The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-10-30

three names were like ghosts to Mr.
Westcut he was afraid of them.
"Good heavens !" he murmured,
wiping the perspiration from his brow
in the open air, Mrs. Westcut's rela-
ions!-Mrs. Pinkingham Powell-Miss
Mariana Theresa Elroy BLESS me, if
they should condescend to visit my
wife What on earth should we do ?'
1 have said these names were like
ghosts to Mr.. Westcut. They We're
worse. No ghost ever haunted an un-
happy mortal as these names had, for
fifteen summers and winters, haunted
him. Let us glance at his matrimonial
history for an explanation.
Mrs. Westcut was an Elroy-Mariana
Theresa was her cousin Mrs. f. Pink
ingham Powell was Mariana Theresa's
sister. Now the Elroys-as Mr.. West
cut piously believed = were an ancient,
aristocratic race. Mr.. Westcut was also
conscious of everlasting obligations to
Mrs. Westcut-who, as said before, was
an Elroy-for honoring his family by
union with him. But there was one
unpleasant circumstance, which caused
MIR. Westcut frequently to regret that
Mrs. Westcut was an Elroy. The con-
nection had failed to elevate him to a
level with that aristocratic race, and
Mrs. Westcut had never been able
wholly to forgive herself, for suffering
love to bring her : an Elroy-down to
a plane with the Westcuts. And from
the day of their marriage nay, from
the earliest period of their acquaintance,
when Virginia Elroy, appearing as a
stranger in Copely, won Orville West
cuts affection-she had never ceased to
dwell upon the wide distinction between
their families.
Yes" said she, with sigh, when
brought to consent to become his wife,
eyes, it is fate. 1 must sacrifice family
to Lowell" And .Orville was grateful
When they were married, she sighed
again, and said:
{" should like to visit my family, if L
thought they would forgive me; but
they are proud-proud! !"
And when the happy pair' had be-
come domesticated in the respectable,
but by no means ancient, mansion of
the Westcuts, Orville was forever
haunted by the ghosts of the Elroys.-
Night and morning, they were ever pres
ent. If he had the nightmare, they
were, in some manner, concerned in it !;
if he was troubled with hypochondria,
they were responsible. They stalked in
upon him at breakfast = they over
shadowed the dinner table-they were
served up by Mrs. Westcut Qate Elroy)
at tea. He grew thin upon them. Had
he been man of weak intellect, he
must inevitably have become insane
Whenever Mrs. Westcut desired a new
dress, she had only to say in presence of
her husband:
go, dear what would Mrs. Pinking-
ham Powell say, if she should see an
Elroy in such frightful duds as L am
obliged to wear ?' And Orville's purse
was opened. If the poor man was so
unfortunate as to do anything displeas-
ing to Virginia, she had only to say:
go, dear if you was a little more
like Mr.. Frederick Pinkingham Powell.
But it is useless to talk" And Orville
eXerted himself at once to conform to
her beau ideal of husband feeling
guilty, l suppose, on account of his pre-
sumption when he aspired to unite him
self-a Westcut-with one of the race Of
Elroy.
On one occasion, Virginia, becoming
disgusted with the ancient fashion of
the vehicle in which the family rode to
church, desired carriage of modern
style; and delicately limiting that never
before had one of the name of Elroy
stopped to appear in such box, and
that she felt remorse for the disgrace
brought upon the family, through her,
she succeeded in touching Orville's
heart. A fashionable vehicle was bought
the shades of the Elroys were APP
peased.
After being haunted by the names of
Virginia's relations for fifteen winters
and summers, as said before, it is barely
possible to conceive of Mr.. Westcuts
agitation in seeing three of them writ
ten in full in the book of the Copely
Hotel 1t struck Orville that he could
never bear up under the indignation OF
these outraged relations of Mrs. West
cut. On his way home, he was driven
almost to the verge of distraction with