The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-10-03

friends hitherto unknown to himself
ready to lend him assistance and counsel
saying they had been for years acouaint-
ed with his stout hearted endeayors.
How it could be he was unable to divine.
but he thanked heaven, and then made
good use of their kind suggestions.
Soon an advantageous partnership was
offered by an elderly gentleman, in a laFse
and wealthy village, and from this time
forth he was man.
During all these years our poor student
had enjoyed only speaking acquaintance
with the widow D. and her pretty Eliz
abeth: but he soon discovered chat his
newly formed business relation was likely
to bring him often into the society Of
that profoundly respected family, mas
much as his partner proved a near and
valuable relative. OF course, Manning
was enchanted, for now his bashfulness
was somewhat worn off. and-weil to be
brief, things took their own course at
which none who ever knew Elizabeth d.
would at all wonder, and-one young at
torney began to be haunted with aspira-
tons of nature quite different from
those which had melted and stimulated
his literary career.
And still more singular to relate, the
improvideDt puppy, with the full knowl-
edge and consent Of the good widow and
her charming daughter, did actually con
sumo and squander the very first hundred
dollars his profession yielded him, in do
ing the honors of a nuptial occasion with
the sweet young lady A contamination
of bliss which he could scarcely believe
awaited him, till all was over, when he
called her his lawful welded wife !"
Father stopped a moment and looked
at us as we listened with breathless inter
est to his story, only afraid of its termi
mating too quickly, but we thought his
eyes We're little moist just at this mo-
ment, for he went on in voice somewhat
lowered:
1t was not till long after this event
that he became aware how much the
mode and tense of one tritiing act of his
boyhood had to do with this enyiable
destiny, for
At this moment, the library door be-
ing ajar, mother hastily entered the room
saying with an odd expression of counte
nance:
Husband, husband, what in the world
are you talking to the girls about. this
morning? | overheard IA few remarks
come girls, 1t is time to go to school; start
OF this moment, or you will be too late. -
Il was only explaining their grammar
replied father, laughing and putting to
his hips the hand which she was about to
adjust to his cushions.
We looked at them and then at one
another, and the truth seemed to flash
simultaneously upon us
Twas mother. twas mother" we
exclaimed all at once, aud rushing upon
her We clasped her in our arms and
overwhelmed her with a perfect torrent
of kisses; whilst. father, forgetting the
risk of his toes for the moment, laughed
till the tears ran down his checks, and
mother chided, and blushed, ard laugh
ed, alternately.
We needed no other confirmation that
father had been letting out family secrets;
and after a scene Of tumultuous merri-
ment. such as that library never witness
ed, to our knowledge before or since, we
obeyed mothers reiterated Injunction,
and started off for school, with glorious
opinion of mode and tense