Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1865-02-24

the hickory grove, where we used tt
throw nuts at the shy squirrels. On
George, | wish that I had never left the
old home! l wish was the little gir
that papa and you used to pet"
1t was not strange that the heart ol
George Humphreys was melted within
him, for it was a heart young, and brave
and slanly it was not strange that, as
he listened to the sob5ed-out words Of his
only sister, he did not consider, that a
youth of such fondness and Indulgence as
that she pictured, would not be likely tc
disci pline her ardent, impulsive nature
for the encyitablc trials OF life, or nourish
the best possibilities of her character
lie forget, as he looked on the fair, tear.
tul face of his sister, that she had been
petulant and exacting, and with all her
loving impulses, that she was irritable
and unreasonable if ever so lightly cross
cd. George Humphreys only thought
with burning Indignation, of the man who
had taken to wife his beautiful sister, and
broken her heart, with unkindness and
harshness, and his whole soul stirred with
fierce anger toward the husband and pity
tor the wife, as he lifted Mary from the
chair, and seated her on the lounge, and
slipping his arm around her, said "Therc
don't She'd another tear, darling you
shall not live with this villain any longer
Come back to me; I'll take tender care
Of you, as l did in the days before you
were married. Wen 60 back and live
in the old homestead, and 10 human be.
ing shall dare to find fault with you SO
long as you've cot brother to shelter
and defend you"
And Mary Grover put her soft armies
around her brothers neck, and tianked
him. through her so5s. And it was settl.
ed then and there betwixt the brother aSd
sister that Mary should accompany
George when he left the city, as bushes;
compelled him to 10 the next night. Mrs
Grover did not expect her husband homo
until the late evening train, and she and
her bgether would he several hours on
their Journey before he returned to his
home aud learned AL he had lost, And
a flash Of triumph went over the young
wife 1T The thought, for she knew tha,
her husband would be utterly disalayed
when he cams to understand the decisive
sep TO which his cruelty had driv IL her
Il haze scenes - exclaimed Geor.a
Humphreys, as he rose TO 60, for the
night wa growing fast, and he had prom
| scd to meet a friend at the st. Nicholas
so ii is lucky we shall avoid one, as the
fellow happens to be absent. But
haven't done with R4Gert Grover yct,and
one day he shall answer to me for his
brutality to my sister,"
Mary caught her brothers arm with a
cry Of terror. The thought OF Il M ,etiny
between the tso mcn, knowing as she did
the fly spirit Of both, when cXasp speratcd,
i..ol her with dread, and she lancied her
self haunted for life wilh Il fear that her
husband OF her brother light fall by the
haHl OF the other.
George" said Mary Grover, with
white lips, "promise me solemnly Y that you
will never seek an interview with my
husband 50 long as you live. Promise
me this OF | can never leave his home for
yours"
Why, Mary, it is my dnty-"
Sac checked him shudlcrins.
mo, George; | forcsee what the con.
sequences would be, only TOO well. Prom
Use, for my sake and my peace"
"Well, then, l promise, for | want you
to be at rest, Mary. But it's hard for
mc to shut up my mouth in this way
This time it was closed with fond kisses
and SO George Humphreys went his way.
1t is useless to lingcr on the causes
which had developed such unhappiness in
the life Of Robert aud Mary Grover
Both were greatly in the wrong, and each
had something to plead in exteauation o
his and her faults. Each hal had (;
spoiled childhood, an inlulgel youth
each was cxacting, and unconsciously ans
habitually selfish and on the other s;d'
each was generous, warm-hcarted, will
nost attractive and loveable qualities o
character. Marriage had been keer
disappointment to both, for Robert and
Mary Grover had been the most arden
Ok Iorefs,and the young husband wife ans
were appalled, at ths lr,t disclosure o
HUMAN fraiities in the other.
A little selG-slcriicc, yiel ling 70 eact
others wishes AMI tastes in the small de
tails of every day life, and the exercise
OF COOL common sense, might have rene
died I'll these things. Bat alas per
sisteut se,f-sacriice in little things wa!
something to which neither the young
merchant 0s his wife was accustomed
and their hearts were wropg! 1t is th(
old story. Things went from bad tc
worse. Each grew soured and indiifere"
of incc,sant flult-inding. Of petty re
crimnatiJn, and rotost developed itself
and the married lie, which had commen
ced three years before. under the sweet
auspiccs of youth and hope and love, was
become both sorrow ana bitterness, and
neither cooIl see the remedy for the grea,
wrong which lay in his cr her soul.
The road between New York and
Philadelphia had been partially blocked
up by a recent heavy fall Of SHOW, and
the ride was slow and tedious one fol
all the travellers ON the train that day.
Robert Grover soon exhausted the
morning paper, which seemed particu'
larly sterile one, anl then he looked out
of the window awhile, as the cars toilcd
along but he only saw the dead ooens
of winter drawn over the face of the
aarth and as he sat there with nOthiup