Connecticut western news., 1873-03-07

you wait long enough. We were mar ried at noon and MT. Eustace drove me in his carriage the ten miles that lay between my old home and the new. As we approached the latter, he grew ab- sent and restless. T knew by q fellow feeling that he was thinking of his daughter, but would do nothing to re- lieve him he deserved half an hour of misery.
 Eleanor came te meetus as her father opened the door, girl who might have sat for Tennyson's Isabel:
 the world hath not another
 Of such finished, chastened purity.
 My first feeling, as I stepped across the threshold where another woman had ruled before me, was a very meek one. If that woman had resembled her daugh- ter, how could her husband find any thing to admire in me?
 "My darling Eleanor" said MT. Eus- tace, and paused. It is amazing how affectionate people may become when in distress.
 "My dearest girl, this is"
 "Mrs. Eustace, believe" said Flea nor, holding out her hand to me with Q faint sweet smile. "Shall you like to go to your room first p
 I followed her up stairs, leaving a very dazed-looking husband in the hall below. In all the appointments of the room T saw the delicacy of Eleanor's taste. "You have been too good" I said, taking up vase of tea-roses to hide my embarrassment.
 "Not at all. You will be my guest, you know, until you can guide the house for yourself"
 "I will be anything, if you will not look so terribly resigned. You may scold me every day for marrying your father, if only you will like me little at last"
 was in quite alittle flush of emotion, but the inetfable calmness of her man ner, as she had reduced everything to its lowest terms and left not super lative in the world, steadied me in a moment.
 "I think I shall like you very we'll, " she remarked as she left me. When Mr. Eustace came up stairs, he was very happy.
 "Don't you see, Lizzie, he said, Chow much better it was tolet the thing come to pass naturally than for me to have scene with Eleanor beforehand |? She had probably heard of the marriage from outside people,"
 "I suppose so" said, allowing MT. Eustace to plume himself on his delu- sion, since 1t amused me and did not hurt him.
 Eleanor not only submitted to me, as to a necessary evil, but to the seven other spirits worse than myself, in the shape of my'brothers and sisters, who overran the house like an inundation, carrying all before it.
 It never entered their honest heads that they could be otherwise that hearti- ly welcomed.
 They fraternized at once with Hugh Eustace, and by dint of sheer good nature and stupidity they sometimes made breach in Eleanor reserve.
 They dragged Haviland in their train at last, to see the oldest girl in the world.
 "You will not like her," said ''she IS not at all your sort, but l will not have you tease her."
 "How can you tell what is my sort Because you are lately married, you need not take it upon you to know all men by these presents.
 "Eleanor is very silent. You must not expect her to talk to you"
 ."Does she never say 'Yes?' with an interrogation mark after it P
 "Never"
 "Then take me to her quickly lest ] be snatched away before mine eyes have looked upon this miracle of women."
 Haviland's manner was as perfectly subjugated by the yoke of Eleanor's serene quietness as I could desire.
 When we "speered" " st him for his opinion he professed to be disappoint. ed but he came every day, with an ex. cuse or without one and studied hel with the eye of an artist. A faint little flush sometimes rose to her cheek wher she met his gaze. He was with us one day when my sister Anne suddenly laic hands on Elanor's hair, and with dex terous turn or two laid it in loose waves about her head. It was always "Ma donna-wise before.
 "You have no idea," said Anne how lovely you look when your hair i' loosened up this way-more .fu6y, you know. Isn't it so, Haviland ?"
 "Excuse me-" said Eleanor, drawing herself gently but completely away iron Anne. "It is Q weakness of mine tha I cannot endure to be handled in tha way, except"
 "Except what ?" said Anne, bewil dered.
 Except by those wkom I love yer. much"
 "Would you not also make exception in favor of those who love you yer. : much ?'' asked Haviland in low voice } regarding her intently. It seemed t me that everything stood still for a } instant, even the hands of the clock A burning blush spread over Eleanor r face.
 "There is only my brother" sh burst out with sort of cry, and wen quickly out of the room. :. 3 "I declare!' said sister Anne, look 3 ing after her with mouth wide open. = 70 Haviland, how could you? Sh will never forgive you," said I.
 "I don't want to be forgiven" h said lightly but he went away quick to the station, and did not come nes us for three whole days. Eleanor r, paired her Notifications and receive f him with the same dead calm of coul a tesy. He resumed his daily sitting @ with us, but he threw no more stone - into the deep waters of Eleanor's m @ ture.
 r Nothing could be more desirable tha t that these two should love each othe t I longed to beg Eleanor to look int
 his eyes, and see the interest write a there, but the words were never spokel ' I left them alone together whenever = dared, and forbade any of my tribe, c = peril of banishment, to make the lea r approach to joke on my match m
 king. | said word or two of my hoI