Connecticut western news., 1873-03-07
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 "The compliment may be we'll meant, but it sounds doubtful. I shall never trouble you with perfection. Do you think our marriage will make Eleanor unhappy ]"
 No-yes-I don't know" said MT. Eustace, on the rack with my perverse questions.
 How will Hugh like it?"
 ooh, he swears by Eleanor; he will take his cue from her"
 "Then l shall make two wretched by going into your home."
 "What Is the use of talking about il? ? We love each other, and that's enough" said "my widower" crisply, in what I suspected would be his married tone. MT. Eustace stayed as late as any young lover, and I hoped most heartily that his daughter did not sit up for him. l scolded him no more on that even- ing, but when he was gone crept very silently to bed with little sister, and did more hard thinking upon the case of Eleanor Eustace than I had ever spent on her father. I had vision of the tall, pale, dignified girl q had seen her once ip church) suddenly dumb founded by the sight of an actual step mother.
 Itwas not too late torenounce him for her sake, but could do it? I was the eldest of five sisters, nearly all grown up, and beginning palpably to crowd me out of the home nest. MT. Eustace was the captive of my bow and spear, the first and only one. We were a family of hearty, not to say boisterous manners, terribly prone to call spade spade. was already twenty-eight !; it would be fearful ordeal to be the old maid of our sisterhood. And, after all, Mir. Eustace would be sure to go further, and Eleanor might fare worse. But at least I might have the grace to warn her of her fate. I rose up in the small hours and lit candle, in fear and trembling, for I think this must have been the first deed done in secret in our house. I put pen to paper without waiting a moment, lest my courage, like Bob Acres, should all ooze out of my fingers ends:
 "DEAR ELEANOR EUsTAcE :-You1 father is going to marry me three weeks from to-day. He will not tell you, and feel that must. believe it will be almost as hard for me to enter yeul home as & second wife as it will be fol you to receive me.
 "Ever your friend,
 "L1zzIE MORTON" posted this deed of darkness before daylight, and on tho second day the answer was handed in to the breakfast table with other letters
 "MY DEAR Miss MORTON :-Youl kind note of the 18th is received.
 Yours sincerely,
 ELEANOR EUsTAcE."
 That was all. I had sent her bit O my heart and she returned stone. II my anger tore the dainty little not into shreds, and cast them into the fire place. My little sister picked out thu pieces and tried putting them togethe like a dissected map. She made ou the namn "Eustaee," and announced trinmphantly.
 Did he want you to elope with hin before your wedding clothes were done? asked Haviland Morton, our naval cou sin, who stayed with us between voy ages. 1" l suppose you would soone give him up than do that ?''
 1T should hope so," said mother severely, with an eye to the younge girls. "Secret marriages never turl out we'll"
 "I am not so certain, saving yon presence, auntie," said Haviland. "I seems to me all that girls marry for i these latter days is the fuss and ne,