Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-10

do write very soon to your naughty
sister KITTY.''
I'm the next three or four letters
g there is hardly enough mention of Mr..
Bruce for me to write them all out.
He seems to be growing more and more
agreeable, in spite of his evident de-
termination to the contrary; and as
for Miss Kitty, her letters show very
plainly what her feelings were toward
him and here is the last of the letters
which Miss Margaret Tennant brought,
which explains the whole matter, to
the great satisfaction of all concerned:7
. Maggyy my cross young sister i
declare, I'm muddled, as the chamber
maid used to say, at school. have
fallen into q chronic state OF laughter; !;
I'm dying to tell Alice, and have sent
for her, but she has callers, and I will
commence this very minute to tell you.
Tt is the middle of the morning, bnt /
am just up I was up very late last
night; and o, we had such fun. Just
to think how poor Mr. Bruce and I
have puzzled our brains about each
other! It is all out now, and Pm so
greatly y relieved. never knew how
much ] cared about it, till now. I did
MT stop to date my letter, but to-day is
Thursday; and Monday morning, as
! you already know, Aunt Kate came
| home, to my great delight, thought was
| broken-hear6ed to leave Alice's, where
/ I have had such a charming time. I'M
. e
and aunty doesn't think she will have
/ to go back, and says must finish my
/ visit. But cannot stop to write about
/ that came back here in the afternoon,
and. Tuesday morning, who should
/ appear but Uncle Rob, from Savannah
/ two weeks before we expected him,
! That night, when he came home to
1 dinner, he said, with great glee: Kate,
I saw young Bruce down town to-day,
whom met in London and liked so
/ -. r L.
I with us tomorrow. He is a capital
young fellow, and Pm glad we have
/ this young niece to help US entertain
/ him. Have you never met him, Kitty?
| Pm not going to ask any one else, so
can have him all to myself. I want to
ask him about my friends in London
and he tells me he has some letters and
messages for me, with which he called
at my Office, probably just after I went
South So he ratified on,-you know
how fast he talks,-and presently Aunt |
Kate introduced some other subject. |
and wasn't obliged to tell the state of
affairs between us. I supposed, of
course, Mr.. Bruce would treat me in a
proper and becoming manner in nv
uncle's house, and I thought-Which |
thought proved true-that he might |
not know was uncle's niece. and that |
it might help the matter little. o, it |
is too funny, Meg how you will |
laugh About dinner-time, Mr.. Bruce
came in with Uncle Rob, and he looked |
so astonished to see me there, and be- |
fore Uncle Rob had time to get any far |
ther IN the introduction than sMr. |
Bruce he said, 80, yes, I have met |
Miss Tenant very often. Is Miss |
Thornton with your Uncle said i: |
Kitty, why haven't you told me p |
Mr.. Bruce looked more surprised when !
uncle called me. Kitty, and after that |
he got more and more involved, as he |
saw me whisper to aunty, and take |
some work from little cabinet, and |
act as if I belonged here. explained /
to Uncle Rob that he had talked so |
fast the night before that he didn't give |
me time to say I knew Mr.. Bruce. We |
didn't wait long for dinner, and the /
way it was all explained was by my /
saying: Uncle Rob, if you please, I'll |
have some peppers Mr.. Bruce started, |
and really was pale. He looked at me |
and at Uncle Rob and aunty, I never |
face. VIII you allow me to ask what |
may seem very impertinent ques- |
tion p said he; ARE you Mr.. Hunters /
niece, Miss Tenant 2 No, i answer
ed, but Pm Mrs. Hunters o. said |
he, sI'm inexpressfbly relieved, ,-and |
yet 4 m sure it was you; I cannot have |
been mistaken. There never could be |
another person so exactly like you, and |
remember your face perfectly Here
he blushed furiouslv, and-I regret to |
tion to have to ask Mrs. Robert Hun |
ter's niece, and beg you not to be Of /
Tended with me; but was it you or 1
your wrath who waited upon the table /
at a house where dined, just year
ago, in Boston? I haven't the faintest /
idea what the name was. 1t was a gen
tleman to whom had letters from my /
father, who had some business with /
him. He was exceedingly kind to me,
and his house was charming and he /
ha eFTa q Trntfyy TiAfTo
Hear that, Meg land I have remem-
bered the table-girI ever since. 1t can
not have been you, for I have heard |
you say you were always away at
school except in the summer and yet
I am so sure of your face, and figure,
only you have lost a strong brogue You
had then. Not you, of course, but the
person saw. I have been so foolishIy
sure about it, and supposed some one /
at the time, here he blushed again.
and had educated You where you met
Miss Thornton, and that you had vast
deal of tact, and were deluding her /
and her friends. / have treated you
dreadfully, and Miss Alice, too; and
only the other night I had the most /
supreme contempt for you, because you
were apparently so innocent concern
ing young women being raised above |
their station, and all that sort of thing.
Tt would come oyer me once in a while /
that YOU could not be carving this all |
out, and I didn't believe in my previous /
ideas at all; and yet the face is the |
same. am as much in the dark as /
ever said the poor man, solemn1y.
All this time I was pinching my /
fingers under the table to keep from /
laughing but when he stopped, look
ing to me for solution of all his trou
bles, with that ridicu1ously perplexed |
face, and saw Uncle Rob's and Aunt |
Kitty's faces, it mould come, and I fair !
" shrieked, and rushed from the table /
into the library, and threw myself in /
to an easy-chair; and / truly never
laughed so in my life. I believe had /
Mysteries at last, and they came in in /
dismay. Don't you know what it was, /
Margaret? Don't you remember the 4
/ day, last Easter vacation, when Bridget Il
had gone down to Salem with her sis
ter, and papa had four strange gentle |
men to dine with him, and put on /
one of Bridget's aprons and waited on /
the table? I think it was idiotic in me /
not to have recognized Mr.. Bruce be- |
fore. Only think how much it would /
have saved US. He was the handsome i
young Englishman who went to the /
drawing-room with you and mamma,
instead of the library, and then went /
away early. You remember all about |
him now, don't you? I went back to |
the dining-room, and teld the whole
story from beginning to end, and If we /
didn't enjoy ourselves over it Poor
/ Uncle Rob made himself sick with the /
extent of his laughter, and Mr.. Bruce
and are the best of friends. Did you /
ever know anything funnier to happen /
at Mrs. Walkintwo's ? If you did, do |
write me. How shall enjoy telling
papa and mamma There's Alice /
coming. Good by, my dear"
my Aunt Mary, after telling me the |
i burden of the letters I have transcribed |
/ for you, finished the story in Miss Mar |
l garet's words:-J f3
t1Knowing,'' said Miss Margaret, |
/ s'that Kitty has been Mrs. Bruce for |
nearly twenty years, you can imagine /
amends for his fudehess, and after
while ID came to their having long
/ drives and walks and talks together. |
| Uncle Rob was delighted; and when it
/ was time for her to come home, Mr.. |
Bruce wisely concluded TO sail for Bos-