The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-04-05
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FORTUNES OFJULIET CLAYBURN.

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CHAPTER III-1 LYLE AND HIS COUSIN
''s9 ''' DIsouss PAST. EVENTS 1a9:
81, 81 .,1ho lovely lady Christabel
Il, Come oyerl Of course will, I'll be
certain to dc il; but not to sit in one cor
ner and argueapy educational, doctrines
with you'll There more attractive metal.
I'll talk to- yours lovely daughter, worthy
sir. By the throne of Jupiter, isn't she
a-a-sefaph? Angels arc too common
-tszshe5 o ,seraphE Education indeedl I
don't care dime for education, and as
for Grecians and SRomans, to my mind,
Juliet Claybtrhis wort u more Cioero's,
Plato's and Xenophon's than could fill
universal spaee,a and moro gods, god
-deRsea. demi.gods. muses., heroes, and
graces, than ever lived, or sung, or
reigned, or fought. or bled I Education
'indeedl MY mind is settled on that
point AtthiB moment. think for
eign education despicable. because, for
sooth. it has bahished me 80 many years
from her presence Ehgenia, think what
might be now; had / been his ward, and
Mr.. Lyle, Withdrawing Lis eyes from that
minute speck. on the landscape, which
looked like catriage. caught his cousin
in an enthusiastic embrace, which, for
compared to the lusty hug OF, o polar
bear. tsSt;S -! ,!.,:i' ~. '.'-'t
"Let me go-.let me go. Theodore!''
cried the astonished Miss Rawleigh,
"I'vo something to tell you."d
When Mr.. Lyle heard the last phrase,
he released theslady's person from the
tenacious graspin which she was held,
and demanded TO know what she had to
say for herself
"Now, was there ever suoh wicked
fellow ?" asked Eugenia. in well-assumed
indignation. ..Just see how you have
rumpled my hair, soiled my dress,
crushed my bonnet, and crumpled the
fresh trimming, ON my paletot. I'll not
have q word to say to you'll .
''Then look, out for another hug" said
Mr. Lyle, threateniDgly, which had the
desired effect 3of loosening the lady's
tongue. .ssi5
'iTheodore," she began, gravely,
smoothing her disordered dress, "you
must not banter Juliet about Harry Bab-
bitt. nor speak toher,so frequently about
Asbbnrn. She must necessarily have
very painful associations coqnected- with
his name and with the place. The first
summer she returned home from school,
barry came to see her. I will not say
they were absolutely engaged. for Juliet
never conided the facts to me; but the
supposition, from subsequent events. is,
that that they were, and, for some time,
without the knowledge of her father.
When Mr.. Clayburn tried to force Juliet
to marty her cousin Frank Clay burn
you know Frank? He is now engaged to
Blanche Babbitt-she acknowledged her
preference for Harry. Her father went
into furious passiou-there was quite O
.soene-at last he told her, in the most
cruel manner, that she must either leave
his honse forever, q disinherited child,
or resign Harry and marry Frank. Ju-
lets mnid, very intelligent girl, heard
all the conversation and told me about
it; so am stating facts, and not mere
rumor. Juliet persisted in her allegiance
to Harry, refused to give him up, left her
fathers house and, for few daya, sought
refuge with me. She was on her way to
Ashbnrn, to her aupt's, when recalled by
note from her father, stating that her
mother was dying. She died in four
days after Juliet reached home"
"'Cun it be trae?'' said the gentleman.
admiringly. '.Well, I've heard and read
Of consiancy, times without number, but
this is the frat well.authenticated exam
pie of it which has ever come within nv
knowledge. And her mother died 30
soon alter, you say? How bitterly she
must have felt the stroke" igi
1T almost killed her." said his cousin,
s'she has never been the same joyous
creature since.', e,
Engenia proceeded to give him q
minute account Of her sickness and the
events connected with it, and how they
had left Orkney. after the unfortunate
occurrence, and never returned until
the present OCCASION. Mr.. Lyle seemed
deeply interested in the narrative, md
after she ceased to speak, remained pro-
fonndly silent for several moments.
Suddenly he exclaimed:
''But. Eugenia, there's strange dis
crepaDcy hetween your statements con
cerning Harry Babbitt and those made
to me by Engenin Won Oppenheim. I
did not recOllect it for the moment, but
now the remembrance is vivid, that on
one occasion, I heard Madam Won Op-
penheim say she had received letter
from her uncle, telling of Jnliet's en-
gagement TO Frank, and that she had
discarded Harry Babbitt. How can
yOn reconcile this with yOur account?"