The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-11-04
Pen BRADsnAWE.

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eyes, sir-yes, MI. Give soulard,
I've made up my mind. IF you are bent
on marrying woman who doesn't care
one fig for you, you are at liberty to do
So"
every we'll, Pen
Mr.. Give Soulard spoke very quietly,
and bent his handsome eyes on the girl
with an expression of mingled nonchal-
ance and amusement.
IT don't consider it very well, Mr..
Soulard, she went on, nettled by his
quietude. ut may be very well for
you, who marry me for my money, and
so get all you want. It's bad, and
wicked, and cruel, and you know it. !"
ssAh Indeed, Pen, was not aware
that the advantages of this arrangement
were not mutual. I am sure supposed
it aspurely business matter on both
Sides"
"To be sure, but you have everything
else to gain, and I everything to lose"
The shadow Of q flush arose in Give
Soulards cheek, but it was gone before
Penelope Bradshawe saw it, and he
answered, in the light, careless tone he
nau uSeQ all along:
eff you mean by gain that I give up
poverty for wealth, the miseries Of
bachelorhood for married blessedness, I
don't know but what you're right as to
that but even then what do gain that
you don't? You can have the money
without me more than I can have the
money without you, and really, Pen, if
you are as lovely as q Peri, I think I
may lay claim to the good looks of An
tinous -eh, Pen?" running his slender
white fingers through the halo of bronze
brown c1lrls that covered his handsome
head, and sending q laughing glance
into the mirror opposite that reflected
face beautiful almost as woman's.
"Tush," said Pen, coloring with i'm
patience, ct don't think that this is any
time to talk nonsense and make fun
'tPerhaps not" he replied, with a
hopelessly comicl sigh s.but I can't
help being jolly, dear. It isn't every
day one gets fortune and q wife in q
breath, and without the trouble of asking
for her either"
"You haven't got the wife yet, Give
Soulard; and if you we're o man you
wouldn't take her on such conditions"
"Conditions? I didn't know there
were any. It's the money that is con-
ditional. not the WIFE,"
Poor Pen was ready to cry with vex-.
alton. The handsome, provoking fellow
only laughed ut her whatever she said.
She might protest as much as she
liked against the match which
her unclo had planned SO arbi-
trarily, making the inheritance of his
money conditional on these two marry
ing. Give Soulard only laughed at her,
and made jesting responses to all her
appeals.
Penelope Bradshawe had been brought
up as the adopted child and heiress of
her uncle, Reese Bradshawe. A year
before, this uncle had died, leaving q
will, which was not to be opened till he
had been dead twelve months.
That will, being read at the appointed
time, proved to contain the somewhat
arbitrary dictum that his beloved niece
should not have his money without she
married his beloved cousin, Give Sou
lard, the said Give being still single at
the opening of the will.
Pen Bradshawe was an exceedingly
pretty girl, but contrary, captious and
sef-willed, as pretty girls are apt to be-,
and she frowned in the most decided
manner upon the unexpected tenor OF
her uncle's will. If he had given Give
half the property she wouldn't have
minded, but to force her to make her
choice between poverty and Clive-to
oblige saucy little firt like her to
marry anybody-was abominable.
She forgot, even in her own mind, tc
add to the sum of her grievances on the
subject the fact that the provoking will
cut short the most delightful little firta.
ton Miss Pen had ever INDUCED in.
She had known Give all her, life; in
deed, they were distant cousins, ant
Olive had spent good share of his boy
hood, and most of his vacations, during
school and college days, at Uncle Brad
shawe's house, where pretty Pen alter
nately petted and plagued the life GU
Of him.
It was bad enough to be snubbed ani
coaxed by so pretty q girl as Pen while
he was in jackets and she in pinafores
but to have such a state of affairs con
4 tnue- well, it was so highly unpleasant
to Mr.. Give Soulard that he could no
conceal his exultation at the turn which
was necessarily given to affairs by thu
terms Of Uncle Reese's will.
He at once stopped the suppliant air
and became nonchalant, careless, and a
his ease provokingly SO one must al
low, under the circumstances. Pei
Bradshawe could hardly be blamed 70
not liking the tables turned upon her il
this summary manner
She persisted that she did not lik
Olive one bit, not in that way, but sh
could not give up her heirship and b
apoor sewing girl like Kitty Bryce, or
sic-teacher like Ellen Steele, or i
short, be poor at all, and 50 she toll
Give that she would marry him for tina
reason and no other, if he had mind
take her. knowing that she did not Low
him, and never expected to, and that sh
thought it q shameful piece Of bushes
altogether cruel conspiracy against
poor girl who couldn't help herself
while he could.
For her part. she should be afraid
marry anybody that felt toward he
as she did toward Give Soulard, etc
studying to say whatever she judged WI
best calculated to provoke her prospe,