The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-04-09


them, till Mr. Fordyce, looking up owe.
his spectacles from the pages OF !;
pamphlet entitled y" Free Trade in
Land" remarked, benevolently;
"Mv 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 moment,
and then she said;
1t is poor match for Fairfax, and
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"
''lf you mean the society of persons
in my own sphere, which is all the so
ciety | choose to have about me, said
MIR. Fordyce, 'you tlatter me. But l
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 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. Your
sisters husband, my dear, is a man she
may well be proud of. l de,lare'--
here Mr.. Fordycc took off his spectacles
and wiped them-'I was quite moved
tbs morning, as 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 bothn'
He returned TO the perusal Of his
pamphlet, and Angela sat, twisting
round and round resplendent 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 1t so often.
"Mabelle scarcely had any presents
of jewelry,' she was rejecting, land /
have quantities, and am always getting
more But then, Philip dotes upon
Mabelle, and will take her about
wherever she wants to go, 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 to
see them but
She did ndt distinctly finish this SEN
tence, even in her own mind, but her
eyes fell upon the face of her husband,
b nevolent smile upon his lips, his
thoughts buried in his pamphlet on the
Land Question. 1t was q homely, kind,
good face, which in the early days of
their marriage had often turned TO her
with n very loving smile; that expression
had now grown much less frequent.
Mr.. Fordyce sighed oftener, and smiled
schooner, and was wont to look at the
young children of his friends with q
wistful eye.
Surely retribution bad descended up
on Angela Fordyce-retributio both
visible and invisible, in that she was de-
MED those things which her soul craved
after; invisible, in that the sacred sor-
rows and joys Of struggle and labor and
hope, by the side of one who loved her,
which might have been hers, had she
chosen TO take them, were now lost TO
her forever. The chance of growing
better and worthier was sealed up
against her for all time; isolated in a
monotonous prosperity which she had
bought for herself with lies and degra-
dation, she must now ever grow down,
mentally and morally, instead of up.
The deed OF selfish, slow, egotistical
nature may have effects in divers direc-
tons, just as well as that OF quick and
self-forgetting one. Angela's sin had
made one life and marred another, but
neither she nor Philip Massey will ever
understand, and she far less than he,
how complete, morally and spiritually,
that making and marring was.
[rHE END. J