Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-04-25
CHAPTER V.
VANITY CAN YANoursH LOVE.

announcing us luteutiou VI IStufnins "
England for few mouths. The reason OF
his return the letter went on TO furnish
the son ssid he feared his father would
think him very foolish; bat love was bring
ing him home, and here was the worst OF
the matter-love under very peculiar CIR
eumstsuces. He had fallen in love with
"A picture! He had seen the portrait Of
girl whose face had impressed him as
never the face of any living van had,
and having ascertained that the original
of the picture really lived, and was English,
aud not duchss or princess, which we'll
she might be, bat girl OF his own rank In
life, young Brent was determined to fad
her out sld try to secure her for himself.
| The letter wound up in very ingenious
language, admitting the apparent absur-
dity of the whole proceeding; but protest
ting the passion was true and deep, and
that nothing could end it except reslizs-
ton or absolute and sscertrined hopeless.
ness.
Rector Brent was g good nstured man
and kind father; 80 he shook his head
aud smiled over his sons folly, being q
sage himset Bat he wrote kind reply,
saying ths; his son would always be vel.
come home under any conceivable circum'
stances and that though he NEST confess
the expedition seemed rather wild, yet he
we'll knew that in the latter scenes OF the
affair his son would be ruled by his own
good sense and his father counsel.
And now" the rector said, as he sealed
this praisworthy epistle, Il think before
Percival comes home | had better have my
affairs settled" This he said and as he
spoke he looked at his own likeness re-
hected in the chimney glass. Something
struck him. Dear me" he exclaimed,
Il must get some new teeth For fifty
years of good living had told on this por'
ton OF bis mechanism; and nov rejecting
that be was about to marry, he reasoned
thus AT such tiues we refnrnlsh our
houses. Think OF msn returnishing his
house, and not refnrnishiHg his mouth !!
II am to have q new dining table, | ought
10 have a new set Of teeth to use at it.
Basides-" he grinned in the glass.
Yes" he said, shaking, his head, mot at
all preposssssing." He grinned again, and
this time By the power OF fancy act new
Whita teeth in the vacant spaces. Not q
doubt of il" he murmuredi the greatest
improvement!
So that morniug, instead Of making q
proposal of marriage to the lively widow,
he went to in adjacent town, where
notable dentist p-aciced, and there had
his Jaws ovethaule1 and plan Of TIE pro
iected impYovementsd'awn out. The den'
fist vas man Of chat, and when he sscer,
tanned whence the parson came he had all
sorts Of questions to ask about vsrious Peo-
pie in the uejghborhoo1' and curious stor-
les 10 tell, and gossip to exchange; so that
our little rector, perchei in the operating
chair, laughed and chirruped and looked
the very imsgs of enjoyment, Short
sighted man!
by the way" ea,d the dentist, pausing
d moment With one of his tools in lis hand,
has not Mrs Temple satt!ed in Kettle
well during the past year,
Rector Brent knew that faint blush
shot over bis cheek az he answered "les
a remarkable woman" the dentist con-
tinued forgetting his task, while WITH a
madltarive face he seemed 10 contemplate
bygone days. "A very remarkable wo'
man
"a very, Gerry remarkable woman" the
rector replied, determined to add an ed
verb il this very peculiar case.
"WonderfGl energy, said the dentist
Most Wonderful" the rector rejoiued
still on the srglm antatiou principle.
And such face and figure" the oper'
ator said again
"Ah, saCA face aud dgure rspsatod the
rector, unable TO refrain from rubbing bis
hands together.
For her years the dentist remarked
in an explanatory voice.
%, come, GOMEZ cried the rector in
tones of rem on9rauc,. i don't see tina;
She is youthful, certaiuly, aud sprlghtlyi
bat i'll woneu are not OLD n: forty FIVE.
"a Nhat hgaI asked tae dentist not
having caught the frs. word.
"FortYi9e, repeated the rscto:, boldly
ari emphatic lllg.
Seventy i've, more hkelG," the blunt
dertist sajj, now more intent on his tool
which was out of repair.
20. | see, | seel' cried Rector Brent;
sou are talking Of her mother. We don
know the mother The mother does no;
live with them now "
"U nless Mrs Barbara Temple is herself
and her m her az I! e came time am not
talk.0g OF her mother" the dentist answer.
ed. 'That lady il ssysaly years OF sg', if
she is seven"
Saying this with g'est uncoLcern. he
advanced to take some further messur'
meIt of the clargyE, ANS mouth end ob1erv'
ing his tacs Of horror, he said reaCsaringly:
Don't be uneasy; am not going to take
anything out
The rector. gasping, wAvad him away.
So corvllsiye were his movements that
for a moment the densist feared that he
might have let one CT lis minor ia plem snts
insths patients mouth, which implement,
having been insdvertly swallowed, was, from
its unsccomodating material aul unusual
shape, in one or or other Of the canals
which travel through the human continent.
DO you mean to say, said the astound
ed clergyman at last that Mrs. Barbara
Temple-the lady who has three fine daugh
ters-is more than forty five|
Before one of these young ladies was
born thu dentist replied. little thinking
how dreadful were his words, Il made q
front tooth for Mrs. Temple-not Mrs
Temple then. She was q remarkably hand
some woman, something over forty-j1s,
tint Of gray in her hair. l was not sur
prised when heard, few months after,
that young Captain Temple vas goiug to
marry her. Bat ! vas little surprised
when l heard subsequently that his wife
was going to present him with child; and
when ! heard that this child was folio Sed
By second, and thar By third, was,
confess, surprised no: little"
But Mrs. Temple was oaly about two
andtWenty when she married the second
time" the rector said, still gnskla ia credit
ShSt he heard
Ny dear cir, =" the dentist ssid, laughing,
Il have k1owu Mrs Barbara Temple as
woman for FIVE snd-forty years az the least.
Let me sae"-he went through soma half
audible calc1ls'ion-'I remember her iilt.
ing a man IL 1876"
Then" the rector cried, leaping from
the chair and smitin0 hand a-a:nSt hsnd