The Evansville journal., 1866-08-30

wish me to obey you, you must not
shirk the point. If you wish me to
sell myself to Reginald Hautain, for
the prospect of a coronet and ten
thousand a year, you must say SO
in so many words, | am not of
age-it is not my own doing.
You must say, distinctly, Angel,
it is my wish, that, without entertain !
ing a spark of affection for him, and
loving another man from the depths
of your soul, that you marry Reginald
Hautain for the sake of the rank and
sthe wealththat will one Gday be his
Why should we not all say exactly
what we mean? / have said my say,
but nothing will alter my determine
ton. The choice remains with you,
mother" (The. last word was said
with a dash Of that bitterness which
Byron has thrown into it, when on
the lips of the deformed boy. II was
born 50, ,notheFf') bThe crooked and
distorted body, or the crooked and
distorted mind, should be the last in
firmities with which a. mother should
reproach her child; and, in Angels
case, the stress she laid upon the
word seemed to say, Y aIf I am base,.
Lit is to mothers influence that that
baseness is to be attributed; let her
be the last to condemn" BUS
+ Angel said Mrs Temple, looking
her daughter straight in the face as
she Spoke the words, syou lave
placed ltherYsppnsibility on my shout
ders in this matter, and | have noiob-
lection to take it, I lay my com
mands upon you to accept Reginald
Hautin's offer. if he proposes to you
tonight, or at any SUBSEQUENT time;
and in saying So. | know that | am
echping your papa's wishes. He has,
spoken to, me on this subject more
than once, ~ ..sftgeQ \AQic ,o,,,o
Very we'll" ~ 10 b5' b.
EHsThis was all that Angel Temple
said5d Her mind, Of course, had. beon.
madeu before, to reject the, man who
loved her, as she herself had affirmed
as his own soul, and to take forhher,
husband one against whose coarse and
Fbft1tal nature her own reVolted, mere
ly because he IWas an elder son, and
heir to the lharony Of Hautain
Angel was naturally ambitious, land
she had been brought up by al
worldly mother, but that l% very well y
ILcostnher the Canguisheo of heart too
noble to reconcile itself at,onee to the
disgraeeful role assigned to it to play
/ have said that, her mind had been
distorted by the faults Of her educaL-@,
ition, and shellhad -cajoledsherself into
the miserable belief that,sh had now
placed her future conduct, with re-
regard both to Stephen, and Reginald,
on the score Of duty to her parents
and to herself miserable sophistryl
that had mot. balm enough to heal the
slightest wound among the many that
| followed upon those simple. words.
Poor iAngelE least angelic, when you
sacrificed yourself From the naltar that
was not the altar of dutyaand bound
yourself with cords to- the horns of the
shrine of Mammon-despicable in the
sight of God, and Of yourself, in all
saving your beauty, you were little of
an angel thenst et fnss9rr 9W
1t was on Christmas Eve, that the
Temples were about to- Join the large
party Of guests assembled to keep
Christmas at the Old Court.g The
two brothers who have been mention
ed above, Reginald and Stephen Hau--
TAIN. were the nephews of the old
lord, and the elder of the two was
heir to the baFonyand the estates of
Hautain. He was rough. and uncouth,
a. man of about thirty-fye years of
age, selfish, and egotis tic. beyond the
usual limits of selfshness and egotism
common to elder sons and heirs to
ancient titles and estates. He had
fallen (for him) desperately in love
with Angel Temple on the. occasion
of his meeting her, for. the first time
since she had sprung into womanhood,
at the Old Court q on the Christmas
preceding the one of which I write;
and the acquaintance had been re-
newed when he came down for part
ridge shooting to the same place in
September Stephen, or sfSteenie. "
as he was called by his aunt, Lady
Hautain, of whom be was prime
favorite, was very different charac-
ter, and 1t was he who Angel Temple
affirmed to her mother loved her with
his whole soul and strength The ac-
quaintance between these two was
not the acquaintance of day, and the
attachment, which existed on both
sides, had grown with their growth on
and strengthened with their strength,
for they had known and loved each
other as boy and girl he was in a /
cavalry regiment, his commission
having been bought, at his own re-
quest, by the modest patrimony left
him by his father; Reginald and
Stephen were orphaned fof both
parents, enough .being reserved to 4
purchase his captainey, negotiation
which had just been effected, and he
had come down to the E Old Court"
that Christmas for the first time as
Captain Hautain-a penniless captain. 4
for his last shilling had been swafl