The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-01-21
SIR GUYS GOBLET.

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:. SIR s GUYS GOBLET.
Hswas the secondsor third day of
J December, sece when the postman, after a
long. period of total abstinence from
double knocking at our doo1 ffetl
away into moderation, and left us Ii, i
couple of letters.
We were living alone together, my
tbrother's widow and I, and ourinterr-.
;ests, and consequently our correspon-
dents, were not numerous. She was
my senior b y-no matter how many
years, but quite enough to render the
arrangement a perfectly proper. one,
even according to the most severe
conventional code, although I was un-
married, and still called a girl by
verbally well-disposed friends.
My brother had been dead about
eighteen months. He had died worn
out, broken, used up,-these are sew.
eral phrases descriptive of the same
thing, In plain English, he had
"gone to his death" in the columns Of
a daily paper,-gone to it as unfinch-
ingly, as heroically, as cheerfuny as
any one Of that gallant band who
made the never-to-be-too- frequently
quoted charge"at Balaklava. But he
belonged to a noble:army of martyrs
whose deeds do not get recorded by
laureates: so when he fell, down in.
fighting the hard fight Of: the. daily
press, the ranks closed, and nobody:
missed hin; nobody, at leastt,o save
his wife and his. sister,, Very: few
people seem to be missed: when they
fall out of their places, however :: = it It
may be in reality, =,
/ It is a fact, and therefore, in the
face of all precedent, I will state it,
but. there had never existed grain of
anything save the kindliest feeling
between my sister-in-law and myself.
She had never feared "my interfer-
ence." I had never accused her even
in my heart of attempting to ALLEVIATE
Guys affections from me. The result
Of this abnegation of the time-honored
rights of sisters-in-law was, that while
Guy lived we all carried on the war
merrily and happily; and when Guy
died, we decided that it would be
very hard for the two who were left
to part. She was alone in the world,
and I was virtually, though not NOM
inally, alone too. There was an un-
Gle of my mothers alive, to be sure !;
but he was like my fathers crest to
me, merely badge Of respectability,
nothing more, to be mentioned in a
modulated voice even to myself; "a
baronet,-sir Guy Pomfret. My
mother had felt that she was taking
almost a liberty in naming her only
son after the mighty head other house.
But she had done it, and even dared
to apprise him of it,-which act Of
fealty Sir Guy rewarded by sending
my brother a little morocco box: CON
tanning a small embossed silver mug,
-"goblet" he called it in his letter ;
but as it was not capable of contain
ing half a pint of anything, we de-
clined using the more pretentious ap-
pellation in familiar converse, and it
came to be known in the household
as "Guy's mug
Of course we were sitting at our
breakfast-table when these two letters
arrived. Everybody is sitting at
breakfast when letters arrive, in fc-
ton. We were discussing our prob
able chances Of passing remarkably
dreary Christmas, when the girl who
served us in our uncomfortable lodg-
ings came in with our letters, which
we seized with the eagerness people
who have not received a written word
| for weeks only can feel.
Mine was the shorter, and so was
read the sooner of the two; but, short
as it was, it was very staggering. 1t
was dated from t"'The Towers
SHIRE and was to the following eff
fect:-
"MYDEAR MISS DUNBAR Il was The
dear Miss ar)-My father and
1 were speaking yesterday of how
much it was to be regretted that we
did not see more Of your dear mothe,
while she was alive. This misfortun,
is, however, not to be remedied now
IL hardly" I thoug )-'tbut ece 4,
least may know each other. We ex
Pect few friends down at Christmas
you must come to us then, as we yer,
much wish to make your acquaint
ance. Come down on the 5I23d,' if 70,
can conveniently, by the II A. M
train: you will be met at the. Play
ford station. We were extremel,
sorry to hear of your brothers death
I send this under cover to his LAWYER
who is most likely in possession q
your address. ~ -
my father desires his kind !rt
, CARDS, and joins with me in hopin
that we shall soon see you.
y '.''In the mean time believe me t
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*s,s' s'"Your afectionate cousin, ., iiln ,''@ b
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