, 1880-03-15
Bending Her Will.

give up. If you yield to him it's all
up with you for the rest of your mar
ried life. And the idea of bride in
her honeymoon being weighted down
with an old grandfather and grand
mother in-law. My whoever heard of
such thing
Mamie Eastlake was bright-eyed
girl of nineteen-a girl who had been
brought up in fashionable boarding
school. She had never known the
peaceful, influences of a home, for she
had lived with Mrs. Sykes Ponsonby,
an aunt who foated on the very top
wave of fashion, and spent her nights
in society and her days in bed. And
the first real heart experience that had
ever happened to her was Donald Au-
brey's love.
Its such an elegant house." said
Mamie. FINISHED in real wood, you
know, and furnished so beautifully.
Turkey carpets and furniture of ebony
and gold, and the tiniest gem of q con-
servatory filled with roses and camel
lias and the sweetest carnations, and
my boudoir all IN pink and silver"
"Of course it's all very 6ne." said
Hero Field, " but you'll never enjoy it
with those horrid, miscEief-making
old antediluvians shifting and prowllng
around. Why not open an asylum for
INDECENT poor at once"
But they are Donald's or nd
parents" pleaded Mamie.
Well, what then -? Let him provide
for them as other people do. His wife
has the first and the only right in his
house, and so I'd tell him if / were
YOU. A mother-in-law would be bad
enough, but this is ten times worse"
81 don't think he ought to expect it
of me-" said Mamie.
"Of course he oughtn't,'' replied
Hero.
So when Mr.. Aubrey came to make
his usual evening call that night, and
Aunt Ponsonby had discreetly made
some excuse for leaving the drawing
room, Mamie broached the subject at
once.
Donald" said she, Give been
thinking"
"Well, dearest ?"
"And I've come to the conclusion y
rather abruptly" that you ought not
to ask me to make home for old Mr..
and Mrs. Vivian"
els it not right and natural, Mamie,
that their home should be with me?'
he asked, his face clouding over lit
tie.
81 dare say it will be very nice for
them,'' said Mamie, with toss OF her
golden head ;; " but how about me?"
"Do you object to it?"
every decidedly, indeed" answered
the pretty young brideelect, ndly
imagining that she had but to lift her
slender finger to win any boon that she
asked of Donald Aubrey.
81 am very sorry" said the young
man calmly. GAS l have decided to
ask them to remain with me, cannot,
of course, permit my wife"
Mamie crimsoned angrily.
But am not your wife yet, Mr..
Aubrey and I will not be your wife
if"
mamie for Heavens sake stop !!
Think what you are saying r
81 mean it p said Mamie hotly. ~
do not choose to marry into nest of
relations in law and SO you may choose
between your grandparents and me y
"Nannle !!
She laughed naughty, constrained
laugh.
g am quite in earnest" said she.
If you really care for me you will
give up this unreasonable caprice OF
yours"
/" Is it unreasonable to honor ones
aged parents ?" he asked, slowly, while
his dark, searching eyes seemed to
read the very secret of her heart. " ls
it a caprice to retain some natural affec-
ton for those who loved and cared for
me when 1 was helpless child 2? If
you think it is, Mamie, 1 have been
sorely mistaken in your character j.
every well, said Mamie, feeling her