The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-12-24
MRS. WIMBUSlFS REVENGE.
4 ,sToHY or THREE GENERATIONS,
II SIX cuArrEns.-cIEArrER l.


Poor Mrs. Marrabrs ! So young, tOo.-oniy
siy-and-;llrly, and very little the worse for
wear. A widow with The bloom Of youth still:
upon her checks, (spitetul people, who agec
faster, went SO far ;s TO say Mrs. Marrables's
bloom was like the mama OF the Israeltes -
.smcw every morning"-but this was lnalice,)
llaxen hair, gray-blue eyes; small-boucd
woman with downy skin, and figure, just
plump and no more, which would wear for
ever Without spreading 10 obesity or criddling
M into wrinkles. She had q daughter
of eighteen, by name Matilda, less young,
In proportion TO her years, than herself
1t is no afectalion TO say that the two
women would PASS anywhere for sisters-Alrs
Marrabics as the elder by at most four or five
wears. A stranger would really be ncrcdulols
us TO the relationship between them being that
of mother and daughter. Such mistake,
when 1t Is made In favor of woman who is
old, and looks it, Is said to be not unpleasant
IL the cmnivorous appetite for attcry dcvcl-
opcd iu some of the sex by advancing years.
but to Mrs. Marrables it was most elnbarrass-
inr. She was not old; she did not look il; and
the explanation involved made the stranger
suspect her OF being older than she really was.
But for this, Mrs. Marrlbles might have mar
ricd long before. She was never invited 0ni
without her daughter; and whenever any
eligible gentleman began to pay ller the slight
est attention, some dear friend or other would
BIZ certain 10 whisper: THAT il MaLildas
mother" and oil course there was al end Of it.
II must not he concealed thai mother and
daughter did not 'hiL iL' very well together.
Mrs, Murrablcs resented her daughters very
existence, while Matilda could not but be scaIl-
daliZed at having so youthful 4 mother. 1t
vas plain to Mrs..Marrables that, in order 10
her own success in life, her daughter must be
rot rio OF. People who arrive Ut such q deter
nlinatiOu in novels, too often resort tO crime
TO remove u person from their path. But Mrs.
Marrablcs went 10 church twice every Sunday.
At last she married Matilda out Of her way TO
one Mr. tvimbush, Il most respectable retired
corn.mrrchant OF IIighgaiG. Poor Mrs. Mar.
rabies! How bascly did Matilda return her
Kindness. Twelve months after her marriage,
everybody read in the Times, "The wife of
Jrih0 Wlnbiisi, Esq, OF a daughter" This
WIS ton much 4 grandmother ut thirty-S!X
A youthful, singing, waltzing grandmother,
whose very yUulhiuness, taken in conjunction
with Il mol unnatural desire 10 get married
again. became rcprOaci in The eyes of all
| right-thinkinS people.
My dear, she is grandmother women
would say 10 one another; ''aI,d how dccciiI'l
of her i: is TO look so young"
Carries three generations remarkably
| WELL" said The llen; "bnt yOm know, Old lrl-
low, s,c must be jolly Old"
CHAPTER II.
Seventeen years passed away, and still Mrs
| Marr;.blrs, TO The SCANDAL OF everybody. was Us
yunllg iis ever, III hearty su, 10 ell appearance,
and us single us ever. In years she was fifty
three, and III course Onght TO have dressed 10!
| the part. But her whole manners, feeling anu
appclrlncc were in luilicrous defiance Of he.
years, and seemed palpably to refute them
Had She done anything wicked in her youths
| people whispered, and was it u punishment
| Was she a wandering Iewcss? How could she
wear IaYen hair and chignnn at her time q
| life? IL was Indecent. improper Scanllalou:i
She might ;t least take TO caps with = gra!
front, ana curkscrcw ringlGtS, AMI ~ piece q
| narrow black velvet across her forehead. lUl
The sake OF tlccOrunl. Then look ut the way
she dressed! Always in the fashion, str,sll;l
! inm mp the church Gislcs Oh Sunday, settling
her silks and laceS and ribbons like Il Girl. y!
iOr her complexion, heard one lady shy
"bless yoI,. il isn't paint. anu it can't be- cn
| j
wear there is in either. The woman is peiri
fled, oY,elsc cmbsImed. Pm sure OF H., for SIN
uses nothing bnt violet powder"
Mrs. Murrab!es, or, as SHE was C0nl!non'.
called, Mrs. Evergreen, was not even en-
gagged There seemed !, settled con@ictlon II
The minds al eligible sllilors that, since g Jial
| may not marry his own grandmother. TN
Golden rule of "Do unto others" oliahL 10 for
bid Them from marrying other peoples CRANE!
mothers Besides, what u horrible thing