The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-07-17

| sRespect for you, DIR. John! That is too
cold word. There is no earthly friend whom
/ reverence and value so highly; but not even
| my trust in You could make me love Everitt
Ward
| 'Everitt Wardl What has he to do with us p
Il am sure don't know replied. when
you advised me to marry him, two years ago.
| told you it would be impossible for me to think
OF marrying such perfect tyrant. called him
so, not you-and now this return to the charge
is Ossa on Pelion piled
| you are the most difficult case have teuno
yet to MANAGE the doctor said, subduiug some
strong emotion. you are laboring under
strange hallucination.'
q think the same might be said of you,'
retorted.
Perhaps SO: And it is that which prompts
me to undertake your restoration. Lake cures
like, you know
But persisted /, q will hear nothing of Ev
eritt Ward
you shall not from me- am delegate for
no man. What can you mean, Jennie?'
| That rejected him two years ago. That
still more decidedly resent such interference
now. If could only have got away. How
hateful they all appeared to me p
| Il don't understand yet, Jennie the doctor
said. 'When your father died. and left you
penniess, every one admired the strength OF
mind with which you threw scruples aside, and
set earnestly and resolutely to work. | don't
know which was the strongest feeling with me,
admiration, love or pity; for saw the motive,
dear, and felt how useless your labor would be,
for knew Eb's extravagant habits pretty thor
| Io r.<I nd II NJ FRI
bis own lips that you thought selling out and
| going to live with him, could no longer keep
silent. You know how tried to dissuade you
from it. 1t was then asked you to come and
live by my fireside--to be my cherished darling,
as you had been my hope, my star. remem-
Der was a little exalted-rhapsodic perhaps
but it seems you totally misunderstood me,
and thought was proposing for Everitt Ward
sThen you were ignorant that he had worried
me for year with his suit that Eb had tor
mented me with entreaties and expostulations;
that morning, noon and night, l was subjected
to the same prosecutions, if not in words, in
contemptuous silence. Then you joined with
them, as l thought for when you offered me a
place, at some ones lireside, my thoughts went
! in the accustomed channel
very ambiguous must have been,' said the
doctor, leaning back and drawing long breath.
4 will be explicit for once. Dear Jennie, if
you had then understood me, would your an
swer have been different? Is it different now!'
He dropped the reins, took both my hands,
and looked at me with eyes which would not
be denied.
had prayed for sunlight. Here was heaven
come down to earth again in broad sweep OF
| ~, Ia, md
doors on the hidden secret of my heart. For
since when had 1 not loved Dr. johns He
read the secret, am sure before | gave back
glance for glance, heart answering to heart
! Il love you, Dr. John! always have loved
you! will that do?'
How he answered / shall not tell you. The
interest subsidies when the battle is over, the
victory complete. Besides, there was no room
for heroics. The main street in Merton sud-
denly opened, before us, and we were lost in the
whirl and sweep of other vehicles. One little
explanation attempted.
My property
SIS all swallowed up in Eb's speculation-I
know, dear Don't think about it.
Didn't tell you he was kind and true? We
both came to the conclusion that it would be
better for me to return to my brothers house,
though the doctor, in his Indignation at the sell
fshness, which, not content with absorbing my
property, had made me-if not newer of
wood-a drawer of water, would have had me
proceed Immediately to a elergyman's house,
and be married thence. But he yielded TO my
plea for having all things done decently and in
order. In the evening, the marriage ceremony
was performed in the front parlor, Eb sitting
bolstered up to witness it, and his wife looking
on with what feelings it is impossible to judge
They gave us good wishes and kind hopes for
the future, which were reiterated by the whole
of Merton, when they came to see US, next day,
in our own house.
sAnd now,' said Mrs. DR.. John, rising, you
wished to know how came to marry the doc
tor, and have told my story. You asked too,
if had ever repented the step. You must
look to the doctor himself for answer to that
question. There he comes, through the trees
Ask him.