The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-29

made up my mind about it. / am en-
gagged to him, and shall all always say
,soy--nnloss he breaks it. Ednu't care 8
bit about fortune. Thought did once
but | have changed all that"
Because this scoundrel has talked
sedition to your
- g He isznot n sceundrel, papa and he
has not talked sedition. / don't know
what seditioncis. = Thought it meant
treason, and Pm sure he is not traitor,
He has made me love him, and SHAH DC ,"
true to him."
Hereupon Sir Marmaduke began al
most to weep. There came hrst mar
smothered oath, aud then SOD, anu 10
walked about the ROOM and straeK tns
table with his fist, and rubbed ms DaIu
head impatiently with his hand. ora,
he said, az thought yon were SO dlnerent
from this! If Ihad believed this oil
Won Won never should have come to Eng
land with Emily"
at is too late for that now papa"
"Your mamma always told me that
Won had such excellent ideas about
marriage" "A. = ...,ls...
$50 ihave,-I think" said she, smil-
ing. 80 ...,,,,a
make u match that would be credit TO
the family" .r. ..
II tried it, papa,-the sort Of match
that you mean. Indeed, was mercen-
sry enough in what believed to be my
views of life. l meant to marry rich
man,-if could, and did not think
much whether should love him or not.
But when the rich man came"
what rich manT
II suppose mamma has told You about
Mr.. GlascOck. A
"Who is Mr.. Glascoeki l have not
heard a word about Mr.. Glascock."
Then Nora was forced to tell her story,
was called upon to tell it with all its
sggravating details. By degrees Sir
Marmaduke learned that this Mr. Glas-
cock, who had desired to be his son-in-
law, was in very truth the heir to the
Peterborough title and estates,-would
have been such son-in.law as almost
to compensate, by the brillianceo of the
connection, for that other unfortunate
alliance. He could hardly control his
agony when he was made to under
stand that this embryo peer had IN
truth been in earnest. do you mean
that he went down after you into Devon
shire 7"
eyes, papa"
"And you refused him then, "a second
time ~
eyes, papa"
"Why,-why,-whyT You say your
self that you liked him,-that you
thought that you would accept him."
when it came to speaking the word
papa, found that / could not pretend
to love him when did not love him. /
did not care for him, land / liked some
body else so much better l just told
him the plain uth,-and so he went
away"
The thought of all that he had lost,
IF all that might so easily have been
MS, for time overwhelmed Sir Marina
luke, and drove the very memory Of
Hugh Stanbury almost out of his head.
lie could understand that girl should
lot marry a man whom she did not like;
)ut he could not understand how any
,irl should not love such sutton as was
dr. Glascoek. And had she accepted
his pearl of men, with her position,
With her manners, and beauty, and APP
such q connection would have
seen as good as an assured marriage for
avery one of Sir Marmaduke' els numerous
daughters. Nora was just the woman to
Iook like a great lady "a lady of high rank,
such lady as could almost command
men to come and throw themselves at
her unmarried sisters feet. Biz Norma
duke had believed in his daughter Nora,
had looked forward to see her do much
for the family; and, when the crash had
come upon the Trevelyan household, had
almost as much of her injured
as he had of the misfortune of
her sister. But now it seemed that more
than all the good things of what he had
dreamed had been proposed TO this I'M
ruly girl, in spite of that great crash
and had been rejected And he saw more
than this,-as he thought. These good
things wonld have been accepted, had
it not been for this rascal of penny-a-
liner, this friend of that other rascal
who had come in tho way of
their family to destroy the happiness of
them all Sir Marmaduke, in speaking
Of Stanbury after this, wonld constantly
call him a penRy-a.liner, thinking that
the contamination of the penny eommu-
nicated itself to all transactions of the
Daily Record.
you have made your bed for your
self, Nora, and you must lie upon it,"
Gust so, papa"
''I mean that, as you have refused Mr..
Glascock's offer, you can never again
hope for such an opening in life"
"Of course cannot. | am not such a
child as to suppose that there are many
Mr.. Glaseocks to GENE and run after
me. And if there were ever so many,
papa, il would be no good. As you say,
have chosen for myself, and ! must
put up with il. When see the carriages
going about in the streets, and remem-
Der how often shall have to go home in
an omnibus, do think about it good
DEAL
"Pm afraid you will think when it is
to late"
at isn't that don't like carriages,
papa. / do like them, and pretty
dresses, and brooches, and men and wo-
men who have nothing to do, and balls,
and the opera; butt love this man, and
that is more TO me than all the rest.
cannot help myself, if it were ever So
Papa, you mustn't be angry with me
Pray, pray, pray do not say that horrid
word again"
This was the eud of the Interview
Sir Marmaduke found that he had moth.
ing further to say. Nora, when she
reached her last prayer TO her father,
to that curse with which he
had threatened her, was herself in tears,
and was leaning on him with her head
against his sho uIder. Of course he did
not say O word which could be under
stood as sanctioning her engagement
with Stanbury. He was as strongly de-
termined as ever that it was his duty to
save her from the perils of such q mar
rage as that. But, nevertheless, he
was so far overcome by her as to be soft
ened in his manners towards her. He
kissed her as he left her, and told her
to so 30 her mother. Then he went
out and thought of it all, and felt as
though Paradise had been opened to his
child and she had refused to enter the
gate.
10 be Continued.