The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-13
her opinion that / had done it on purpose,


when my mother thought it better to join
with her and abuse me sonndly: My as:
surances that the misfortune was pure
ehough they had quite failed to convince
my aunt, and she came over to my side al
once, and tried, with all the eloquence OF
which she was possessed, to win the irate
old lady; but in vain. Miss Gregg was
most fully persuaded that / had intention.
ally offered to her dignity the insult it had
recently received, and she continued to tx:
press her hustile sentiments in the most
Indignant terms.
We proceeded for some time to talk in
the most persuasive and convincing man.
ner at our command, but to no purpose.
to say in my defense, and declared per
sistently and in the most emphatic tefiis
that she would 10 home ut once and never
enter DIR hoiise AgAin. We knew too well
what effect such conduct would have upon
IT'S, that it would be the end of all our
hopes; and we were getting more and
more into despair, when suddenly a
bright idea came to me. would 60 and
fetch Claribel had the utmost belief in
her power of soothing people,.
NV mother soon understood from the
signs made her what 1 thought Of doing,
and as she evidently approved MY idea /
left her trying to pacify my aunt and per-
suade her Of INV innocence, and started off.
It did not take me long to get over the
ground between our house and Mr.: Myers,
or to explain what had happened to his
daughter; and in very short time Clari-
bel and returned together.
fl,ps inst I I
though my aunt was still very angry, and
at first would not even look at the intend
ed mediator, before long she had given in
to her pretty, coaxing ways-Wlu, Indeed,
could help giving In when Claribel set to
work to make them ?-and was sitting at
the dinner table in our best parlor on my
fathers right hand, with my dear girl on
the other side of her.
OF course, after this there was no good
in pretending to keep up her resentful
feelings, and my aunt spent the rest of
the day and the succeeding night Under
our roof as she had originally intended.
l did my very best during that time to
cancel, by constant attention, the bad i'm
preston that had been made upon her.
And l suppose l in great measure sue
ceeded, for, as she was going away, and
as was standing at the door of the coach
in which she was seated, waiting for it to
start, she put her hand upon mine and
said:
81 believe that you did not Intentional
ly insult, me, after all, Sebastian
Another moment and the coach had
driven off, and had seen my AUNT for
the last time,
1t is now some years since this mem
orable event happened. l have become
farmer on my own account, and am set
tied not far from the place in which Mr..
Mycr and my father still live. Claribel
has changed from a lively girl into a
sweet, contented woman, and we are sur
rounded by numerous rosy.cheeked,
healthy looking children. Not very long
after her visit to our house, my aunt died
and left me her heir, The property was
enough to enable me to purchase the farm
l now possess, and to marry Claribel at
once
We are very happy, and never forget
to associate the memory of Miss Gregg
with our happiness. But even at this dis.
lance of time we can never think without
smile of the accident that 70 nearly
made shipwreck Of all ctr hopes. And
of all the stories l tell my children as we
sit round the fire of winters evening
the one they like best to hear is the history
of how l nearly lost my aunt's legacy
London 4Argosy.