Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-05-27

Is ne lOVeu again
THAT he did not say
Did he tell you the name OF the lady 2
"Yes."
"Doyou know her ~
eyes"
is she worthy of him'
Most worthy
HAS he any hope of gaining her atiec-
tions? Oh he must ne must ! What
woman could refuse him ?"
He is determined not to try. The lady
whom he loves is above him IN every way ;
and much as he has counteracted my wish
es, it is an honorable part OF Charles Wood
ford's conduct that he intends to leave his
affection unsupported by its object.
Here ensued short pause in the dia-
logue, during which Agnes appeared trying
to occupy herself with collecting the bios
SONS of Cape jessamine and watering a
favorite geranium but it would not do
the subject was at her heart, and she could
not force her mind to Indifferent occupa'
tions. She returned to her father, who had
been anxiously watching her motions and
the varying expression of her countenance,
and resumed the conversation.
Father perhaps it is hardly maidenly
to avow so much, but although you have
never in set words told ne your inten-
tions, l have yet seen and known, can
hardly tell how, all that your too kind
partiality towards me has designed for
your children. You have mistaken me,
dearest father, doubiy mistaken me first,
in thinking me fit to fill splendid place IN
society next, in imagining that l desired
such splendor. You meant to give Jessy
and the lucrative partnership to Charles
Woodford, and designed me and your
large possessions to our wealthy and titled
neighbor. And with some little change of
persons these arrangements may still for
the most part hold good. Sir Edmund
may still be your son. law and your heir,
for he loves Jessy, and Jessy loves him.
Charles Woodford may still be your part
ner and your adopted son, for nothing has
CHANGED that need diminish your affection or
his merit. Marry him 70 the woman he loves.
She must be ambitious indeed, if she be not
content with such a destiny. And let me
live on with you, dear father, single and
unwedded, with no thought but to contrib
ute to your comfort, to cheer and brighten
your declining years. Do not let your too
great fondness for me stand in the way of
their happiness Make RE not SO odious
to them and TO myself, dear father Let
me live always with you, and for you-al-
ways your own poor Agnes !" And, blush
ing at the earnestness with which she had
spoken, she bent her head over the marble
basin, whose waters reflected the fair image,
as if she had really been the Grecian statue
to which, whilst he listened, her fond
father fancy had compared her: " Let me
live single with you, and marry Charles to
the woman whom he loves"
Have you heard the name of the lady
in question? Have you formed any guess
who she may be -
mot the slightest. l imagined from
what you said that she was stranger to
me. Have ever seen her ?"
You may see her-st least you may see
her reflection in the water at this very
moment for he has had the infinite pre-
sumption, the admirable good taste to fall
in love with his cousin Agnes !"
Father !"
"And now, mine own sweetest, do you
still wish to live single with me p
"0h, father father =
"Or do you desire that l should marry
Charles to the woman of his heart?'
" Father dear father p
CHOOSE, my Agnes. 1t shall be as
You command. Speak freely. Do not
cling so around my neck, but speak I"
"0h, dear father Cannot we all live
together? I cannot leave you. But poor
Charles-surely, father, we may all live
together %
And SO it was settled and very few
months proved that love had contrived
better for Mr.. Wordsworth than he had done
for himself. Jessy, with her prettiness,
and her title, and her fopperies, was the
very thing to be vain of-the very thing to
visit for day-but Agnes and the cousin
whose noble character and splendid talents
so well deserved her, made the pride and
happiness of his home.