Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-11-04

ehouSh. DuJ IneSe were 700 early uays Ior any
thing definite to be said or done.
Meanwhile, new circumstances were arising
which, though they made no change in Sn
Christopher's plans and prospects, converted
Mr. Cliffs hopes into anxietes, and made il
clear to him not only that Caterina's heart was
never likely to be his, but that it was given
entirely to another.
Once or twice in Caterina' childhood, there
had been another boy-visitor at the manor,
younger than Maynard Gilfl-a beautiful boy
with brown curls and splendid clothes, on whom
Caterina had looked with shy admiration This
was Anthony Wybrow, the son of Sir Christie
piers younger sister, and chosen heir of Chew
erel Manor. The baronet had sacrificed large
sum, and even straitcned the resources by which
he was to carry out his architectural schemes,
for the sake of removing the entail from his es-
tate, and making his boy his heir-moved TO the
step, am sorry to say, by an implacable quar-
rel with his elder sister; for power of for
glveness was not among Sir Christopher's vir
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mother, when he was no longer curly headed
boy, but tall young man, with captains
commission, Cheverel Manor became his home
too, whenever he was absent from his regiment
Caterna was then little woman, between six
teen and seventeen, and need not spend many
words in explaining what you perceive to be the
oet no IN th;nfr ~ +ho xyorld
There was little company kept at the Manor,
and Captain Wybrow would have been much
pleasant to pay her attentions-to speak to her
in gentle tones to sec her little autter of pleas
ure, the blush that just lit up her pale check,
and the momentary tmid glance of her dark
eyes, when he praised her singing, leaning at
her side over the piano, Pleasant, too, to cut
out that chaplain, with his large calves What
idle man can withstand the temptation of wo-
man to fascinate, and another man to eclipse
especially when it is quite clear to himself
that he means no mischief, and shall leave
everything to come right again by-and-by. AT
the end of eighteen months, however, during
which Captain Wybrow had spent much of his
time at the Manor, he found that matters had
reached point which he had not at all con-
templated. Gentle tones had led to tender
words, and tender words had called forth re-
sponse of looks which made it impossible not to
carry on the cresccndo of love-making. To find
oneself adored by little, graceful dark-eyed,
sweet singing woman, whom no one need de-
spise is an agreeable sensation, comparable to
smoking the finest Latakia, and also imposes
some return of tenderness as duty.
Perhaps you think that Captain Wybrow,
who knew that it would be ridiculous to dream
of his marrying Caterina, must have been II
manner! Not at all. He was young man oil
calm passions, who was rarely led into any con-
duct of which he could not give plausible ac-
count to himself; and the tiny fragile Caterlna
was a woman who touched the imagination and
the affections rather than the senses. He really
felt very kindly towards her, and would very
likely have loved her-if lie had been able to
love any one. But nature had not endowed him
with that capability. She had gwen him an
admirable figure, the whtest of hands, the most
delicate of nostris, and large amount OF Sc
rene selfsatisfaction but, as if to save such
delicate piece of work from any risk of being
shattered, she had guarded him from the liber-
alty to a strong emotion. There was no list OF
Youthful misdemeanours on record against him
aud Sir Christopher and Lady Cheverel thought
him the best of nephews, the most satisfactory
of heirs, full of grateful Difference to them
selves and above all things, guided by sense
of duty. Captain Wybrow always did the
thing easiest and most agreeable to him from a
sense of duty; he dressed expensively, because
it was duty he owed to his position from a
sense of duty he adapted himself to Sir Christie
pner S nAexible will, which it would have been
troublesome as well as useless to resist and be-
ing Of delicate constitution, he took care OF
his health from sense of duty His health
was the only point on which he gave anxiety tc
his friends; and it was owing to this that Sir
Christopher wished to see his nephew early mar
ried. the more so as a match after the baronet 1
own heart appeared Immediately attainable
Anthony had seen and admired Miss Asher, the
only child of lady who had been Sir Christie
piers earliest love, but who, as things will
happen in this world, had married another bar
onet instead of him. Miss Asher father wa
now dead, and she was in the possession of ;
pretty estate. If, as was probable, she shoul'
prove susceptible to the merits of Anthony
} person and character, nothing could make 81
Christopher so happy as to see marriage whiel
might be expected to secure the inheritance o
Cheverel Manor from getting into the wron'
hands Anthony had already been kindly re
ceivcd by Lady Asher as the nephew of he
early friend; why should he not go to Bath
: where she and her daughter were then residing
: follow up the acquaintance. and win hand
r some, wellborn, and sufficiently wealthy bride
Sir Christophers wishes were communicate
Q to his nephew, who at once intimated his wi
Q lingness to comply with them, from sense {
+; duty. Catcrina was tenderly Informed by he
g lover of the sacrifice demanded from them both
}, aud three Jays afterwards occurred the partin
i scene you have witnessed in the gallery, on tt
r eve of Captain Wybrow's derartute for Batl
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