The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-11-12

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be turning me out n this style, eh r.
suNo, I" said bTiIlyg 3m)l'ttsG ~ a5ih4d
"Why, we shalfbe old married folks by
then! MilIy, / should likGt 70 catch you
up and carry you OIL. WHAT, o good :na:
tdred fellow I must be not to do s6ite.
thingsviOlent to your aunt for not letting
us have our own way-don'ty0nt think
90? You'd come pretty soon II she'd
1t YOU know-Eo 10y I1 you, NY daFi
S15ASEme next New Years Day, y said
MilIy. "GoOd night And with laugh
he went. ,rr.yai ,lg.ss0.-.s ln4 g;si,
Half an hour earlier Mr.. JOHN EverSIcy
had walked down the silent street along
which the banker was striding now, and
he, had said TO Bella AIanneriug, y MisS
Hops Is engaged to Mr.. Warburton." a,J
""Ycs," said Bella, II suppose Mr.:
Rivers has consented to 1t now. She said
at first it was not TO be o positive engage
ment7thought Alilly too young, 1 be-
II should think s." said John Eycrs.
ley, with the same soft GOODNESS In his
voice. Surely she Is quite ChildE III
',Nearly eighteen" ii " ,i..G .o,!
Probably she has lived in Draytord oil
her life" said John. e" =
-"Slnce she was six or seven years old
her father died them ns-siasIf 'ip"
..T"%And her mother ~ Jin 1lgy U! !.nu,
"Died when she was q baby" 4,
A"Poor childT said John. "An orphan
-Lrayef. having Seen or known ANYTHING
beyond this little town, and deciding her
destiny before she understands It, PQNF
childl' AZ s,,.r .
belieVe.bf 49, "! 1873 t'' lsiIi ~! ~
HIJohns silence was veryifull of moaning.
"And she Is very fond ,ol him. Bella
continued. .,.,.Ly.,.
"And that is just it." said lie. '''Fond Of
him-yes, Of course She Is fond o., him. II
sh6, has seen no one else, Of, course she
makes him her. standard, Suppose she
gets 'ber eyes opened any time during The
next tiYc years AID finds herself bound, 70
that nan and Drayford for ever !''". '.',i,
pl"Y0u don't like Mr.. Wdrburtoh? ', ,,n
Not much" sail John %but,mn with q
start and q glance 81 Bella, "perhaps be Is
@Ws wei y yes,SI said Mis- Manaieartibg,
frankly. but II was ny fault; I shohla
hot have asked the question, only, jns,t
then was thinking more Of Mtlly1. =. CD. y.
Or beg your pardon, I'm sur" sald Ey-
ersley. "Had + remembered he might be
y0GF tFiSBh l 7 would . meyer hays 5 sald b
AN" %No natter said Bell q AZ you would
have thought thS same It Is just as well
IL could o. hardly agree irtb t. Tia" was
'JohHs.repIy;4 and'it:d oesnot'bear on,thIs
question. 1OF should SI not; have thought
"What difference could,it maker,
4 @If1 had remembered Tie might 10 your
4Ffend5I should have doubted my nasty
Judgment qlfiI had known it, l should
have been sure was wrong.".W
:, .(JOhn meant whatihe saidJ only when
he talked ooF Hafriend ofyours," he was
thinking more of Mr.. Mannering than 81
Bella, little slrewd gentlellanly old
Rector liked Afr. lWarburton, no doubt
there was good in Mr.. Warburton. But,
as 1t happened, the Rector, did not share
His; giter,s liking, but thought hiplI q
noisy .cenoeited fellow, and quietly avoid
ed him II 1t were possible .,'1i 99g !s.,1
''i"I suppose them. said Bella, "y6u are
rec0nciled to Milly's fate g'll,spaag -a5rg.l
"By no mems, Twas his quick Ecloinder.
1T am willing 70 allow rathet TN sBre
7:-that! his fanlts are on, the surface! But
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