house since his fathers death, had alway
given Mrs. Malahide an allowance, wit
the consent of Mrs HILBERT and the arch
deacon, to whom it was matter Of prid
rather than love that an Everett should no
starve. But for themselves Grace haI
married a poor man and an unconyerted one
and what claim had she, therefore. on them
So the archdcacon drove his prancing bays
and Mrs. HILBERT bought her Lyons velvets
and they both said that Mrs. Malahide wa
too fortunate in having such devote,
brother us Jacob, and that her sins hat
mcrited her sufrerings. This was the allow
apccswhich Jacob had desired in his vii
should Be continued until ~Estella was oI
age, but which.t then she was free to discon
tinue or keep up, Us she liked.
Alr. HILBERT had not remembered thi'
clause when she refused to accept the trus,
conceded to her. Perhaps If she had ,.she
would have acted differently, from family
interests. For the Everetts dare not, for the
sake of the worlds opinion, wholly desert q
,..3o. oc kho;r bn,an. onJ ;c Iooob,s e.
hundred year were withdrawn, they must
either support Grace themselves, or suffer
an additional family degradation in her pow.
crty-neither Of which alternatives pleased
them. However the matter as yet was in
abeyancc (; but soon to be settled for the
year wanted only six or seven months Of
completion which would see Estella of age,
mistress Of the Hall, and Of her fathers
wealth. And Mrs. HILBERT groancd. and
the archdcacon shook his stick, and some
thing like an anathcma few across the seas
to rest on the bright head Of the young girl
sitting in the balcony overlooking the Grand
Canal at Venice, thinking Of the mother
she had loved, and of the father she had
lost. d.
This young girl, leading the secluded life
of foreign damsel; seeing no one but her
faithful English nurse and the various mis-
tresses of such Accomplishments as her
father had desired her to learn, and her own
astistic taste had directed her to; living in
a world of her own creation, her full heart
ycarning for love, and sympathy, and conf
panionship; her imagination filed with
great visions of her mothers home, Of
that large, strong England, whose voice
sounded through the world, and whose sons
held sway in every quarter of tho globe !;
this young girl stored up large treasures
of poetry and affection, all the purcr be-
cause of their depth, all the more enduring
because Of their unuse.
Mrs. -Malahidc lived at Brighton, in a
pretty little house on the sca-shorc, occupy
ing herself with tho education of her four
only son was at Cambridge
in quito natural and un-Everctt fashion.
Not that she was wholly natural, either;
for inherited reserve and early education
were to strong to be set aside, even by the
frecr life she had led since her marriage
There were still traces in the precise manner
in which she spoke, and in the stiff hand
held out like cleft bar Of iron, which FORM
cd the chief characteristics of the Everett
world. But she was good creature at
heart, and had been softened, first by love
and then by sorrow, into more real amiabil-
ity than her rigid manners would give one
to believe.
1t was 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 1t in oil its So
cial 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 fathers
family had disowned her, and that the very
woman who had lived on her fathers boun-
ty and who now expected to live on hers,
had written in a letter to her lawyers thus:
50 No one can feel more strongly than the
sin and the shame which the existence Of
Miss Fay's daughter entails on our family;
still, for the sake of my children, L trust
that she may continue the allowance made
to INC by my brother in rcparation of my
fathers injustice, and that in so doing, she
will not feel she is comforting benefit, but
simply doing her duty, in repairing, 80 far
as she can, the wrong which her birth has
done to us all"
But, although Estella knew that these
were tho proud and hostile feelings with
which the whole Everett, world regarded
her, vet, as she used to ray to herself, whom
else had she to ovo?-whom else to benefit?
Her father had 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 unaccountablc, of all
the farms and lands around; and do what
they would, they could not keep it a secret
from the world that Jacob Everett had LETT
his property and his name to the child Of his
unmarried wife. She pitied them; she
would pitied them moro had she understood
the matter more but she knew Of nothing
better to do than to win their love and con-
quor their esteem, and 50 make them fdrg've
her for her unintentional wrong toward
them. I '. t.@.HiE
She, therefore, determined TO go to Brish'
ton, where she knew Mrs. Malahide resided
TO find some means Of introduction to her
and, she said, looking on the waters of the
Adriatic, force her aunt to respect, to love-
and in tho end to acknowledge her. The
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