The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-10-30
A LITTLE FOOL.

II am astonished, Eloisei after all
my instructions as to what society and
respectability demand of you. If you
must marry and make q fool of your
self, why not marry Colonel Powell?"
because I do not like Colonel Pow
ell. and because Like some one else,
Aunt Ethel" -1ffr vr4r.E
81 never heard of such o thing. Do
you know what you are saying, missP
Such talk, can tell you. is highly i'm
proper; and as for not liking Colonel
Powell, that is nonsense. Colonel Pow
ell has everything necessary to win any
woman's approbation-yery old family,
very fine manners, elegant residence,
servants. carriage, money, and a MEM
Der Of Congress besides. Don't you
know that you would spend the winters
in Washington" "-1~ rTp .'~'.'
II declare it does not tempt me a
bit.'' r....s- .-..--, ..-,s-- o..
"And don't believe that he is day
more than fifty"
"He is seventy-five if he is an hour,
and he hobbies and coughs, and is alto
gether dreadful. never, never, never
will marry him."
"May ask who, then, is to have the
honor of becoming my nephewP" and
Miss Ethel sat stiffiy down, and began
to carefully re-arrange the pink satin
bows on her white morning dress.
Eloise sat down opposite to her, and
fingered nervously the rose-buds and
ivy leaves that trimmed her garden hat.
The two women were strangely alike,
only one face was forty years old, white
and proud; and the other was only
twenty, flushing and paling. and an
swering every feeling OF the heart.
For some moments Eloise did not
speak, and Miss Ethel Bruce did not
urge her. She sat patiently looking in
her niece's face, until that young lady,
finding courage in her desperation, said,
with bland defiance, :" The gentleman
who is to have that honor, dear aunt, is
Mr.. Henry Torrens."
"Impossiblel You would not do such
foolish thing?'
80 yes, I would"
"Do you know who he isp'
"He is-Harry."
Ridiculous! Do you know who his
father isp''
"No. don't want to know him par
ticplaslyy. Do you know him. Aunt
"No. dare say it would be very
improper for me to know such per-
son. When we first met him last sum-
mer in the North. don't remember
that he ever named his family"
"Nor l." -'H-t '.l'l' - ''-le-
"That looks very bad. Eloise. If q
man has respectable relations, of course
he talks about them" ....-.,..
al don't see that it makes any great
difference to me. / do not intend to
marry Harry's relations. do not care
much about them, anyway. Once he
told me that his mother was dead, and
said mine was too; and of course we
felt sorry for each other, and all that.
But am afraid / am little Jealous
about Harry; l would just as lief be the
only person in. the world who had any
right TO love him as not"
"You make me feel hopeless about
uponP'
"Harry has two thousand dollars a
1.-TWO thousand dollars year! What
q magnificent incomer' --,.
Don't make fun of US, aunt; can
not allow that; indeed l cannot. We
love each other, and shall be very
happy"
"Doubtless. May ask where Mr..
Torrens is employedP"
"In West & Green's law office"
al thought he lived in New York.
What brought him here?"
How should knowp" said Eloise,
blushing. and involuntarily dropping
her voice. --.-.-r-.-
Her aunt watched her curiously, and
shook her head for answer. "Where
have you seen him-for hope you have
not dared to bring him within the pre-
cincts of Bruce Place." -.rr...1.,-
"He has never touched paling of it.
met him at Aunt Kezia's; and / am
sure she would have let Cousin Lizzie
marry him very willingly. She thinks
| q great deal of Harry" -a-5 d
"Lizzie Bruce is different. She has
five little sisters, and my brother Jake
always spends twenty out of an income
of nineteen. You have expectations
or at least had. l always intended, II
you remained unmarried, to leave you
the Bruce Place."
"Dear aunt. thank you for the inten-
ton; but I would rather have Harry.
have a little bit of money of my own,
nave notP"
"About four thousand dollars; jus,
enough to buy your wedding things,
and marry you decently. For though
| you are going to make such a fool OF
| yourself, l shall not show the white
feather about it. must pretend to be
happy when l am wretched, and re-
ceive congratulations that will nearly
choke me; but such trials are part and
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