Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-16
TURsDAY MORNING. DECEMBER Is, 1858

urged the contents of her purse on her hostess,
had she not seen it was quite useless to do So
She tried to thank her hostess, but broke down
here, utterly, and GeneFra stood by her side, and
her soft, fiuttering hands kept up the caress on
the young girls shoulder.
At last Christiana grew calmer and rose up
"lf you will come, or send for the brooch, any
time after to morrow, you shall have it. Twill
leave it with Mamma"
And Christiana remembered that Deacon Rit-
ter was to be in town that week, and she said,
81 will send for it."
Aud then taking the lady's hands, and look
ing into the fair, girlish face, she said, "And
now may God bless your bridal, and all your af-
ter life, because of this you have done for me- !"
"Amen!" said Genevra, bending her head
solemnly.
AND SO the two girls kissed each other, and
separated.
"Genevra Wild, l want to know if the fact
that you are to be married o-night has entirely
escaped your mind ~ was LOttie's and Matte s
first exclamation, as the bride returned to her
chamber. "Here it is nearly five O'Clock"
continued the latter, " and not the first thing
done to your hair yet. Do, Lottie, light
that gas, and set, Genevra, yourself down in
that chair"
And she obeyed. "Don't scold me for my
long absence, girls" she said, in low voice,
and then she lapsed into silence.
And the yiyaciOus girls grew silent, too,
thinking how the solemn foreshadowing Of that
new wifehood she was about to take upon her
self must have visited Genevra's soul, and so,
silent and thoughtful, the preparations for the
bridal went on, and the stars of the New Years
night came up softly, and wrote their glorious
rhetoric on the sky. ..
"Now, Norman, are you not quite salts
fed! Did l not do just as you would have
me "
They were standing together in the deep en-
brasure of the parlor window-N orman Rood
and his newly-made wife. She looked very fair
that morning, in her tasteful brown travelling
dress and hat, and she held in one ungloved hand
a, small pearl box, on whose snowy cushion
rested the antique brooch.
The bridegroom was fine-looking young
man, by no means handsome, but he had an i'm.
pressive bearing, and manly, individual face.
Yes, darling, you did quite right, and just
like your own, true, generous SELF" and the
young husband looked down very fondly on the
beautiful young creature he had taken to his
heart and his life.
A soft blush iuttered into her cheeks.
" ou Know, Norman, hated to part with II
because it was your gift but really she had
the best right to it =" ...
Decidedly the best, dear, and"
"Come, come, Genevra, this won't do" in
terupted the brides mother, as she came with
halfpleased, half-bustling air toward the newly
married couple. l think you and Norman owe
a little attention to your guests, and I'm sure
you've had billing and cooling enough the past
year. Besides, the carriage will be here in q
few moments"
'You go into the parlor, Norman, aud make
yourself agreeable" +" laughed the bride, and theI
drawing her mother aside, she talked with hel
few minutes, very earnestly, and ended by
placing the pearl box in her mothers hand, anc
saying, eagerly-"I may depend upon you
seeing that the brooch is restored!''
You may depend upon me, my child; there
the carriage has come"
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