New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-16


at once. appreciate your generosity, but IL il OF
no avail. My friends would never allow me to
dream of the misery of unequal marriages! Good.
bye, and forever AS long as live shall repent
that have deceived so good man-for am an inn
poster! though i know you will not betray me-.
'Only one minute. said the other deceiyer, draw
ing her gently aside toward bench beneath broad
spreading cedar the house. /, too, am not
what seem. / too. mpostor and such
beg your forgiveness. 1t was all for love! When
you facing those fierce beasts To- ed You, and
swore that no other woman should be my wife!
And took the mock doctors part as the only way
OF getting an introduction. So dearest Emily we
quits III the way of loyingv
Mics Borrowdale had covered her face with her
hands-the spectacles. by the way, were seldom re-
quired of duty-and stood trembling beneath tho
soft cedar shade. with tears trickling through her
Whit fingers. Sir Marmaduke in has emotion had
thrown himself upon one kLee, and was trying 10
detach one hand from her bent aud hidden face.
They made rather a pretty picture, with a ray Of
sunset gold slantng through the cedar upon them
But they were unconscious of xcting any admira-
ton, until the exclamation, Here she .sp simultane-
ously uttered by Mrs BE bbnet Tompkins and Ernes-
tina, caused them each TO start from their Interest,"
ing posture, when they saw these two ladies
panied by tall gentleman with gray hair, an
arched nose, and a demeanor dignited to the extent
'Falherp cried Lady Ermengarde advancing with
crimson checks, il is my fault, not his! Forgive
me. | meant no harm-it wa, all for poor Emmy's
sake | should have told you afterward, and no
one would have guessed
This is a delightful situation. and one eminenty
Governess to these kind Of
'Oh fatherp
Indeed my lord we ad no idea that your lord
ships daughter was our governess apolOgzed Mrs.
BObbinet- TOmpkins. who in fact, had believed her
distinguished visitor to be laboring under some
strange mental deluslOn when she led him forth TO
meet and inspect the features of her returning goy-
erness.
Ernestna turned pale for the charm of the polished
young doctors manner had been dangerously at
tractive to girl whose education and refinement
were in advance Of her surroundings.
Iln .stv.t ulll L fFnSf ha h
lishcd replied the injured father. fOu, ErInen-
garde, have brought anguish upon the gray BARS
of your parents. And you, SIR he aided turning
fcrcoly upon the surprised lover; who the devil
~ returned the supposed Doctor with calm.
while he offered a little piece of thin card to the
enraged parent, am Sir Marmaduke Dorsay, OF
Dorsay Court. Whom have tine honor Of address
mgr
'Oh! Ty, my dear The physc we've had made
by a quack baronct? gasped Mrs. Bobbinet-
Tompkins.
Ermengardc SAID her father, we were friends until
we quarreed; as often have told you; about the
been convinced of this by the evidence of his own
eyes, he could never forgive me. Poor tellowl
would have got her TO dye It his color If had
man paused. overcome by the memories of the past.
Then lie turned to Sir Marmadnke ; he added,
am Lord Beanmondc. Did your poor father neVer
speak OF old BeaumOndef ALL we couldn't forget
each other And pray. sir MarmAduke, what are
Il am paving my addresses Lord Beaumonde TO
your daughter, whose acquaintance under an incog-
nito l have had the honor of making beneath the
hospltabe roof of our very kind friend, Mrs. Bob
bnet- rompkins, whose pardon | craze for having
introduced myself in an assumed name
Here the sham doctor bowed gracefully TO his In
ju.ed hostess and she fOrgave him OH the spot
Not every womans children. as she Was afterward
wont to observe. had been physcked by a baronei,
and taught by peers daughter.
And now added the sultOr. turning to Lady
Ermengarde, who was standing with ciaSpcd hands
and bowed head. and face alternately roso-red
4 whit Inv haP nth sid |
for the first time that the sole lady OF my affections
whom should desire to marry if she were the child
of namelcSs outcast is the daughter OF my fathers
old friend ask that old friends permission to
hm.-to continue the process ,,,,.,.
'Ermengarde. will you marry this man
Yes If you please, father! replied Lady Ernlen.
gardc' it would be good way OF ending the old
quarrel, perhaps ,
All Lady Ermengarle! you refused Mr.. Killem
and accept Sir Marmsduke,' said the fortunate
sutOr.
'YOu accept me merely from a sense of dutyr
a most respectable reason, observed the father.
| 'One that will wear WE'LL added Lady Ermen-
garde lifting her beautiful eyes to her former ply
sIcian's in a bewildering way. Justice requires
us to restore what we have stolen. My theft, was
| told, was q heart. -
Then we are, quits replied Sir Marmaduke.
taking the slender hand that Lord Beaumondc
placed in his. Our fathers quarrel IL ended. We
have each stopped to conquer |, by month"; toit
at the pestle have won the most enchanting wis
in ChTistendom Lady Ermengarde by few weeks
labor in a schOO-roOm, has gained the most alec
tonatc of husbands, and think that we each saw
from the very INST, that the other was SAILING
As for keeping the thing dark that was inpos-
sbe; nothing but sudden loss of speech and inca
pacIty for writing could have locked he story in Mrs.
B0bhlnct TOmpknss breast, and IN few days
Rawlc gh rang with it, DR.. Athole considered him
self lost man. On the second day ms gate was
blocked by the carriages of those patients who had
insisted upon being physicked by Sir Marmaduke,
and who naturally wished 10 kn9W Ilc Satet so "
nj
the unlawful tnkering they had received at thus
pretendcr's hands 80
drawing room, explained TO the ring OF patients,
with an air of digniied resignation that Sir Marns-
healing art that although not technically qualified
TO repair the bodies Vt Her MaJeStys subjects no
had studied medicine at Cambridge, and that n
nally not pulSe-beat OF MS patients nau pceu ui
This frankne.s had it's reward The patients felt
their constitutions intact their imaglnatlons stni
Mated and their Importance not lessened by tho
ministrations of Sir Marmaduke. whose personality
they vowed they had always suspected. Dr Athoie
flavor about himself and became the idol or
RawlAigh, so that he was soon Obliged TO have o
n al assistant started a carriage aud pair ana TOOK
an interest in stocks and shares. Mrs. Bobbinet-
Tompkins consented 70 wait Tor the perIect cohvs-
lesccnce OF the real Miss Borrowdale' VINO sun ~
iscd upon fulfilling her engagement IN spite OF Lazy
Ermengarles unpromising description OF the bod.
binct- Tompkins moaage; indeed, the good lady or
the Grove felt that months instruction Oy pee,s
daughter was All education in itself, aud That tho
children might very we'll have months holiday
10 reflect upon this advantage.
The wedding festivities at Beaumonde Castle az
the following Christmas were described by the local
reporter a. princely. The circulation OF his paper
for that week WAS nearly doubled in consequence
of the demand for it In and about Rawleigh. Tho
Bobbinet- rompkinses witnessed the august GER
emony by invitation The presents they gave wero
superb.
As for the real doctor aud the real goyerness. so
strong il the power of example that they did ex.
acty the Same as the mock fell in Love at slghs
and married happily after brief woolng. which
was. however. neither begun. continued nor ehheo
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