Litchfield enquirer., 1864-10-13

my intention to settle something on you the day of yodr marriage, and it shall be a house.
 aCharlie will not be able to furnish it. SO we shall have to board for a while, at any rate.'
 "I'l take care of that. I rather think am able to furnish a house as well as my neigh bors. So don't Aatter yourself you'll get of on that score.'
 Just then Charlie entered the room. to whom helmade known his intentions, asking him fl he had any choice.
 ..Iwill leave that to you and Patty he said, looking very much grati6ed; for i. was something which he hardly expected.
 We'll, Patty, what do you say y!'
 Now if Patty had not known her father 80 W ell, she might have thought he was really desirous of ascertaining her wishes in order to gratify them but as it was, she was too wiry to be caught in such 3 trap.
 "IfI must go to housekeeping she said, l do not care much where. Only do not let it be that dall, lonely place on Pleasant street.
 "The very one that is most suitable, as any one with the least particle of sense, would see. It is very convenient, in perfect repair, besides having nice garden attached to it.
 And taking his hat, he invited Charlie to go over and examine it.
 "The very one wanted ' exclaimed Patty gleefully as the door closed after them.
 But there was something in her mothers eyes that instantly sobered her.
 "I know what you are thinking of," she said in low toue "And am half lfashamed, of myself, at acting such deceitful part. But what can do? You know very we'll how everything would be if should speak and act as I feel and that there is no other way to get along with father.
 Mrs. Coldstream could not deny this.
 "I am not blaming you. my dear" she said " But this peculiarity in your father is calcu- lated to cultivate in those living with him a spirit of artfulness and deception, unless the disposition is naturally truthful and sincere, as I trust yours is. hope in your new home you can act yourself, and will not try to be anything else'
 "I know one thing" exclaimed Patty ener- getically, after a long and thoughtful silence, <" hat if thought Charlie would ever manage so, dearly as I love him, I would sooner die than place it in his power to make me so com pletely wretched."
 It was not till Patty stood beside him whom her heart had so freely chosen, to be made his in the presence of God and man, that she dar- ed to shadow forth the blissful and happy emo tions that filled her bosom.
 The change was so sudden and complete that her father noticed it.
 "Ah, sine is making the best oft, as l knew she would,' he said to his wife, in tone of triumph. ''See what 1t is to have frmness and judgement. If she could have her own way. she would have married that contempt ble coxcomb, Fitzpoodle, instead of being the wife Of an honest and sensible man."
 As time passed on, proving the true worth of the heart she had won, but binding it to her own by yet dearer ties, Patty felt that earth did not contain a happier home than her own. Her father. however, took the whole credit to himself declaring that she owed her happiness entirely to him, and often asked her if she dit not remember how bent she was in rejecting Charlie, and throwing herself away upon thu most worthless man in town.
 Patty never attempted to disprove these as- sertions, though she sometimes remarked, witl roguish smile, that she was not the only per son who went by contraries."