Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-05-09
M iseellan T..
BRADBURY's VISITOR.

A LEGEND UF 81. NALEN LINN bai' g.. ri
"NIarried, indeed Married p And,
lust to impress on his own mind the enor-
nifty Of the thing, he said it again, Mar
ried (! Well, what next?'' s' a.t.' l"..
The speaker was Mr., Benjamin Brad
bury, the eminent building contractor;
and the above obversation was made by
Mr.. Bradbury, when comfortably seated
before his writing desk, in his private
sanctum. at about twelve o'clock on the
evening Of the 18th of February in the
v.,;-i m ;>ot quite sure about the year,
but you'll lc kind euvqs,s. = :" notice par :
ticnlarly that it was the thirteenth g.,
February-Mr Bradbury had been look
ing over his private accounts, and calcu-
lating how many thousands the last ~
months had added to his fortune. The
result was fully satisfactory hut he was
evidently not at his ease. The fact is,
Mr.. Bradbury had that morning received
a PROPOSAL for the hand of his only daugh-'
ter, the child of his first wife, and, to make
the matter worse from rascal without
penny. (Not that Frank Wilson was ras-
cal, or pennless in reality; on the con
trarv, he was an honorable young fellow,
with small but increasing income; but
Mr.. Bradbury had large ideas, and that
was his way of putting it.) .. .
He could hardly believe his own cars
/ when the Young man made his audaclons
proposal Young Wilson fellow with a
S paltrv four huhdied year, had sat IN
/ that very room, and proposed himself as a
husband for Mr., Bradburys only clllld'
r who would after his death, come into q
. fortune Of more than hundred thousand
pounds and had moreover assured HIN
t, thut the Young lady herself was just at
anxious for the union--indeed, that they
t. had long loved each other dearly AIR
Of Bradbury. being . millionaire, with
n constant eve to the main chance, dIsap
: proved of love matches on principle, ant
il. Of course had said, Certainly not, a IL
r the sternest possible manner and dismiss
ne ed the unhappy suitor ia much discourage
t. ment Neyertheless, be could not get tn
p ?, audacious proposition out Of his head, )
= now, having closed his ledger ana no
O. feeling disposed to 90 to bed, Mr. Brad
ce bnrv determined that he would put hi
W. desk to rights This was a work he ha
at always been intending to do 'to.morro'
IN evening" for the last twenty years oC
=, IS somehow he had never done 50, and
n n was in state Of rare confusion, Letter
be and memoranda, old and new, lntersperse
ID. with odds and euds of all kinds, were hut
Il. died together without order or arrangemet
,e, Ry way Of making beginning Bradbur
rs nnlled out one corner Of a bundle OF oi
- letters. and united a faded green riboo
with which they were bound ana as
d q IA 60 with the one subject still uppe
" most in his mind, he made the, exclam
de tion above mentioned. 1t was not a. a.
lso Jrossed to any one, seeing that there wi
nobody there and therefore Mr. bra
"a at hurry naturally felt surprised when vol
:, ION replied ..g n.t,,..,o Loor,a;n,1
ION ION and why not ?" E'l19 20 a...
- At the same moment there vas tiutt
OK, among the old letters in Bradbury nan
Iar- and from an envelope somewhat lalg
ms thap the rest, emerged lady OF most s, ~
in ding appearance. She was decidedly sil :.
!. minutive beingof only six inches e, S'a'u m
zee zee but of admirable symmetry one Nvi' WI,
nG3 garment of gossamsrtexture' the skaros ,lIo,
71a which. distended in tho most approx
sed ballet fashion, were looped up WITT ~
alls hearts. connected with true-lovers KIN
rris- in white satin ribbon and her wrea'h :: J!
stoa Of similar material. This angelic pei pei
son , tripptd lightly from the open envelope p
,ps, for Mr. Braabury's table; and there ,s ai.e
,~, coduettish dance round, seated herslt ',.'l
ohm. the closed lid of q big inkstand, ana !, !.
this ranaed the folds Of her drapery WIN i
: s-a inine exactness.
son, on my "why shouldn't they be married.
0'1 1Bradbuty's fret feeling after hG ,e !,
- 80 o,ce recovered from the shock q hiS !
D. 81 Of Of tor's unexpected appearance, wac was 1e g.
amt lest Mrs. B-(who was person s',o,,., =.
itSTi sTI ID propricty and fine flow oil lans'''