The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-10

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If I wished to forgive him, how should
beginH Would he be gracious if ]
went to himi Does he love me, do Won
hate met Uncle Barty IS a
good hster. 1t is the best point about
him. No, Brooke, we won't try the farce
of reconciliation after long life OF
enmity. Nobody would believe us, and
we should not believe each other.
Then certainly would net try"
II do not mean to do so. The truth
is, Brooke, you shall have it all when
I'm gone, If you don't turn against me
You won't take to writing for penny
newspapers,-will you, Brookep Al
she asked the question, she put one o.
her hands softly on his shoulder.
II certainly Sha'n't offend in that
way"
"And you went be Radical :"
mo, not a Radical"
"I mean a man to follow Beales and
Bright, a republican, putter down OF
the church, hater of the throne. You
won't take up that line,-will you
Brookef"
at isn't my way at present, Aunt
Stanbury. But man shouldn't prom
ise."
"Ah me! 1t makes me sad when
think what the country is coming to
Pm told there are scores of members OF
Parliament who don't pronounce their
his. When / was young, a member o,
Parliament used to be gentleman;iand
they've taken to ordaining all manner
of people. 1t used to be the case that
when you met clergyman you met a
gentleman. By the by, Brooke, what
do you think of Mr.. Gibsoni
"Mr. Gibson! To tell the truth.
haven't thought much about him yet"
"But you must think about him. Per
haps you hayn't thought about my
niece, Dolly Stanbury."
IL think she's an uncommonly nice
girl"
"She's not to be nice for you, young
man she's to be married to Mr. Glib
SON."
"Are they engagedp
"Well, no; but l intend that they
shall be. You won't begrudge that
should give my little savings to one o.
my own namep
"You don't know me, Aunt Stanbury
if you think that / should begrudg'
anything that you might do with you
money!
dolly has been here month or two
l think it's three months since she came
and do like her. She's soft and wo
manly, and hasn't taken up those vile
filthy habits which almost all the girl
have adopted. Have yen seen thos'
Trenches with the things they have Oh
their headsp
81 was speaking to them yesterday"
"Nasty sluts! You can see the grease
on their foreheads when they try tt
make their hair go back in the dirt!
French fashion. Dolly is not like that
is she n
"She is not in the least like either Q
the Miss Trenches"
"And now l want her to become Mrs
Gibson. He is quite taken"
sis hep
80 dear, yes. Didn't you see him the
other night at dinner and afterwards
Of course he knows that can give bel
a little bit of money, which always
goes for something, Brooke. And l d.
think it would be such nice thing fol
Dolly"
.'And what does Dolly think about
itw
There's the difficulty. She likes hin
well enough; Pm sure of that. And she
has no stuck-up ideas about herself
She isn't one of those who think that
almost nothingis good enough for them
But"
"She has an objection"
81 don't know what it is. sometimes
think she is 30 bashful and modest she
doesn't like to talk of being married
even to an old woman like me-"
"Dear me! That's not the way of the
AGES it, Aunt Stanburyf"
"It's coming to that, Brooke, that the
girls will ask the men soon. Yes,-and
that they won't take a refusal either.
do believe that Camilla French did asI
Mr.. Gibson"
"And what did Mr.. Gibson sayf"
"Ah, can't tell you that. He know
too well what he's about to take her
He's to come here on Friday at eleven
and you must be out of the way. | shall
be out of the way too. BntifDolly say
q word to you before that, mind yol
make her understand that she ought t
accept Gibson"
"She's too good for him, according Il
my thinking"
"Don't YOU be fool. How can any
young woman be too good for gentle
man and Clergyman Mr.. Gibson is q
gentleman. Do you know-only you
must not mention this-that l have q
kind of idea we could get Nuncombe
Putney for him. My father had the
living, and my brother; and l should
like it to 60 on in the family"
No opportunity came in the way o.
Brooke Burgess to say anything in favor
of Mr.. Gibson to Dorothy Stanbury
There did come to be very quickly sort
of intimacy between her and her aunt:
favorite: but she was one not prone Il
talk about her own affairs. And as to
such an affair as this-a question as t
whether she should not give herself IL
marriage to her suitOr,-she, who could
not speak of it even to her own sister
without q blush, who felt confused
aud almost COMPOUNDED when receiving
her aunt's admonitions and instigation'
on the subject, would not have endured
to hear Brooke Burgess speak on the
matter. Dorothy did feel that a person
easier to know than Brooke never came
in her way. She had already said as
much to him as she had spoken to Mr.
Gibson i'll the three months that she had
made his acquaintance. They had talk
ed about Exeter, and about Mrs. Mac
Hugh, and the cathedral, and Tenny.
sons poems, and the London theatres
and Uncle Barty, and the family quar-
rel. They had become quite confiden'
tial with each other on some matters
But on this iheavy subject of Mr.. Glib
son and his proposal ofmarriage not &
word had been said. When Brooke once
mentioned Mr.. Gibson on the Thursday
morning, Dorothy within a minute hat
taken an opportunity of escaping from
the room,
L.,