Connecticut western news., 1880-09-22
THE THROCKMORTONS.

"And so you are going to marry MT. Theodore Throckmorton ?" said Aunt Jane, with sniff of disapproval.
 "Yes, I believe I am," answered Rose.
 stThe Throckmortons were always @ stif-necked race. Twish you we'll, Rose T wish you well but don't care to have one of my girls marry in the family
 Rose forbore to answer that her girls were in no danger of marrying into any family.
 "Yes," she pursued, "they'ye always had filthy lucre enough-always their winch the cellar, and their capon on the spit, and their brocades and diamonds for the confusion of the neighbors. There was General Throckmorton, who used to lock his wife up in the old mansion-house, when he went to court, for fear she would enjoy herself too much. Who knows but your MT. Theo- dore is chip off the old block? A tyrannical set, the Throckmortons were, never at peace with their wives. There was Tristram, the first member of Con- gress from this district, or State, or whatever it was in those days-well, he married the prettiest fool, and he broke her heart, and they used to say that her ghost wandered about the old mansion house that @ young lady who was visit ing there years after-visiting his sons wife-met her in the corridor, dressed in an old-fashioned changeable silk, with an ancient brass candlestick and lighted candle in her hand, holding it up to look at the portraits on the wall. Oh, l know the Throckmortons, root and branch"
 "But Theodore doesn't belong to this branch," said Rose, who was used to Aunt Jane's tirades.
 "They all come from one stock-all from one stock; masterful people, the Throckmortons, carrying, all before them; walking over friend if he stands in the way, breaking the hearts oi women. I've even heard say that you1 MT. Theodore, with all his soft manners never got on with his wives."
 "You speak as if he had had harem Aunt Jane," cried Rose. Theodore has never been married but once ant if he didn't get on with her-which don't believe-it must have been hel fault"
 "I wish you well, Rose but Tn thankful that neither Ellen or Amand. are going to trust their happiness to Throckmorton."
 Could there be any grain of truth il Aunt Jane's insinuations ? Rose pon dered. Of course there was not par ticle in her innuendoes about Theodore but were the Throckmortons a harc family? Of course Theodore was al exception, if they were as hard as flint and as forhis first wife, Rose had scarcel, thought of her wildly before. Wha had she been like? had Theodore love her? had she dreamed of anothe woman filling her place? It scene just then to Rose as if that must be tn bitterest thing in all the universe. Sh wondered if Theodore did not possess picture of her somewhere, that sh might satisfy her curiosity one day, an judge if 1t had been painful for him t part from her-what manner of woma it was who had won his heart first. An she plagued herself conjecturing whic he would have chosen had he know them both. She felt sort of anguis in behalf of this dead woman, who ha stepped aside and let her sunshine ia upon herself
 Now that she reflected upon it, Thec dore had been strangely silent in regar to her, 1t was certain. Was 1t indiffe ence, or because the grief was to sacred? Does a man, she questioned ever make his first wife the subject conversation between himself and he successor ?-describe her charms, mal an inventory of her little attra tions? Wouldn't 1t be awkward Rose had no experience to inform he Perhaps it was temperament which d. cided. This affair, however, did n dwell long in her mind; other thin. absorbed her-buying the last items the trousseau, unpacking presents, tl perplexing task of making little mon' do the service of good deal, and tr ing on the wedding dress. Though u Throckmortons as family were w known, according to Aunt Jane, in tl neighborhood, yet Theodore was co1 parative stranger, having married al lived in the South for years, after