Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-04-04

A deep color spread over his brow and
cheek. Il am sorry he said, sIiffiy, that
you did not inform Yourself more correct
ly, my dear Mrs. Pennington, before
There told yo1 you would be OIL
Tended, exclaimed Ada.
Pardon me = said Mr.. Thorn, Il am
no! offended, only grieved That you have
formed wrong opinion
Il expressed no opinion, ! only meant
TO warn said Ada.
Excuse me- returned Mr.. Thorn,
your opinion was implied if no! express
sed.'
If have been mistaken, am very
glad said Ada. But, and her pleading
eyes were fastened on his face, be sure
that | am. Pause and think
"A second time thank you,' said Mr..
Thorn, his coIrr still heighlening.
DO not lei us part in anger eXclalm-
ed Ada, as he rose To 90.
BY no means, Mrs. Pennington,
should exceedingly regret anything OF The
kind. was merely about to say that as
YOUR estimate Of me is such, II cannot be
agreeable TO you or Mr.. Pennington, 10
retain me as an intimate, and | VIII oiu
good-evcning for rather longer time than
ordinary.
The door closed behind him. Mrs.
Pennington had lost friend, and the
tears that fell fast from her eyes little re-
Eeyed her sorrowing heart,
Two or three weeks after, she was
standing before her to!et-glass, one even
ing, having just returned from party
when her husband entered. saying. Ada,
what is this about Leonard Thorn! lie
,oId me you had given him 10 understand
YOU did no, wish to see him here, and he
seemed surprised that expected him.
Sadly but quietly Ada repeated what
she had said to Leonard Thorn.
I'll have You know, madam, exclalm-
ed Mr.. Pennington, that ! will not have
nv friends insuIed in this manner.
And then poor Ada had 10 endure
storm of passion, the greater, perhaps
because Of Mr.. Penningion's usual rePose
of mind and manner. There she sat un-
I'll two clock, the gaslight glaring on her
aching eye.balIs and bare arms and shoul-
ders, still gIitlering with Jewels. At leng'h
Mr.. Pennnngton's violence spent itseli,a ,and
she was allowed to 60 to bed. Bu. tins
was nol the last of the thing. For weeks,
nav, months, she was made 10 feel IN
thousand polite but cutting ways, that she
had deeply offended her husband. And
from that hour his feelings toward her
never were the same.
A chhl November sun was departing IN
order that Fifth Avenue might dine. Mrs.
Pennington, alighliGg at her own door,
with her i,lle Lizzie by The hand, pas
sed little beggar girl hanging upon the
area raiIings. One glance at the eyes
beamiug beneath the coarse wors,ed hood,
and she seized the blue, frost-bluen fin.
gers, and dragged the child into the hall.
"Tell me your name,' she said TO her.
"Hannah Morlon,' said the frightened
girl.
Hannah il was her mothers name.
Her poor brother, wherever he might be,
had not forgotten his home She stood
looking al The two children before her.
What a contrast Lizzie's fresh, brilliant
complexion, plump, rounded limbs and
warm, bright garments; and her brothers
child with her war, sickly SKIN, features
distorted by disease and exposure, with
dirty strings wound around her TO keep
her ,al,ered garments from falling off.
This was not the most painful difference.
Her sharp, suspicious, old look shone be.
side Lizzie's innocent, unironbed coun-
renanCe. Mrs. Pennington felt faint, and
as she turned to sit down, reeled and SINK
10 the floor. When she recovered, she
found herself on her own bed. Perfect
quiet was eajoned.
In the silence of night, she said TO the
old nurse who watched by her side,
"Do YOU know what became Of the
poor little girl who was i'll the hall this al
tcrnoon ?
mo, ma am. Mr. Pennington order
ed her away" replied old Bridget.
Then you can't tell where she lives.
Has she ever been here before 2
Indeed, don't know, ma'am. I'm
lhinkin she'll never come any more, for
Mr.. Pennington told her he'd hand her
over to an Nj. p. If she did. He said il
was no wonder you tainted, Fam, with
that dirty child so near you
Ada had heard enough. She drew The
ted-covers over her face and wept bitterly
and violently. Again, again haG she near
Iy laid her hand upon her brothers. daily
life; had almos, been able 10 whisper in
his ear words of enlreaty. or at least Of
kindness, and the slIesm had borne her
away.
She rose in the morning, and went on
with her usual occupations. Nothing on