Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-10-29

rich wife Dissolute men are very fond |
of falling back upon this latter plan for |
retrieving their broken fortunes, hut !
women are not quite so foolish as satirists
make out, and do not always fall in with
these prudent little arrangements, Mr..
Johnstone, however, was more fortunate
the royal resemblance which had been his
.bane, now proved his remedy and, coupled
with an insinuation that perhaps there
faigs.t be natural reason for it, proved too
much for the loyal heart of drysalter's
widow, who vas not, as scandal report
ed, quite double her second husbands
age, and whose temper was therefore nat
ufally soured BY the persistencys with
which people whom they met on their
wedding tour would mistake them Tor
mother and son. After his marriage Mr.
Johnstone happily refrained from assimila-
ting his domestic arrangements TO those
of his royal prototype, but the ruling pas
sion broke out when he came to build a
home for himself on o small estate belong
ing to his wife near the mouth of the
! Thames, and resulted in the model of the
Pavilion alluded to; n style of architec-
ture which suited Mrs. Johnstune also
well enough, as, in addition to the assOeia
tons, more than half the rooms in the
building could be used for nothing but the
coction OF which articles was the delight
of her life.
She managed to preserve herself -
whether with sugar or vinegar, decline
to state-fbr fifteen years after marriage,
and then she turned to mould, leaving her
husband in a position to set up a grocery,
had he been so minded. He was not
neither did he relapse into the sowing of
wild oats, perhaps because his morals had
improved, but also because it was doubtful
whether the soil would stand second
crop. He visited London only occasional
ly, and then his flag was pulled down.
Hoisting and lowering that flag was his
morning and evening amusement. On
royal birthdays and coronation days he
fired twenty-one small cannon, going from
one to another with red-hot poker, which
was quite Il sight Otherwise he vegetat-
ed, and differed from turnip principally
in being occasionally bored, and enter
tanning vague wishes that some eligible
woman would look him up and marry
him. But the years passed away; George
the Fourth became the prey of worms
and satirists; a generation sprang up
which knew little of that model gentle
man, and had the bad taste to dislike that
little. Mr.. JohnStone could not now have
gone about with ten yards of table-cloth
round his neck, and coat buttons between
his shoulder blades, without causing the
very sheep to baa at him. He modified his
apparel, therefore; but his heart clung to
the old times, and Rugged the old resem-
blance; so he still had his wig made up in
the exact imitation of the ex-dandy's hair,
still adopted his favorite attitudes, still
took scented snuff. With his elder
and only brother he had not, of
late years, been on good terms
He owed him no grudge for having
been born first; he forgave him for selling
the small landed estate which had been in
the family for respectable number of
years; but when he disgraced the name,
by succession of petty tricks and con-
trivances for raising few pounds, and
especially when he tried to make mich
COW of him, he quarreled with him. His
enmity dissolved, however, in the news of
his death by drowning while crossing over
to Jersey, and he hurried to London at
once, and brought Annie to his Chinese
home, with dispatch and secresy. az am
glad to adopt you, my dear, he said, "but
l do not want to adopt all your creditors
1t had been struggle to Mr.. Johnstone
to break up the ordinary routine of his
existence by establishing his niece as mis-
tress of what had now for years been a
to do the right thing, and he was reward
ed for his conquest of habit and Incidence
by being released from the thrall of his
housekeeper, tyrannical, stupid, pilfer-
ing, tiplingN dame, to whom he had not
dared to mention his intentions with re-
llspect to Annie, which, indeed, had from
the circumstances of the case been neces-
sarily conceived and executed very sud
denly, and upon whom this niece of her
masters (term of courtesy burst therefore
like a thunderbolt from clear sky. AS
Annie was very young and quiet in man.
ner, Mrs. Gobble hoped at first, indeed, to
overawe her. but soon finding that she
had met her match, her emotions became
too much for her, and, combined perhaps
with an injudicious amount of nourish'
ment, brought her gout to such climax
that she could not even play at doing heI
work, and had to retire.. a..
hAnnie's socIety had one curious effect
upon her uncle it resuscitated all his
hankerlngs after second marriage. Fol
if he was to have lady at the head of his
house, why, he reasoned with himself
should it not be a wife? So filtration
which had been budding between Mr.
JohnstOne and Miss Pumptree, of South
end, for the last three years, began e
throw out decided shoots. 1t was not sc
very absurd. Mr.. JohnstOne was a little
over sixty, and Miss Plumptree was little
over forty. Both were comfortably off
and had calm and sober leanings towarC
matrimony. Miss Plumptree was not only
forty, but fair and fat--just such igur,
as the monarch of Mr.. Johnstone's sou
would have admired and this fact tendeC
tgreatly 70 feed the mature flame. TheI
, there was increased intimacy, for whereas
hoh ho1 hnr cin llxy
his niece came to live with him, he nov
saw her almost daily, fervent friendship
having sprung up between her an(
Annie.
|. They were sitting together now in
willow pattern summer house, on tn,
brink of a small pond, TIE lair of dragon
who was supposed to spout, but who fol
lowed the example of many gentlemen
who are elected into certain House for
similar purpose, and didn't. 1t was in tn
strawberry season, and fine dish of tn
fruit stood on the table between them
with which, needle-Work, and confdentia
Chat, they were beguiing the morning no
unpleasantly. VIII tHE
80 And 50 you have never heard of hin
since?" said Miss Plumptree.
"Never," replied Annie"
"Just like all the men, dear; Out @
sight out of mind"
"Nay, do not blame him, poor fellow
do not see how he could have found m
out, If he tried ever 50 hard, loft so sud
denly, so mysteriously."
40, we'll" sighed Miss Plumptree, 81
he had been his great-grandfather h
would have discovered you somehow bu
young men are not what they were the.
, are so selfish, so listless, everything is to
much trouble to them. And you neVe
limited ANYTHING about IT TO your uncle Z
not IN. hi1S sad Annie besides esdS ne doS
! plainly if You waht him to dnderstan
1 your wishes" .
Hum" said Miss Plumptree
5 And then,"f eontinued Annie, . b
was SO young, and not in position I
: marry for ever so long and the aequ6ini
q | nnceahin was so Rholf; and his irieIll