Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-01-15

If-perhaps-if | might escape going
up to my brother-n.law II am quite sure
that we have stopped over our time, and be
will certainly be so angry IF yon would
say
Il shall say that you we're tired, and
obliged to rest said Hertha. Go to m,
sisters, aunt DEAR and give my love to them
| will give kind greeting to papa from
aunt =
And with these words Hertha sprung up
stairs.
Well If You think you can manage il
so; then--but where is she Well well
if she ever is plagued with lawsuit, as
om, she will not be so nmble-fuoted'
And sighing and twiddlng the strings ot
retiCule, Aunt Nella trotied across tht
court to another part Of the house.
Hertha was very soon obliged to mode
rate her pace, because there was no light
on the stairs, and it was very dark. On
the second flight of stairs she was met by
youth carrying a candle, and who advanc.
ed toward her with agitated haste
'Hertha-cousiu-what long time you
have been p and the light of the small can.
die, which was stuck crookedly into an old
brass candlestick, fell upon the figure Of a
tall, bnt not strong youth, the mass of " hose
dark hair had disordered appearance
whilst his eyes, deep-seated under broad
but low forehead. glanced forth with All un.
steady, uncertain gaze There was some.
thing gloomy aud bewildered in the whole
appearance of the youth, aud his voice was
rough as if breaking, although he seemed
to he about twenty years of age.
Have | been so very long, dear Ru-
dolph ? said Herlha kindly and calmly
What O'Clock is it p
Certainly twenty minutes past eight
Uncle sits with his watch in his hand
Give me the candle, Rudolph; you droT
the taIlow on the stains. Let us go in
Has it been very tedius evcningP
Most dreadfully tedious =
1t is my fault. ought not to have
stayed so long. Help me ! Thank you,
I'll take off my over-shoes myself but my
cloak-thank you, Rudolph |! I'll keep my
shawl on 1t is so cold here -
They stood in a large desolate room,
lighted merely by the thin candle, crooked
" placed in the brass candlestick. Her
tha shuddered involuutarily as she cast {
long glance round the gloomy room in whicl
fire seldom burned.
Let US go in together J continued she
and advanced resolutely toward a door OF
the left, in the large room. AS she put he
hand on the lock, she imvoluntarily pauseC
| "a moment, whilst she drew deep breath
| she then opened the door aud went in.
Here, in a frugally furnished room, wa
merely one person, and that man. II
sat on a sofa just opposite the door, with {
able before him, on which two candle
we're burning. His feet were wrapped il
| lanHel, ana he held gold watch in hi
hand. There was no possibility of mstak
ng who he was He was the master o
| he house and the bugbear of the family.
He Was slender and rather small man
IFS features were regular and wclldefned
IFS hair, sicelgray and brisily, stool
,traight up from his high and commanding
| urchead; aud beneath the dark, buShy eye
nrows lay pair of large, dark-gray eyes
whose stern and angry glance was now fix
ed upon Hertha
You've stayed over your time !! said Di
rector Falk, in fierce voice, to his daugh
ter. 1T is twenty-five minutes past eigh
by nv watch. What made you stop ST
long?
i did not know what time it was; for
got p replied Hertha coldly.
Forgot = burst forth the Director, For
got Is that any excuse :? Ought peopl
to forget their duty? That, perhaps, yol
think nothing of or think, perhaps, tina
it is beautiful, noble, independent Tha
l know is according to those modern theo
ries of which you are so fond; according tt
the laws of female emancipation, suppose
by which you will emancipate yourself from
obedience to parents Forgot, indeed
One of these fine days you'll be forgetting
that you have father, or that you hav'
any duties at all to perform toward him
Forgot !-und you tell me so in that obsti
nate way, as if you had right to dcmanC
whatever you liked, and in whatever wa!
you choose, without any reference to me
Bat | will be master in my own house !
will have obedience there aud subordina
tion I'll die thousand times, before
will bear to have my people one time afte
another disregarding my orders, and forget
! ting the time which fix for them. know
what | will, and | will have my will AnC
| will have my own will to be law in m.
own house / won't endure to have peo
pie forgetting what l have said to then
above a hundred times. And more than
hundred times have said that wonl'
have the gate locked at eight o'clock in tn
evening and l would not, on any pretense
have it open after eight and, therefore
YOU ought to be at home at eight precisel
every evening; before eight, or at eight pre-
ciseIy =! Have You heard that before now
or not?
Il have heard it | replied Hertha, as b'
fore.
Very well; then be so good as to az
accordingly, or | will have the gate locke
and barred every afternoon, and you sha
not so easily get out to. any of your ple'
sure parties. which make you forget yoa
duties at home.'
But why must it be precisely eigf
O'clock asked the young man, in grun
ing, ill-tempered voice.
why? you scoundrel ! Because wi
have it so, aud that to the minute. ThG
is enough, hope, or what next ? Bah
What must you be mumbling for? Kee
vorr foolish tongue between yonr teeth. ii