The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1861-06-25

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poa3 perhap an, balu Is ral aG
pujr. ihInk Yan arf noble, bu. ihlHk
also yoa cal1 81, halp losing patience
When yoa found ,tas / oaalJ nos aecuu.
MEDIATE ms II b ;he afi1a Is which yoa
had raised me. Then you voslj 30,
respect me. am, indeed 100 proad 70
wish 90 lose lhats and losing yogr apeci
as said before | should egt loa keep
yonr love-
Bat yoa wiz accommodate yoarelf
lo ans tation. My dear, you arg young
aud know s. btlle about this world, which
!, ueh q bBgteU to sou. Why, there IS
very it,Ie ibai win De greatly unlike this
Al aFs, yau might he a httle bewillered
bat shall bc by you All ihe time, and
YOU shall iecl and fear nothing. and Erad-
uaily you Wili learn What little sou need
to know sud most Of aA, yoa will know
yourself tue best and tie loYg.gst Of
women. Dear Ivy, ! would uot part
with your sweet, unconscious simplicity
ior All tie accomplishments ana acquire
cl cleganeics Of Che finest lads u The
world. (Ibats what men ulNa} say9
: You airs not igueani Of anything you
ought 20 know, and your ignorance ot the
world is an additional charm 10 one who
knows So much Of is wickcdness as J.
But We will not talk of It. There q no
need. This shall Be our home, ain here
tie world win not trouble us.
And ! cannot give Up my dear father
and mother. They are not i.ke you
and your friends -
They are my friends, and valued and
dear 10 me, aud dearer still they hall be
rs the parents Of my dear little wife -
] was going 70 ay -
But you shall not say i. | utterly
forbid you ever 70 mention il again. You
are mine, all my own. Your friends are
my friends, your honor my honor, your
happiness my happiness hcneelorth; and
what God Joins together let not man or
woman put asunder.
'Ahl' whispered Ivy, family; for she
was yielding, and just beginning 70 re-
eeiye the sense Of great and unexpected
bliss, but il you should be wrong,if
you should ever repent Of this, it is not
your happiness alone, but mine, too, that
viii be destroyed
Again their relative positions changed,
and remained so for long while.
ivy, am a mere schoolboy TO swear
eternal fidelity for week 4? Have not
been tossing hitler and thither On the
worlds tide ever since you lay in your
cradle, and DO ! not know my position
and my power and my habits and my
lover Ard knowing all this, do | not
know that this dear head Get, cct,
ect, ccl
But said was not going to marry my
man and woman, did not Nor have J..
To be sure, you may have detected pre-
montory symptoms, but ] said nothing
about hat only promised not 10 mar
~ them, and have not married them.
II is to be hoped they were married,
however For, on a fine June evening,
the setting sun cast mellow light through
the silkcn curtains Of pleasant chamber,
where Ivy lay ON a white couch, pale and
still,-yery pale and still and statue
like; and by her side, bending over her
with looks Of unutterable love, clasping
her in his arms, as il 10 give out Of his
own heart the life that had so nearly ebb-
cd from hers, pressing upon the closed
eyes, the white checks, the silent lips
kisses Of such warmth and tenderness as
never thrilled maidenly lips in their ro-
sest flush of beauty knelt Felix Cler-
ron and when the tremuous life fut-
tered back again, when the blue eyes
slowly opened and smiled up into his
with an an answering love, lis happiness
was complete.
In huge armchair, boltupright where
they had placed him, sat Farmer Gecr,
holding in his sadly awkward hands the
unconscious cause Of all this agitation,
namely, poor, little, holrid gasping, cry.
ing, writing, old-iaced, distressed-look
ing, red, wrinzled ridiculous baby be-
tween whose 'screeches Farmer Geer
could be heard muttering, in dazed,
bewildered way, Iyy's baby Oh,
Lud who'd a thunk it? No morc'n
yesterday She was a baby herself. Lud \
Lud