Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-10-11

her seat and standing calmly before a grill
who knelt beside her, her head buried 10
the cushions of the sofa, these are my last
words: l will never consent to this MAR
rage; would rather zee you dead in your
coffin, for this marriage would be life Of
torture, entailing misery on yourself first;
but of course in your present state of iu-
fetustion you Look upon such misery with
the spirit of heroic self-sRcrifce, so | saw
nothing about yourself; but this marriage
would eE tail wretchedness on ycur husband
and to yOur children poverty, suffering 10
infancy, ignorance and humiliation es they
grow up, all evils that lead to vice and
crime, for which your folly would be reg
porsible.' .... E-r.r - -.
i would obey you, murmnted Z len.
from the depths of her grief for / can
but die; But Harry, Harry, be could not
survive our separation; he has Only me -
love; am all the world to him; for his
sake, mother, | cannot renOunce this mar
risge; no, it would bs base, il would be
unWOmsnly.' f.. f's
Very WELL said Mrs Benson, do what
you think right as a woman, since such
you consider yourself Will do what
deem my duty as mother. | here de-
clare to you, E len. that by every means
in my pnwe: | Will Illustrate your laBE,
saving you from Ultimate ruin, but that |
will also prevent your seeing Henry again,
and in order TO save you from the tattle If
the world, which you have By your i'm
prudence taken INFO y0nr cou6deuce,
will break up cur once happy home and
take you. if necessary, to the end Of the
earth, rather. than yield to yu6r wicked
inlatuatiop .,.-------.-s-s $50 = = s
Ellen fell back with deeper grosn, and
her mother was scarcely out of the room
| before she had began planning in what
way she could convey note to Harry, and
! debating with herself whether it would not
/ DO wiser u run out of the house, get mar
ried u Harry, and thus place an insupera-
DE barrier to the tyranny finer mother.
Ellen was a romantic girl; but after q Il
she had lived eighteen years in the world,
| and as with great dignity she rose from
the sofa and gathered W her long, dis
bevelIed Lair, the world money the mod
| ern open sesame' in all plans, whether of
love, war, or cGmmei ce, just glanced
! through her mind. Harry was a clerk up
on two hundred dollars a year, depending,
for what this salary would not give him,
| on an aunt. who was not rich and had sew
eral children. Ellen herself was not rich,
| though her father ccntriVed to msinta in
his family in position of responsibility,
and she possessed that especial moment the
sum of fifteen dollars and sixtV-three cent?.
Ellen paused; she thought it would, per-
haps, be advisable to consult Harry be-
fore she ran away, aud stole to her room
there to write enc of those letters that are
the great attractions in love affair to girls
with an education they kown not what to
do with.
Meantime NJ. Benson had spoken to
Harry. Harry, who was AnxiOusly wait-
ing the arrival IF his twentieth year and
a moustsehe, answered Mr.. Benson in q
very cavalier manner. -aa
II know am poor be said, 4 know I
have neither family or connection to help
me in this world, bus oil our great men in
this country are self>made men. Every
thing Is open to those who choose to aspire
to II. | see nothing to prevent nv being
one day even President of the United
States m
Nor L. said Mr.. Benson, unless, per-
hsps, a want Of talent to know how to set
about it
Mrs. Benson meantime watched Ellen;
she knew perfectly well that Ellen's sixty
cents had been given to girl who brought
home a dress to post note to Harry; but
Mrs. Benson let it go-there could come
no answer. for by the owl train Mrs. Ben
son and Ellen were on their way to Ma
CARA.
Ellen was sulky at first, then she assum
ed the resignation of: despair, but both
which, yielding neither to gentleness nor
the affection OF her mother, were fork often
in her curiosity as she neared Niagara,
sinking into insiguifoance as she beheId
| its wonders.
oh, mother7' exclaimed Ellen, how
| poor are our feelings and our plans by
by these great ethereal waterVP
WE'LL said Mrs. Benson, eschewing the
sentimental purposely, you said you
would die rather than renounce Harry
here is good oppOrtunity-s spicide by
throwing yourself over Niagara would
make you both famous fOrsVer9 '.''--
Mother ?
We'll, Ellen, suppose ycu try
'Motherl' s'H
Il do nos want to lose you, but suppose
you try Harry's ,cOpstsucy and yours by
letting the world believe You we're killed
here ~ - - s'7
The idea struck Ellen as very rom antic.
How Harry would weep for heri how he
would gaze at the heavens and fancy she
was there Yes she could, dead, be bis
guardian spirit, and then the joy-for of
course, after time, they would come 10
life again. Eth. motherf
We are going TO Europe, Ellen. Mea-
sure our determination to prevent this
marriage By the sacrifices we make. We
are going to Europe without returning
home; Harry cannot follow you here; the
Philadelpbia papers shall announce your
death. Ellen, you are separated from him
for three years
'OnIy three years, mother, tben-
Than i will oonBepk,'