The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-25

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his mother at school, when she was little
delicate child land you were the eldest par
lor boarder; she forgot it, and told
Steenie never toforget it either. Itwasxery
kind of you, Miss Clementina. )"
Miss Clementina got very red, and the
permanent flush which afflicted her aquilln!e' e
Hautainn nose, turned ike a.danger signal
greatlyto the amusement: Of the Angel, gel,
whose behaviour was SO little angelic on
that Christmas Eve of 1856. Poor girl
Little as the reader will be inclined to pity
her, she underwent fiery ordeal when she
consented as she did. consent that night, to
become the aAianoed wife Of Reginald, the
heir of the Hautains. .s.=.
This was how it.fell ont. After dinner
the two brothers entered the drawing-room
at the same moment, and both approached
the sofa on which Miss Temple was seated,
apparently lost in the contemplation Of her
bouquet Of hot-house flowers, which had
been left at the rectory that morning by
Reginald himself.-a great stretch Of polite
ness on his part, who would have thought
twice before undertaking the exertion OF SO
much as wagging his little finger in the ser
vice Of the best friend he possessed. lntrud-
ing his ungainly form between Captain
Hautain and the object Of his alteration, he
placed himself, with something Of the as
sumption of ownership, at her side, and re-
marked coarsely to his brother, whose coun-
tenance lowered at this cavalier treatment
at the hands of his rival
"Theres the old girl you airted with at
dinner winking at you, Steenie, so you had
better 20 and firt with her again. You're
Just one too many here, I can tell you; isn't
he, Angel Z"
The young lady so addressed neither
spoke nor moved muscle of her counte-
nance; she seemed as though she were turn
ed to stone, and her beauty, always statues.
que, became almost terrible in its outward
calmness Mr. Hautain, however, whose
voice was thick, and whose ideas, uncon-
nected as they often were after dinner,
which was to him the one object in life,
stood in little awe Of Angel in her new
mood. She was to him nothing more than
udeuced pretty girl,n quite ready to jump
down his throat, and to whom ne meant to
throw the handkerchief that night, having
nrimed himself. for the occasion with two Or
three more glasses than usual Of Lord Hau-
tain's old port"
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