Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-26
"And she loved such a motherw cried

Sand she loved such a motherw cried
Mrs. Everard. "Bah! 1t is horrible"
FARMLAND shook his head, smiling.
81 don't think it is ever horrible to love
ones mother. even IL that mother be a
fiend incarnate. Come, now, dear FRIEND.
he added, "admit that you do not, either"
"Dear, DEAR" said Mrs. Eyerard, after
slight pause, during which she had re-
garded FARMLAND rather keenfv. "fou
take that girls part as If you were In love
with her." -rla zoos fo fs9Gaes
FARMLAND dropped his eyes.
81 have been," he said. "But all that
Is settled now"
"Do you mean that you've given up the
idea OF marrying the daughter OF such
mother? Pm glad to hear 1t, indeedW
pray don't be prematurely glad"
said FARMLAND, "for mean nothing OF
the sort"
Mrs. Everard's eyes widened.
"Then what do you meanp she de-
manded.
''Thst Rosalind promised, hardly twenty
minutes ago, that she would be my wife,
and that she is probably crying her eyes
out upstairs, just now, poor girl, over
what she is pleased to call her happi-
ness"
II will never give my approvalw
walled Mrs. Everard almost bursting
! into tears.
But the next minute look of his dear
dead mother smote her, as it were, out Of
| Frankland's eyes. She threw her arms
| round his neck. then exclaimed:
sob, you foolish, headstr0ng boy !
w as 1t for this that you came to American
was 1t to-to marry beneath your
"No man ever can marry beneath him."
Frankland answered, 'lf he both respects
and loves the woman whom he marries.
hnth nt.A
Ridgeley. AS for my having come to
America" he added, looking at his dead
mothers friend with a sweet Significance
which she could not fail to understand
'well, when think of the perlious posi-
ton IN which found you here l credit
myself with still another reason not to
regret that did come"
Mrs. Everard's eyes moistened.
"True, FranklandW she said; ''it seems
almost as II your mothers spirit had
prompted you to take the journey, does it
notW
"No," replied FARMLAND, tboughtfully,
after little pause.
Sand whya' Mrs. Everard said, al
most In shocked voice, drawing back
from him.
because" he pursued, 'you owe your
real rescue, after all, not to myself, but
to IRosalind."
The good lady shook her head, signing:
"Ah, you're incorrigible,' she said.
"The next thing you will be asking me to
| take your name from my will and put
RosalInd's there insteadp
| "Idke my name from your WILL" re-
piled Frankland, with earnestness,
land leave allthat you have to your chart
| tiesW
| But Mrs. Everard would never consent
to this. When FARMLAND and Rosalind
were married she left the house in Great
Jones street and went abroad with them
to live. Her anger against the guilty
woman who had duped her had mean
while 80 softened that she made efforts
before leaving America to find Rosalind's
mother (for Rosalind's sake alone and
show her some sign OF pardon But all
such efforts was Intellectual. Though
Rosalind never saw her mother again, she
never forgot her. And yet her life for
many years afterward had little to
shadow 1t in the brightness conferred
upon 1t by most happy and congenial
| marriage.
The whole story of Mrs. Everard's Gre
dulity and her narrow escape from two
shameless impost0rs became known
throughout the comparatively small
community which arlstocratic New York
then represented; and there are even peo-
pie living to-day who can remember how
their grandmothers and grandfathera
used to repeat the whole scandalous littlo
chronicle with gossipy gusto, while able
TO tell you the very number Of "the
house in Great Jones street" where GER
tain queer ana romantic episode once &C.
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