The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-15
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"Three weeks, Mr.. Gibsonp
"0r month. Perhaps we had better
say the 29th of April" Mr.. Gibson
had by this time thrown off every
fear that he might have entertained o.
the mother, and could speak to her Of
such an unwarrantable change of plans
with tolerable equanimity.
but l don't know that that W i'll salt
Camilla at all"
"She can name any other day che
pleasss, OF eouTse,-that is in May
"But why is this to BET"
There are things about money, Mrs
French, which cannot arrange sooner
And lind that unfortunately must GO
up to London" Though many other
questions were asked, nothing further
was got out Of Mr.. Gibson on that &C.
casion; and he left the house with per-
feet understanding on his own part
and on that of Mrs. French,-that the
marriage was postponed till some day
still TO be fixed, but which could not
and should not be before the 18TH OF
April. Mrs. French asked him why ne
did not come up and see Camilla. ne
replied-false man that be was-tbat ne
had hoped to have seen her this morn
inc. and that he would come again before
the week was over.
Then il was that Camilla spoke her
mind out plainly. IL shall go 10 ms
Ibouss at once" she said, land ma out
ali about il. / don't understand It'll
don't understand it at all; and l won't
mt ND with it. He shall know who he
has to deal with, if he plays upon me.
Mamma, wonder you let him out OF the
house, till YOU bad made him come back
tc the old day."
f'What could do, my dear ~
"What could you dol Shake HIM out
of it,-as would have done. But he
didn't dare to tell me,-because he IS
coward"
Camilla in all this showed her spirit;
but she allowed her anger to hurry her
away into an indiscretion. Arabeiia
was present, and Camilla should have
repressed her rage.
81 don't think he's at ALA coward"
said Arabells.
"That's my business. l suppose I'm
entitled to know what he is better than
yos."
IAN the same. don't think Mr.. Gibson
is at all coward" said Arabella, again
pleading the cause of the man whe had
misused her.
Now, Arabella, won't take any in
reference from you; mind that. l say
it was cowardly, and he should have
come to me. It's my concern, and lshaii
go to him. I'm not going to be stopped
by any shilly-shally nonsense, when my
future responsibility, perhaps, is at
stake. All Exeter knows that the mar
riage is to take place on the 3lst of this
month"
On the next day Camilla absolutely
did go to Mr.. Gibson's house at an early
hour, at nine, when, as she thought, he
would surely be at breakfast. Bat he
had flown. He had left Exeter that
morning by an early train, and his
servant thought that he bad gone to-
London. On the next morning Camilla
got note from him, written III LondoE.
IL affected to be very CHEEKY and at1ec-
tionate, beginning dearest Cammy,"
and abiding to the postponement OF his
wedding as though it were thing sol
fixed as to require no further question.
Camilla answered this letter, still in
wrath, complaining, protesting, expos
tulating,-th in his teeth the TACT
that the day had been fixed by him: and
not by her. And she added postscript
in the following momentous words: III
you have any respect for tho name of
your future wife, you will fall back upon
your first arrangement" To this she
got simply line of an answer, deClar- |
ing that this falling back was impossl-
BILE, an then nothing was heard of him
for ten days. He had gone from Tues
day to Saturday week; and the first that
Camilla saw of him was his presence in
! the reading desk when he ebanted the
cathedral service as priest-vicar on the
Sunday.
At this time Arabella was very i'll,
and was confined to her bed. Mr.. Martin
declared that her system had become
! low from over-anXiety,-that she was
nervous, weak, aud liable to Mysteries,
that her feelings were, in fact, too
many for her. This was, of course, not
said openly, at the tOwn-CrOss OF Exeter;
| but such was the opinion which Mr..
Martin gave in confidence 10 the mother.
Fiddle de dee ~ said Camilla, when she
was told of feelings, susceptibilitles,
and Mysteries. At the present moment
! she had claim 70 the undivided interest
of the family, and she believed that her
sisters illness was feigned in order to
defraud her of her rights. "My dear,
she is ill.," said Mrs. French. Then lei
her have a dose of salts, said the stern
Camilla This was on the Sunday after
noon. Camilla had endeavOred to see
| Mr. Gibson as he came out of the cathe-
dral, but had failed. Mr.. Gibson had
been detained within the building,-no
doubt by duties connected with the
choral services. On that evening he got
a note from Camilla, and quite early on
the Monday morning he came up to
! Heavitree.
"You will find her in the drawing
ROOM" said Mrs. French, as she opened
the hall-door for him. There was smile
on her face as she spoke, but it was a
forced smile. Mr.. Gibson did not smile
at all.
"Is it all right with her :" he asked.
"Well, you had better goto her. You
see, Mr.. Gibson, young ladies, when
they are going to be married, think that
they ought to have their own way a
little, Just for the last time, you know
He took no notice of the joke, but went
with slow steps up to the drawing room,
Ii would be inQuiring too curiously to
ask whether Camilla, when she en-
braced him, discerned that he had fOrti-
fed his courage that morning with a
glass of curacao.
what does all this mean, Thomas e.
was the first question that Camilla asked
when the embrace was over.
"All what mean, dear =
"This untoward delayi Thomas, You
have almost broken my heart. You have
been away, and have not heard from
you"
81 wrote twice, Camilla"
"Aud what sort of lettersf If theTeis
anything the matter, Thomas, you had
better tell me at once" She paused, bnt
Thomas held his tongue. 81 don't sup
pose you want to kill me-
God forbid" said Thomas.
but you will. What must everybody
think Of ma in tho city Nrhan fhav find