Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-05-01
"Not much !" calculated Harry.

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language of the coming man; slang Is
universal word d-painting; slang-but
wander from the subject. Listen. listen,
ladies gay, and ! will point n moral and
adorn n tale for your infant minds. /
! fell in love over head and ears and the
top of my tallest hair with Nan Boyd
when was twelve years old and she was
ten. | spent my little NIL in candy and
peanuts Tor her sweet sake; | wrote her
n valentine, and made her string of
birds eggs three feet long--a rosary o
despair to the gentle birds | robbed !
paid for tin-typc Of her sweet face with
my last copper and iackknifc that |
loved like a brother; but she refused me
after all, though implorcd her to clopc
with me in the milk wagon. Lo as the
Yorkshire man said. only tother end
first, She wouldn't have hc, dye see?
forwhy now, he won't have shep The
moral Of all which il, Rachel, don't snub
Tom Green too much now, lest he should
turn and rend you by-and-by."
~ hate Tom Green" rctortcd Rachel.
Harry laughed But Philip Norton
could not speak he fairly trcmblcd with
a relief .f mind almost painful in its
intensity. Harry did not notice his 81
lencc, and Ruth went on:
But ] should think you would want
| W Iish y I'i, llshI , 'i'N - q" iNi
pretty
"Oh, Toot. awful pretty and you
talk to me about slang! My dear. your
glass house will become fragmcntary in
about five minutes If you 60 on
Don't you like her, Harry asked
Rachel, always direct.
Yes, miss, | like her, but | don't
want to marry her
Don't people ever marry people when
they don't want TOP" said Ruth
perhaps they do. ma am. but don't
consider that am people. BY Jovc! I'd
rather spin ropes out Of sca-sand than
tic myself up that way Ask the minis
ter here If lac don't agrrc with me.
Philip reused himself from his dream
at the appeal, but the question had TO be
/ repeated.
Ruth"
But what il you'd got married by
mistake. just rs those people did in the
/ newspapers. for fun-but really they
I were married-what would YOU do?h
/ asked Rachel, persistcnily.
| MAKE the best Of it, laconiCally
answered Philip.
! Bad is the best of such mistake.
/ Phil. Are there no divorce courts. my
/ friend and pitchcr?n
Philips face darkoncd. " Not for me.
/ lf | had married Ilccntc by mistake. as
Rachel says. ! would try and make the
best of her Anything rather than di-
ynrc": that is unchri~tian and unmanly
both
Good for you, parson' You haven't
forgotten your old trick Of accepting the
position. Make the best OF IL. was the
theme Of this distinguished gcntlcman's
F r.l. III L. -
glorious day when hc became the proud
pnases.Or Of q shoopsl,in. like the immor-
tai Brian DIynn. ouly the woolly side
was out; hc pulled that over the prnl,s,-
-or's cyy-. and thereby got All the hunurs.
while my modest worth went unrc.
waplcd. "
Here the gate swung open. lust In time
20 prevent further hurst of Harry, clp-
qucncc, and = hoy with telegram came
up to them. II was for Philip. One 81
his most valued friends and supporters
in the church wa dying. after brief
illness: h" must sco Mr. Norton. There
was NO delay possible. and in the morn
ing, very early. Philip went, leaving
such adicus a. he could for Harry to de-
liver and carrying with him n triumph
ant sense that neither honor nor honesty
need seal his lips now ho could tell Nan
lsoyd the love that possessed and con-
sumcd him. and surely so stringent n
passion must compel return.
But he found his friend in the very
agonics OF death aud in the atmosphere
OF grief and pain that surrounded him.
after the solemnity Of death. in the care
and help of the furloru family. and the
services OF burial more than n week
passed away before he could write the
important letter. and when It was once
gone his courage failed. suspense rackcd
and tortured him, hc could not cat or
sleep and on the fourth day hc sat be-
fore the beginning of his sermon totally
unable to grt further than the first sen
tcncc. waiting fcvcrishly for the letter
70 bring him life or death But the mcs-
sage was mcruifui n swcctpr letter. 10
his thought, was never written; modest.
rcticrni. yctwith y tone uf d0p feeling,
I it promised Ia the heart Ear more than \
said 90 the eve. and put him into q state
of grateful rapture that Crcpt into the
delayed sermon. and made q sensation in
( the parish when thai prcaariuus dis
course WIS at lcngth finished and do
/ liycrcd. For a few weeks frequent let
I tors were exchanged, but. at the iady's
request, nothing was said of nny fixed
engagement; she wished. she said. to
know little better the man TO whom
d ifl iuAbiF itAF hlN-A Nt iHhNNN4 INiNn
I had heard that VIII Bovd had not been
/ altogether devoted TO his wife. and ap-
I prcciatcd 1T once the sense and dclicacy
of her reserved expression Of feeling in
/ the matter. In September he received a
/ brief note. following long letter, to say
/ that she and her cousin had both been
/ called To California TO n ister-in-law's
/ hurried wedding. Dr. Clarke was 10 60
with them as escort and groomsman to
! his old friend DR.. Eldridgc and Nan
wished Mr.. Norton to know that they
were going-would be gone when the
note reached him--in order to account
/ for his own letters being unanswered
/ for their brief stay in San Francisco
would not permit the mails to be use
| ful to them. II seemed as If fate sported
with poor Philip, for not two days
| passed before lac, too. received summons
/ 10 travel directly tire other way; his only
/ u,tr9 In, Efsr.,txn x.=aa aas.,1