Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-02-23

Il don't aek it, RSst, olf course, cannot
become MY wife I'LL | am tble to give her Q
worthy home. Her mother will not wish tc
cancel our engagement in the me an time.
The deuse she won't! Trust her:' tn,
consolstory brother rejoined. why. it viii
be her first natural s,ep. The idea Of hel
daughter betrothed to a merchants clerk /,
preposterous on the face Of II. You your
sell must see hat
No, don't,' Everett said ,ssmiling.
'Ob, suppose you intend to make large
fortune in a twelyemonth, and then return
and marry'
'No,-but in ten years,-less than tina,
God helping me,--iI | live, I will return
and marry Rosa
you Cont say sol And poor little Rosa
is to wait patiently for you ell that time!--
BY Jove! a modest expectation Of yours
It's likely notion that Miss Beauchamp
will remain unmarried for ten years, because
you choose 10 go to Canada
she will never marry, If she does not
marry me- Everett said. with simple grnvi-
ty. tits not alone tse outward sacrament
of marriage that sanctiies a union. The
diviner ohd more vital oonsecratidD that
binds us together, it is too late, now, TO seek
to undo
'Oh, hang it' It's Of no use talking poetry
to me. ! don't understand that sort OF thing, ;
Captain Gray frankly said. IN tell you
what, ,---it'll never do to take those trans
cendental ideas with you into the world
All very well to poetize and muundcr abou,
in quiet Haslcwood; but, by Jove! you'll
find II won't do in practical life. Take my
word for it, If you go to Canada, long be-
fore the ten years are out, Rosa Beauchamp
will be wooed and won over again. 'risn't
in nature that it should be otherwise. In
books, very likely, those sort Of things hap.
pen often enough,-but not in real life, my
dear fellow, | assure you. When you re-.
turn, it will be to find her thriving ma,ron,
doing the honors Of one oi the neghboring
mansions. Make up your mind to that
Foresee your future, before yoJ decide
Everett smiled, sadly, dit trnstiuy. His
brothers. arguments neither persuaded nor
disturbed him. He stood very quiet and
thoughtful Visionary like, he saw pictures
OF the future, indeed, but very different
| from the one Just drawn. H. wSs not afraid.
And Captain Gray left him unronvinced
and unmoved. 1t was not probable the two
brothers would see this matter in the same
light. They stood on different Levels. They
must be content TO differ.
The next conference on the subject was
between Everett and Lady Beauchamp; and
the mother of Rosa was, il must be admit
ted, a rather formidable person TO encount.
er in such wise. She was a busy, clever,
worldly woman,--kind.hearted TOO, and
with both a strong will and strong affections.
She was one of thoso people in Nham even
an astute observer nigh, often be deceived,
by failing to give her credit for certain good
qualities which are commonly coexiste nj
with wor'diness, s,---especialy in woman.
There was u spice Of something better la.
tent amid her shrewdness and hard he aded
sngacity; the echo of more generous aspira-
tions fingered through all the noise OF this
earths Babel in her heart. And SO, when
she heard of Everett's .esolve to pay his
father's debts by parting with the property
her better and higher nature warmed 10 the
young man; end though she protested
against this Qnixotism. end frowned, and
talked of prudence, and SO FORTH her busy
brain was, in 'act, all the while setting
; itself 70 work for his benefit. She was, in
n way fond of the young man. No woman
! is quite insensible to that chivalrous defer
ence which Visionary like Everett always
mannests to womanliood, collective aud in.
dvidual. And though she certainly held
: him to be rash, foolish, unfit to deal with
the world, 'poetical,' (a capital crime in her
eyes,) and dreamy, she yet liked him, and
was glad to discover a plan Whereby the
objections 10 his marriage with her daughter
: under the present adverse circumstaE ces
: might be smoothed away.
The was sitting at her big desk, strewr
with accounts, in the sober-looking library
where she always spent her mornings. anc
she rose to receive her prospective son-in.
law, with an aspect serious and bus mess
: like, yet not stern ..... ......... ..
{ We'll, my dear Everett, what is all ,hi
that hear about you! A very, very sac
affair, Of course; but you must come ant
|, tell me how you intend to act. Yes, yes.-
I've heard something about it; but dom
!. quite understand the state Of. the case.
{, want to have talk with you'll
:. And she leaned her Tcomely face upon he
: plump, white hand, while gravely listenin!
0 to Everett's brief statement OF what h,
: had already done, and what were his plan
n for the future M
$ You will sell Hazelwood, pay youi faith
u er's debts, and begin fe on your own ac
o count by going to Canada aud becoming
II merchants clerk!' She then recaptu'pte
!, his plans in sharp, pitiess tone. 'Ver
l. we'll! and we have only to bid you good
= bye and wisn you success, Is it SO! Fo
e it appears to me that my daughter is lei
!. entirely out OF your calculations, and yer
e properly so. You cannot, as merchant
h clerk on hundred a year, marry Ros
e Beapchamp, presume
n No. Everett said, steadily, and holdin
It her, as It were, with his earnest eyes, :
= cannot have Rosa for my wife till nm abl
: to give her home worthy of her; but yo
= will not refuse to sanction our engagemer
3 during the years in which shall work fc
h that home'