The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-03-12
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FORTUNES OF JULIET CLAYBURN.


FORTUNES OF JULIET CLAYBURN.
'Ihave thought of all that" was the
mournful reply; a'but even if it were
true, it seems to me. If he were much
concerned and desired any information,
there would be nothing easier than to
write to you or Rudolph. But the fact
is, he is, ashamed to do so--ashamed to
return to America, where he would be
apt to, see me or those related to me-
this is convincing enough that my sur
mise is correct. He has broken my
heart, aunt, but I love, oh! love him
stilll" tt,..
tMy poor wounded bird" said her
aunt, wiping away tenderly Juliet's flow
ing tears Would you be willing, Ju-
liet, for your father or myself to write to
Karl and demand q full explanation?
We--we-that is, there is such right,
il we choose to exercise it"
ooh never! nerer!" exclaimed Juliet,
springing upright from her aunt's en-
proudly through the mist of tears
''Would you kill me with modification?
can afford to let my heart bleed slowly
away until it bleed itself dry, but if Karl
Won Oppenheim should see one drop of
its clotted gore. or know the keen smart
OF its red quivering, or look upon the
canker Of its worm, it would kill me
outright"
'You have the true Clayburn PRIDE"
observed her aunt, in gratifed tone
"Cherish it, for now it will serve you
we'll. If the heart of Clayburn hasno
other food, it can live on pride. Knight
have known beforehand that you would
never agree to anything which would
place you in the degrading position of
suppliant. Where that false man is con-
cerned, let your heart be no longer
loving but q proud one. But, my dear
niece, you mistook my meaning entirely,
with regard to this subject. could not
be 30 unfeeling as to upbraid you for
what occurred before your mothers
death. had reference entirely to your
treatment of your father, since that
event"
"What have I done?'
''You've done nothing" answered
Mrs. Thurlow, 'sand that is exactly
where the fault lies. There are q great
many things you ought to have done
which were paramount duty-but which
you have totally neglected. You have
lost sight completely of your fathers
dependence on you-of his i'll health,
his suffering in mind-in fact, of every
thing but yourself and your own trou-
bles."
''Tell me what is my duty toward
him." said Juliet; II will perform it
faithfully. could not love him more
1 could not desire more fervently to
please him and make him happy.
live now only for my father"
'.Then listen while 1 tell you your
duty toward him, and wherein you've
been wanting in that duty. In the first
place, you must be aware how inconsola-
BILE he is for the loss of his wife They
were married very early in life; they
loved each other with an affection rarely
seen; and they shared together rs much
sorrow, which hallows affection more
than anything else. This well-beloved
sorrows is left alone in the world, with
only you, his daughter. What have you
done to soften the blow, to alleviate his
grief? Do you talk to him? Do you
amuse him with cheerful intercourse and
social enjoyment, striving to excite
other themes of interest, thereby draw
ing his mind away from brooding con-
tinually on the subject OF his affliction?
Mol You do none of these things. You
lie here from morning till night, moping
away the time and showing little interest
or affection in him. You who are the
only one left to show him either. Do
you ever ask him to ride out, or to walk
with you, that he may breathe the fresh
air and gain strength to his feeble frame
On the contrary, you subject him to
breathe nothing but the vitiated mir of
this sick room, which you will not leave
yourself, and which he will not leave,
because he has not sunk to such depths
of selhshness as you have. Here he is
waiting on and lursing you, when the
poor old man needs waiting on and nurs-
ing himself. For shame, Juliet! You
say yon killed your mother, but you will
be much more accountable for your poor
fathers death, unless you exert yourself
in his behalf
Having delivered herself Of this severe
but well-merited trade, Mrs Thurlow
sank back into her chair; it had cost her
an effort to make such a long speech,
and then, perhaps, such vile mis-statc-
ment of facts, was trial to q person of