The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-03

!A1o1AoSus So4A1y kRa4nou. 4Ou KNOW
How much. / love yo'u-hh;owt* : deeply I:
respect 9ou,! Doh ! caste e.. q doubt; on
ny love and devotion :f,i' for YOU ~; !:
No; dear, not! 10 long: IS - You have
your own Wy and are not thwarted:
But see, III the J. e first serious conflict
between ',s, which has to yieldY All,
Bernard !! words are easier: than
deeds"
"No, no., = mother, only in this one
thing. And am I not in this what
every mar is ?" -:
. "'Man r, she half whispered, smnil-
ing my boy Bernard, scarcely
twenty ':i y:onesa a nan'!',, $3.50 >s;:.' ."
"And then, you have niot; I'll, seen ''1 Lois
:yet'r The s.A again; ignoring her ma:
ternal disclaimer and going back to
tAe central point It; olf bis position, tbe
very core and nd meaning Of bis love
e ki$r. VIE e. ,aas$d
i; ;s;"Wsn W9!ll, ny boy, ve vii]l VI 4 Az Y 5 no
g more nox: I have ~ eoneesntesa s Al ta he,
coming here. At your request; but
you oan hardly, ,lllly expect me to think t'il
that re : daughter Of ? mountain
guide. is tie right kind Of . person
for yolpfl: ~ /: future wife--you, our; Ber'
nard, to whom we had looked, your
sisters and I, as the head Of the house
who would take his dear, father
place and keep the family name
where it stood in his lifetime! It is
a bitter disappointment and humilia.
ton, as you must see for yourself
and you cannot expect us to do more
than tolerate it. The, influence, too,
that i will certainly have on your
sisste'ris5' marriages. a i'y',' a,;.>
No, S,n!t. net 70 To-! men en- worthy Of + the
name ayes,|, 9t men--men nn;- 1 not y s. BARRIERS sa''
blocks men, not coxcombs p inter.
raRtfsadI RfaI B Berpafa fqll ef righteous p
thoronghbnleas Of 'xi iiconoclastic youth.
Ms; y IL. Haynes smiled again: '....l.
,:"Aen Of: our. position are gentle
men, my dear boy" she said quietly
"and gentlemen; have what you would
perhaps call the .prejudices, but I tht
obligations. the refinement Of thei1
orders Such: = man. as SIR james
| Aitkep for instance, OF young Char
ley Grattan, would not like his wife,
sister-in.law to be.a. peasant-girl ou1
of Wythburn." y .;+;.i2~o ~.
1iIi"sheris' equal toseithsr = Maud D d
Cora p, cried Bernard hastily: :: 81!
81" M1s, Haynes laid Dher hand on hi
Earm. re; ..'..,.. j ;. -, Z2t
a"Hushr' r':zshe said authoritatively
"your sisters are sacred r !s$''; ii i,
$50 is Lois, mother" he cried il
hot Defence t;"' ,...' :.."
She LITE d her head proudly, ant
looked at him straight between th'
eyes. -
"But your sisters are ladies, o. sh'
said with emphasis. "Now let TIL
discussion drop: Ihave given way
as you desired, and the thing is at al
end for the present" u.
Seeing, nothing Of, his mothers Sc
cret thoughts, and unconscious Of tn
rope which was being paid out 50 lib
orally, Bernard's only feeling at hel
acquiesceneeotoarece Lois. Lancas
ter ~ her guest on an equality. will
herself and his sisters, was natutall.
one Of the very excess Of loving graf
itude..! His mother, be- said, was on
in d thousand !; shc unl.: needed to b
tried to prove, heEa surpazsipg.. excel
leaoe. % What. .aiheaxt she hadA !Tha
Il proud 1omen,Esa isshe. ,coufessedl,
i rsA should have go < far, aanctiope'
!. mch = ehoieessa; this which, he, ha'
|; made, ,tshoxed how deap sINas her ,rsa
! human worth and ehow .inpocentl,
( l|shallow her eonventionaliam ;uhe
'jIbroughtfaee to face: with the--highe
4 and, holier things Of life; He d.
claimed for q good half;hour to hi
; favorite sister, Cora; . on the sweet
ness Of his mother and the delightful
! ness of Loi. (; 81 tie moral harmon,
+ .nd sbi4it tual worth q of The arrange asii
:! msnt Altdgethef; ga 'how 10 s4pes;l
ad evervthit1r from i = ,ik-ho,tk IL iltt ohia III