Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-11-26

These journeys, will soon cease to be SO
Important" he answered. SIT is actually
necessary just now that should look sharp
| ly after all the irons have in the fire. Be-
sides, you shouldn't call anything shocking
that is turning out so splendidly."
Then he talked knowingly of shares and
Of stock, and filled her ears with difficult
problems, to whose ready solution she listen
cd with such pleased attention that he was
satisfied. To whatever he could have cho-
son to tell her she would have listened with
equal attention. And il was always so.
Since the day when he, her fathers clerk,
surprised him by his daring and success in
speculations, and turned his steady thought
full gaze upon her, she had been under some
enchantment concerning her He was her
hero-anything was possible with him.
Hosea commanded his wifes admiration
mainly by the retcence which excited SO
much her Imagination. All that he revealed
of himself was so fair, what might not be
dreamed of the possibilities in the undis
covered depths of his nature ? She did not
understand she had never understood him !;
| and she loved him now az she had loved
him in the enthusiasm of youth. The fire.
quent and sometimes long absences which
his business required were filled up with
memories ofhis wishes and plans, his words
and his acts. She attributed so much to
him that he neither assumed, nor knew how
to assume, that it would have been difficult
for others, had they been SO disposed, to re-
gard him with less than perfect respect.
Any man beloved as he was by his wife
must, of course, be worthy of the love.
When they left the piazza together for the
drawing-room, il would have been difficult
to tell which of the two, man or wife, felt
the greater pride in the other.
Hosea Bently had the esteem Of the best
business men in the countryside verdicts Of
his judgment has an unequaled value in the
market. His wife reflected that this power
had been gained by his ability; he had made
his own way, and her praise was his best
reward. To have won her love, to be the
honored parent of girl like Clara, had been
his great, his ineyprcssibe sa,isfaction-the
crown, the seal of success. Other rewards
which he won in the world he priced, but
these were the most beautiful, the most pre-
cious. They had glorlfied his life until this
evil hour. fposc-suppose it were posi-
BILE that in the eyes of these women, Clara
the wife and Clara the child, he should be
dishonored. And what right had he to ex-
pect anything except dislonor! The long
hours of night did not instruct him.
He was 10 leave Beech Grove at an early
hour, and, always an early riscr he had
gone over the grounds before breakfast, and
was WANING III thc Saiueh huSH hO saw
Clara there with two or three of her guests
He called her to him.
Il am going away in an early train, h.
he said "What shall do for your little
friend Julia, as you call her, before go?
Isn't there something you would like to have
done for her?'
His child, his dear, sweet daughter, looked
up in his face more delighted even than she
was surprised.
''Oh, papa, 50 many things she said
''We must begin moderately, though, ' he
answered but il you cannot at once
think Of anything you would like to buy,
here is little sum. Put it in your purse,
and use your own Judgment how you shall
spend it. When l come back shall inquire
Into your stewardship. Of course you will
not want to talk about it. Somehow or
other, it would be certain to come to her
ears if you did,"
''Oh thank you, papa!'
VERY well, 1 am never SO happy as when
my whole life was The day when 1 saw your
MOTHER for all this has followed. Remem-
ber that, Clara Now go to your company.
If you think Julia would not like costly
present, why make study Of the case, and
and bring all the powers of your mind to
bear upon it, for it is a curious business, this
of making presents"
Tic "litlle sum- which Mr.. Bently had
given his daughter that she might bestow on
Julia some evidence of her love was five
hundred-dollar bank-note. He would very
gladly have made it five thousand, had he
not feared to provoke surprise, which might
provoke suspicion.
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