Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-30
NUMBER 2.zgr, a

went on n lower 9toTuas. a.Ja6lI fse) 6eend
an ass The fact of hematter Is, don't
care a snap for Minnie barley, Jabut I love
your little sister, Fanny. a thousand times
more than can say. No, stop, don't say
anything vet, ana don't 70 etaFing gas " you
had neverRead Romeo and 0lietQnor heard
of such person as ROsaliBe : but just lis
ten quietly to me. 4 shall gos right home
to nv chambers, and stick 70 the law night
and day till I've doubled my dirty three
hundred year, and ,theh I shall try my
luck with Fanny. 'fI'Ve had two or three
briefs this year, and know Iive got wits
enough If Ican only stick toit, and IWill.rs
l was thinking the whole matter over last
night. guessed you were right yesterday,
so sat up and wrote aletter to old barley
to tell him was very sorry for 4iis daukflLf
ter and all THAT, butthat I'm blowed If I'll
have her didn't put 1t exactly like that.
of course, but was firm and civiR and IN W"
send the eletterfrstthing tomorrow morn-T
ing. / wonder whenthe post goes? Have 4,
you got any Stamps, by-the-byw
! never was so taken aback in my life,
and had literally difficulty in catching. blg
my breath. There was vague feeling OF
il, and who could tell what might pot hap7 no:
pen then? but the complications before Us
ILet me see her letter. ItI wasa at my q
feet. 1 q picked it up, tore it open, and
looked for her signature, and read, 10,
l.. "Dear sir, Your obedieht servant ~ "
Dc aa.gry uy''SMITH, g. ISMITH".
I suppose / opened my eyes wider. IL
possible. more than they were before, for, In 10
second, Nick had snatched the paper out
of my hands. 1t was lawyers'letter, an
nouncing the sudden death of old General D.
Barnard, soon after he had executed will 20
which revoked former one bequeathingO
his money to build and endoY two moDas- f,
teries and convent and left all his prop
erty to Nick on his attaining the ageiof iai
Twenty-Five gdi ..rrfl d, dil an -,0
MIR, Early was executor aud trustee, with
full powers to do as he thought best with 'N
the estates till Nick should come into pos
session.. A dozen times, at least, we must
have read it through. Nick at last broke
the silence. "Jack, on second thoughts 1 y
shant send that letter to old Darley.p . suol
seized hold Of his hand, and shook itso .,
that his arp was stlif for three days afSer,
and it was mercy that he was not dlsfg- 10
ured by having it permanently lengthenedsy Z
/ have got much more TO tell. and what,
there is Is best told in q few words,
Nick left us the next day butone, but be-" "i
fore he went he caught Fanny (by accident,
he says) alone on the gazebo, r m ~
! What happened there, am sure don't
know; but do know that when met them
coming Ddch through Ule CueSIuuIS, rhuuyf j..
ran and threw herarms F0uRdmYneck and 30,
kissed me, and Nick paid medonble at least
tor his stiff arm. Va '.' 10 IE'Hf"f ,4a'3 y
Both of them, no doubt, thought 1t verYlEi
cruel of my mother to refuse point blank NJ
to allow the wedding till Fanny, was eight
cen but perhaps on the whole 1t was as
well, for Nick in the meantime turned 7
twenty-five, and was able to,accept an in- ,,1
vitation to stand as Conservative candidate
! for Heldon When the appointed day,
Fanny's birthday, came, was in full orders, 20
and had rung myself in as rector of Barr
| nard
/ am not good hand at describing a'9a
wedding, and am grossly Ignorant of the 70
difference between tarlatans and tulles; but1o
Emma and Edith Grey were two Of our
bridesmaids, and as Nick and FANNY were
going to the East, and did not want OheV-js
roniX for the honeymoon, Ms GFeyileatit
me. 49,.
The Times must tell the rest:
"On tho lIth instant, at the par sb church, Bar
/ nard, BY the Right Rev. the Lsrd Bishop Of the
diocese, Nicholas Barnard, Esq, NJ. F., OF Barnard
Hall county Chester 10 Fanny, only daughter OF the
| late Rev. X. Holmes also. ut the same time ana
| place. the Rov. John Holmes, Rector Of Barnerd-
cum DraYtln, to Mary, second daughter Of " Dari %
| ley, Esq, Of Drayton Lodge" 'N '1''N'' -"