Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-03-20
NORMA DiNT TON,
or THg
ORPHAN OF THE tIGHT=HOUSE.
4 TAAK or FRACD AND RErENGR
lCoHfi""ed from !y,sf,vdSy's paper
CHAPTER V.

Continued from y,.i,ydsy's psperl
CHAPTER V.
There goes swallow to Nence-the stout s-,f.r.ri
Seeing those birds hy makes ~i,h tor ~ings"
Two years to morrow since my brother went away?-
How the Perirs skim the sea- fhere will be u storm
soon wish Was bird. How beautiful il would b. to
ty away from this lonely place. But where would
| hyF Noone expects me; nobody knows me. wonder
-hat makes Milo much kinder than to be
he says am the best and piettics girl ia the world
| wonder i'll am. All, dear, tired carving wet
slabs and sticks up these slippery rocks never mind;
Ill sing and that ~l make it easier" And Norma sang
night mery as she trudged up TO the house with her
den Of DRIFT wood.
It morning. The wife and daughter of James Dan.
lu1uriatng in the ir beautiful home The apart
in which they sat adorned with elegance and
The family had just retarned from foreign tour
and many gem ofsr and had been transferred from
the old world shores adon and beautfy the American
home This she reception night since there return
and all the world Of fashion invited
May has developed trAe by dint of pushing into for
eign grace She has gentii,y that becomes her
well. She is the rich Miss Danton and that is grand
passport the social circle she inhabs But she is the
slenderest thing iOr woman II IL possible to imagine
she sits there asking questions May is strange girl
The Is sleep ~aket-a dreamer OF odd dreams 1t quite
veXes her proud mama, who so much disikes oddities
When is my cousin Norma, mother." asked May
Il have quite forgotten to inquire for her. since we came
back, aud have quantity of hafworn, out. grown
clothes that she mig ght have"
"a very bad behaved girl, indeed. should not won
der At anything she might become shat Is dsgracefu-
Before went To Europe your father obliged re-
her from the school, because Of her wild ways
Since then she has been left for safe keeping with old Nj
10 and his wife, the lighthouse where her brother was
but he away two wears and has been heard
OF since-a bad unnlanageable fellow afraid those
children will be great deal of trouble your father vet
Aud Mrs Danton shook her wise head with all air that
demonstrated determination to believe her prognos
ticatons.
We'll, if our relations turn badly don't see that
can help it."
mo indeed responded the mother they have repaid
all efforts 10 well by them with the basest ingat
tude and would be but Just to leave them to their
destruction"
How perfectly magnificent these diamonds are in their
new settings said May
Oi they are and they have been in the Danton
family more than n century aud half and are gems of
the first water"
And OF unusual size, mama; they really envia
BILE Who wore them last And the young lady held
them up admriugly in her thin, boodless hands
Il think your uncle Williams wife them few
times after her marriage Tor, they given to the
iavorte by his dotIg mother aud Mrs Dantons e1
preve cured up with scOrn nnt it nearly touched
her forehead.
Was my aunt Alice very beautiful:"
Her beauty did not suit my taste-a namby pamby
sickly creature"
That was after she lost her health once heard
gentleman describing her to another she looked
bridal day, and couldn't imagine anything lovely
! wonder il Norma Is like her mother But dear me
what fearful storm is gathering We shall be unfortu-
nate in evening By the by, mother ii these Jewels
we're given TO NormSs father they should be hers by right
should they not"
why. child, how foolshly you talk What should
she do with Diamonds William Danton's property was
all spent long ago and the children literally beggars
Your father had the settlement OF his affairs and OF
course had make himself whole in whatever way he
could The diamonds were part OF the personal
that would have been sold to pay of the debts but your
father bought them in, aud they ours"
The mother left the room, and the young lady still
before iull length mirror, arranging the diamonds
her person try their effect.
They will fash in the eyes OF Otis Marshall tonight
but doubt if they will iuh his heart" murmur
ed. II wish knew If anywhere in its nmost recesses
NV image dwells-'
The rich May Danon had wishes which could not be
gTauhcd, well tue orphan Norma sang her
Nid songs and toiled up the steep, under her load
drift wood