Litchfield enquirer., 1878-01-24

best of my ability, exhorted him to patience and politeness and went upstairs that night resolved to pour out all my vials of wrath upon Miss Kitty That was yesterday evening" and I got up at four o'clock this morning to write this long letter to you. 1hope you will appreciate the fact and return the compliment accordingly.
 have laid away the Texan flowers that you sent me in little casket where I keep few other souvenirs known only to myself, = a faded geranium, 8 tiny sprig of heliotrope, and the note that some 03le sent with it.
 While l am away from mamma there will be no danger of discovery, So do write often, for get positively frantic when don't hear from you. ..- have nothing to comfort me but the mem ory of that last evening we spent at uncle Huntley's, sitting together under the eIrns, with the delicate, mysterious perfume of the grape blossoms floating around us, and the moon casting long shaftsof light between the leafy aisles. I came upon withered cluster of grape blossoms few days ago, and asI lifted 1t the heeting perfume recalled the scene with such vividness that for a moment fan cied could hear again 8 beloved voice beside me and feel again your last kiss on my cheek.
 Oh, Fred, for my sake at least, if not for your owns take care of yourself Remember that there is some one waiting and praying at home for this dreadful suspense to be over, and think of her.
 Yours forever, MARION.
 (Kitty -Carton to Belle Pe0rsom.)
 IDALIA, July 6, 1S-.
 DEAREST BELLE,-I received your letter on- ly last night, and hasten to answer it, for l know how provoking it is to be waiting for worsteds to be matched, and hope this will suit you.
 How sudden the death of Mr. Huntly was And how nice it will be for Marion to have fortune, for, although they lived nicely, it never seemed to me that they were particular ly well off. She left here very suddenly. When the telegram came for her it was only fifteen minutes before the train started for the West, and you can imag zine the hustle that fol- lowed, one girl cramming her valise with all the essentials we could think of, another but toning her shoes, and the elegant Mr. Stuy vesant 80 excited by all this as actually to run to the stables to order the carriage.
 The AdOnis is quite inconsolable as is allow able in a polite young gentleman. If some body doesn't have an invitation to take pos session of the Stuyvesant mansion after the proper time for mourning has expired then lose my, guess. MT. stuyvesant wouldn't for the world violate any of the prophecies of life,
  ances for anything beyond them.
 I wonder whether Marion will take him. used to think that Fred White was pretty fond of her, andshe of him but Fred's off in Tex as, and girl can't be expected &O stand that kind of thing forever. Marrying MT. Stuyves- ant, with his wealth and position, would be very different thing from waiting four or five years for Fred White to be able tosupport her, and running the gauntlet every day of her life from Mrs Hallet and Sue. feel so sorry for Fred. If there ever aoGs any one that deserved good wife it was he, and to have Marion mislead him in this way would be cruelty false. Well, hope she'll think better of it.
 We're rather glum party just now besides Mir. Stuyvesant, for Angie has the neuralgia and is horrid cross,-when the gentlemen are not around Frank Hendley is afflicted with great depression of spirits,-Tm sure don't see what's the matter with hina; and Frank Seabury always was little mouse so that MT. Raymond and have to keep up our spirits for all the rest.
 And really, Belle, though it's very nice to be tasRtsf bspte pd M ttht Regn to think that lsos1uy Were you can use al pounds of the article slowed away some- where under the rafters.
 like man who can talk with me sensibly sometimes, and who can pay me compliment
 
 even object to quarrelling with him once in while; but heaven defend me from one where have to be continually crawling up mental step- ladder to get at him.
 I don't see what Angie would do with him after she got him for, although 1 know but precious little, my stock of brains is consider able larger than hers is. She'd have to put him in the library, labeled like the specimens no one knows anything about, ''Vir America nus, species poeticus ct scientificus."
 But mamma Putnam wouldn't say anything about it's being obtained with great care and expense" would she?
 Please give my love to Marion, and tell her we are very dull without her. hopeshe will come back, if only for few days. Tell her Mr. Stuyoesgat is perfectly heart-brOken. And in about a week more, you may think of me as taking leave of Idalia and it's inhabitants, and going home. Yours most truly,
 KITTY.
 (Narion to Fred)
 IDAL1A, July, 12, 19-.
 DEAR FRED,-I have just received your last letter. and late as it is, cannot rest until have answered your unjust reproaches.
 Yes, it is true that like Frank. l will go farther and tell the truth am 0ery .t01ad of Frank, and have come back to. Idalia for the express purpose of seeing him. But oh, Fred, how can you be so unreasonable as to think that any girl could fall in love with any one whom she had played with ever since she was in pinafores! How could you be so insane as to suppose that even the evil spirit of f1irtation which 1 am aware is one of my besetting sins, could e0er lead me in ever so slight way to- ward Frand Hendley, when might have you! There ! any one who wasn't appeased by such unsuitable deed.
 After such unjust suspicious as have been entertained against me, don't think it's fair that some one should be told how at sunset the time when we promised to think of each other,-when the great golden orb of day has slowly departed, carrying with it all the plans for work and pleasure that have filled the time; when the rose-colored light slowly dies out of the air and the water, and going seems to leave everything suddenly desolate, how then I think of some one alone, away out on the Texan prairies, with such unutterable long ing that it seems as though could give all that I ever possessed to be by his side.
 And now to accuse me of flirting! But trust me, please, Fred, for beyond you, now that my uncle is dead, 1 have very few to rely on.
 can't tell you exactly the position in which l have stood at home; it would seem neither honorable nor filial. It was not because 1 was ashamed of my lover that asked for secret engagement, not exactly because doubted my own. courage, but from 8 mixture of motives that you may perhaps understand when you are better acquainted with the family. However that may be, all necessity for con cealment now is past. have enough for botl ] now, Fred, and if you are to marry an heiress l it is necessary that you should get her before the lawyers spend all the money. Mamma is bent on going to Europe next month, but won't start before October at the earliest Don't you think it is your duty to come north before that We shall be at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York, and all let ters addressed to that point will reach us. If you can't trust your betrothed, the only thing l that remains to you, poor unfortunate, is tc come up and see to her yourself. Yours most truly,
 MARION HALLErT. (Kitty CartOn to Belle PearsOn.) IDALfA. July 13, ,18-, DEAREST BELLE,-I must tell you all that has happened, or burst. Pm 80 mad Marior and have had an awful fuss, s,-perfectly aw. ful! I've said all the mean things to her tha I could think of, and the only thing I'm SOFT, l Fo~ ;c +Lo% d;l,1,t ula I,ar ,3 4ba fooo