Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-02-27

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4 favorites. Two alone, Of all the school, felt
] sensations of the most bitter hatred, the most
envious feelings, at the return Of the orphans,
'swhose sad faces and deep mourning alone
1 should have awakened emotions so different.
Aurora and Sylvia Glydon, two purse-proud
Land cearse-grained girls, of seventeen and
nineteen years, who cared for nothing but
money and dress, and who would never have
remained at school so long, but that they be.
/ jlieved it would add to their eclat as heireses
to be accomplished in the lighter and more
snowy branches so they were dashing per-
1 formers on the piano, could thrum little on
tine guitar; had smatte-ing of Latin and
1 French, and could daub little in oils and
water colors. But with all their pretensions
they lacked the far more essential possessions
of delicate and refined sensibility; hearts
t ,feel the woes of their fellows the keen
perception that can discriminate between the
dross and gold in ones character; and tact
which enables its professor to adapt himself
to circumstances, and rise beyond the mere
tricous advantages which wealth alone can
give. Their father, an ignorant but bigoted
man, who had amassed an immense fortune
by speculations which had hitherto proved
fortunate, and their mother, woman after
her husbands heart, had taught them from
their cradles that money, and money alone,
was all that made life desirable; to boast an
acquaintance who was rich and could make
show, was something worthy Of being trum-
ltpeted from Dan TO Beersheba; and when
aevisit was made the family by some one who
happened to be rich, it was somewhat ANU
sing to the uninitiated when Mrs. Glydon, on
being asked who it was with her daug ghters,
would reply Oh that is Miss Brown, or Miss
Smith. Her father is worth fifty thousand
dollars Or, aDon't you know Fanny Wal
lace2 Why she has three plantations all by
herself"
The posscssor was an appendage to the
possession always. No one had any Intrinsic
worth, independent Of the gliding with which
mammon had galvanized lin.
AS I said, it was with feelings Of envy and
haired that the Misses Giydon greeted the
fair and estimable girls, who, by t!feir uniform
good conduct, their native refinement, and
artlcss aud lovablc manners, had endcarcd
them to every one else. It was true. that
there we're Others among their number who
had cn taught 10 love wealth. and to bow
down to the s':rine of the Golden Calf, but
|young and impressiblc, they were not insen
/ tsible TO the charm OF amiability and sweetness
i. 81 Kramer And rhough1thc many fine things
which the we'll filled Golfers of Aaron Glydon
enabled his daughters to possess, charmed the
eyes of those less favored by the blind goddess,
and many batteries aud scryile lawns helped
to feed their vanity, still the refined gold,
Transmitted in the crucible Of intellect by tie
fires engendered by natures the most delicate,
wherein had been fostercd all that was lovely
and beautiful, rejecting the baser, and holding
to the pure and undefled ia short the result
of the good and pious example Of mother,
UNSURPASSED among her fellows in all things
lovely and OF good report, cxempled in her
daughters, cxerted an influence which it was
hard to ignore; and chicanery tie most sub
tls and deceit the most demoniacal, alone
could counteract the charm.
Whilst their orowlng schoolmatcs wei
coined Rosa and Jennie, with loving and sin
cerc welcomes, back to their midst, did the
two unamiablc girls, with sneeriug and cruel
exclamations, cau:c several who were near, to
turn with looks of wonder and disgust toward
them.
The saints have folded their wings in
Paradise again. Wonder who'll pay their
bills, row their hypocritc of mother is
gonc."
81 reckon as Mrs. Merton's health is SO
bad, they will be for setting their cap for the
old man; don't you syll."
What do you suppose they sold to pay
for their bombaz;nc and Grape, Aura?"
The last unfcciing taunt reached the car OF
the older sister, and she remembered that
Aura Glydon had been present when She
bartered Ler mothers ring to the iewellcr in
the town, and she now understood the whis-
per and following laugh which had fell SO
scathingly on her stricken heart as she left
the door on that memorable day. A son of
Col. La Motto, the first dgnitary in the place,
happened to be near the showily dressed and
loud-talkiug young lady, and she remem-
bered also that as she turned nvoluntarily as
the discordant laugh reached her, that the
young mans cheek glowed with an almost
crimson flush as she met his eye. Was it
BECAUSE he Joined in the insult, or that he
resented it?
Now these heartless Misses fell, and to
their hearts core, that the daughters of the
woman who had earned her. own and her
daughters livelihood, were honored and es-
teemed by those who were fur above them
selves in social point of view. That they
were received in society where their own faces
were never seen; that among the learned and
the honored in the land they were deemed
equal for their own intrinsic worth; while
their own boarded gains, though enabling
them to make display, needed that mystic
charm which was essential to their position
among those who valued person forwhat he
was not for what he had.