The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-04-09
Chr Circuit Ridsr:
A TALE OF THE HEROIC ACE
BY EDWARD EGGLEsroN,
Aashor Of. The xloosicr School Ms
ter" End Of the World" etc.
From the Christian. Union.l
CHAPTER XIX
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| From the Chrl8ttAn. Union.
CHAPTER XIX.
PATTY.
Pat,y's whole education tended {,
fos er her pride, and in Patty's Cir
cumstances pride was conservative
it saved her from her possible assim
ilation with the vulgarity about her
She was lily among hollyhocks
Her mother had come of an solt
family"-in truth, of two or thret
old families. All of them had con
sidered that attachment to the Estab,
iishcd Church was part and parcel ol
their gentility, and most Of them had
been staunch Torres in the Rcvolu.
ton. Patty had inhcfitcd from hel
mother refinement, pride, and Ger
tain lofty inhexlbility of disposition
In this congenial soil Mrs. Lumsd-n
had planted traditional prejudices
Patty read her Psycr.book, and
wished that she might once attend
the safely Episcopal service; she
disliked the io,rness Of all the sects:
the sing-song Of the Baptist preacher
aud the rant of the Methodist timer
ant were equally distas,eful. Sh,
had never seen a clergyman in robes,
but she tried, f.om her mothers de-
scrip,ions. to form q mental picture
OF the long-drawn dignity Of the SER
vice in an old Virginia church. Patty
was imaginative, ike most girls Oh
her age; but her ideals were ruled
by the pride in which she bad been
cradled.
For the Methodisis she entertained
a peculiar aversion. Me,hodism was
new, and, like everything new,
lacked traditions, piciuresqueiiess,
mustlness. and all the other essen
tials Of genlility in religious matt e. S.
The converts were rude, vulgar, and
poor; the preachers we're ilitcrate,
and often rough in voice and speech;
they made war on dancing and Jew
elry, and dancing and jewelry apper-
tanned 10 good breeding. Ever since
her father had been taken with tha,
strange disorder called sthe Jerks" !"
she had hated the Methoeists worse
than ever. They had made a direct
attack on her pride.
The story Of Mortons gambling
had duly reached The ears Of Patty.
The thopgh,ful ulikindness Of her
father could not leave her without SO
delectable ! morsel Of ne VS.. He felt
sure that Patty's pride would be out
ragged by conduc, 50 reckless, and he
omitted nothing from the tale. The
loss of horse and gun, the offer to
stake his hat aud ceat, the proposal
to commit tnicide, the fight upon
the forfeited horse-such we're the
i,ems of Captain Lnmsden's story.
He told it at the table in order to
~ r,ily Patty as much as possible in
the presence uf her broihe and Sis
te,s and the hired mon. But the
effect was qui,e different from his
expectations. With tha, nconsis-
tency characteris ic of the mist sen
sible woms n when they are in love,
Patty only ptied Morton's misfor-
tunes. She saw Inn. N her imsgina.
tion, halless and homeless wander
er. She would not abandon him in
his misf,,rtunes. He should have
one friend It least. She was sorry
be had gambied, but gambling was
mot inconsistent with gcntL ,nanii-
ness. She had often heard that her
mother would have Inherited ! plan
tst.on If her grandfather had been
able to let oeids atoue. Gambling
was the vice of gentleman. gener-
GUS and impulaive weakness. Then,
too, she laid the blamo on her favor
ite scape-goat. If it had not been
for Kike's exciting exhortat.on and
the incons deratc violence of the
Methodist revival, Morton's misfor-
tune would not have befalen him.
Patty forgave in advance Love
ctndoHes all sins except SINS against
love. ID
1t was with more than his usual
enjo, ment Of gossip that the school
master hurried home TO the Captains
thai evening to tell the stoiy Of
Morton's return, and to boast that
he had already sniphered it out by
the single Rule Of Thray that Moir-
ton would come out roight. The
Captain, as he ate his wafiics with
country molasses, slurrd the whole
thing, and wanted to know if he was
going to refuse TO pay debt Of
honor and keep the mare, when he
had fairly lost her gambling with
Burchard. But Patty inly resolved
to show her lover more affection than
ever. She would make him feel that
her love would be constant when the
friendship of others failed. She
liked to flatter herself, as other
young women have to their cost, that
her love would reform her lover.
Patty knew he would come. She
went abou, her work next morning
humming some trifling air, that she
might seem nonchalant. But after
awhile she happened to think that
her humming was an indication Of
pre-occupation. So she ceased to
hum. Then she remembered that
people would certainly interpret ST.
lence rs indicative Of meditation;
she Immediately fell talking with
might and main, until one Of the
younger girls asked: ssWhat does
make Patty talk SO much?" Upon
which. Patty ceased to talk and went
to work harder than ever; but, being
afraid that the eagerness with which
she worked would betray her, she
tried to work more slowly until that
was observed. The very DEVICES b,
which we seek to hide mental pre-
occupation generally reveal it.
At last Patty was fain to betake
herself to the loom-room, where she
could think without having her
thoughts guessed Ut. Here, teo, she
would be alone when Morton should
come.
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