The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-03-11

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but how hard has not even yet been
told. And yet he, even he, contriyed
to queuch the blaze in bis own eyes, and
to twist his lips into curious kind ol
smile, as he came forward and cshooI
Stephen by the hand. 1J cafI
81 wish you-joy!" said he. " /
FABLE THE SECOND. I
WHAT HAPPENED TO HIN WHO HELPED IlNE
Hf DOG OVER sTILE. iia r
Farmer Blackthorn was not the han
to tell tales; and besides Marrish had
made special and most naturalre-
quest that no word should be breabed
OF his having been rejected suitorl SO
much was due, at least, by way of slve
to mortified pride; and the debtor cdild
afford to be- even more than genebus
to the creditor from whom he wa so
soon to be free. Whatever Patiace
thought, she also held her tongue aput
her suspicious, even towards her low
plighted lover; for she was o lad to
the core, and was not the girl TO make
mischief between old neighbors Ind
friends. AS for Stephen, excellenthan
of business as he was, he no more as l
have already said, dreamed of rival
in sold" Miser Marrish than Of Esay
the most impossible thing that an be
named. .s. .s
He had his reward, even morethan
Patience herself could give him 1t
did his heart good to see how Farmer
Blackthorns back Strengthened Itself;
how his eyes frightened; how bis voice
recovered note or two Of jollty; how
he began to swagger and patonize--
how, in short, though with certain
touch of senility, he became Ton Black
thorn of Leys Croft in all hs glory
once more. One could see, rom his
behavior under hope, in what at least
some of the characteristic Gauss of his
ruin must have lain. For, OF course,
even though Stephens plan shpuld sue
ceed to the uttermost the blrden on
the land would not be wiped of, but
simply transferred from Enocl Marrish
to the land-agents and surveyors whom
Stephen served. Still, it is no doubt
better to be indebted TO far-agay, i'm
personal creditors than to aheighboi
under whose eyes one has to- live and
look ashamed, and who knows the Sc
crets Of ones affairs; and then, in hi:
heart, he did not like Mariish over
much, while Stephens onlyfault wa
that he had not sprung from hnd. Fo
a yeoman of the Blackthorn clste woulC
have looked upon marriage with al
Bhrl as a mesaliidnce II the Peer il
question could not find the root Of hi
pedigree somewhere under hereditar!
field.
Nor ESQ inconsistent is human ma
ture) was this feeling on the part O
Farmer Blackthorn a whit the les
strong because he had himself com
mitted mesalliance; his dead wifi
having been not so much as q country
woman, but the daughter Of Londol
tradesman with wharf somewher
down the Thames. Moreover, the maj
, riage under circumstances which
though discreditable to neither side
had brought about lasting breach bC
tween the then wealthy yeoman an
! the wealther whariinger, which ha
never bevn healed. Till MS unsucces'
full attempt at begging by deputy, n
, word had ever passed between the two
there had clashed together equal oil
stinacy and equal pride. Not eve
Mrs. Blackthorn's death had mad
them so much as formal friends.
was the Cockney strain, no doub
Farmer Blackthorn thought, bitterly
which had come out in his son Dicl
whose name he had ceased to nam'
: and who had gone away, his fathC
and he knew why, and nobody els
knew where. Whereas Patience wa
: her fathers child.
All such things had Stephen Harlo
ample leisure TO observe and 10 rellet
' upon, for his holiday had grown. III
. first post enabled him, after trip
u Manchester, to transfer all his saving
i to his future father-in-law; not that
$ confessed that the very fairly conside
= able sum was his all, making light
d the gift as loan in the way Of bus
o me- s, out Of which he saw his own a,
/, vantage; so that the farmer felt as II
I, were comforting favor by taking Il
q money instead Of receiving one. Pre-
n emily came letter from Prestons', a
l. thorizing him 10 report on the Ian
], the title, and so forth. with view
their favorably considering what
/, had proposed. As that business cou
J. not be disposed OF in q hurry, his no
v day became a holiday, indeed, wi
" pleasure enough to make the da
h well-nigh too short to crowd 1t all in.
< In the first place. he had to bu
r himself with surveys, plans, title-deed
T, estimates, and a hundred other deligl
W full things OF that nature. Then, the
" being not half enough, he threw hi
n; self zealously into the heavier work
ID bringing the farm back again into wor
o. ing order; and this alone took up
Sc whole OF one mans time. But WHIT
man Of him seemed still to remain; q
IN this he gave to the personal service
40 his old patron, doing his best to che
X, him up, and TO restore the farmer ev
in as he had restored the farm. Tn
IN what time was left for his love-makin
just all - just as much as If he b
ot nothing else in the world TO do. al
IL Under such circumstances Patier
Vi could not find it in her heart to p'
he the coquette, even for fun. She felt
fiji il she had Just shaved the edge o
Of precipice; as II she had missed mis-
lst and found happiness by miracle; aI
or nnreovsr heinp usol 10 such differl