The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-24

or, by painting himself as not the best
of men, and inviting his beloved to be
continually making reparation for
wrong which she had not committed,
was also struck with sense of the
ludicrous; sentiment and solcmnity,
moonlight and lovers vows. were for
gotten in peal on peal of laughter.
DIR. Johnson, conceiving that he
alone was the object of a merriment
which insulted and outraged his most
refined feelings, gave three short banks,
and walked away in ineXpressible dis
gust.
'But this ill-timed mirth has prevent
ed you from giving proper answer to
my question:" observed Philip, when
the laughter had somewhat subsidized.
Il don't know what to say" said
Mabelle, turning away, the confusion
which her mirth had covered rushing
over her again.
"Say yes.
at seems such wild idea for you
and me to get married"
"Well, let us have wild idea or two,
then"
What would Angela say?"
"She would say that if you had
played your cards properly, you might
| have done better-like herself. Say
yes, Mabelle! Say you love me at
least"
''Oh, l do indeedr'
"And these lips of yours are so true,
and this right hand never yet held a lie
in it," said he, kissing first one then the
other. "Let me call them mine, and
you shall find that whatever else l may
! no I am aS trup as VOurSplf -
Mabelle left her hand in his, and
Philip only released it to put it in that
of his mother, and ask her to bless her
new child
On the evening of Mabelles wedding
day, Angela sat alone with her hus-
band, who had come out in a manner
to surprise every one, on the suspicious
occasion. The festivities had all been
over for some hours: the last of the
guests had departed, and they were
alone. There was dead silence between
them, till Mr.. Fordyce, looking up over
his spectacles from the pages of a
pamphlet entitled Free Trade in
Land" remarked, benevolently:
my dear, there is something almost
romantic in your little sister marriage,
though it has not been runaway
match, like ours was"
Angela did not answer for a moment,
and then she said:
lit is poor match for a Fairfax, and
girl so beautiful as Mabelle is. She
ought to have done better, if had been
able 10 introduce her into the kind OF
society she ought to have gone into"
yct1 hn Of
in my own sphere, which is all the So
ciety choose to have about me-" said
Mr.. Fordyce, ''you fiatter me. But /
think she has done well. There is
something most attractive about that
young man-so genuine. And then, he
has such go in him. He is a regular
Yorkshireman for that. Standing as he
does high in the favor of a firm like
Starkie q Grey, there is no saying
where his advancement may end. Your
sisters husband, my dear, is a man she
may well be proud of l declare"-
here Mr.. Fordyce took off his spectacles
and wiped them-'I was quite moved
this morning, as | saw their happiness,
and their evident perfect love for and
trust in each other. They begin well,
very WE'LL and | wish them all happi-
ness-every possible happiness. May
God bless them both!'
He returned to the perusal of his
pamphlet, and Angela sat, twisting
round and round Respondent brace.
let with which her husband, in his de.
light at the happiness of the young
people, had that morning presented her.
Her face was dark; the angelic smile
and languorous glance of yOre did not
now appear upon it so often.
"Mabelle scarcely had any present,
of jewelry,n she was rejecting, land
+, have quantities, and am always getting
more But then, Philip dotes upor
, Mabelle, and will take her abou
wherever she wants to 90, and how was
, | to know that he would be SO success
: full? Some people have nothing but
= good luck in this world, and some none
but bad. What is the use of having
pearl bracelets when there is no one t.
l see them but"
: She did not distinctly finish this sen
= tence, even in her own mind, but he
! eyes fell upon the face of her husband
: a benevolent smile upon his lips, hi
thoughts buried in his pamphlet on thu
! Land Question. 1t was homely, kind
= good face, which in the early days o
their marriage had often turned to he
y with a very loving smile; that expression
q had now grown much less frequent
: Mr.. Fordyce sighed oftener, and smile'
= schooner, and was wont to look at tn,
a young children of his friends with
; wistful eye.
Surely retribution bad descended ur
D on Angela Fordyce-retribution Lot
: visible and invisible, in that she was de
MED those things which her soul crave
after. invisible in that the sacred sol