Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-05-23

that though gentle blood was not to be des-
pissed, yet brains and culture we're the princi.
pal things after all.
"Stay to dinner, Mr.. Wright; we dine at
6ve," said Mr.. Elliott cordially.
His politeness and hospitality never permit
ted him to slight guest, and Mr.. Wright was
not b,o, ifhe was unable to trace his ancestry
to the time when nations were founded, by
the dispersion of the aspiring builders of the
Tower Of Babel.
"Thank you, but I am so country6ed and
questionable as to have dined at noon," said
Mr. Wright, smiling.
"Then you can surely eat again at FIVE, for
we always have lunch in the middle of the
day."
II rarely eat much at night; and I haye
some business which requires my attention be-
fore dark, but thank you as heartily as if I
had enjoyed the dinner"
Mr. Henry promised to 60 over before he
left, and the Good Evenings had been said,
when Grace met Mr.. Wright on the piazza,
with book in her hand.
Here is a work of Hugh Miller's, which
will be interesting to you, as it speaks Of the
hard times in Scotland after some Of her in
ternal wars and broils. Miss Ellen and I
were speaking of it the other day, and I prom
ised to send it."
"Thank you, Miss Grace. I always read
anything of Miller's with pleasure and profit.
Have you read that volume of De Quincy's I
thought you would like?"
"Not yet. haven't finished the other work
you sent me it requires too much thought to
hasten over. Have you read the sermons I
suggested to you as being equal to those Of
your North Carolina fovorite, Dr. Deems ?"
"a part of them, and will acknowledge
your opinion Of their merits is none too great;
but while I concede Robertson is great
and good preacher, I cannot give up my
church for yours"
eff you only knew and understood our
church we'll, you would consider it an honor
to be in it."
90, you will find me hard subject for a
convert. I don't doubt your having received
special grace, by the laying on of hands,
but should have too little faith to have any
JUNCTION granted me-"
"Ahl you can laugh now, but if uncle e.
lison had remained, and you had attended SER
vices regularly, you would have thought diff:
ferently by this time"
"Mr. Ellison is good man, and fine
preacher, but he, too, believes the world has
need of flying artillery, as well as immovable
forts and stationed cannon"
"He is far more liberal, to what the Eng.
lish call 'Dissenters,' than most Of our clergy"
"And it is to his credit. Did you ever
think that the word Dissenter harms US as
little as Protestant did your church when it
dissented from Papal errors and protested
against them ?" .---- -
II can't say that ever did !; we must have
talk about it some day. Why does not Miss
Ellen come over? I must see her before the
week is out, though she owes me two visits al
ready"
eve can bear a third one, very readily, if
you find it pleasant to turn your pony's head
that way. I shall be working in the black
smith shop on Friday, if you wish to see the
flaming forge and hear the bellows roar"
And they shook hands and parted with
pleasant thoughts and smiles. =
"Ah! here is new phase" thought Mr..
Henry. "The daughter sees the true worth
of that man, and meets him on the plane of
his merits. They look and speak to each 9th
er from the heart; but Elliott here-who is a
fine man in many respects-is hedged in by
conventionalities and prejudices, till he has
never been able to understand or appreciate
his worth. I reckon, too, the ladies have met
him frequently in his own house, while Elliott
has not I see Miss Grace takes her sweet
sympathies from her mother, and will win
hearts from high and low by her loveliness of
disposition. Miss Conway will conquer by
her beauty, spirit and wealth; she will be
feared and bowed to, where her sister will be
loved. Stuart and little Alice are SO much
like both parents, that circumstances, more
than natural bias, will make them proud,
naughty and opinionated, or energetic, self
reliant, useful and amiable think, from
her portrait, Georgia, the married daughter,
must be very much like her mother and
Grace. Claude, see, was an Elliott in eve
ry sense, but as death, like frost, sweetens acid
fruit, be is now saint, and martyr in the
hearts Of all the family. Russell is an Ell
liott, with enough of his mother in his looks
to show he can be assimilated to the various
changes of life, if change should come while
he is young"
Mr.. Henry's reverie was now interrupted
by the remittance of Mr.. Elliott, and the two
old schoolmates we're soon busy recalling the
scenes of their younger days; interesting to
them, but not necessary here. They had dis
cussed the present, learned much of the histo-
ry of each other for the last thirty years, and
now reveled in the memory of the days of
"auld lang syne."
Mr.. Elliott found that Mr.. Henry had been
very wealthy, but the desertion Of most of bis
negroes and the devastations of the war had
borne heavily on him. His wife's fortune had
been invested so that it had been of no use to
him since the war, but he expected to have it
after peace was declared. It was considered
fortunate, that Mrs. Henry would never con-
sent to its being used for the purchase of ne
groes, for now nothing was less uncertain
property than they.
Mr.. Henry learned that Mr.. Elliott had
been driven from his sea.island home at the
beginning of the war, and had abandoned his
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