The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-09-10

ward No wonder; she is duced pretty ant
ravishingly artless. That Tobias HardgriI
is not bad looking fellow either. He dom
, look over thirty-three, and l know he mus
be fifty. It's strange how some Of thes'
!. old fogies preserve their youth and goot
looks, while we youngsters of twenty-thre'
look sixty at thirty. must quit my smok
, ing. DENNY! must give it up or NY
; face will look like a dried oyster in fv'
; years"
Yes, Mr.. Orlando Tompkins, give W
: smoking, hard drinking, late hours, gamb
ling and several other fashionable amuse
ments, peculiar to that spindle shanked
dissipated demon called Young America, ant
there will be faint hope left for yor
} to see your forteth birth day out of pur'
gatory.
A week, two weeks, three weeks passed
on and still Orlando fingered ct the hospi
table house of Tobias, his presence begin
ming to haunt that worthy gentleman as the
Demon did Faust.
6" am afraid she loves him." said Tobias
to himself. 81 know he loves her-fortune.
What in-( bless my soul, believe swort
mentally )--why didn't leave that condition
in the will or as it wasn't there, why did
not insist upon its insertion? | am afrai
| shall grow savage, and wish the young
rascal in some place the name Of which be-
gins with an H-Halifax, Hamburg, o,
Havre de Grace, Or bless my soul any other
place that has II at the hilt."
Tobias offered Orlando ten thousand dol
lars to set him up in business in the Sand
witch Islands, or Porto Rico, if he would
start Immediately. But Orlando grinned Il
d,o;6aI por,t;vn ,yh;la o,ro co,p, al ~
become more infatuated with him every
day.
" Ten thousand dollars ;'said Mr.. Oran-
do Tompkins, one night as he tumbled into
| bed and drew the sheet up to his nose
T" Ten thousand crab-apples! The girl is
worth, they say, nearly half million. She
is taken after mel am sure it. Tobias
is sharp, very sharp Orlando Tompkins is
sharper. Not my uncle. Before long he shall
be glad to have me call him uncle. like
this digging for gold pleasant parlors, and
! in handsome gardens and in lovely damsels'
eyes, better than in the mud and water Of
California. Bless my soul, as Tobias says
its much more agreeable to all parties"
While Orlando was soliloquizing in this
compliment mood, dialogue was going on
below in the parlor, where Tobias was sit.
! ting with his beautiful ward.
! Tobias would have burned daylight before
Orlando should outst him.
! Laura, | have something very important
to tell you,' said Tobias, who had been re-
vo!ying plan to solve ali doubts.
d" What is it papa:" said Laura, taking n
seat on the sofa by his side, and resting her
dainty snowy hand upon his stout handsome
shoulder.
"Blcss my soul don't call me papa!
am not your papa" said Tobias, upon whom
this alectonnte and iiial appellation splash
ed like Il bucket Of cold water.
"Why. have called you so for so many
years." said Laura in astonishment.
" Not so very many my dear girl only
eight. Gail me Toby"
"Toby. Ia. ha! What ridiculous
name,' and the little hands and little feet Of
Miss Laura danced with merriment.
'Toby Hardgrip is not name to be laugh
ed at. Looks very we'll when signed to a
check for a hundred thousand or so-bless
my soul; goes well too. But Laura what do
people do when they get married? Where
do they 60 to:
81 have heard that they 90 away somo'
where and live together, never caring for any
one except each other. Papa, | mean Toby
i declare can't call you Toby laughed
Laura.
"Ncver mind that, call me pudding head,
as that monkey Tompkins called me once.
| heard him! Bless my soul am going
to marry
"lOu arc going to marry" exclaimed
Laura.
"Why not? Bless my soul. | am not
too old. OIL fortythrec and there is more
plth IN me than ten such laths as that fellow
up stairs. Say, YOU mink, am too old ~
" No, no; too DID," sand Laura slowly and
mournfullT, "but thought-''
"Eh what did you thiLk? Bless my
SOUL cried Tobias sprin3ing up, II suspect
YOU thought no one would nave me. know
sIx-s!X! know siXty-siz that would jump
at me-
Il do not moan that. | mean-tcll me.
dear guardian, for You shall always be dear
to me married or single, can not love You
enough? Must YOU 90 and marry to be
loved ~ said Laura, turning the full Jl4Le
Of her brillinnt beauty uron Kim.
" es : You call me papa, and love me as
pApa. hate ropas want to marry
| am rich, not Old, good looking. strong.
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