Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-09

els that alp She win be quite equal
30 the occasion. i am sure; and. / SOL
EMMY assure you. have the best hopes
for my own presence of mind. Don't
distress yourself on that account"
''You are sure you will not mindPa
81 shall not-that Is. should not, IL
--Mabelle. / told you q month AGO that
was n married man after-after that
episode you can not forget-and so, in
n way, was. know how it spoiled
me. i know my nature got a warp
then, and will never be quite smooth
again, and / know / am more adapted
TO Brighten a girl by my brusquerie than
to win her love by my amiability.
and have no right to ask any woman
TO bear with me, and love me in spite
Of my roughness, as my dear Grace has
done, God bless herl but it seems that
trouble three years ago did not secure
me against ever falling in love again"
mot with metz exclaimed Mabelle,
involuntarily recoiling. and putting up
her two hands, '.you do not say it was
with me?'
But / do say it is with you, ma
belle" said Philip, capturing her hand,
and clasping his arm around her, land
i wonder what just cause or impediment
there should be TO my loving you.
say that love you now, very different
ly from-but well not speak of that.
Only would never have told You had 1
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-
boz III f.1N r
have thought of it; l thought you
would perhaps 60 on making repara-
tion-will youTF
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 a suit
or, by painting himself as not the best
of men, and inviting his beloved to be
continually making reparItion for a
wrong which she had not committed,
was also struck with a 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. Mabellei Say you love me at
least"
'Oh, do indeedr'
"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 rs yourself"
Mabelle left her hand in his, and
Philip only released it to put it in that
of his mother, aud 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 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 sisters marriage,
though it has not been runaway
match, like ours was"
Angela did not answer for a moment,
and then she said:
40 1t is a poor match for Fairfax, and
a girl so beautiful as Mabelle is. She
ought to have done better, if had been
able to introduce her into the kind OF
society she ought to have gone into"
elf 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 fatter 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 rs he
does high in the favor of a firm like
Starkie & Grey, there is no saying
where his advancement may end. Your
sisters husband, my dear, is a man she
may well be proud of. 1 declare"-
here MIR. Fordycc took off his spectacles
and wiped them-'I was quite moved
this morning. as l saw their happiness,
and their evident perfect love for and
trust in each other. They begin well,
very well; and wish them all happi-
ness-every possible happiness. May
God bless them bothp'
lie 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 presents
OF Jewelry, she was rejecting, land l
have quantities, and am always getting
more But then, Philip dotes upon
Mabelle. and will take her about
wherever she wants to 90, and how was
to know that he would be so success.
ful? 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 10
see them but
She did not distinctly finish this sem
tence, even in her own mind, but her
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 homely, Kind,
good face, which in the early days OF
their MARRIAGE had often turned to her