Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-31
of welded love is the very sin
Miss Malcomb

of welded love is the very sin
cere wishes of
Miss Malcomb.
/ All mel had | told a false
hood? but I did not say that l
really was not Del Malcomb.
I only told him that he must
imagine l was not; and SO hop
! ed he would.
/ CHAPTER XIV.
ga few short words will tell what
| change has wrought"
| AS soon as practicable Wit
Barksdale came to my cousin
very we'll assured that my mind
was fully made up to become
Mrs. Barksdale, junior; and
that 1 would most willingly re-
| turn with him to Dundee, as
his lawful and welded wife. In
my cousins house, L felt that
| might run the risk of exer-
cising my own Judgment, and
also Of telling him that l much
preferred the fate Of an old
maid; but l most earnestly
begged that he would exculpate
me from all blame in this mat
ter, for 1 really never intended
to trife with his feelings, but
he would hear to no reason
from me, and left in a furious
rage, declaring that his pros
poets were ruined, that although
1 might think nc, very little
word to speak; in this case it
was aheavy load to stand I'M
der.
very we'll knew that Wit
was more mortified than griev-
| ed at the rebuff he had received,
from his excitement; and I was
quite sure he would do no des-
perate act of a suicidal nature
and as he left scarcely giving
me a civil farewell, I could but
exclaim, What a creature is
man I
However, l suppose he found
a balm for his wound, or rather
for his temper, in the form of
a Miss Sudie Pinder. The ma
bob (Lieutenant Donning) has
not yet realized his great ex-
pectations, and in all probabili-
ty never will, from the source
from whence he said it would
come-so he makes his home at
Dundee and gets, (of course)
a handsome support. Mrs.
Barksdale views the world
through a handsome pair of
gold specks, and rocks in her
elegant cushioned chair, but
has learned that wealth is not
the only passport in society,
having been snubbed several
times in pushing herself among
the more refined portion of the
world, and when too late, finds
she can not make amends for
her former conduct, in the eyes
of her neighbors-consequently
she is doomed to a secluded
life, knowing very little of the
Woodland the world not sus-
tanning a very heavy loss.
Annie Leigh, notwithstand-
ing her struggle with the blind
god, at last gave her consent to
be the loving wife of Colonel
Flanders;who trys to make her
life a fairy-landscape, blossom
ing as the rose. And now a
little blue-eyed flower peeps up
laughingly at their side, throw
ing a still purer love over the
happy hearts, of Lawrence and
Annie Flanders.
The Marvins sold out, and
left the State to seek their for
tune in a more prosperous cline
and in all probability Emma
was cured of loving Arthur, and
has married just to her notion
Captain Neal is Benedict in
silken letters, but declares he
can never give up so delightful
a pastime as Irritation with
pretty girl, even at the risk of
there being in the drama a bro
ken heart.
DIR. Lynn has found a bride
Just after his own mind, near
the grand old waters of the Po-
tomac, and now lives in the
light of a promising future, i'll
one of our Virginia cities, loved
by many Tor his noble worth
| and christian zeal-1n his own
quiet way he takes the world as
it comes, going step by step up
the ladder Of fame-but some
day, if he lives, he will reach
the top, and throw out a name,
to live, long after he has gone