Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1859-10-27

to expect, and hang me If he shan't be before
hand with them in crying off /: l won't have
him Tilted by any such rubbish !"
BY the time, however, that he got mile
from his cwn door--for he was much too in
dignant to go in and sit down-and had COOL
ed himself in that labyrinth of muddy fields
and unfinished houses north of Noting Hiu
beyond the knowledge even Of cabs and police
men, called by the residents, for some myster.
ous reason, kensDgton Park, be began to
think within himself that the term rubbish "
could not apply with any degree of fitness to
his faVorite Mary Simpson. If the mother
was spoiled by a little sudden prosperity, it
was no reason the daughter should be-
George wouldn't have given her up" he
thought, "not if he'd beer left million "-
And why should the girl be less honest than
be was I So Mr.. Burrows resolved, with
very wise and unusual self-denial, to let things
take their own course for the present, and to
smother his knowledge of Mrs Simpsons
baSeness as be best might, within his own
! breast
Mary came home from her aunt's the next
| day, and heard the news of the unexpected
change il the family fortunes with so little out
ward emotion as to diSappoint very consdera-
| bly, her sister and mother, both of whom thO's
to have had the pleasure of overwhelming her
| by the magnlfcence of their announcement
/ Perhaps one reason for her taking it so quiet
! ly was, that at the moment she did not con-
meet it in the least with her engagement with
George Harrison for engaged they had been
! for the last six months, as Mrs. Simpson Was
perfectly well aware-though certainly she
| had received no formal notification of the fact
and therefore thought herself quite justified
| in protesting ignorance to Mr.. Burrows. Per.
| haps Mary thought of George SO much, that
every thing which did not directly refer to him
seemed to her of little importance Girls are
so foolish sometimes. She felt very glad on
her fathers account she remembered once,
when she was but child aud some little diff
fculty about money had occurred, as such
! things will occur in the trading community
! even to the most prudent, that he had said to
her mother in her hearing, "Ah, Sally, if |
had a thousand pounds 7" and how much she
had wished some Que would give her thou,
sand pounds to give him, and wondered wbeth-
er she could ever save so much out of her
mouthly allowance Of halfa crown, by being
more careful in the matter of boot-laces aud
now he would have q thousand pounds every
year She wished some of it had come then;
| for she had dim and painful recollectionS of
her mother crying, and her father walking
about the room Instead of eating his supper,
and of herself going to bed with heavy and
puzzled heart, after long kiss from him which
| she knew by instinct had as much sorrow as
! love 10 it. If she asked him more questions
when he came home from the city that even
! ing about Barton End, and whether be had
ever been there, aud what sort of place it
was, aud when he meant to go and live there,
than even Mrs. Simpson or Augusta had yet
asked, it was not because Mary was more
curious or more impatient than the others, or
because the thought of their new wealth was
more delightful 10 her, or because she was as
tired as her mother and sister had suddeHly
profosscd themselves, Of living "poked up in
London = (perhaps she had her private rea-
sous to the contrary. but because these were
new and pleasant sources of common inter-
est between her father and herself, which she
| felt after all she could enter into much more
heartily than his usual topics of conversation,
which had seldom gone beyond the dry details
OF the rise ard fall of markets, or the last
commercial gossip from the city and poor
| Mary had often confessed, rather to the an
nOyance OF her family shat she had not much
natural taste for shop craft, aud had always
! found herself much more Congenially occupied
! in Aunt Martha's quiet cottage at Brixton,
where there were books, aud flowers, and old
/ songs which she was never tired of singing, or
/ her aunt of hearing. In fact, Mary, though
almost uncOnscjously TO herself, aud certainly
not admitted to such distinction by either moth.
er or sister, was quite the lady Of the family
( Mr.. Simpson felt it every day, though be could
not have put it into words and his own hon.
/ est but uucultivated mind warmed aud opeued
with a strange but not unusual attraction 10
his elder daughters influence. His wife con-
/ planned on this very evening, not without some
+ truth that Mary had got more ont of her
! father IN few minutes than she aud Augusta
had TIT we'd al IN all their crosse examination Of
/ him since the news arrived. For Mr. Simpson
had actually, for few weeks in his boyhoOd,
been GWel!er in this | aradise (for such the
Surrey country house had become III their yiy-
id inaginii atoms and COLL remember all
about ii, they were sure if he chose.
+ My loves don't remember much about
+ it | was only,a boy YOU know land that's
( long while ego, Sally; bit | remember poor
Uncle Sam was very k.ud, and it was very
Hice place TO NE after London streets, as you
may SUPPOSE / can recoect, as we'll as if it
were yesterday, galloping the pony about the
park
There, Pa screamed Augusta; "yon
never told Us before that there was park
. Oh. what beautiful place it must he -
1t ass called park, ms dear, but it was
only field it had been larger place once.
| believe. but there was nothing very grand
about il in uncle Sans days"
And shall have pony TO ride, PAP
asked Samuel
You shall go to school at all events, nv
boy said his father. looking at him rather
tboughiiuily.
This was view Of his inheritance not al