Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-06-12

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me-. / know my. nature got warp
then. and will never be quite smooth
again, and know I am more adapted
to brighten girl by my brusqueFie than
to win her love by my amiabihty.
and have no right to ask any woman
to bear with me, and love me in spite
of any roughness, as my dear Grace has
done, God bless her! but it seems that
trouble three years ago did not secure
me against ever falling in love again.
..Not with me,'' exclaimed Mabelle.
involuntarily recoiling, and putting up
her two hands. '.you do not say 1t was
with me?"
..But I do say it is with you. ma
BELLE" said Philip, capturing her hand,
and clasping his arm around her, land
/ wonder what just cause or impeachment
there should be to my loving you. ]
say that / love you now, very different
" from-but well not speak OF that.
Only would never have told you had
not fancied that you would help me to
wipe out this old account, Mabelle, and
help me to become better man than !
have been since that day-you remem-
Der. I, have often felt Wteked when
have thought of it; l thought you
would perhaps go on making repara-
tion-will youP
Mabelle's struggle between tears and
smiles ended in "a convulsive laugh,
which would not stop.
Philip, deriving hope from this, and
perhaps pleased with his own ingenious
way OF recommending himself as suit
or, by painting himself as not the best
of men, and inviting his beloved to be
continually making reparAtion Tor q
wrong which she had not committed,
was also struck with sense of the
ludicrous; sentiment and solemnity,
moonlight and lovers VOWS. were for
gotten in peal on peal of laughter.
DR.. 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;
81 don't know what to say" said
Mabelle, turning away, the confusion
which her mirth had covered rushing
over her again.
''Say yes"
sit seems such a wild idea for you
and me to get married.
'.Well, let us have wild idea or two,
then"
'sWhat 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" ts4
..Oh, do indeed!''
"And these lips of yours are so true,
and this right hand never yet held lie
in it, said he, kissing first one then the
other LET me call them mine, and
you shall find that whatever else may
be, am as true as yourself"
. 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 Mabelle's Wedding
day, Angela sat alone with her hus-
band, who had come out in q manner
torsurprise 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 q
pamphlet entitled "Free Trade in
Land" remarked, benevolently:
=" NV dear, there is something almost
x,o,,,. 1ftlo icfa ~rr,
though it has not been a runaway
match, like ours was"
Angela did not answer for a moment,
and then she said:
1T is poor match for Fairfax, and
a girl so beautiful as Mabelle is. She
ought to have done better, if 1 had been
able to introduce her into the kind Of
society she ought to have gone into.''
eff you mean the society of persons
in my own sphere, which is all the So
ciety choose to have about me,'' said
Mr.. Fordyce, ''you flatter me. But
think she has done well. There il
something most attractive about that
young man-so genuine. And then, he
has such go in him. He is regular
Yorkshireman for that. Standing as he
does high in the favor of firm like
Starkie & Grey, there is no saying
where his advancement may end. Youl
sisters husband, my dear, is man she
may well be proud of. / DECLARE
here Mr.. Fordycc took off his spectacles
and wiped them-'I was quite moved
this morning, as,I saw their happiness
and their evident perfect love for and
trust in each other. They begin we'll
very well; and wish them all happi
ness-every possible happiness. May
God bless them bothr'
He returned to the perusal of hi.
pamphlet, and Angela sat, twisting
round and round a 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 moi
now appear upon it so often.
''Mabelle scarcely had any present.
of jewefry.' she was rejecting, land !
have quantities, and am always getting
more But then. Philip dotes upor
Mabelle. and will take her about
wherever she wants to 60, and how was
to know that he would be so success
full? Some people have nothing but
s5oou AuOh III Ills WoIlu, anu Some none
but bad. What is the use of having
pearl bracelets when there is no one to
see them but
She did not distinctly finish this sen.
tence, even in her own mind, but hel
eyes fell upon the face of her husband
a benevolent smile upon his lips, his
thoughts buried in his pamphlet on the
Land Question. 1t was homcly, kind,
good face, which in the early DAYS o.
their marriage had often turned to ha,