Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-01
MY DREAM.
n Oft-Repeated Vision and the
Reality It Presented.

An Oft-Repeated Vision and the
Reality It Presented.
Every one but Edward and myself
looked on our marriage as a misfortune.
To he sure we were the persons most in
t.rested, and to us it seemed the most de-
srable thing in the world. My father and
mother did not like the match from the
first, though Edward had arranged to
stav in Australia for two years, at any
rate. Edward was not strong; indeed, he
Ind come out for his health; and beyond
the fact that his Introductory letters were
all that such things should be, we knew
nothing of him. I knew NOR, han the
others, certainly; for I knew I should be
happy with him anywhere, even in En-
rlani, and that the dearest duty. of my
lite would be to take q wife's care OF him.
We had taken a house at Glenelg aud
there we were to live an ideal life, till Ed
ward grew quite strong, when we were to
90 10 England. Edward was an only son,
and Mr.. Norreys, his father, was rlcn; so,
he said, our future was tolerably secure.
SO much for Intentions.
We had not been married a week when
a telegram came to say that old Mr.. Nor
.eys was dead, and we left Adelaide by
tHe next homeward- bound steamer.
Ii was terrible for him. had my own
selfish trouble, too, in being so suddenly
rooted up out of the old familiar soil OF
home love. But we were all in all to each
other, the voyage did him a great deal OF
GOOD, and my heartache was wearing
i,sell out by the time we landed at Graves
end.
OF London I did not have a cheerful ex-
Esrlence. 1t was June when we got there,
and the dirty old Babylon was as smoky.
had ever imagined it. OF its sights" l
saw none, except the dingy hotel sitting
room where l spent my days, while Ed
ward was busy among lawyers at Lin
coins Inn, or at the rooms in the Albany,
where his father had died. had nothing
10 do all day but to worry myself, aud
fancy that Edward was looking i'll again,
When some cousins of his at Carlisle
wrote and asked US to come down and
visit them. Edward at first did not want
10 50, but when be saw it would please me,
he consented.
We left London on the first of July. It
was Il lovely morning. How delicious it
was to get away int the clear country
I'll h country! 1t charmed me; but rail-
way travelling always affects me in Il
way; before l can quite realize that l
don't want to talk, l fall asleep. l did SO
now. When l awoke, Edward was speak-
Ing:
ny y y up up, Mary Nary o he was vas saying say
mean to get out here and stay till to-
morrow. You'll be done up before we
get 10 Carlisle, if we push on to-day"
What NONSENSE" I returned, instinc-
tITe!y putting my hair to rights, as q
woman always does when she wakes up
after u travelling nap. II always sleep in
trains. You don't know all my bad ways
YETI
y know your way of making yourself
wiling martyr to other peoples plans"
laughed Edward; "but l want to stop
aeFe, II J you'll permit it. In fact l can't
% on. The noise of this train shakes my
mead all to pieces"
we've got the tickets-and they expect
us---"
.on, hang tho tickets, Laughed my hus-
rugs and bags, from the netting over
n .N "Pve strong fancy for seeing
ths place again-an overwhelming fancy
lor your seeing it. My dear Mary, l al
t Safs have my own way you know
o,-- HuAoo lAuOs AAAS "oy "oS
ssnerally as good a way as any other, I
.4Is. ADMIT, and Calverley-the place we
svppea approved quite as pretty as he
sau II was. Certainly there vas q factory
s."ne end OF the Little town, but it did not
,h anything of the picturesqueness of
,s pace. Only the river that a through
h not C ear and bright as rivers should
:, put dark M foul-and its very foam,
s." "ie lts path was made difficult with
'1mnes, was not white but yellow.
lar rne factory itself was not ugly. 1t was
m,se and white; not one big block, but a
r4a n,Ier OF scattered buildings grouped ir-
x ami round a big reservoir. This was
;w u - round, and the strip Of earth be-
iom""een wall and water was covered with
,iaso sI,ass, at1ame with great scarlet pop
iJ,na IN We middle of the water was an
pi"a uu, Just big enough to support a large
am ~ III cote, where the gray and brown
ionr "nate birds flew in and out all day
!M.' H. ,areiiag over the CLASSY water till it,
,Ijn '"e an seemed alive with the white
lh %I iG hill behind the '.works," and to
town 81 stretched the slate roofs of the
ao mn under whose stone bridge the river
"mea tumultuocslv.
),jI "e'e was nothing like this near Ade-
iug he novelty of it all was bewilder.
Gur;,l saw SO much and heard SO much
Nothinn .'e afternoon that I was fit FOL
very Lsara III tie evening but to lie on 6
wayy u'la sofa trying to read an old rail
q Il "ovel; Edward sad he would taka
tlua ~ WIN a ciyar-anl 1 had a very dul
"I II OF it, indeed.
wosd las a lovely evening. I could no
it. I'm. may Edward stayed out TO enjoy
down "nen the sun had gone redly
glow h"1eil the gold and crimson after
c cUa!; and wnen at last the moon Shove,
the deepening blue OF tho sky.