The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-07-24

save his daughter. I, u tft5esls tt.4
.sAnd who,Y said he. SIS this Cave
"a millionaire, Y replied the ladv.
ssWhat then--he is a stranger to
us!o bSa ~t
( .'All persons are strangers to us till
we get acquainted with them .
"And do you think Bette is going
to love perfect strangerp'' =
"Bettie knows her own heart"
"Would she feel disposed to marry
him if he were minus fortune2"
"Of course she wouldn't-sho isn't
quite fool" ~
$50, then, she is going to marry
MIR. Cayenaugh's fortune?"
'tDo you think she is going to sa-
crifice all her beauty, wit and grace
for mere pauper, as I did?"
Perhaps you had less of those
estimable qualities than your daugh-
ter has?" Gi'7 j.
"I had enough for you, and more
too; and fool that L was for marrying
as 1 did, for I might have been a
queen now, if I had married Colonel
Green, for he is millionaire!''
eyes, but he might not have been
if he had married you'll"
81 have not spent your property,
for you never had any to spend!'
81 didn't marry for money"
"And you married happily, didn't
you?"
"I didn't say there were no tartars
except among the rich
esAnI no for, o,t1,o,.
"Weu, my dear, L think we ought
to advise our daughter never to mar
ry any one whom she does not love-"
81 think we ought not to advise
her any such thing. We have suffer
ed enough from poverty, and l have
no idea that she shall ever suffer so. )"
"But there are other sources of
suffering besides poverty. Splendid
palaces never take the place Of truo
love-"
"You speak from experience, 10
you?"
'I wish that 1 could; still, I trust
that it is not my fault cannot"
"Oh, yes; you are very free from
faults; but there is one that you will
never be FREQ from-poverty!"
Providence has controlled my
destiny"
"Yesl you never have controlled it
yourself, and you never srall, nor
your daughters, eitherr'
Mr. Haughton thought it was best
to say no moro, for he knew that his
wife would overrule him any way,
and that the less he said about it the
better. 1t was n settled point that
his daughter was to marry the TO-
reigner, because he was rich.
Cavenaugh knew, too, that he
couldn't marry her unless he made
the greatest preparations for that
purpose. The house which he must
live III after his marriage must be the
best in town-a palace, indeed, in
comparison with the rest of the
houses-mnst be the most costly; his
equipage.of every kind beyond com
parison with that of every other citi-
zen. But he was to marry thc belle
of the town and of tho ton! The
beautiful, the witty, the greatly ad-
mired Bette! And who would then
be so happy as he? Who SO much
envied, who SO much congratulated?
No one. hitherto, could get Bette;
no one, but himself, had any hope of
getting her now. And what would
not his general acquaintance say?
What would not his kindred and his
friends say? So beautiful bride
so lntelligent-sO very graccful-so
accomplished-so refined!
Oh, happiness he often cried,
To me for many years denied,
Your fields Elysian soon I'll rove;
Your sweetest valley, hill and grove.
But Bette and her mother must
first come out n little more. Itwould
never do for Bette to be married till
she had seen more Of the world
more Of fashionable ife-more gen
tility, possibly-certainly had formed
some new acQuaintances. Could she
go into n palace and not first have
seen some of the continental won
ders of nature? And then her own
husbands kindred might ask her
something about these mighty mar
vels; and certainly she would feel like
q fool not to be able to answer SO
small question! Of course, the
mother was the one to suggest to Mr..
Caver augh the idea of tour, and
ne, of course, too, was as ready to
consent to going rs she and her
daughter. He would have limited
that the nuptial knot might MS we'll
be tied before going, but he fancied
this might be construed into want of
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