Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

! MIS-. GrlmIOTO quickly stepped III,
and Carrie, meekly following, was
nearly overwhelmed by her mothers
voluminous dfaperies.
81 had better sit in the middle it
will best preserve the equilibrium of
the vehicle" said Mrs. G.. wedging
herself between Sydney and Carrie
with 4 smile of great complacency.
She Immediately began discoursing on
the habits and properties of ferns
with unpausing volubility. Suddenly
she checked herself, rs her eye caught
i cluster of green waving vegetation
on the crest.like point of a rock over
hanging the road.
':Sydney! Sydney!'' she cried F.;
"stop minute. Can't you reach that
asplenium ebenum?'
sis it this, ma'am?" said Mr.. Will
mer. making q dive at the tall stock
of something growing by the rock.
''No, no, not that-the little green
thing with the black stem.''
"This, ma am - hazarded Sydney,
clutclling at a fat leaved cluster OF
weedy growth.
30, dear, no how stupid you are -
sighed Mrs. Grimford. ON jump out
and get it myself.
s'Nlamma !" demonstrated Carrie.
20, Ill help her, nodded Sydney,
splinging nimbly ON the cliff, and pull
ing Mrs. Grimford by main force up
the steep side of the rock.
"Ah - cried the lady, it is very
steep. l really think women should
devote more time to gymnastics. o,
here's the aspleniun-very choice
specimens, too. Why, Sydney, where
are you going g she suddenly cried,
seeing Mr.. Wilmer had sprung back
into the phaeton.
''Only for little turn, madam,
while you are collecting your botanical
treasures.
"Yes. but Mrs. Grimford's words
of remonstrance were drowned in the
rattle of the wheels as Mr.. Wilmer
drove briskly away, Carrie nesting
up to his side. One long, lingering
glance she gave the departing pair, and
then returned to her tin can and UNI
berella. ''They'll be back presently"
she said. But the afternoon wore on,
1.-THE shades of evening" were rapidly
closing in, Mrs. Grimford grew cross
and rheumatic, and still 'they came
not" like the characters in romance.
''Something mas happened!'' cried
the prophetic soul of Mrs. Grimford.
20, if should have to stay here all
night!' She looked nervously around.
1t was a tall steep cliff whereon she
stood, cut off from the woods beyond
by a wide and by no means shallow
stream on one side, while on the other
three it was almost perpendicular ris-
ing up some twenty feet from the road.
AS she surveyed her situation Mrs.
Grimford began to feel something like
Simon Stylites on his pillar in the will
derness. But suddenly welcome
rumbling of wheels broke the stiffness
of the seldom travelled mountain road,
and Mr.. Winners spirited gray dashed
around the curve of the hill.
SWELL" she cried, Il never was
more thankful for anything in my
ing -
care you!" says Sydney Wilmer, as
he checked his horse in the middle of
the road.
Eyes why don't you drive closer 2"
she demanded sharply.
20, did you want to go home with
us p
':Of course did. Id have gone
home long ago if l could have got off
this place.
"Well, Madam" said Sydney, in &C.
cents of the coolest deliberation,
while Carrie elung frightened. yet
smiling to his side. II shall be happy
to hand you off that rock on one con.
dition.''
':Condition! What do you mean,
sir? exclaimed the indignant ma.
iron.
'Simply this, Mrs. Grimford r
want to marry your daughter. But
Carrie, like too dutiful child will not
become my wife without your con-
SENT 4.s
switch she will never have,' re.
Piled the lady, emphatically.
s'Very we'll. madam and he shook
the reins.
"You're not going to leave me
here! - shrieked Mrs. Grimford in
panic of terror.
'.Unless you comply with my con.
dition, most certainly SHALL"
land that condition is
''Your consent to my marriage with
your daughter
'Caroline,'' cried Mrs. Grimford,
twill you be witness to this-this
atrocious conduct, and not interfere o.
"Sydney won't let me have a voice |
in the matter, mamma, at all,'' said
Carrie, demurely. "He says he don't
believe in women's rights! -
Mrs. Grimford gave a hollow groan.
Mr.. Wilmer touched his horse slightly |
with the whip.
"stop!' cried Mrs. Grimford. 81
consent--but it is under protest!''
'You can protest all you like" said
Mr.. Wilmer, helping his mother. in.
law elect into the carriage.
Silently Mrs. Grimford entered the
phaeton; silently she drove home,
and in silence crossed the threshold of
her house, as became conquered
party.
. ''To think" she said in a hollow
voice as she sat at dinner, 'sthat after
all my precepts and examples, Caroline
should end her career by getting mar.
,ied!
"Mamma," said Carrie timidly, 81
don't think it is 50 terrible fate after
all -
''To Think" continued Mrs. Grim.
ford, paying no attention to her daugh.
ter's reply, that you should meet the
fate of an ordinary woman
''But, mamma, dear, l never had
any ambition to become an extraordi.
nary woman
And so was brought to an abrupt
termination all the plots and plans for
a model existence which had been
formed for Mrs. Grimford's daughter.
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