The Portland daily press., 1867-11-30

lady at San Francisco, and thus was out OF
the way and out of the question. -,
But behold all this time there was p ssn ~
! ing to the Hamiltons another bro.nG., = hao,
tie oue" the Youngest, Frederic. ne nu -,
IN invalid in his earlier years" a,,,tad ont
somethipg--and so was rainier ooou t'o., IT,
- s,iiI t5are he was; and one day wnen Isa-
~ n,hbIathorne was out i'll the rock pas
po l i,aIfvov between her fathers and Mr..
,nui,;Iton,s houses, picking blackberr1es, sud
,Lsnlv she looked up and he stood before her
'nst as though he had been brier all along,
| md she was the princess VINO lurheu MN IN
| 10 a man at her touch.
"Why Frederic Hamilton, / thought you
we're in Labradorw said she, without so much
| as Winking.
$50 was" replied Frederic.
'How well you loo'lp' said Isabel, next.
"My mother used TO think so,' answered
Frederic. .d
And then the ball began to roll.
Frederic Hamilton was little wiser III I ,ii1
generation than his elder brothers. ne tna
not begin his suit so early, but ne peis'e'eo
in il longer. Like Mary's iaho'
L. an g,Eyerywhere that Isabel went =
~ Frederic was sure TO CO..
and everv time Isabel happened to look at
Freleric She caught him hastily turning his
ewes away from her. So surely that present.
" she felt impeiled by magnetism or by curl
osity to look again at him, always finding his
eyes just leaving hers, quickly and conscious
ly. So she could not keep him OFT OF her
mind altogether, though he never seemed to
intrude himself into it. Always meeting
her at every social gathering there was nat
urally now and then a time when Isabel had
1 no. especial attendant, and on such occasions
Frederic walked home with her in an infor-
mad, matter-of-course way. He also lent hel
books, and sent her flowers enough to cover
the Babes in the Woods half mile Deep
a So, little by little, as constant dropping
wears away stone, Isabels hard heart had
become honey-combed through and through
when one day, blackberries being ripe once
more, Isabel and Frederic met again in the
rock pasture. st.. /
First, like Maud Muller and the Judge
they ttq
sSpoke of the grass and flowers and trees,
; OF the singing birds and humming bees"
And then of a sudden Frederic's eyes put oil
the tender, grave expression Isabel though
SO becoming to them, and he said, 81 am glad
, Bell, you refused TO marry my brothers."
"Why?" asked Bel, beginning to picl
leaves instead of berries, while a peon,
sprang into full bloom on each cheek, AMI
her eyes fell as suddenly as though they Wen
nails and Frederc's were hammers.
Because l want you myself" replied Fred
erick, as assured as though cue was enough
to make any bargain. For minute Their
was no sound under the blue sky but crow
voice crying ia! la! lap and the meas
ured beating eft fail in somebody's barr
like the throbbing of great heart; ther
Isabel without looking up, said, making
deep sigh, Of l mast marry one of yol
Hamitons, why I suppose / must and
would rather it were you than any othe
one"
So, as true as you are sitting in that chair
there was wedding at the Hnhbylthorne.
at last, with grandeur and style enough tt
satisfy Mrs. Fascett, and with Silence Dunn
mic to cut the cake.
"To be sure! And there they are, Isabe
and Frederick, settled, after all her ups ant
downs and allhis wanderings, over to Holden
which is right at, home as you may say, il
as. pretty house as you could ask to see; al
lifted up as handy as work-box without an,
within, and with a burying ground joinin,
right on to the home ioto said Mrs Fasceti