Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-07-16

Upon hts head with fierce gesture
| smothered an oath with the greatest
difficulty, and walked out of the house
without another word, leaving Miss
Ehinia with the comfortable feeling Of
having routed the enemy; for at that
moment she actually considered him as
such, though Mr.. Benthall was her
betrothed lover, and that away down
in the bottom of her heart she loved
him dearly.
Three months before Miss Emma
Lernont had become acquainted with
the elegant, the fastidious Mr.. Adol
plus Gordon. Nobody knew where he
came from, or what were his means
but he had imperceptibly made his way
into Society, and Miss Emma, meeting
him everywhere, and becoming the
recipient IF his delicate attentions,
began to think her dearest John was
old fashioned; that he was lacking in
romance; that his chivalrous sense of
what was due to a lady, especially to
the lady Of his EhoiCe, was dead, if, IN
deed, 1t had ever been born.
And these thoughts had borne their
bitter fr,iit-withess the quarrel of to-
day.
In the meantime Mr.. Benthall was
divided between the fear Of being
thought Jealous Of SO small specimen
OF man as he esteemed the irresistible
Adolphus, and his Indignation that
Emma should suffer the attentions of
any other than himself. But when she
announced, as she did that very NOR.
ming, that Mr.. Gordon had invited her
to take boat-ride in the evening of
that day, and that she had accepted
that invitation, then Mr. Benthall felt
that patience ceased to be virtue, and
he demonstrated with Emma on the
Improperly of her conduct with what
success the reader has already seen.
"Cousin Emma" said Lucy Moran,
at dinner table the same day, 'what
have YOU been saying to john? l met
him down town and asked him.if he
had seen you this morning, and he
said, in voice far from pleasant, that
he had that pleasure. But if seeing
you had beeh pleasure to him, Emma
he did not show it in his face. and
when I asked him if he would Join us
in our boat ride this evening, he was
absolutely rude-quite savage, l assure
you. my dear-And was bear enough to
say that | was older than you, and
should advise you better than to go on
such an excursion, aud when I made
him little curssey, and tcld him I did
not propose to act the part Of chaperon
towards you, my gentleman lifted his
hat in the most provokingly lofty
manner and left me, and I came home
ae fast as nay feet would bring me, to
learn the cause of so much i'll nature on
the part of my lord"
"What is it all about?" inquired MIR.
Lermont, 'does not John approve of
this boat ride you speak off,"
ono, papa
Sand of whom is the party composed
Or, rather, who has invited you?"
"Mr. Adoiphus Gordon, papa" said
Emmy, turning excessively red, Sand if
you do not object should like to 60"
sis he the bewltching young gentle
man l saw you talking to yesterday in
Rowland'ss"
"Yes, papa, but you have not said if
may go to the boat ride"
"What does John say?" demanded
her father.
Il don't think that matters" she
answered, with saucy toss Of the
head.
"You are mistaken" raid her father
gravelN what he thinks in such
matters should be paramount with you.
If understood Lucy Just now, you
will go on this excursion In direct
opposition to his wishes. How is it,
my dears"
''Of course John don't wish me to 90
with Mr.. Gordon, papa, be is afraid
that the elegant manners of that gentle
NAH will cast into the shade his own.
But wish very much to go, and I
hope you will not object
"No, Emma, l shall not forbid your
going but if you offend Mr.. Benthall
by doing, SO, warn you that you are
giving up pure gold in exchange for
tinsel John is not the man to tamely
submit to such treatment. Let ME tell
you, young lady, that if your mamma
had proposed to take moonlight sails
upon the water with any other than
myself during our engagement, she
never would have arrived at the high
honor and happiness of becoming Mr..
Lerisiont."
.Nohsehse," said his wife, laughing
and pinching the ear of her lord and
master. "You know very well you
have borne anything from me in the
days awhen you came a counting, but"
turning to her Daughter, II would