South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-06-27
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ROMNEY. FRIDAY, JUNE 27. 1870.
WHY THEY PARTED.
BY FLORENCE III. DIHNEY.

Il hear that you are paying Miss Grey.
son great deal OF attention. Felix do
you mean anything scrious?'
AS Mrs. Dayton spoke. she handed
her son a cup OF coffee over the cosy
breakfast table, and smiled pleasantly.
Felix Dayton colored to the roots of
his fair hair. He hesitated for q mo-
ment, and then spoke in manly way
which was characteristic Of him.
Il mean TO ask her To be my wife, moth
er. and hope you do not object to my
doing so.'
IL was now Mrs. Dayton's turn to hes
itatc. What mother ever feels pleasure
in giving up her son to another woman !?
and knowing that that other woman will
be the first to be considered always (!
that hereafter tho mother will hold a Sc
condary place in the heart Of tue son
But Mrs Dayton was not a selfish wo-
man. neither was she inclined to jealousy
though pang OF what was almost re.
grct did strike her heart as she heard
Felix's answer. She hesitated in her re.
ply to him because she thought he had
been in haste in his love.making. and
did not know Charlotte Greyson suin-
GENTLY we'll to trust his happiness in her
keeping, his honor in her hands.
Il must not object to anything which
will further your happiness, Felix. she
said ut length, when she saw that her 81.
lence was becoming annoying to her son.
Il trust you are sure OF your own feel
ings, however, AMI have reason TO be-
lieve that your happiness and welfare
would he Miss GreysoE's first considera-
ton always
Il think she loves me, mother Felix
said, the bright color still burning on his
cheek. and | have seen enough OF her
to feel sure that she would make me q
turc wife,
i had other plans for you, Felix, but
Of course l cannot be the one 10 choose
wife for you; ought not To expect it.
Still. did hope you might lenrnin time
to like Dorothy. for she is so sweet. and
SO amiabe. and, above all, the very cs-
sence OF neatness'
Felix Dayton laughed aloud.
My dear mother, what an odd express
| sion to use But though like Dorothy
| very much, she would not suit me rs a
wife, in spite OF her being SO amiable
and neat. But is not Charlotte also n
combination OF ami ability and neat-
nessY'
L sincerely hope so if she is to be
your wife, Felix. j verify believe
should turn in my coiIin if dust should
collect on this furniture, and mice and
reaches eat the linen, after am dead
| and you have this house.
And Mrs. Dayton glanced about the
we'll furnished. exquisitely neat dining
room with par6onable pride.
You must not talk of diving for fifty
years yet said Felix. Charlotte and
| Will want you keep house for us; and
! you can be OF great benefit in teaching
her how to manage things just as YOU
do; for you have the incest house i'm
Bayswater, and are proverb 70: neat
ness
Well, I was brought up TO abhor dust
and disorder. and Dorothy has been
trained just as was. So
Felix interrupted his mothers speech
by sprinsing up from his chair, and
kissing her playfully.
Say no more about little Dorothy,
mother. Let the name Of Charlotte be
on your lips, and then you will please
me. i know that if am so fortunate
as to win her, you will he able to find
no fault with my choice and taking his
hat from table near by, the young man
left the house.
Mrs. Dayton rang the hell for the SER
want to remove the breakfast dishes, and
then threw herself into an easy chair by
the open window, and fell into deep
revery. She was not n woman who was.
ted many minutes in lille thought. Her
plump. white hands were generally az
busy as her brain but this morning her
heart bal been stirred TO an unusual de-
gree by her SONS declaration ofhis love
for Charlotte Greyson, and she felt wor.
ried and anxious. She had wished that
Felix might chooselittle Dorothy Church
. for a wife. for she knew that tile young
girl was calculated TO make any man
happy in the trying state Of matrimony.
But II was not TO be so : Felix had fall
en- in love with stranger, n young lady
who had been in Bayswater only one
summer, anil was therefore little known
TO Bayswater people. Indeed. Mrs Day.
ton bad never spoken TO Charlotte GREY.
son. she bad met her at church and at
the Charitable Fair, hut had not sought
an introduction. IIa1 she known that
Felix was losing his heart 10 this tall,
dark-eyed handsome girl. she would
have made Efforts to become acquainted
with her, and thus formed some esti-
mate Of her character. She was too wise
mother TO urge upon her son the adj
visibility OF reflection and deliberation.
and she knew Felix was too proud to
seek TO know aught that his beloved did
not tell him.
III she is at all clever, she can blind
him TO all her fouILs, Mrs. Dayton sigh.
ed. just az the door opened. and a curly,
golden heal, crowned with fat straw
hat. was ulrus: in.
Well. Aunt Dayton. never before
saw you idle cried Dorothy, to whom
the curly head and fat hat belonged.
one by birth and the other by purchase.