The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-10-14


We wonder-bnt tits Gods own way,
Praised by the children of the sun
From tree-tops in each orison,
When natures breast is filed with joyi
-Seo'ye Bdnc,'oft Griffin.
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MARION'S ROMANCE.
The beauty OF Marion MARLBOROUGH
had a certain stately guse to it, despit'
her youth, that made her seem like
young queen, while its chief charm wa
her complete Inconsistencies of it
That she had lover in almost ever
youth who was brought within he
sphere was matter of course, but tina
she should fail to be attracted by any
one of them herself was perhaps slight
ly a matter OF wonder. Her mother, in
deed, thought very much so, and ofter
allowed Marion the benefit of her opin
ion, and of her opinion in especial con
cerning girl who had it in her power
to be OF immense benefit to her family
and resolutely ignored the possibility.
"When Amelia Tanhurst was mar
ried," Mrs. Marlborough would con
tinue, "there were few poorer than the
Tanhursts were; and look at them now
Her marriage put all the sisters into Q
society where they also married rich
instead of having to earn their own liv.
ing or starve, and both of her brothers
are in first-class business, and on the
way to millionairedom."
GO curpoca oil tbio ,,oo-o
that if Mr.. Adriance Desmond should
throw me his handkerchief, you want
me to be as eager and alert as the rest
Of"
want you simply not to take it for
granted that he is wretch of the black
est dye, but to treat him with civility.
and ct him take his chances"
Very we'll, mamma, will treat him
with civility. I hope treat every ore
to-"
" You are fearfully toploftical to some
Of them, Marion" said her second sis
ter, Charlotte.
."Well, l hate them all. I hate mon
who are looking you over, and takinp
their fancy to handsome choek or
rich color"
There, there, there, Marionl Peo-
pie will think you shrew instead OF a
beauty. And n, fvr Aa.ian 90 D.,.,...sJt,l,
he is a charming fellow, for know him
OF old; and when he brings his Yacht
here next week, you may be as ready to
own it ms anybody. I'm sure if you, OF
Charlotte, or Emily, or Anne, should
marry any one half so agreeable"
" Which means," whispered Marion
to Charlotte, with sparkling eyes and
color, "any one with half so much
money"
would marry any one half so
agreeable, it would be godsend for
our family"
And all tho rest of the week Mrs.
Marlborough was cutting and fitting.
and getting her "goods ready for SALE"
as Marion Indignantly called it. For
the Marlboroughs had just enough in
come to get along with narrowly, and
some OF the gauds and glories OF the |
wealth to which she had once been ac.
customed the mother longed that her
children should have, if she might NOT |
have them herself; and she made n
good deal OF moan to herself that her
choice child, Marion, the beauty of the
whole Marlborough race, should be
such rebel in the matter, and aunts
and cousins and intimates one and all |
agreed with her.
1t was, however, the only thing where
Marion was rebellious. Anybody
sweeter, gentler, more helpful, than
she, 1T would not be easy to find. Her
laugh, her voice, her step, were music
she was sunbeam wherever she went
her little world felt it would be a des.
ert II Marion We're taken from it. and
yet felt that the queen must have her
Kingdom, let what would happen-in
other words, must marry, and marry
well. And OF course they had all been
interested when they heard that the
Desmonds-Adam and his half brother
Adriance-were to bring the steam
yacht round to Parvisport, and spend
part of season on the water there; for
Adam himself was capital fellow, and
you'd make almost any girl good hus-
oand, although the vast wealth belonged
20 Adriance, who had inherited it from
ais mother, and they were both a sort
IL cousins by marriage. There had al
ways been more or less correspondence
IL The family, and they really knew
zach other, although owing to the long
european residence of the Desmonds
hey had never met. The brothers had
een Marion's picture, at any rate, and
me had been set up in q shrine, as il
wore, by one of them at least.
The last raveling ofthe dressmakine !
lad Just been gathered from the carpet, !
when Aunt Anne saw the yacht at anchor I
lirectly beneath the windows. with he, /
lags flying, and a boat putting off To s
hore. You may be sure she had he, i
losts marshaled before the new conner, /
ould mount among them; and il Mar. a
on, in her half-indignant sense of the n
'arter and sale that Mrs. Marlborough
nd her Aunt Anne were making, was {
he last to present herself, it only made y
he effect more vivid when she did |
he other girls had been like garden q
i flowers, but here was the rose her !
elf. Such damask on the velvet check |.
uch velvet in the blackness of the eyes l
uch blackness in the shadows of the Il
air whose ripples took the sunshine on o
heir crest, such sunshine in the smile n
hat did not come at oncei "Helen of Il
roy" thought Mr.. Adriance Desmond a
:" Helen of Troy could not hold a y
andle to her." A
But for ner part, she did not look at :
lther of the Desmonds-at least not y
onsciously at Mr.. Adriance. What "
rejudice she could possibly command o
their favor she felt for the younger n
nd poorer brother, cut of by whim (
fate from the coed luck of the other; b
nd she was glad when she found her v
sif, after the whirl and hurry of prepa- L
Ition that followed the inyilation. y