The Morning herald., 1877-10-16
your fatherly protection for my RosalieP'

your fatherly protection for my RosaheF
Gresham entreated. ...,.a.
eFear not for her." was the baronets re-
ply. "Quit the kingdom, and when you are
securely beyond reach of the laws you have q
may be able to obtain your par I
don for last nights unhappy affair" 6
"Generous; noble hearted man + Arthur
gratefully exclaimed, ri will write soon to
Rosalie-ten her so, and bid her have no
fears for me, and that you will labor, that
NAV soon return to her, and to behold. and
to embrace, the little baby-boy that has
been born to us-Oh comfort her, sir!" the
young husband continued, speaking as from
the first, very rapidly and with powerful
emotion. "Assrre her that soon we shall
be reunited, to be sundered not again while
life shall last to us!' i
eeIrust Rosahe to her fathers care, and
have no fear; again say" the baronet
loudly, and earnestly said; then he added,
aurriedly, and as if suddenly struck with
some new alarm: "If you would not render
your escape hopeless and impossible, inger
not here moment longer!
"Farewell hope, a brief farewell, and,
Heaven bless you sir" Arthur cried, as he
turned his horse, and was about to quit the
court yard. Il
At that moment, two Of the men who had
been charged to arrest him, and whom Slr
Jonas had, but the moment before, missed
from the breakfast-room, from which they
had stolen unperceived by the baronet-l
dashed in through the gates, and one on
each side of Arthur, grasped and held the
bride rein Of his horse.
| loI +borv vyhSv1 n with
which to urge his steed forward, and to
shake off the hands which now withheld
him; and with his own wound rendering
him so helpless to struggle with the men,
by whom he now seemed captured, what
could he do? -.
Despair was commencing to invade his
heart. which only an instant before, had
been full Of bright and joyous anticipations,
when the groom hurried in back through
the gates Of the courtyard, and calling out,
81 forgot, Mr.. Gresham, that little touch
. ;1g up is sometimes necessary !-of course
he was alluding to the horse-he handed up
GOOD stout hunting-whip to Arthur, who
lost no time in laying it very freely about
the shoulders of the two men at his horses
head, who with loud outcries, quickly quit
ted their hold Of the rein, and Arthur, again
waving his hand to the baronet, dashed
7 from the court yard, and sent his steed for
4 ward at a rattling galop. :,
] Arthur gone, the baronet turned, intend
= ;ne to reprove his niece, for the eagerness
r which she had shown for the young mans
t capt,lre, but Mistress Augusta Cameltord
d had Quilted the breakfast-room, and had
y gone to her own apartments, which she
Quilted not again, until the following day.
e when she emerged from them, outwardly,
h different being to the fury we have lately
|. seen her. Her face was placid and serene
h in it's expression, her manner tranquil, and
# her speech as calm and gentle as before ii
s- had been wild and boisterous.
6 She expressed her sorrow and regret K
h Sir Jonas, for her unseemly conduct OF th'
10 dav before, and endeavored to excuse. her
If self by saying she had certainly been shock
ID od hv her cousin Rosaie's misalliance witt
/; tho artist, but far more on the baronet's &C
j. co,,nt than on her own, as her uncle woul'
re easily comprehend, she did not doubt; bu
10 now. that Sir Jonas Rathborne had resolves
t, to pardon his daughter, and to accept tn
p son-in-law she had thought proper to thrus
it mon him - however surprised August
'e m;obt be-she had no right, OF course no,
sc to demonstrate, since he whom the matte
= most concerned, had determined on forgive
ness.
There was much in the words and manne
d. too with which Mistress Camelford mad
10 apology for the outrageous way IN wmc
en- she had been acting, which Wouio nav
al greatly displeased, perhaps, a man LEI
a. weak, and less easily to be gulled' tnan wa
ID. Sir Jonas Rathborne; but the good barone
ot was well satisfied with his niece's expians
tn tion, and glad that she and himself were
m, continue as they had now 80 long proceede
oc together, for, as he told Augusta, her con
Is, panionship had become absolutely necessal
ef, to him. and their estrangement would ha,
re proved great affiction, at oil events to IL
ch baronet. ..
ny Mistress Augusta Camelford anxious
ow endured as to how Rosaie was progressln
Sir and was answered by the baronet that n
daughter was doing very well indeed; al
5h- the Old gentleman chuckled, and rubbed h
'h, hands with evident delight as he declare
o. that his newly-arrived grandson was a r.
:ds markably fine little fellow, and that ne r
In ally thought he could already distinguis
to in Rosale's boy likeness to himself.
lry And Sir Jonas thought to himself that
or was well rewarded for having restored h
me daughter to that place in his heart fro
no which she had been so long banished; to
It's not for many year, had he felt SO perfect
LES happy as now he was.
That event which Rosalie had believe
re- would crush her father with the earth, hf
raised him almost to the loftiest pinnacle
a 1ae joy. ,.
his told Augusta; had, indeed, made her s
the premely happy, by assuring her Of his &c