Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-09-05

have made up my mind" Cher little mind,
sweet souD. l thought it over in bed last
night, and have made up my mind"
"Tcll me all about it, then, Miss Ciccly."
[ said ; "but, first, how is that little pain?"
Il had it a long time last night" she said,
''but it is better this morning. | will give
up Cousin Richard to Cousin Alice, and she
shall be his little wife, and they will be very
happy together. Don't you think SO, good
NJ. Dipchurch p
As she said this, the sweet angel looked
at me SO earnestly and sadly that [ could
have taken her up in my arms and cried
heartily over her.
"Ycs," she said, beginning again to plait
the corner of her frock, Il think it will be
all for the best When Cousin Richard
comes in from breakfast, I will 90 to him
and tell him all, and that Cousin Alice is
much moro worthy of him.
That little pain of hers troubled me very
much, and l determined to let Squire know
Of it at once. Presently they all came in to
breakfast Squire aud Lady Alice haugh-
tier than ever all except Mr.. Richard, who
was out riding. Squire looked knowingly,
and laughed as he said he was gone over to
Arbour Court-pcrhaps might come home
to breakfast, perhaps might not-Sluire
rather thought he would not-and looked
knowing again.
He did como back, then, but just as they
had finished, Miss Cicely, who was sitting
by the window, called out that there was the
post man on his pony, coming down the long
avenue, and Cousin Richard riding beside
him. Not long after, saw him in the oak
Ecorridor, with great open letter in his hand,
and looking very troubled.
Unjust 60 to the wars at last, Dipchurch," :"
he says, trying to look cheerful.
"Wcll, sir" said, nothing like honor
and glory-but hope they have given you
a long day ?"
"Only ten days, Dipchurch," he says,
with sigh, and went on muttering about
bubble to the cannon's mouth.
Then it all came out. Mr.. Richard was
to be married to one of tho young ladies
over at Arbour Court, and now it was set
tied that they should hurry on the marriage
BEFORE he went
There was great hustle and excitement at
tue Grange that day. Every one about the
Place having the story that Mr.. Richard was
seIng for soldier. but irst to be married
to MISS Abbott. thought the Spanish
Donna, when she heard it, would have Bit
ten her lip through with rage and mortiGca-
ton; !; but she only tossed her head back as
if she didn't care, and said not word.
But for that sweet child, Miss Ciccly, my
heart bled and blcd again. She was so
gricvcd, and [ believe took on quite as much
at the idea Of her Cousins modification =
But she loved Mr. Richard so, and frcttcd
so when Le went. Not for that little notion
she had first taken into her head, but be-
cause he was so frcc-hcartcd with her, and
SO good and kind that-but [ don't like
thinking Of those times She would sit on
the grass, as before, talking to her dog. l
have heard her say, when passing softly be-
hind her:
"You, poor Pinchcr, you are the only one
left that [ love after papa, the only one
the only one"
This she would say over and over again,
while the creature would look at her fondly
with his heavy blinking eyes, and whine, as
if he understood what she said.
Soon she began to complain of certain
wcarincss and heavy feeling about the head, !,
and that first pain turned out Gas | thought
it was) the warning of the old sickness COM
ing back again. Waterfront the brain, as
they called it.
As said before, don't like thinking over
those days, it gives me dead weight on my
heart, and such a choking feeling in my
throat Imay as we'll say that before fort
night was out, the little angel was taken
gently up to Heaven, where, added Mr..
Dipchurch, huskily, it is my firm persuasion
that she is now and ever shall be in world
without end! From which happy country,
it is also my firm belief, there never came
down purcr soul.
'tAnd Pinchcr, the dog?"
He went about for some days in restless
sort of way, looking, l think, for his little
mistress, in all manner of places | once
met him coming, ia his old shambling way,
through a place he was never known to be
found i'll before; and Squire met him there,
o,-burst out crying over him,-crying
and sobbingas if his heart would break.
L had to go away up to Londan. little
'i'1i tlat, oll puStucSS, ana wien came
home they told NC that Pinchcr had been
found one morning under rose tree, which
Cicely planted; lying there, stretched out,
his poor, white sleeps face resting on bed
of moss which grew about the root of the
tree.
"WHArs IN A NAME PA good deal,
especially if it is bad one, Eugene Sue,
in his "Mystcrics Of Paris" happened to
choose very respectable street as the scene
Of some of the worst and most revolving OF
all the crimes which abound in that book
The effect was prodigious. Rents fell ;
some of the best families moved to other
streets; and great was the grief of all the
habitucS that, for no fault of their own, their
own, their neighborhool was regarded as
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