The mountain Democrat., 1864-03-19

not pennilesS. OF course, | wish oil Ro-
sle's money TO be settled on herself 1t
must 20 hard with me indeed before ever
touch fprthiDg Of il. NO--I have what
will start US capitally and once in Aus
ktralia-wO wesn 70 20 there
go 10 Australia with you, Jack? Ro-
samOOd In the Bush, among sheep and
eatdOi-hOrned cattlei o, dearl' cried
Miss BeauchaWp, springing up with q
peal Of laughter, in which the general
Joined.
We'll, yes, Harriet answered Jack
even the horned cattle, Joined to all my
other misfortunes, haven't the power to
scare poor Rosie out of her love for me
God bless hcrl
% Jack1 you dear, unconscious old
{b'n0derborer returned his cousin, still in
pealS Of laughter, was not Horace right?
See what blessingit is to have mislor-
tuneP
'Eh whatr said Jack, looking in be-
wildered manner about him. Uncle, do
be good enough to explain what there is
to laugh at
well, not so much, after all, Jack, my
dear fellow. For really, though all the
good has resulted that Harriet was so Ger.
tain would come to PASS, l confess that
am little ashamed Of the deception we
have practiced on you. But, Jack, you
must forgive me; 1t was really SO painful
to me to act the angry and unpleasant old
uncle
And very badly you did it, III be
bound, said Miss Beauchamp. Il wonder
that Jack was taken in for an instant
Then am to understand Harriet has
been presumptuously arrogatlng to her.
self the duties of Providence, and provid-
ing me with misfortunes p said Jack, on.
ly half pleased. ~--.
We'll, you know you would not con.
sent to have one quietly !; and you see all
the good that has come of it, you migrate
ful jack
'True-good has come; have my lit.
tie Rosamond's love, which neither good
nor i'll fortune caR now take from me
But, Harriet, it might have been very
different; don't be tempted by success to
act as deputy-providence any more, my
dear; there is troublesome risk in the
matter, Jack said gravely.
Quite right, my dear boy said the
general.
Right, Jack, echoed Miss Beauchrmp:
and to speak seriously, my plot cost me
so much fear and anxiety that have no
inclination to meddle any more in such
matters. Suppose, now, you and Rosa
mond take into your heads to lead a cat.
and dog existence-ah me what respon-
sibility have incurred. 0 Jack, be a
model husband, if you love me-
And don't ever mention Australia in
my hearing, if you don't wish to put me
to shame, said the general. Jack, give
my word shall never be able to endure
the Bush, indeed as if could ever bear
Rosamond, or you either, Jack, to be any
where but at Mannerdaile I
And what will Rosamond say, I won
der, when she hears how completely we
have both been dancing to Miss Beau
champs piping?' said Jack, who could
not, in spite Of oil, get over a certain sore
ness on the subject of his justification.
'Ah, Jack, if know Rosamond, she
VIII PuS P'iNo !" ueI pOShetS anu tHuuh
me for giving her you.'
And Miss Beauchamp was not far
wrong.
ROsamond opened wide her eyes when
Harriet made confession of her ruse but
none Of Jacks rather indignant sense of
having been played with entered her
mind she was too happy to care much
how that happiness was brought about;
too happy, almost, to be quite as glad as,
for jacks sake, she ought to have bren
that the generals anger with his nephew
had only been simulated to serve Jacks
cause. Jack and she were to belong to
one another forever and ever that was
Rosie's only clear thought, and as long as
that fact remained, Australia and sheep,
farming, or Mannerdaie and its luxuries,
ere all one to Rosie.
So ended Rosamonds first trouble-her
first, not her last, though Rosie says hum
bly, and thankfully, her greatest.
Il cried out and fretted over the 'Crum-
pied Rose-leaf' in my lot, and God sent
me real trouble, to teach me humility
and gratitude