The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-09-15
Marrying For Love.

were accustomed to remark upon the fact
that it was love or money with them, and
that Miss Gillet who married would cease
to be her unole's heiress.
Nobody knew how much Mr.. Gillet was
WORTH but that he was uncommonly
wealthy was certain. He had no other
living relations but these three girls and
his peculiar prejudices rendered it unlikely
that he would will his wealth away to any
benevolent or public institution whatever.
So to whom could he leave the gold that
he could not take out of the world with
him, unless it were to Georgina, Millicent,
and Dolly GilletP
All regularly instituted public charities
Mr.. Gillet declared were " frauds" and
friends he had none, avering that friend
ship was "all humbug." AS for marriage,
it was in his opinion something which all
wise people eschewed.
The fact that in his earliest youth dear
friend had stolen from him the affections
of the girl to whom he was betrothed, was
at the bottom of all this. He trusted no
one, because the two beings he had once
loved and trusted utterly, had deceived
him. When his brother and his wife both
died in one week Of fever, the bachelor
uncle had done his best for the yourg peo-
pie. He managed their little income, and
provided luxuries for them which their
means would not have allowed. He edu-
Gated them, and allowed them few female
friends.
But as they grew up, one law was main-
tanned with inviolable rigidity. There was
to be no courting, and no marrying be-
meath his roof Beaux were utterly for
hidden; and it was understood in the family
that Miss Gillet who married would be
blotted from her uncle's will.
What infatuation They'll fight like
cats and dogs in year." he would exclaim
when wedding cards were sent to him.
"Take warning by this young couple,
who don't know what is before them girls.
Oh, what infatuation p'
And Miss Georgina Gillet would shake
her head, and her young sisters would fol-
low her example, and they would cry in
chorus, "Wbat infatuation p'
They were pretty girls, tall, slender, red
checked, and blue eyed, little ears, teeth
like pearls, little mouths like coral, dainty
waists, and cunning hands-girls to be
loved and married by nature but there
was Uncle Gillet's money. So they grew
up and grew older, still, single, and not one
of them had thought of marriage in all
her life
There was Oliver Robb, who had follow
ed Georgina about to and from church for
year. don't think he wanted the heir
ess ; l believe he loved the girl, but what
use was it? Georgina had given him
glance or two, and he had found favor in
her sight but he had only clerks salary,
and it would be SO delightful to handle
thousands of her own. And Millicent had
met Rufus King in the apple orchard once
or twice; but Dolly had never had even
passing flirtation-Dolly who was now
eighteen, and prettiest of the three.
1t was a well-understood matter in the
village, as well as in the family, that marry
ing Miss Gilet lost her inheritance. DR..
Rush, "a handsome young medical man)
had heard it, and believed it to be true,
when Uncle Gillet, having touch of rheu-
matism, sent for him to prescribe. He had
always thought the three slender girls, with
ripe, round cheeks, dappled with peach
color the prettiest things he had ever seen
but when he stood face to face with Dolly,
he fell in love with her as she went out of
the room, and Uncle Gillet looked at him
sharply.
My niece is pretty girl" he said 81
see you think So She's sensible girl,
too. They are all sensible girls they pre-
fer single life and pecuniary independ-
ence, to the miseries of marrying.
"By your advice believe SIR" observ-
ed the doctor.
They consider me man of experience,
and I'm entitled to respect"
=" Bat are you not rather hard, sirP''
said the doctor. "a beautiful girl like
that"
"Harda" cried Uncle Gillet. What's
love worth? 1t fades in week and is
stone dead in year. What do men give
their wives but deceit and neglectS Either
the wife deceives the husband, or the hus-
band the wife. Better never to love than
to see love die. Dolly's dear little girl.
hope she'll never fling herself into any
ones arms, to be dropped when the sweet
ness has been kissed out. That's wiGe's
destiny. If she ever does, no money of