Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-08-16

one was ABOUT 10 say Tyes, Uaam
but putting on what was for her a bold
face, answered: well, hope he will be
mine, ma am"
The next moment he was in the room,
and Annie had shut the door, leaving
me alone with this Don Giovanni. am
bound to say he was good looking,
geirtlemanly person, and with anything
but an impudent air.
81 have ,,ventured to call upon you,
madam, with relation to Annabel Brown
who is, | believe, at present, your par
lor-maid." -H
"Well, sir" said I, very stiff and for
NAL.
81 thought it would be only courteous
TO let you know that she would be leav-
ing you, probably, before the month is
up, in order to become my wife. IT., as
she says, you forbid us to meet, l shall
take her even earlier, as find it impos-
sible to exist without her society-at all
events on Sundays"
"Take her earlier-make her your
wife!" reiterated /; ''this is quite incom-
prehensible to me, sir, when you have
not seen her half dozen timcs:"
Nevertheless, madam, it is my inten-
tion to marry her, and that at once. She
is of age, she tells me, and there is no H.
ing to prevent it.
But there is surely great difference
of social position, Mr.. Trevelyan. You
have the air and manners of a gentle
man, while She"
"Forgive me, madam, for interrupting
you, but l am sure you are yourself too
much of a gentlewoman to say anything
derogatory of the person have selected
for my bride"
He quite took my breath away, he
was at once so proud and 50 polite.
81 am twenty-six years of age, mad
am," he went on, "and | know my own
mind and have an independent fortune
There is no sort of use Ill opposing our
engagement, even if your kind heart
would permit you to do so. The chief
object of my calling upon you was in
deed to request personal favor of you
in regard to our approaching nuptials.
Annabel tells Inc that she has neither
father nor mother, norindeed any friend
in London except yourself"
"That certainly was my belief, until
lately" said L. .s-
Mr.. Trevelyan only smiled at this sig
niticant reply. ..
"Well, madam, this being so, and you
having reason, believe, to be satisfied
with Annabel as to her moral qualities,
have come to ask of you the great
favor of your giving her away at the al
tar"
81 give Annie away? and to you, a
perfect stranger? Never!"
"My dear madam, i honor your scru-
ples," returned the young man, with u
low bow--and | must say for grace OF
manner / have seldom seen his equal
''but this is the address of my lawyers,
/ and this of parish clergyman in your
vicinity, who will both vouch for my re
spectaDility and good family. Beyond
| these facts, and that | have sufficient
means, independent of profession, tt
support wife, don't feel called upon
to speak.
1 Mr.. Trevelyan seemed such nice
young man, and had such true re
gard for Annabel, that, absurd as th'
proposition of my giving her away t.
; him as first had seemed, finally cam
5 into it, and about three weeks after
S wards they were married by special Ii
| cense. She was not at all pulled up by
1 her good fortune, and though he gave lie
J. a great sum for her trosseau, she eXpenc
ed it with her usual quite good taste
It Annabel Brown was adapted for pos
t tinn in lite into which she happened /
d.. be thrown, and that did not require er
g ergy or powers of conversation, IN whicl
!, she was certainly deficient; aud out o
{ the fifty maid servants that l have baC
o in my service, from first TO last, she wa
t the only one of whom | could say a
II much. t ~
a "But how" my readers may ask, "di
Anuabel get on after she became Mr.
a Trevelyan -
That can't tell you, but can te
e you what happened to me iu consequence
h which is the terrible part OF the Who'll
t. story.
A stately carriage drove one day II
l. to my door, and my new maid a yer.
4 different one from dear Annie-cam
I. running up the stairs in a state of grea
e excitement. "Oh, mum, please, mum
y there's lords coach at the door, an
If her ladyship wishes to see you"
Df "WlaL's her name 2" demanded |, qu
ely? for did not wish this grinning il
I iol TO suppose that never was cAlle
/, upon by members of the aristocracy.
Here's her card, mum; the Lad
id Haliss Something or other"
t, at is not your business to read visi
~ or's card" said l stifiy. ''Show Lac
Alice Trevelyan up"
in The similarity of name with that
id Aunabel's husband, OF course, struck n
rs at once; yet was totally unable TO co
is. lecture her business with poor, insignI
at cant me. i was not long, however, lie
id ia doubt A tall, bony, sLiff-backed ",
man of about go years OF age, present.
ne sailed into the room.
ed "Miss Twitter, believer" said she.
to ':rhe same" replied /, politely. "W
d, not your ladyshp take a seatI''
Iy s"Certainiy not" she answered sna
N, pishly, 81 merely came TO see the sort
SO person 10y whose neiarious assistance N
unfortunate nephew has been entrappe
. into matIimony. This is the house,
w it," said she, looking round my hit
as drawingrooln in very dePreciatoi
r. way, ~whers this conspiracy was bate
ed In this vile hole yoa balted yo