The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-01-14


from the Hibernian impetuosity of your tenn.
permanent, always felt that you woud achieve
an exploit of this kind sooner or later; and
secondly, do think most highly of your choice,
if she had few more years notched in her
hfe's young calendar, and little of added ex-
perience to suit her for clergyman's wife,"
go dear uncle, Mary is full eighteen years
of age, and assure you is as wise"-
"As Minerva, no doubt" said, i" and as
experienced in menage matters as Hecuba.
Well, We will grant all this for arguments sake;
bat how are you to live, Harry? Whence are
you to have the SUPPLIES 2" Love is poor to q
proverb; Love is a pauper, and makes me re
paupers than he has pence to fill their pockets
with. Love cannot furnish your house; or
feed your children, for l presume you intend
having children. Love cannot buy you q loin
OF veal, or CANNON of bacon, nor worsted hose,
or Welsh flannel, in case you or Mary should
become rheumatic, which you probably will be
when you come to my years.
~, uncle, uncle. how can you coniure up
such ideas said Harry, half laughing. The
truth Is, that We have quite enough to marry
on tor there is hundred pounds year which
Mary's aunt and godmother, Lady L., settled
on her; and then my curacy will bring in a
hundred pounds more annually; then some
thing will come to US at the Generals death /;
out this Mary will not suffer me to speak of.
And then-apd then"-
Proceed said l, well.knowing what the
young fellow was going to say.
why, uncle" said he, taking nv hand. and
LOOKING so wonderfully like my dear sister, with
ms 1air complexion, wistful, earnest eyes" we
tnought and reckoned on your goodness: that
as you have been ever like father to vour
orphan nephew, and as you seem to admire
Mary most of all the Generals other eioht
daughters, and as you are always as generous
as prince" l assure you, gentlemen. the
young fellow was quite wrong here, and knew
nothing ahont me, $50 we were eanpuine ON
having little settlement from you also, until
such time as l have obtained living, and
done my duties In such q manner as to de.
serve it." ~
" Well, Harry" said I" 1 am sure you will
pc an active and earnest minister You cannot
heip Il, Harry you have it from nature you
are physically and constitutionally fdgety and
nercuriai' as Is your country's fashion; you
rave kindly nature, too, and my boy, and no
aouo', Will make an exemplary married man,
your domestic organs having a most am;able
development. And so, as for the settlement
you speak OF, it shall be forthcoming in due
Time, promise you; but now that the shock
OF your sudden appearance has subsidized, con.
less Ieei rather sleepy; and you will forgive
me II say, inclined to yawn. lam not in
love, and must therefore 20 to bed. and I nd.
wise you by all means to go home quietly and
90 the same. So, good night, my dear lad ;
we will meet at ten o'clock breakfast
offered him my hand, but he clasped his
arms round me like child and though I felt
ashamed at the action, could not hut return
the pressure; and 80 we parted, lust as the
ciock On the mantel-piece struck the hour OF
twelve. WIZ -01' VI
Henry Font was my sisters only child. His
father was an Irishman, and captain of dra-
goons, and was shot in the saddle during q
cavalry charge in India. They called it q
brilliant affair" but it killed my poor sister,
ana mace Harry an orphan before he was six
years oio. Oid Mr.. Font, his grandfather, now
TOOK him up, and had him at his castle in the
wilds OF Connaught, schooling him in Galw.g
town, and afterwards entering him into the
college CT Dublin, where he had not been many
m 2ntns when the old gentleman died, and /
.ooE immediate possession of Harry, and had
MIN to Cambridge-to old Trinity-my own
conege, where be gained mony honors; for the
lao inherited diligence and taste for learning
from my side of the house, and was naturally
smart enough, besides possessing a wonderful
talent for making friends, from his enthusiasm,
his simplicity, and the purity of his life. ]
certainly was charmed at having rescued the
poor fellow from the University of Dublin for.
inough acknowledged that the courses of the
sciences are well looked after there, l must
ever denounce their imperfect manner of com.
position, and making Latin verse;; here the
leans manner became alightly accidulated,
YET piquant as lemon.lozenge Il "they may
compose clumsy hexameters, or stiff mechani.
cal pentameters. Sapphics, too, they may
achieve; but do avow, gentlemen, nay, insist
On IT, mat the Daoriambic, the Choriambic,
laughs them to scorn."
ne paused here, little excited, and then
went calmly On.
>. Wen, gentlemen, that 1 be not further te.
oious to you, my nephew was ordained in
.harch, and married in April; the ceremony
tooH place in the cathedral of Pimlico it was
performed by our dear and right reverend host,
assisted by your humble servant. 1t was q
quiet wedding; Mary's eight handsome smi.
iihg sister iassies officiating as bridesmaids,
1Hu 'he oid general in full uniform, (he was
Coionei OF the Connaught Rangers, the gallant
e,ghty-elght,) with golden aigullettes on his
shoulder, and sparkling crosses on his breast,
anu true VaIor In his heart, and strong County
OF Glare accent on his tongue. Short of an
eye, like Hannibal, and minus leg, like Lord
Anglesey, this fine old veteran stumped up the
aisle, and frankly gave his lovely blushing
daughter away. "She was number SIX" he
SAID, and be had no better or fairer than his
MARY" And the stern soldier, who had led a
ioriorn hope more than once, and would march
up with composure to the iron mouths of a gun
oattery, now broke down into natures softness ;
ana as ne bid the bride a weeping farewell, the
nesrt OF steel became like virgin wax. l wish.
cd tneir bridal tour should be to Cumberland
OF Scotland, and expressed this desire, as
slipped bank post bill into Harrv's hand on
his getting the license; but no. he was a regu.
lar lover OF the Green Isle and there he would
go, and Mary was of course sympathetic and
as patriotic as he. / then sugpested their
gong to see Armagh, which had heard of as
rather civilized part of Ireland with a cathe.
orai ana archlepiscopal palace, to be q refuge
III III case OF any popular outbreak, or attack
rom the whlteboys, rebels, or assassips. of
otner denominations. But no; my gentleman
was hrm, and he was determined to Wait the
Wild West" and trace the ruins of his ances.
tors Old Castle of Kitmanmore. on the banks
OF what he called the Kileries. I certainly
listened to these sanguineons appelIations with
shudder, which was not allayed when he fur.
tner announced his intention of going among
some friends of his lady's residing in the County
OF lipperary, close under the Knock.,aedocn
Mountains. and from thence they were to visit
an aunt OF the young wife's, the Dowager Lady
ILL =. residing (they told me, laughing act
ually at what made my few particular hairs to
enact porcuplne quills, a Ia Hamle0 in a lone
osa pace called hn6ride Hall, near the town
OF Ballyragget; but whether the first svllable
OF this last was spelled with an q or an E. pro-
test | know not, save that the name of the
;ooa.y s seemed TO me to sound grisly, and to
&c G Gs;sh associate with itself the phantoms