The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1862-10-03
Volume IS.

Yes, il took my fancy. Mary will like .
keeper, and Scott. in his absent fashion, il
sure not to think Of one. Lucky, say, i
he rmembers the wedding-ring. Ii is toe
large; is it not MariaT
much too large for keeper. Mary
would require another ring to keep this on.
Il ought to have chosen the smaller one
said Sir Phillip. There is another just like
il. only less in sire.' I'll take this one back
and change it,
1t must have cos, good deal !? said Lady
Annesley.
Pretty well. Forty-cisht guineas.
Mrs. Annesley lifted her hands in dlsmay
-'Oh Philip! Fcrty-eight guineas for q
ring! 1, seems next to a sin. Your father
my dear would have looked twice at quar-
ter of the money baiOre giving it,
lie crossed tho room and put the keeper in
her hand, bending down to her and speaking
gently. Feel it, grandmother; it really is
a beauty. know the sum is large; but we
do no, give away Mary-cyery day."
Mrs Anncslcy passed her fingers over the
ring. after the manner of the blind, and
handed it back to him. Philip when do
you intend to buy a wedding keeper on your
own ACCOUNT E,erg
That sweet smile Of his rose to his lips,
and perhaps the least tinse Of color to his
face. A doctor has no time Ia think Of such
things
No time? returned the lady, taking the
remark literally. think hC has Us much
time for i, as other people. Where there's
a will there's a way. Philip do you know
tina, you are in your thirty.iifth year!'
And do you know also what your pa
tients say?" put in Lady Amnesty. They
say"
Il can guess, that will do interrupted Sir
Philip with laugh. II they do not like
an unmarried man they need not come to me.
Let them 60 elsewhere
Not they, said Lady Anncsley, signiti.
cantly Philip, you really ought to marry.
Delay ii another ten years and your children
will be growing up when YOU are an old
man. wish you would; il would set my
mind at rest
AT rest from what?' asked Sir Philip, in
hasty and somewhat sharp tone.
'Oh well, am not going to explain, an
swered Lady Annesley. AT rest in more
ways than one
Provided. presume, that I married to
please you,' cried Sir Philip, who fully un-
dertood the by.play.
'Of course not to please me, Philip am
nobody. To please your sisters and to please
the world
Terrible IL l married only to please my
self, would i, not be Lady AnnesleyT lie
laughed.
lie had never called her mother; at oil
times and studiously called her Lady Annes'
ley. Four.and twenty.years Of age when his
father married this, his second vile. Philip,
in his Utmost heart. had rebelled at the un'
ion. They all had, at FIRST, but they learned
to like her in time. The girls were married
now, save Mary, who would b. the last.
lit is no joking matter, Philip. What a
nice rose that is in your button.hole /" con-
tinued Lady Anucsley. Where did you get
litr
'oat of Mrs. Leigh's conservatory he rv-
piled. taking it from his coat, "a beautiful
white rcse, beautiful as a camelia--sbc Sc
duced me into i; just now, when was at her
house.
is her daughter better?'
NO. poor girl. And fear
Sir Philip did not say whar he feared. He
was not one 10 speak at home, of his patients.
! Ia the silence that supervencd, a servant ap-
peared.
lady Oliver, sir
Sir Philip nodded; stood moment or two
as if in thought; then prepared to descend,
win you put this up for me-? ho 'aid'
giving the diamond keeper to Lady Anncsley
as he passed her. Twill change it when | 50
out. There, Maria, present for you
lie flung the white rose into Maria's lap.
Size did not touch it. only lot it lie there, her
cheeks again growing hot. Lady Annesley
knitted her brow. But it cleared as her eyes
fell on the ring.
Il never did see a greater beautyH she en-
Enthusiastically exclaimed, as she slipped II sev-
eral times on aud OF her finger. But what
Judge Philip must have been to get it 50
large as this. Who is this coming up?'
/, was Charles Carr. Maria's brother, pop
ularly known in the house as Charley. A
young lieutenant he; gay careless and hand
some. Often in scrapc., always in trouble
deep in debt. in bills in many things that
he ouch. not to be altogether, gentleman
who was believed to be gong to the bad
headlOng, specially by Lady Anncsley. lie
wa. her own nephew, her dead brothers'On
and he came to the house, presumipg upon
his relationship, and upon Maria's residence
iu it, Oitensr than Lady Anneslcy liked a
} great fear was at her hear, that he had grown
too fond OF GeOrgina Livington, or Georsina
had Of him-perhaps both. Her pennies