The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1858-03-05
Breach of Promise.
by A RETIRED PHYSICIAN.

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Boston, enter my Office.
q dare say you are surprised; but
my business is Of strictly legal charac-
ter; so you need not waste exclamations
upon the event"
Rose Leayitt was beauty and heir
ess, but she was strange girl for all
that.
Her father had died when she was six
teen, leaving something like a million to
be divided between her and two brothers
Charles and Henry Lcayltt were much
older than she, and both had long been
settled down as quiet, orderly business
men. They were respectable in the full
est sense Of the word, and were never
know To be orrotic in the slightest puticu-
lar.
Rose seemed to be cast in another, en-
tirc'y different mound from that ia which
they had been formed vt school she
Aad been 50 wild that neither master or
mistress could control her. She would
have her own way-a popularity to which
! ann very sorry to say very many young
ladies are addicted
For the proprictics Of life-I mean for
those set fonualititcs of life, which pas,
for such in the world Of fashion-sho had
sovereign contempt. She hated dandics,
hated bellies, hated pianos, mulsc books,
French and German methods, in fact
she seemed disposed to live out her exist
cncc after the dictates Of her ovn fancy
or her caTrices, rs the reader may choose
20 regard H. She passed into her twcn-
ty-Grst year without having done anything
10 call tb' attention Of the world at large
to her. Her whims had only been mani
tested in the school-room, or a. hhc home
Of her eldest brother, with whom shc re-
sided.
She was now twenty-five, and was in
fair way to become historical, as shall in-
form the reader OF cours. Rose had
prolusion Of loygrs-heircsscs always fuL
them as plenty as snowflake at Christ
mas. But Rose very summariiy disposed
Of this crowd, by selecting from them one
who was certainly very suuorior f.llor /.
He was not rich, and had not been very
forward in his attentions, until it was plain
to him, and to al the world, that she had
taken u fancy to him Charles Carpenter
was poor, buj he sincerely loved the way
ward girl, and would not have been at her
shrine if he had not loved her
Then Rose, after she Lad secured him
~ HeI 'o'-9' - ''' Spiue1 col 'lo ny seem.
Now Charles Carpenter had not assurance
enough TO deal with a coquettisn heicess. |
iIe was hyt man OF the'worId. lie was
conscious OF the vast difference IN their So
-I"i l'o'i.i1h, ana NhCh sAc began u fllrt I
vita another he dld not resent 1t; but
seemed 10 regard IL us cAaiige OF SentI-
heht on her part, t. winch ne could oiier
no reasonable objection. Calmly yielding
% the late winch denied AIm the bliss Oh I
)elhg loved, he let " conccalmeut Ike .
worm IN the b0d, Ice" on ms oaaasE I
'hGeN
l'csc "Ir'1',' -. \ ne" star haa arisen id F
ne hT'AaNeAt ol lha' c'lc4' III "hisA s"e
moved III 'ig person oi -it '''h ls9h Ice
r. lie h"d IlteIy come io.h baltimore, /
VAS the son OF merchant prince, owned @
me estate on the happahouock al irgln-
Il, with two hundred ne@Ioe5.
Rose fiirted with him, and Mr.. Samp-
on beeie was as constant as needle to
"c pole. soon the Irritation assumed
more serious aspect. The elegant gentle
nan was ever by ms SIDE, and she never
allied to smile upon him. Poor Cgrpcn-
cr gave tp al for lost, and never lntruded
pon her presence.
For about three months Mr. Deele had
lung to her, and then it was whispered
hat he had proposed and had been ac-
opted, E.sc brothers were IN ecstacios.
hey had been fearful she wodid throw
erselt away upon poor fellow Ike Car
enter; and both OF them declared that 1t
'as the most sensible thing they had ever
nown her to do; inasmuch as they did
ot expect much from her IN the matter {
m9trlmony.