The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-12-01
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You are surely not in earnest, fatherp =
!" assure you am. will not give my
consent to your marriage with that girl, !" said
Mr.. Cameron. angrily but firmly.
"You are unjust to her you admit that
you know nothing of her"
Except that she is the daughter of a
farmer, poor, illiterate farmer, who has
half a. dozen children"
!" MIR. Litchfield is poor, | grant, but
neither he nor his children are ignorant
Sophie has as good an education as any girl l
know
Bah s" exclaimed the oldersman, con-
temptuously. "Ofc course she Is perfection
Why couldn't you have had sense enough TO
fancy Lottie FELTON, or that pretty little Hill
lard girl? I'd welcome either of them will,
ingly enough, bnt this girl will not receive. =
:. Simply because She Il farmers daugh--
ter?"
"Simply because l choose not toi" au-
swered Basil Cameron, all the obstinacy in
herited from his Scotch grandfather rising up
against his sons cool. inAexibility. al say
you shall not marry her--and you shall not p
And say will, " replied Maurice, angry
in his turn. 81 defy any one to hinder me
without showing better cause than her pow
erty."
"You seem to forget, young man, that you
have not penny Of your own! Pray. how do
you propose to support wife that disap-
prove off"
"By my own exertions, sir, as thousands
of better men than are doing !; am neither
an invalid nor an imbeciIe.'
/" Ha, ha, ha !" roared the father. " You
work That is rich Go and tell your
sweetheart that your father will not give you
another dollar during bis life or after it, and
see how quick she'll repent of Spying yes to
YOU"
"On the contrary, sir. her fathers only %.
lection to me is that am an idle Young man"
Don't talk about the NATTER Maurice
Come, give me your word to break off this
engagement, and"
Never, sir -
''Then the sooner yon get out of my sight
the better. wash my hands of you, you
thankless boy Go and work. and come to
me in year begging bread for your wife,
I'd see you starve before I'd give it to you
then"
Maurice Cameron was the only son of Basil
Cameron, one of the richest aud most influen-
tiAl men in the busy town Of Nelson. He had
received liberal education, and his father,
who accumulated wealth only for.him, looked
to see him take his place among the leading
MEN of bis State. Cautious, persevering, OBJ
stinate. he had marked out certain course
for his handsome, talented boy, and deter
mined that be must carry it out forgetting
that the son'usually inherits most, If not all,
of his parents stronger charactefjstics. Mr..
Cameron, too, was proud ;proudof his good
Scotch descent, Of his abilities and bis position
In society |; and the idea of Maurice taking as
wife this daughter of q small, unknown
farmer was bitterness indeed. II is true he
knew nothing whatever of the girl, but chat
made no difference !; he had made up his mind
that Maurice must marry into either the Fell
ton, billiard or Stuyvesant families there
fore this unheard of Sophie Litchfleld was an
interloper.
Mrs. Cameron worshiped both husband and
son, consequently this agreement--ripen-
ing, as It did, into an open rupture between
the two, cost her many a tear but against
two such stubborn natures she was powerless.
The Litchfeds were, as Mr.. Cameron had
said, poor but they were cultivated, honest.
sensible people. Sophie was the second
daughter. and was as pretty, well-read, grace
full a girl as any Cameron ever wooed, and
would do honor to any position in life. Mr..
Litchfield talked seriously with Maurice when
he heard of the quarrel between him and his
father, and finding that be was determined TO
pursue his own course, told him that little
adversely, little genuine work would proba-
bly, make man of him, and that he would
give him Sophie more willingly now than ev-
err. So Basil Cameron was false prophet.
| Maurice left homo bag and baggage, the