The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1877-03-02

AFTER TW WEN!.I1,Y
YEARS.

Very pretty looked Mrs. Jenny Derweni
rs she leaned back il her purple fanteuil
with her favorite pug reposiug on foot
gcl at her feet-she had fondness for
lgs4-and turned the rings upon her
white plump fingers round and round, with
.4@ Sir of oue absorbed in deep yet pleas
ant thought.
Very bewitching, too, she was, with that
peculiar manner which it is given to Wild
ows only to attain, and the soft lamp-Iight
stealing through rose-colored shades, and
-astoring to her yet rounded cheek the
night, delicious bloom of early youth
F.ol at least the one-hundredth time she
picked up Il little note lying on the table
before her, and glanced sQver the bold,
nascpline-looking lines, with soft laugh,
which, in spite OF her efforts, would end in
sigh.
Ike all Of her sex, the fair relict Of Jo-
=aph Derwent, banker, had wandered
Enough little romance entirely uncon-
nected with the aforesaid Joseph Derwent
Where she first met George 8omers
I'm unable to say, and with that we Ahave
nothing to do. But speedily filtration
Of the most desperate kind sprang up be
.an them, and one night, at military
a&H where Jenny danced all her partners
>ea, amid the intoxication of waltzing
lowers, the dashiug lieutenant drew
iyom her frank avowal-you all know
tha rest. can'tstop to be sentimental.
Jme went Jenny, con- ngratulating her
selt on being that fortunate specimen of
femininity, an engaged young lady, and
Ling on the perfection Of her lover
PHI aa while stabbing the toilet cushion
with her pins as mercilessly as if she de
5ted in the operation. But, alas the
Jest lail plans Of mice and men gang aft
3e;" or, as Viola more POLITICALLY ex-
2ssed it, The course Of true love did
ever yet run smooth )" and Jenny found
4s- fate no exception to the general rule.
The very next day, while pale and pen
sire from the effects Of first passion, it was
gzvealed to her by her watchful mother
hat she was to marry Joseph Derwent.-
2oor Jenny! Of course she wept, and
owed she wouldn't-what else could any
girl do under the circumstances
IA fat, gouty old grandpapa Marry
him, indeed ?" and then she wept again !;
but mamma stood the pelting of the sum
NOR shower with a degree Of frmness wor-
thy Of a better cause; and when night
came, re-echoed her determination with
zones unchanged as the chime Of bell
from morn till eve. What remained for
Jenny but to reveal the secret Of her be-
sGothed with as much solemnity as if she
lid been communicating the fact that
n.4ndestine marriage had taken place.
Nonsense !" said mamma, when the
laughter vowed with a tragic air, initiated
rom Fanny Kemble, "that she would live
and die true to-sob-"to her"-sob--
sob--"own Georgel,'
"Up go her colors!" cried Uncle Phil,
% sailor "The deuce's in the girl; she's
ID perfect water-spout!'
Mrs Latimer reminded her thateven eff
-.ion cannot exist long fit has nothing
g Itself to feed on, and quoted Keats
.Lovein hut, with water and crust
Heaven preserve us-cinders, ashes,
dust"
IN v2ald have doneso, only she never read \
aaatry, though her daughter did.
Well, the consequences were, that after
@ach useless shedding of salt water, and
a.ay heart-breaking vows and protesta-
-94s back to his post went the lieutenant,
aua mp 10 the altar went Jenny with the
banker, while mamma stood by piously ar
rayol a lavender satin, receiving with a
smile, whose sadness did her infinite cred
it, the congratulations Of her friends, who
al @hispered among themselves, "The luck
some iolks!"
Na Mill pass over the interlude Of Jen-
married life in the silence it best de-
-fyes She had laid her banker in the
samlly vault, from whence, according to
commonplace philosophers, he was exhal
ing il the form Of noxious gases, to poison
ta air for his not inconsolable partner
cry angrateful in the old fellow; when
2ot him under the gropnd, why could
9s il therequiet?
neither Jenny griefsurviyed the hum
ara existence she led for eighteen years
inner party to the same prosy six old /
2.ahelors and plunled dowagers. every
thursday, followed regularly BY long whist
nc evening, without even tie consola-
.9a Of knowing that her partner was dis