The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-08-04
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HORACE MARGRAvE AT BALDWIN COURT.

HORACE MARGRAvE AT BALDWIN COURT
Henry Dalton prospered in his beloved
profession. Gray-headed old judges
talked over their after-dinuer port of the
wonderful acumen displayed by the young
barrister in the most important and diff
ficult cases One, two, three years passed
away, and the name Of Dalton began to
be one of mark upon the Northern Cir
cult The dawn often found him work.
ing in his chambers in Paper Buildings,
while his handsome wife was dancing at
some brilliant assembly, or listening to
the vapid platitudes Of her numerous adj
mirers and silent adorers. With Ellinor.
Dalton, to be unhappy was to be reckless.
Hers was that impulsive and emotional
nature, which cannot brood upon its
griefs in the quiet circle of a solitary home.
She considered herself wronged by her
husbands parsimony, still more deeply
wronged by his cold reserve and she
sought in the gayest circles Of fashions
bic London for the peace which had new
er dwelt at her cold and deserted hearth.
His profession is all in all to him"
she said, "but there is at least the world
left for me; and, if | cannot be loved, !
will prove to him that, at any rate, can
be admired"
At many OF the houses in which she
was a constant visitor, Horace Margrave
was also familiar guest The fashiona-
BILE and wealthy bachelor lawyer was
sure of a welcome wherever mamma had
daughters TO marry or papa money to in
vest or mortgages to effect. To her old
guardian, Ellinor's manner never UNDER
went the slightest shadow of change.
"You may refuse 10 admit him here;
you may forbid my correspondence with
him. acknowledge the right you ex-
ercise go hsrshly," she would say to her
husband. but you cannot shake my
faith in my dead fathers friend. You
cannot control my sentiments towards the
guardian of my childhood"
But by degrees she found that Horace
Msrgraye was TO be seen less frequently
every day at those houses in which she
visited; it was growing a rare thing now
for her to zee the dark, handsome head
proudly overlapping the crowd in which
the lawyer mingled; and even when she
did meet him, though even his voice had
still it's old gentleness, there was tacit
avoidance Of her in his manner, which
effectually checked any confidence be-
tween them. This was for the first two
years after her marriage; in the third she
heard accidently that Horace Margrave
was travelling in Switzerland, and had
left the entire management of his very
extensive business to his junior partner.
In the autumn Of the third year from
that of her marriage, Ellinor was staying
with her husband at the country house o
his friend, Sir Lionel Baldwin. Sinet
that day on which the scene with Horac'
Margrave had taken place in the littl'
draWing-Ioom in Hartford street, Ellinol
Dalton and her husband had had no ex'
PLANTATION whatever. On that day, tn
young man had fallen on his knees ct tn
feet Of his sobbirg wife, and had mos
earnestly implored her TO believe in hi
faith and honor, and to believe that, il
every thing he did, lie had motive 81
strong and so disinterested, as to warran
his actions. He begged her to believe
also, that the marriage, on his part, ha,
been wholly love-match; that he ha,
been actuated by no mercenary consider
atoms whatever, and that if he nov
withheld the money to which, in all ap
pearance, she had so good right, it wa
because it was not in his power TO lavisl