The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1860-12-19

gagged in active business, received some slight
evidence Of public confidence, saw large
family coming up about me--lrom all Of
which my natural pcsitiveness and force Of
character received more Or less strengthen
ing.
One night. when the last candle had been
extinguished and all was hushed, my wife
said, with some anxiety Of tone,
/" Husband, | feel uneasy about our Min.
ME-"
Minnie7 Why, whats the matter: is she
sick p
"No: she isn't sick, but
But what, wife 7"
"Why, Minnie isl mean, she seems to
be-Well, I'm afraid She Ire. Iemny Brun."
"Jemmy Brun! She'd better not" And
leaped to the floor and walked 10 the win
dow. "Jemmy Brun and uur Minnie! Ia
pretty match %
81 was afraid your would Re disturbed, i,
dear; but don't take it too much To beart,
husband dare say we can put stop To
4 it." And moiheriy Sob b'icanft from the pill
low.
"Put stop to II! guess will. lem
my Brun and our Miunir!-I guess ! will
put stop to IT,"
And who was Jenny Brun? A Young
man Of some two years residence IN the
neighborhood, OF good habits So far as knew,
but altogether and diametrically opposed to
my taste, to my ideal of manllness. had
always worshipped business tact and enter
prise. Ii had taken me, when pennies boy
and brought me up through numOeriess dit
fcultes to a position d inhurnce. fnai
f which was fund in my nature whpn sou :
was thus nourished and rooted through al
the alter-years Of struggle, ripealns lnt'
triumph.
The Young man was of literary turn o
| mind bad taught in an academy mas : vri
/ Ter, il was said, for one or two periodicals
There was an air of sentiment about him. II
| his looks and manners, which eamr precIsel,
J within the scope Of my contempt. ha'
. known il IN others-in strong business mel
Z this utter contempt for tae least possibl
manifestation Of sentiment; for those untlIrii
: " fellows who have never an eye Tor busI
ness, but hang upou the skirts OF thought
clasp imagery, and ride upon the rsthm
| You may see IT now every day 10 commerce. ia
: houses. itsprings, think, IRON The absolute
A antagnnsm OF fact and fancy-ot the figure
/, which do the pages Of the ledger and thos
: which illumine the lines Of the poet. " Th
1 MUSES. frowned on me-" said German poet
..fur keeping books" undoubtedy. No
is the Knight Of the balance sheet less intol
I Grant toward those miserable fellows who's
entire stock in trade can be stored within
/ sery little cavity just behind the irunta
bone.
I, Nv good wife had time II il cooling Va
! down, and preventing the ad"Ploa OF m"'
violent measures. Even when had formal
~ surrendered to her superior discretion,
chafed bi times like 4 bcsr m haIaess.
i wife haa not been almos, Rarry IN tact,
should certainly have broken into pluu.tng
even soaner than did.
Minnie was taken one day iatu solen.
, conference by her mother. witr ants pas,y Z
n the door way as auditor. kat tue eh i
! though she b!ushed very much. masFd absa
i from seat 20 seat. and ;urr piece. I'll paper "a
/. TO bits, declared that she was heart hui
!. yet-"as why shouldn't she be- :-tW !smr'
Brun hal never said word 10 her whi,
!. any man might not haze said To any maiden.
uI 30 wife aud got easy agaTm
N But aiiat should SEE one evening II ~
light, while s4untertng out under The >htasa
OF nv own grove of furest oaks not lar lT'
the house, but two figures ttttHs slns
hi thef aud tbIther among the d dsfatt tee.
m Like a knaye a. was. | sat on the ersaH
e aud watched them. Watched iitrm tft"n
\ Isl, glsringly. I'LL saw Jenny iisaa 90
Il Minnie kis> on her lps. aud LOOK tp,iss
|. alter her d .he slipped away.
n fMK4 akNWFH AFE IN
ID path.
Determined to meet aud confront lee tl'tF,
n sat aud watched her coming.
Il Certainty Minnie's face never stde il
n exptrssjon before. Il was noj giesI4, bl
y il vas radiant, aud her eyes. sh,e5 ~r'
,e bent on tie ground, aud hence "niF ,..'at
al as she came very near me, had ltsai aHj
I drnth that never saw before. sfs pa>sr
d me % utterly was the child aOsttitd ~ H,
z emotions.
|. "Mianie - said. II i tose that stattlr
myself scarcely less than the chill.
4 "Oh." aud she sprang from tie pah ;
: though the sound had been rattle a.nop
Ie tie gras..
Ie raised myself slowly am very slu
y when ters angry-aud standing slfis brtuf
her gi0acre,l down into her eye-tliunie
Is beautiful living rye-with stttnuess ~biC
had never failed to terrify. but the chill,
II though shr ttcmblcd like an aspen iesl !
/. frst. brought her fathers spitit toher rescue
aud. IN the strength Oi love aud lanoeenc,
il looked into her fathers angry face al lengi
: With perfect cOmposure.
:, lmust not repeat the words that followed
,e ,hey shall never be written ; and would
Gud they had never teen spoken
Minnie had given him her nc ct, and woul
give him her hand. How could she help il
!. Even her fathers anger should not presei
Il her fulfilling her surd ior was not Jemm
n IIun worthy. aud was not her fathers ang,
y miserabls ubjusti al this she said 10 u
with deep composure Of perfect hrroin
while stood there almost as much astonisl
n ed as angricd.