The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-11-28

horse, and entering his door-yardi en-
countered the throng Of assembled
guests with an air Of cordial hospitality
which put everybody at ease. To enter
tain a crowd, aud get all the credit an,
glory Of il when the effort costs you
nothing but the exhibition Of LITTLE
pomposity, is a task which has occa'
stoned many word of hearty commen-
dation for other men besides Captain
/ Emerson from their delighted guests.
But, if the guests were pleased with the
/ Captain and delighted with his cordial
ity of manner, they were equally dis
gusted with the cold, unfeeliug manner
With which his wife accosted him.
'You have come at last. have you,
pap ," she said. 81 lowed I'd have to
send the sheriff after you"
Then she returned to the supervision
Of her tables, which had been tastefully
spread under some stately oaks in the
yard, and which she was over Jealous
to keep in perfect order for the approach
ing feast.
THE world is very unequally divided, -
remarked the elder Anders to his wife,
aside. 81 only hope that Lille Emer-
son will be like her father. For should
she have her mothers disposition,
there's precious little comfort in store
for Johu."
II was not the fault of Mrs. Emerson
that her guests so misjudged her, as the
reader knows. Yet her guests did not
know, and so they partook Of her toll
and bounty in all uncharitablene-s, aud
looked upon her jovial lord as a martyr
10 connubial uusuitableness.
AS Lille stood before the altar and
Joined her hand with Johns and spoke
the fitting vows, it was as though a
death knell had tolled the words in ner
ears. And John, poor fellow, listened to
the soft responses Of his new sister
Grace, as though they were so many
words of molten lead poured into his
own unresistiug heart.
OF course, my reader will declare that
such a union was both foolish aud
wicked. Each had deceived the other,
and both were deceived in imagining
that they would thus make each other
happy over the graves OF their own bur
led affections.
Grace acknowledged her new relation
to her husbands parents with becom-
ing dignity. II she did not love her
husband with the deep devotion Of
which her nature was capable, she GER
tainly loved no other, aud was therefore
not aware but that she was acting bon
estly with herself
Lille, who had been sad and alb
stracted till after the marriage service,
rallied, and was soon the gayest Of the
/ throng. Nobody should know she
was not happy" she thought. "And
least Of all should her husbands par
ents suspect it,"
Mrs. Emerson had no time for seuti-
ment or the luxury OF sadness. Hell
marvel Of a dinner followed the brida
ceremony in quick succession, and she
willingly waited upon everybody, mol
10y any means excluding the three --cor,
children who attended the feast, aut
who were compelled to await their turr
at the second and third tables. But th,
good wOman's supplies We're apparently
as inexhaustable as the Captains hu
NOR, and all, indeed, "went merry as
marriage bell" at least, so the reveler
imagined, and so il would have been il
reality but for the fact that human du
plicity had marred the choicest oppor
tuuities for the young peoples haPpi
ness, and placed the seal Of human fla
upon their future prospects, thus caus
ing the mistake OF an hour to becom
the calamity Of lifetime.
Il was extremely difficult for the sen
ior Snowden to control the feyerish anx
iety under which he labore1 till tn
deed for one thousand acres Of the En-
erson realty was duly signed, eonveye'
aud delivered, in fee simple. 10 the con
troll aud custody Of Alonzo Snowden
junior, and Grace Amanda, his wife
Then a check for fifteen thousand dol
lars in gold coin, also drawn in favor o
the young husband and wife, was place,
10 the hands Of the parties interested, a
a present from the young mans par
ents, after which the elder Snowden de
parted in a carriage for their city home
leaving the young couple with a pape
foundation for future wealth, upol
which the bride builded reasonable ex
pectations, in spite Of her dissatisfaction
at the existing arrangements betweel
her husband and her parents. TO In,
making Of which she had not been con
sidered as anything but a silent part
ner.
The parents Of John Anders readil,
accepted the profered hospitality Of IN
Emersons, and remained overnight. ac
= eompauyiug their son and daughter-iu
y "a" home on the following day, an
- ~iSely reiraining, as did the parents q
l"e orlde' from any consideration Z
., ',l1'iela' settlements till the honeymoo
- shouiu De over, or at least begun.
W Lime could not help being nleass
20 with the homeof her husband,s -,
Allow, rambling cottage set upon +. -,
er ing lawn that lay with its sunny sif
te toward the river, where a painted ferr
boat with ropes and pulleys piled busi
j. between companion banks, fringed wi
t. alder and hazel underground.