Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-01-16

The fact of the matter is, don't care q snap
for Minnie Darley bat love your little sis
ter Fanny, thousand times more than can
say. No. stop; don't say ANYTHING yet, and
don't go staring as if you had never read Ro-
meO and Juliet, nor heard Of such u person
Rosaiine but just listen quietly to me. l
email go right home 10 my chambers, and stick
TO the law nigh, and day till I've doubled my
dirty three hundred a year, and then l shall
try my luck with Fanny. I've had two or
three briefs this year, and l know I've got
wits enough ii can only stick 10 if, and l
will. | was thinking the whole matter over
last night. guessed you were right vester-
DAY, SO l sat up and wrote letter to old
Doriey, to ,ell him L was very sorry for his
daughter. nhd all that ; but that Pm blowed if
I'll bave her. | didn't put it exactly Ike
that, Of course, but was firm and civil, and
IA send the letter hrst thing tomorrow morn
llog. | wonder when the post goes? Have
you any stamps, by-tho-by?'
never was go taken aback IN my life, and
had literally a difficulty in catching my
breath. There was vague feeling of relief
with 1t, after al. Mimic might ge, over il,
ana who could tell what might not happen
then? bus the oompiica tIcn tefore Us was
appai ling.
:. Les me see her Letter" Is was at my
feet. picked Il np, tore II open, and looked
ZOE uSr Si5IaluIG, anu TSdc
Dear sir, your obedIent servant,
''SMITH 4 SMIrH."
| L suppose ! opcnsd lny eyes wider, If pos
slb,e, more Clan they were before, ior q
second, Niek had sEatched the paper out of
my hand-. IL Nes L lawyers letter, announc-
lns lie suddsn death o, old Gsnerai Barnard,
soon aiter TIE had executed c will which re
v0ksd L former one, bequeaihinG his money
! 10 Duii0 and enGoW Iwo n0nre;eries and q
convent. and let all his property to Nick,
oii his al tanning the age OF twenty-five.
| 11g. D.r!ey vas execusor and trustee, with
full po~eEs 10 % ae thought best with the
e5iato tai Mex should come into possession.
! y Gozed times, az least. We must have read Is
through. Mex at last broke the siencs.
J-cH, on second Thoughts, shan't send shat
/ Lel,es 10 oid D@rIey.'
! 5s,zed hold oi bis hand, and shook il so
thar his arin wEs etitf for three days after
t-nd !. Was = mercy tlat he Was notsd:shgured
! by having /; permanently ieDgihed.
! have little more 70 tel, and what there
! Is l. De=t teld "a "a lew words.
| Mex !eII us the rex. day bat one. but be
lJie be went he caught +. nay, Icy accident,
he says,) alone On the sa1ebo.
| " IA. happened there | am sure DON'T
know nat L 80 know rhat when met shem
con-.ae back through the chestnuts, fanny
I
Kissed me and Mex paid me double, 1t least,
ior sgih arm.
Both oi them. no doubt, though at 1t very
cruel ot my mother to refuse point blank 10
allow the wedding till Fanny WAS eighteen,
bat perhaps on the whole it was as wei for
N!cA IN the meantime turned twenty five, AT d
was abe 10 accept an invitation - stand AS
! Conservative Candidate ior uedon. W hen
the appointed day, Fanny's birthday, came, |
was ia il orders, md had Tung myself IN as
recsor vi Barnard.
| l Gnl no, i good hand at dsscr bing wei
ding, and am grossly ignorant OF the difference
I between Earlatans aud tuIlss but Emma anu
Editn Grey were two ot our bridesmaids, and
IS Mex aud t4noy were going t. the East,
anu did not waot Chevronlx iJr the honey
moon, Mrs. Grey lent 1t ne.
Iue I.mes Rlust tell the rest.
..On ms lith instant, a. the parish church 4,
Barnard, by The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop
ul tie diocese, Nicholas Barnaid, E.q., NJ. p,
Of Barnard Hal, oouRty Chester, 10 Fanny,
on.y daughter Vi tue lats Rev. Il. Holmes :;
| alsO, al the same time and place, the Rev.
John Hoines, Rector Of BArnai d-cum-Dray-
Jor, 10 Mary, second daughter OF I. DArle; +,
Esq, Of Drayton Lodge.