The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-12-03
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and fespectaRi ny j 8fnd Of you
IIf you must 8Iaf Ad make d fool
of yourself Why ID marry Colonel
Powell27
Because / do "a like Colonel
Powell, and beca1 like some
one else, Aunt Ethel
- never heard Of such a thing.
tDo you know what pa are sayiug,
Imiss2 Suchttalk, = elh ten YOU, is
IigldY improper; an As for not lik-
Eing C0Iolei Powell, iAt Is nonsense.
EcslsAel Powall has Serything nee;
,Iessary n win any wI bans approba-
Ifleh; n rYold family Fary finp man
hefs, money ondsa idenbef 6f Con
gress besides. Don't you know that
you would spend the winters in
Washington
u declare it does not tempt me a
bit"
sand don't believe that he is a
day more than fifty"
"He is seventy-fve if he is an
hour, and he hobbies and coughs and
is altogether dreadful. ! never, nev.
er, never will marry him"
"Alay ask who, then, is to have
the honor Of becoming my nephew?"
and Miss Ethel sat stiffly down, and
began to carefully re-arrange the
pink satin bows on her white morn.
ing dress.
Eloise sat down opposite 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, flourishing and
paling, and answering every feeling
of the heart.
For some moments Eloise did not
speak, and Miss Ethel Bruce did not
urge her. She sat patiently looking
o.. =
in her niece's face, until that young
lady, finding courage in her despera-
tion, said, with a bland defiance,
"The gentleman who is to have that
honor, dear aunt, is Mr.. Harry Tor
rens."
"Impossible! You would not do
a foolish thing?"
"oh yes, ! would?"
"Do you know who he is?"
"He is-Harry."
ridiculous! Do you know who his
father ISL"
Nor don't want to know him par.
ticularly. Do you know him, Aunt
Ethel?"
"No. | dare say it would be very
improper for me to know such n per-
son. When we first met him last
summer in the North, / don't remem-
Der that he ever named his family"
"Nor l."
"That looks very bad Eloise. Ifa
man has respectable relations, of
course he talks about them"
| don't see that it makes any great
difference to me. do not intend to
marry Harry's relations. l do not
care much about them, anyway
Once he told the that his mother was
dead, and I said mine was too; and of
course we felt sorry for each other,
and all that. But am afraid | am
a 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
you. Pray, what do you intend to
live upon?"
"Harry has two thousand dollars
year."
1.-TWO thousand dollars. a year,
What magnificent income!"
"Don't make fun of us Aunt. /
cannot allow that; indeed I cannot.
We love each other, and shall be
very happy"
Doubtless. May ! ask where Mr..
Torrens is Employed"
"In West & Green's law Office"
II thought he lived in New York.
What brought him here2"
"How should know?" said Eloise,
blushing, and involuntarily drop
ping her voice.
Her aunt watched her curiously,
and shook her head for answer
"Where hnye ynn seen him-fnr |