Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-10-27
MISCELLANEOUS
GOLDEN CHAIN.

srs.OF course you think me hard hearted
and selfish, Mr.. Rylston. suppose it is
in thernataral order of things that youth
should look upon age as tyrant, but the
time. MiH come when you will thank me
farnlvssirracaution $ I have--or rfrbaus /
ought So-saS my wife, has married off five
daughters, and so Lucy being the last has
been bit spoiled. If l had fortune to
give her, I'd say tale heTsI but six girls
have been expensive luxuries-i= mysspecu-
lations have not hPeHsVery successful lately:
and the couple of thousand she VIII have
would not be much good s s., s.s..-s,,.. :,
- But Mr. Lansdezl l-.--a 9's, ; s. kepr
50 But my dear boy, T1BouId almost SOON
erssee my little IaleY IN. her coffin than see,
her married to a clerk with hundred and
fil5S ari4ear; sis No do1bt1 sehtamentalists
would cry shame at me for such q speecth.SI :
nv sWife1 and, 1 loved each other dearly
and.we though we were doing a fine thing
w11en We married on exactly your salary ry--s =.
well, she had never done hard work and
had not the physical strength for itAwhat
was the consequence We die. very well by
ourselves, but children came one after an
ogAer ~e.copld not. afford keep a good.
Servant, and 50 what with broken rest at
nights, and continual work and worry in
the day timey IsasN her grow pale and thin
and. broken spirited !; while / was power,
less to prevent it: though Heaven knows
the knowledge cost me many a heartache;
and when at last, after years of hard work,
coultgiYeC her theye comforts. she had been
accustomed to have before her marriage,
they cana too late to bring back Wasted
youth. and, light tednesss ssQuE expert
ence, however, had q happy ending th0ugh'
with spnie the struggle lasts as long as life
itself, and with others the end comes to
find 46vS Cath, and all that is best and
brightest in life, ended too"
"Still, Lucy and 1 are so young" said
the u-TEAE.
long ssa Ssg Ef5t Ssa Ssse5 Ffe a
them Slbgt Z shall never hurry Lucy intD
marrying against hef linafiph, Mywifel
aRdsI Ike syou, and would sooner give our
httl0 girl into YOUR keepine1 than thatROt
can make yoaf foatSfSe, AfE5f AfE5f goodness sake
go and make it. She-~on't be twenty-one
for three years ysti but, mind, you. will
have to trust each other. I'll have no let
ter-wTiting, nor anything of that kind; So
now, goodbye, and don't look so disconso-
late. You know sthe old adage, faint
-sRrfVateIy thinking lovers great bore,
and wondering why in the world his,
daughters seemed so anxious to leave home,
Mr.. LHnsden began collecting his various
belongings, preparatory to paying his daily.
visit to the city; while. George Rylston,S
looking very much as if he had made up
off into the garden in search of Lucy, all
the more disappointed because he and that
young lady had, before his interview with
her father, settled everything so entirely to
their own satisfaction. *, tqsu-- ~
The fact was, George had, few days beS
fore, received a letter from an old uncle I'M
India-a letter that had placed him ON the
pinnacle of happiness; and he and Lucy,
reading it over, with their heads very close
together, could not close their mental eyes
to the Yision.of alf sorts of good fortune
Certainly; It was not very affectionate;
but then, it is too hot in India for senti-
ment, although Mr. Landsen was obstinate
enough to see nothing very promising IN
the following: -
= ;, a DEAR NEPHEW 1 have thought sew;
eral ~ times since my sisters DEATH
essHunnph that's six years, muttered Mr.
Landsen,J Hthat, perhaps, I could do soIne-
thing better for you out here than you VIII
ever do at.home, So, if you like, you can
ceme; but you had better make haste
shsetIit, for these confounded doctors say
may go off any day Yours,
"FREDERICK HEDGES.
"P: saMind you pay your bills before
So George had given up up his situation,
the elerkShip of which Mr.. Landsen had
spoken so s1ightingly, and before starting
for Indis BE fogPd 81 ting to tell the old, Old
heeonfesseds listened to, it with far more
patience than her father displayed, and so,
terribly crestfallen, George went back to
the summer house, where he had left buoy,
and vary moodily seated, himself beside
her s=s.--. -. .-,s ., $50
$50 all that's at an end" he said.
What is ?" asked Lucy.
why, our engagement, and my happi-
mess"