The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1871-03-30
7:CHAPTER XI.

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"a 't.well, M.rion:lI < hope Pc you u are salts:
fed with your ;dsy's. work b. exclaimed
Mrs. Be,le, bursting into a:feeble flood
ofte.rs, as the shm Of the h.ll.dcor aud
the sound Of retreating. ccarlriiaage.wheels
upon the gravelIed drive announced
+ that 9 Mrs. Areher's threat had been car.
I ried Into execution e tsand >she had left
Ash Grove. ~.
=. Mrs. Beale had heard her daughter
say that she should quit the house, and
had even been aware that preparations
for-her DEPARTURE we're being made
without. raising single objection on:
the subject; but now that it was un fait
5:accompI-that it was impossible to re-
call Eugeoia for either persuasion or re-
monstrance, aer cowardice got the bet
ter. Of her offended pride, and she began
to consider what "people'' would say,
when they heard that Mrs. Archer had
left her roof like discharged servant,
at an hours warning. 80
dissatisfied p said Mrs. Elliot, as she
raised her woe-begone face from the
shelter Of her hands, and confronted
her mothers gaze;, Satisfied, TO-, learn
that one, whom I know at this moment
to be dearer to me than any other
earthly thing-that one in whom. 1 be-
lieved a. =, my model Of ali that is most
pure and womaoly and straightforward,
should have deceived US fer so many
months in such bitter m nner, and be-
come frank ouly to confess that she has
lost her right to any claim on our If.
fsctiors. oh, mother if to feel brok-
en-hearted is to be satisfied, I am so.
And though suppose it is best, for
Amy's sale, that my eyes should have
been opened, l do not feel as though /
coald ever forgive the person who has
helped to open them."
X II Isuppose you are a]luding to my
dear Ant,ineke ?" remarked Mrs. Beale,
With a return Of her former offence :;
sand, as usual, in any thing but a sis
terlg manner. It is surprising to me,
Marion, that you, who profess to be a
Christian, can keep up such spirit of
eumity with regard to al that my dear
girl says or does. Antoinette afirms
chat she has the best authority for what
she writes; and it is evident, from the
way in which your sister Eugenia re-
ceived the communication, that. she is
correct. The folly Of the whole trans
ftstionslis in Eugenia taking umbrage
at what was written in kindness, and
leaving-Ash Grove in such-<a hurry,
that oil F.irmead will be talking Of the
business before night" \
"Would you have had her remain
here ?" demanded Mrs. Elliot, in sur
prise. eff those stories. are false, to re-
peat them was the greatest insult We
could offer her" -
b b I't'They gre e~e f.lsey' sad Mrs.
Beale, decidedly. "Ask yourself if it
can be so; you L heard the answers
which Eugenis made to my questions.
Mrs. Elliot shuddered. :,
"1f-if-they are true (ah! God
help her, poor girl y, she has still less
reason for wishing to remain ia our so.
ciety. How could she continue to face
us-how join in our ordinary converse
ZION, our meals, our ,prayers 2 Oh no,
mamma it is far better, every way,
that she should have gone-there . was
no alternative; Eugenia saw that her.
self" ~-...~<.x >..,-. 2
"Well! certainly, considering all
thing, and, that:you have Amy Elliot
here, I suppose il was. the better plan.
But ! wish she had just waited d few
days that she bad not gone 10 such a
hurry; ! am so .ffaid Of wh,t people
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-. ooh! let them talk ; what can it s,g-
ni'y r .aid Marion, ~earfly "that .p.
pears to me quite . secondary consider.
| alton. / am thinking Of how we shall
drag oo the next tewsveeks-of.;w What I.
miserable Christmas it will DO without
her" = '' -" ','.'.
''I don't see Why it need be 50 very
miserable, ny dear : replied Mrs. Be.ls,
Who yas beginning to be reconciled 70
tho state Of safairs, ind to reu. ember
that Der spare roon vas agaio v.cant
I..vs are I com fottabls little party 10 our.
lsl,se md nov: :that poor Eugsnis. Il.