Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-09-25

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to become my wife. I did not desert
ther. '''-'--'-- -
Very well. Then you came back
and fornd her Engaged tobe my wife
You hid itfrom her own md uth. When
q gentleman. hearsithat, what has heto
do but to 60 awayp'
There are circumstances here"
''What does she say herself? There
are no zeireumstances e j9sfy yerL n
fered to receive YOU. As you h4d beer
known 70 her 1 did not tnrn my b !
upon You. But now your eonduet is 81
! peculiar that can not ask you 70 re
main any longer" They were walk.
ing up and down the long walk, and
now Mr.. Whittlestaff stood still, a:
though to declare that the interview
should be considered as over.
81 know that you wish me to &C
away" said Gordon.
well, yes; unless you withdraw al
idea OF . claim to the young lady's
hand.
..But I think you should first hear
what have to say. You viii not sure
ly have done your duty by her unless
| you hear me-"
You can speak if you wish to-
1T was not till yesterday that you
made your proposition to Miss Lawrie."
..What has that to do with it?''
Had [ come ON the previous day,
and had been able then to tell her an
that can tell her now, would it have
| made no difference?'i
nate lover, in very angry tone, ass~x.
.'No; she did snotgsay so. = tt Wa
with difficulty that ! forced from her a.
avowal that her engagement was so re-
cent. But she did confess that it was
so. And she confessed in her manner
that she found 1T impossible to refuse
you the request that you had asked"
81 never heard a man assert so inn
pudently that he was the sole owner OF
a lady's favors. Upon my word, !
think you are the vainest man 1 ever
met"
LET it be SO. I do not care, to de
fend myself, but only her. Whether Il
1 say? l put it to you, as man to man,
whether you do not know that it is
true? If you marry this girl, will you
not marry one whose heart belongs to
me? VIII you not marry one. OF. whom
was minep VIII you not marry one
would give herself to me without a pang
of -emorse?" - III ~ - - -
81 never heard anything like the
mans vanity!"
'.But is it true? WhateverYmay be
my vanity, or sef-seeking. or, unmanli-
ness if you will, is not what say God S
truths? 1t is not about my weaknesses,
or your weaknesses, that we should
speak, but about her happiness.
.'Just so; don't think she would be
happy with you. r ESr g : -
Then it is to save her from me that
you are marrying her-so that she uay
not sink into the abyss of my unworthi-
ness"
Partly that
..But: if j had come two days since.
when she would have received me with
open arms
You have no right to make such a
statement" bio
81 ask you whether it is not true?
She would have received me with open
arms. and would you then have dared,
as her guardian, to bid her refuse the
offer made to her, when you bad learned
as you would have done, that she loved
me; that 1 had loved her with all nay
heart before left England; that Ihad
left it with the view of enabling myself
to marry her; that had been wonder
fully successful; that had como book
with no other hope in The world than that
of giving it all to her; that / had been
able to show you my whole life, so that
no girl need be afraid to become. my
wife" g
v"What do know about your life?
You may have another wife living at
| this moment" t5
"No doubt; may be guilty of any
amount of villainy, but then, as hel
friend, you should make inquiry. You
would not break a girls heart because
the man to whom she is attached may
possibly be rogue. In this case you
have no ground for the suspicion-HA
"Inever heard of man who spoke
of himself SO grandiloquently9 go
There is ample reason why you
YOU should make inquiry. In Truth, as
/ said before, it is her Happiness and
not mine nor your own, that yea should
look to. If she has taken YOU otter be-
cause you had been good to Ier IN her
Observation-Disclosures ha} found her
self unable to refuse aught to one who
had treated her SO well; ifshe had done
all this, believing fhatI had disap-
peared from her knowleGe, and doubt
inc altogether my retur'; If it be SO
and YOU know that it, so-then you
should hesitate before iou lead her to
her DOOM" Tf5f 49,
You heard her saJthat | was not to
| believe any of these fings unless J. got
them from her own houtfr es -
81 did; and her cord should go FOR
nothing either witt YOU or with me-
She has promised. md is willing to sac
, r;t;ce herself to beIpromise. She will
, sacrifice me too. because of your good
ness-and becauJ she is utterly unable
tn mt a fair yalk upon herself. To me
Che is all the Wild. From the first
b,nr in which fsaw her to the present,
the idea of caitng her hasbeen every
th H Phi AIDE the woods which she
just spoke, wat is you Oeilei on the
5 state of her fishes.
81 can tel you my beef OF the state
T of her welSre.
4 There four own preldice creeps in,
1 and / mifht retaliate ~ charging you
$ with vanity as YOU ha,f done me, only
T that 7 fink such vany very natural.
t Rnt if { her you shou consult on such
a mater. She is. moo be treated like
aebid.A OF whom DIS she wish to be-
come the wife? I oddly say that I
j, have won her love, I'd that if it be so,
: vol should desire t'take her to your
7 SAT. You have ,notpswered sme, nor
l IAN i expect YOU answer me; but
8 look into yourself a answer. it there.