Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-05-31

ever,a and the roses that had deserted his
cheeks, he thought forever, reappeared
in full bloom.
She had been angry often in her life
the departed Reuben had been very
easy to manage-but never before had
she felt any thing like the warmth she
felt that moment.
"The impertinent old scouDdrell Cad
ding about evenings, indeed! Valerian
for my nerves." as if were some fdgety
old maid Common sense in as large
doses as can findl How dare he write
such note! Well Ihave had a lucky
escaped Stupid, cross old wretch! life
of il / should lead with him."
And the widow put on her cherry-rib-
boned cap upside down and fell to dust
ing the portrait of her deceased husband
with q vim. With all his faults, Reu-
lie was not the worst man ever lived.
Charley was obliged TO repress his
gratitude for a while, for when he re-
turned home he found his father had
gone TO nieghIoIiDg town to attend
medical convention, and he would not
return home rntil the following day.
When the d ct = returned the next
afternoon Chaley was absent, busted
with praparcticns for the approaching
wedding. DR.. Hurlburt, finding leis-
ure aftern, upon his hands, made an
unusaliy careful toilet, and drove out to
call upon widow Thomas.
He had fully made up his mind that
j. would he a lesser evil to have the
Widow Zilpha Thomas for wife than
Mrs. Barnes for u housckeeper. but he
had not the air of very eager wooer;
and. in truth, was not without his mis-
givings; he saw in his imagination
the widows black eyes swapping de-
family at him, and wondered if he would
not e ent, if She proved Of a quarelsome
temper.
And he cast two or three glances
back ut the Widow Carriers cottage. as
he did so he certainly sighed. The
Widow had been in the window, and
she bowed to him-bowed and actually
sm little, though in a sad, shy wa .
DIR. Hurlhut did lot understand it,
lie had met her Lat twice, to be sure,
| since she had come back to the village,
two yelrs before, but at neither of those
times had she shown any disposition to
recognize hin.
His looks had invited a recognition
either then or now, but here she was as
sweet as May morning! 1t was all her
artfulness. of course. She thought she
could caiole him into letting Charley
marry her daughter. He would send that
boy to Europe, to China, if it need be,
to get him ont of Rase CaYter's way.
Still it is certain that he sighed deep
" as be passed the cottage and Widow
Thomas's black eyes snapped before him
all the more CONTINUOUSLY in contras
with the Widow Carter's soft, shy, blu'
ones.
Was Miss Esther Wagg right, anC
was it possible that there was still
spring of sentiment III the doctors heart
which fifty years and his crUsty temper
had not been able wholly to dry up.
From afar off the Widow Thomas saw
him coming-''riding along with grand
careless air, as if he owned the who'll
town." and she declared and prepared
to do battle. She was in such quive
of Indignation that her cap-ribbon stoo
up straight, and the swapping eyes Q
his Inauguration were rs nothing compai
ed with these.
'How dare you come here, you insult
ing, hypocritical villain. you perfidiou
wretch! Leave the house, sir, and if 20
ever come here again Ill set Towser NJ
. on YOU as sure as live!" she screamed
! 10 say that the doctor was amaze
would not fully express his emotion. ii
, was thoroughly alarmed and lost II
: time in escaping from the presence {
the maniac (as he felt sure she must bt
to his carriage.
l eInsanc from evil temper! all | kne
= those eyes were not for nothing! 81
whv her anger should be directed again
y me / can't understand; though | suppo'
4 her wrath falls upon any one who ha
pens to be near when the tit seiZes he
= D. what an escape have had.
l. And DIR. Hnrlburt went his hon
" ward wav, resolved to be contented wit
a housekcepcr and thankful that his l'
was no worse.
Barnes met him with an unusually SIN
e ling countenance.
:, @Mr, Charley's been waiting to- s
), YOU, sir, he waited while but of conr
- he could not wait any longer, and its
=, o'clock this minute. He told me to t.
! you how thankful and happy he was al
" that he should feel awful bad If "
- didn't come to the wedding"
i Thankful and happy! Come to u
: wedding! What are you king aoo'
- YOU idiot?' demanded the doctor.
~ ~ go his wedding with Rose Carter;
~ ~ thought of course you knew, It's Ia
So past eight.
=. - ''The young rascal? Does he dare
this" shouted the doctor, and rush
to out of the house, and down to the WI
n ow Carter's Cottage,
~ Mrs. Carter and Charley met him
n the hall. His wrath had time to coo
In m little in his walk, and if it had not
~ would have found it hard to be so
-. monstrative as usual under the widoN
90 90 calm, clear eyes, But he expressed
- disapproval quite strongly enough
ot show them that there had been sol
,e- mistake.
q Charley produced the note, and
- doctor saw through the mystelyat OF Oh
iy Mrs. Thomas's lunancy and all. III
~ stupid Barnes had changed the not
- The Widow Thomas had been advl'
= to stop gadding about evenings, a
o, Mrs. Garter had considered herself p
Iel ,,;,te1 IN ..let him have her" daught