The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-06-30
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FORTY YEARS IN LOVE.

IA mans affections, began Hos
ratio.
"Monsense" cried old Tibbetts.
"You talk like boarding school
girl. You are Of age, l.. know but
| give you warning, il you persist,
I'll take that clever little johnson
into partnership instead Of you and
you may beg or st rye as you please.
for the sake Of red haired girl like
Fanny Partridge"
OF trotted old Tibbolts as he ut
tered these last words.
Meanwhile Mrs. Partridge and
Fanny were hard at it-Fanuy in
tears Mrs Partridge in fury.
"ld rather see you iu your grave.
Fanny" cried Mrs. Partridge "Oli
Tibbotts ron. Why didn't you
choose chimney sweepl 1t was
Tibbotts that cheated your pas
brother out of that piece of property,
A bigger rascal never walked No.
Fanny, you shall walk over my dead
body before you go to church with
him.
Fanny was seventeen and very
submissive. Horatio, although five
and twenty; submissive likewise.
Parental authority prevailed. One
meeting was allowed in which the
two might bid goodbye to zach 9th.
er. Fanny wept. lloratio held h er
handsin both of his, aud kissed them
very fondly.
"They may Yell in time" said
Horatio, "or something may happen
to alter things. 30 true to mo for
u little while. shall never love
any one but you."
My heart is broken" said Fanny,
believing it sincerely. "But l shall
DO true to you all my life
Immediately he kissed her. He
never forgot how hard it was to take
his lips from hers and their arms
eucircled each other. Aud IL was
really wonder that the two young
lovers did not die then and there.
Old Tibbotts rowards his son by
making him partner IN tie proper
ous firm of Tibbotts 4 Co., forth
with, while Mamma Partridge hurri-
ed Fannie away to the north o:
France.
noratio did not f>r{at easily, 1t
had been the cherished pilu OF his
to marry Fanny, lie hsd mind
that was prone to dwell npon detail.
All his fances about the future had
been perfectly finished pictures.
1t wac hard to believe that tho lit.
tie round tea-tablo would mover be
set with painted china that Fanny,
as Mrs. Tlbbetts, would not sit be,
side him in the third pew from the
front on Snnlly mornings that he
would not go with har TO choose the
color of the drawing'room furniture;
and they would never have their por.
traits painted to hang on each side
Of the parlor mautle-piece.
Fannie was his practical or gener-
al idea that they misht have walked
together for years in the moonlight
was, perhaps, strongest With her.
But had he been the most perfect
hero OF romance she conld not have
placed him on a higher pedestal.
The match certainly would have
been happy one had fate wiIled it
to be match at all. They loved
each other too we'll to seek COM fort
IN new lovers.
Horatio seemed very steady, and
stunned ladies society and Fanny.
after refusing an English baronet
and a German baron, declined going
into society any more, and settled
down with her mother in O little
town upon the Continent, where four
or five English fami lies dwelling
there exchanged whist parties, aud
there were no young English people
whatever. There, at thirty, she was
still living, aud then 1t was that
there came to the place an English
traveller who called upon her. He
was friend OF MIR. Horatio Tibbetts,
aud had been commissioned to hand
her a small parcel, and he was 10
tell Mr.. Tibbetts how she looked
and was and that he was very we'll,
quite bald for his years and unmar-
ried' And then the traveller went
S.way.
The gift was dainty work-box,
e woth agreat deal Of money, aud in
th'httle box where the thimble lay
wasalso ring. Its motto WAS MDin.