Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1879-10-16
LOVES TEST.

j am aBtonished, EIoiee after all my
iuhtIuotions os to what society ard 10
spectabihty demand of You. ] y1u must
marry and make fool Of yourself, why
not marry Colonel PoUe}2'
Because | do not like Colonel PJvclI,
aud because like some one else, Auut
Ethel.
j never heard Of such a thing. d.
you know what you are saying, miss
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 appreciation very old family,
very fine manners, elegant residence,
servants, carriage money, and mem
Der Of Congress besiaes. Don't you
know that you would spend the Writer'S
IN Washington p
4 declare it does not tempt me bit. >
May ask who, then, is to have the
honor OF becoming my nephew ard
Miss Ethgl sal stifffy- -stc ~. and hsgan
;--~taiAy rearrn5ge tho pink satin
poWs ON her white morning dress,
Elolse Fat down opposite TO her, and
fingered nervously the rosebuds and iyy
leaves that trimmed her garden hat
lie two women were strangely alike.
only one iaca was forty years old, white
and proud; and the other was only
twenty, flushing and paling and answer.
ing every feeling of the heart.
For some moments Eoise did not
speak, ana Miss Ethel Bruce did net
urge her. She sat patiently, looking
IN her nlece's face, until that young
lady, finding courage in her des,erstion
SAID, with bland defiance, The ceptIe,
man who is TO have that honor. denr
aunt, ia Mr.. Henry TOrrens.'
'lmpossiblel You would not DO such
a foolish thing2'
oh, yes. l would
'Doyou know who he is p
He is-Harry.
Ridiculous Do you k-'w who his
father isf'
mo; don't want + know him par
tic larry. Do y~' AnoW hlm Aunt
No. / dpse aay il wonId be very i'm
proper furme to know such person.
When We first met him last summer in
the North, | dout remember tbat ho
ever named his family
Nor L.
That looks very bad Eloise. If mau .
talks about them
4 don't see that it makes any great
difference to mo. | do not intend to
marry Harry's relations ] 90 not ere
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, snd all that. But
l am afraid / am a little Jealous about
Harry; / 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
uponP'
Harry has two thousand dollars a
year
Two thousand dollars year What
magnificent income +
Don't make fun Of us, aunt; ] cannot
allow that; indeed, / cannot. We love
each other, and shall be very happy.
Doubtless. May | ask where Mr..
Iorrens is employed3
In West & Green's law office.
i thought he lived in New York.
What brought him Eere p
How should | know 2 said Eioise,
blushing ana involuntarlly dropping her
voice.
Her aunt watched her CRtjously, and
shook her heGd fer answer. Where
have you seen him for hope you have
not dared 70 bring him within tho pre-.
cir NhP nee Pace
pEcrcrred n paling OF it.
- 1Thnt kezia's; and / am
sure she would have let cousin L'zzle
rYnrrv him very willingly. She shlnki
n great deal of Harry
Lizzie Bruce Is different. She ha
five little sisters, and my brother Jak'
always spends twenty ont Of an incom
of nineteen. You have GxpectAtions-o
at least had. Ialways intended, if 20
remained unmarried, to leave you th
Bruce Place.
Dear amt, thank you for the inter
tion; but I would rather have Harry.
have little bit Of money OF my owl
have / mott
-Four Thousand dollars; enough to br
vour wedding things and marry you d
centlv For though you 6re going
make such fool of yourself, | shall n
show the white feather sbout it. l mu
pretend to be happy when | am vrete
ed. and receive congratulations that W