The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-05-27

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CHAPTER xxx.
MR.. TwINzY's, SETTLEMENT IN LIFE,
AND GENERAL BENEvoLENoE.
In the fourth year Of Judge Ken
don's absence = morning paper annouue.
ed the marriage Of Edward T~in.y and
Miss Malissa Murphy. Margaret was
surprised, for Malissa was the nurse at
Mrs .Walters. She had several times
met her in that capacity, and without
any appearance Of improvement in
mine, person or fortune. The mystery
va. explained BY, Wiudermers. Nails
- had brother, burly boatman on q
lake. boat, who had learned that his
sister ought to have had /. husband.
She told. him Mr.. Twinzy was tho per-
ron who should have assumed that po-
sition and entrapping the elegant Ed
ward into the presence Of q magistrate
IN company with tho fr.il girl, the
brother gave him the choice of instant
marriage Or = ball through his head.
He. chose the former add became set-
lied in life. Margaret had occasional
y encountered him, but no recvgni-
ton passed: He seduously kept up the
idea that her unrequited affection fos
himself kept. her single. Indeed he
had so long dvelt on the thought and
taken SO much pains to impress the be.
lief on others, that it is doubtful II he
had not himself come to believe it.
Soon after his becoming a abenedict, he
aud Voondcrstaun were sauntering on
the bank Of the lske opposite the house
which had long been her home, Is she
entered, and clasping his hands, he
bent his head to one side, looked pro-
pfiesy, sighed profoundly, and remark.
ed: =, !: So:
-"After all, Dick, I pity tho poor lit
tie thing. She looks paler since my
marriage. I might have done worse
than: take her. Yes, I might have
done worse. I pride myself, however,
that as a gentleman never exposed
her. You see she is quite respectable,
quite !" AID Mr.. T~in.y leisurely drew
his left hand out over the palm Of bis
right again and again, as he congntu-
lated himself on bis generosity 10 per-
hitting the little thing 10 be respects.
ble., ~: =
81 81 pose she's respectable" said
Dick. 'You know I never had nauth-
iog to say agin her any way; but this
lawyerip's 4 queer kind o work for .
respectable woman" As . sequel 70
ibis profound remark, Dick removed
his hat from his wise heed, looked care
fully: into. it - if in search of some
idea which might have escaped from
his overstocked brain, smoothed the
lining and :replacd his head gear.
The fifth year Of Judge Kcndon', ;,
absence waa drawing to. = close, and
Margaret had gone tor 4 summer vaea.
lion to Kate Sullivan's. In those
woods IN which she had counted that
Mrs: Howard should find healing, she
~pent The greater part Of her days lis.
tening tothe voices Of tho living crea-
lures which find their homes in the
forest, to the whispering Of the tree
tops and murmur Of little rivulet,
yet hearing nothing 80 plainly as that
one voice which filed al the chambers
of her soul, a. the tones Of = great or
.an gil the utmost space Of cathedral
at times, even to the poiut Of sh,tter.
'ug. the walls. One afternoon a. she
at on the root Of an oak leaning
| against its trunk, she became conscious
1f 4 change in the atmosphere, the
light, the sounds which encvmpassed
aer; and ALERT. listening she heard az
ppro.ching feotstep, and hs stood b.
FIRE her. Until that moment she had
thought him in Europe; but despite I
chaogsin him, she needed none to tel
her it was he. Raising her clasped
hands and eyes to his face, she sat- il
mute surprise and ECSTASY. With /,
confidence and freedom very unlike BIZ
,er mer ssolf. the took hand in each o
bis, at down at her feet and said;
! .'Thn welcome is worth waiting for
l You, At least, never dieappoiot me
i How: did / know in tho far of Ian,
j ,b,t YOU we're waiting for mel But
knew Il, tnewth.t your heart Vas On
.wering to tho love which claims
you,s'is = blrthrieht. The poor ten
pe.tstesssd dove jhas Town 10 its srl
Put 6at the hand Of welcome and TAX
It in.soAt llst my tiredhe,rt 6ods il
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