Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-10-13

" nereS mamma Sne eXcialmeu, as we
reached the door, in front Of which tall
matronly looking woman stood, part-hding
from view, brass plate, endorsed,
'Oakes Plumber Alice B-i 0akes---
who ever spelt Oakes with e? Hoax
enough, l thought
Won't you walk in sir 2? said Mamma.
did-in the best parlor, / suppose, for
there was sheet of fancy and white paper
in the CRATE and sheperds and sheperd.
esses, looking very stiff and dirty, aud in
awkward positions-not near so awkward
as mine, tbough-on the mantle piece. ov.
or which hung an oil painting of Mr.. Oakes
-as afterwards discovered-in an elabor-
ate frame, covered with yellow gauze to
preserve it from spot and bemish
And there was a great deal of fancy net
work lying on the table; and piano stood
10 the corner of the room, the floor of
which was covered with very gaudy car
pet.
These things / noticed while Alice took
her bonnet of. when she came in she thank.
ed me for the many letters had sent her
Many letters! l have only written one.
But she had several, written in cramped
hand, which | told her, were not mine
1t seemed another had written to her. 7
tried to escape, saying how sorry | was that
she had been put 70 so much trouble about
me. But she wasn't if l wanted a wife
which | must door why had come p
she would love me, oh so tenderly-and
she threw herself into my arms and began
to cry.
Did you ever have weeping girl in your
arms, young fellow? l hope not for you
mu st have made fool of yourself, if YOU
ever had. At least did, thoroughly.
Pappa came in and welcomed me, and
cheered up little, and trusted to nv luck
to get off scott free. Very different from
that night with Emily. Nothing in the
way of conversation, but remarks about The
heavy state of the lead market, and the
weather.
retired to my inn, having nicely escaped
sentimental scene in the hall and intend
ing to run away next morning, l slept
soundly in that determination. | awoke
early, dressed, breaktasted, and was lust
getting into the omnibus, when the father
stopped me and asked for word in private
| got into passion so did he. AT last
he threatened to expose me and my trade
forever. Was / to tamper with Young
and innocent girls affections No, indeed
| wasn't. l was touched to the quick. In
an hour we left the room together and I
have never looked up since. In three weeks
l married Alice.
Emily, l heard was taken III, and in three
months married to Cowley's brother. NY
customers and friends, when they knew ali,
which they did as soon as the babling
tongue of scandal got in full play, left me-
My business declined rapidly. My wife
whose 9600 year proved to be capital
of Gl. 6s, 4d., rates me and taunts me, aud
cries, and goes into Mysteries, and gets
money out of me for some poor deserving
relative of hers-who would do anything
for me l suppose in the way of eating and
drinking and spending my money-ont each
long day aud have no quiet moment
except when ain asleep in u garret by
myself for lie there, as my best bed is
occupied by my wife (paugh Dand her dear
sister Emily l am going to poverty
quickly and have no hope, no one to pity
me.
no s"lu oSlOlo, my Wlle Is az lne inca
tire. Hark, there she is at the door. She
must not see this | sit and pretend to be
asleep. She enters, and touches me aud
says:
Arthur, asleep upon your wedding
night ?
l was indeed; and had a wretched dream,
disrobing at the hotel in Convent Garden,
where we passed our wedding night. We
had just arrived and whilst she was up
stairs, had scanned the last sheet of a
London periodical, full, Us it always is, Of
matrimonial paragraphs and tired as
was, had gone to sleep with the paper in
my hand and loYe paragraph in my mem
ory.
l told my wife, my own dear wife, about
my. dream and we often laugh at its re-
membrauce, even now, and when l am tir-
ed, or grave at all, she sits down at my
feet, crosses her little round arms upon my
knees, and asks, in such laughing way,
if am thinking Of Alice B.
The Great Demon onStration I'm Nexv vorIr