The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-02-15
Popular GALES.
MARRYING FOR LOVE.
ny BLANCHE RAYMOND.

81 repeat it, sir, you can marry Mis-.
Norton, or will cut you off with shill
ingr
DO you wish Inc to marry a woman
whom | cannot love, father?' asked FAY.
cite belmont, respectfully,
"What right have you to say that YOU
cannot love her, when you never laid eyes
on the woman in your life? say she's
just the wife fora rattle-beaded spendthrift
like You. But there's no use in talking
about it now When she arrives YOU can
have the privilege Of choosing between her
and disinhcritauce--that's all = and Del
mont, senior, stalked out of the room
"Ah !" thought Fay, arching his hand,
some brows, then am to marry Mis-
Norton, whether viii or not |. Fay
belmont, twenty-five years of age and was
never in love in my life, now have my
choice between marrying spinster Of
some twenty-eight or thirty. or freedom,
with my fathers displeasure, Heigh-ho
Ill take a run in the country, and stay till
the ancient lady has her visit nearly ont,
and perhaps kind fortune win favor me
with spell of typhoid or something else,
until she has gone
That afternoon Fay, armed with shot
gun and fishing tackle, left home for a
month Of rusticating,
GLAD to see you, old fellow !" shouted
Ned Linton, who saw Fay approaching
the coy farm house just as the sun was
setting behind a huge mass Of purple and
bronze clouds. you know that you prom.
ised me two years ago, when we left school,
that you would spend the next summer
with me, but you are none the less welcome
now, ! assure you; and the two walked
along the graveled path, where the yarie-
gated pinks and toueh-me-nots grew on
either side, and the fragrant clover and
climbing roses sent out.a CHEEKY welcome
to poor, tired Fay. Sitting with Ned in
the vine covered porch, he had time to
look around him.
What a perfect little paradise you have
here, Ned he cried, enthusiastically
preferable, by far to the smoke and din
of city life. What splendid perfume
those roses have! May | pull one2 1t
seems so long since | have seen rose that
had the appearance Of growing Wild
Certainly, as many as you like. Ella
trained those She plants and cares fol
all of the flowers. But forgot, Fay, you
never saw Ella did your Well, you shall
though, and if she don't please you, will
set you downas n confirmed bachelor--and
no mistake.
A few moments later while Ned led the
way to the dining room, where Fay was To
partakc Of a supper set for him by hands
that he had not vet seen; through the
door leading into the kitchen he saw a
form that had made him forget where he
was, or who he was contemplating. II
was 1.-THE figure robed in cool blue and
white lawn, with blue ribbons around the
neck and among the wavy tresses Of the
brown hair The loose sleeves were turn.
ed back from the snowy dimpled arms, and
the deft hands were rolling out the finest
Aakicst pie-crist that ever Fay had set biz
eyes upon.
II would be no task he thought, eating
his supper, scarcely tasting it the while
to love being like the one he had just
seen "Ugh Miss Norton seems more
repulsiye than ever. cant see why my
father will insist on my marrying Miss Nor
ton, just because be and her father were
such warm friends Fay was more Ger.
tain that he could never marry her, when
later in the evening, Ned introduced his
sister, Miss Ella Linton. He was glad
that she was Ned's sister, as he would
feel more at liberty to be sociable with
her, as he was almost sure that he loved
her already, or should, ifhe remained long
at the farmhouse. And sure enough, three
weeks found him asking Ella to be his
wife.
"0nly say that you will wait for me
Ella he pleaded, sand when | can oiiel
you home, then | will come for you, fol
| love you, darling, as few men love.
have never loved other than YOU. | giy'
You an undivided heart. Tell me that you
love me, Ella, and viii carry your swee'
image in my heart until We meet again.
And there, amdng the modest pinks
the climbing cypress, and the scarlet yer.
benas, Ella placed her hand in his and
said Il will wait for you, Fay, let tho
years be few or many; do not forget me
and will always be true to you AND
The next day Fayleii her Hewas anSlou