The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1856-12-04

be kept secret from you, but as hav
, been thinking, you have guessed it, VIII,
you may just as well know what new
old Johnny Broom brought wi him from
town last night. Why, that Miss Rose
was married yesterday morning at Woo.
ton Church, and this by the new parson
that not be come there long-Mr. Hop
tom
."Hopton repeats Margaret, with
intense surprise, as the blood mantels to
her face.
Aye, ma'am I reckon you'd know
the name My masters old mother,
that just luckily be come to US for day
or two, and SO can cook tn bit o. dinner
for the chiIdren, and leave me to be
here, says it be the same Mr.. Hoptor
as used to come up and down to til,
prebendary house when thee and Miss
Eleanor wur young ladies', and she wul
cook thur. Well, for some reason OF
another, folks never exactly kuow'd, he
went as chaplain TO foreign country
and was away many years. Well, Mr..
Hopton had only just begun to settle
down, when there comes tue grand news
about the storming o. that great place iu
CIima and the young Squlre's mighty
travcry--for which he had been made
captain. So, hearing this, and of the
young Squire's wounds, why the cid
mans heart were melted to the biggest
pity, and deal o. regret wur bis, that
he'd been so resty and off hand like. So
off he set at once, with Mrs. Ramble,
the housekecpcr, to southampton, and
there, for some weeks, they nursed the
poor captain, for he wur very bad But
as soon as his dreadful operation was
over, and he could be moved
What operation = asks Margaret.
brcathlcss, as we'll as Eleanor, who list,
ems from her bed in the adjacent room
w by, his right arm was shattered
with cannon-ball. At first the doctors
thought they save it, but they couldn't
SO off it had to come, right high by the
shoulder. Nor is that all, for he'd a
sword cut in the leg. Well, about one
fortnight ago, down they brought him to
Woonton. A few days ago, when he
wur deal better and could talk bit
checrfully, he says morrily-when his
uncle, and the housekecpcr, and the
doctor, were all helping to dress his
wounds-A pretty fellow l shall be, |
fear, needing a nurse all my life. You
shall have one, my dear boy, says tie
old squire, right gravcly I'll see about
one morrow.
No one thought he was serious but
he wur for the day before yesterday he
went off in his carriage to the village
where Miss Rose wur, asked to speak to
old Miss Griumpen, the governess, and
then telled her he wur cum for her
teacher,
She can't 60, says the old missus
right GROSSLY not till tomorrow or Christ
mas day; | thought Miss But Ter knew
as much for the girl has the china
closet to dust, my best cap to trim, and
other equally important work to do.
Il have some little more important
for her ma am, says the squire drily-
to nurse a sick and wounded soldier.
Nonsense, says the old lady-for
she pretended to be very shockcd--a
highly improper thing for child to do
{ Not for a wife, adds the old squire
wife screams the old lady. A
child like Rose a wife F! Pray who are
you, sir, and by what authority do you
come
by my own, ma'am. My name is
Wooton, and 1 live at Wooton Hall.
Rose Butler has got to marry my neph-
ew in the morning--a brave soldier
whom his queen has honered and from
that hour is mistress at Woonton Hall.
Bless me F! Aud Miss G Grimpen pro-
cceds to ask lot of questions.
There, ma am, | have no time to
make answers to your questions. Put
the chid's things in box, and let he
como.
so she takes it on her TO DO as smil
ing as Just before she was cross, an,
helps Rose wi her things SO that th'
dear young lady was soon on her way