The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-03-01
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id'not sicnify--- well, SAY, when Ne 9su.
oar, came down upon as IKE w ruus
,oiK and dismissed John from ne nous3s
nd insisted ON carrying Emily aNey' ~. yn
,,,d conidn't be moved, own was sur
o-;sad. Nv dear, the poet says fssne0
ave dinty hearts y but it's my oenet Mey +
hava no hearts at all. How thas old feii0w
Could have looked at that poor nttie giri Ok
daughter, waessd 20 sAoiesynl .as 4.
living on her bed with her pretty eyes ynss
were the image OF her mother . wnen ,,:n. n
Kendall married herr fixed on the cennS
,.;tS arch a hopeless look, and her preuy
month that mover gave her father sharp
uord back. but nly.whispered 70 me some-
Emes sPiease don't let him be unsma 70
John'--how could he do II, ana eau alI-
self a Christian, aud go 70 onufSn ..s:St
Sunday. I don't understandl i1u ass.ss
recollect." continued Mrs. sknoHie. - !.
John Stenhouse was not Dec isnv Isrct
u 1;v;no soul had ever brsAthed syllable
aaa;nsf his character. There was no ea<n-
iysraason FOR refusing him except snst ne
.sas !. clerk in a merchants othce eng NV
I - .baTristey teys-dsussssss, Thai
sna sSa-h had SIfss tihhSs"SaGas6b ihS "SaGasband said. Mr.
hendal wanted her to make what he called
O suitable marriage-that is, where every-
thing was right and proper-money equal,
position equal - all done according TO
rule-gentleman coming a courtine for a
month or two, lady smilingly receiving
public attentions, then gentleman going
hrst to ask papas consent, and, that given,
making formal offer, and being accepted
, and married Immediately in grand style,
with six bridesmaids, and twenty carriages
with white horses, just as we had to- day.
on, how could she do it? But perhaps
she couldn't help it. saw from the first
she was weak, gentle creature. Why,
she used to go into Mysteries and fainting
hts when would have faced that old ty-
rant with heart as hard as his own. Bless
my life! l would have fought through O
regiment Of soldiers for the sake OF nv
Edward; but she, the frail, trembling lamb
poor thlng-poor thing"
And the large, loud Lancashire woman,
with the womanly heart, dropped tear or
two which she smothered in her laced
pocket handkerchief, and turned out of the
toswsaFd ttossa Queen Anne Street.
"For," said she, al must get peep at
her when she goes away. l was very fond
"But tell me the rest of her story"
pleaded Mrs. Smiles. Indeed, l will
never repeat it. And whom should I re-
peat to2 for l scarcely know anybody in her
circle, and she is now removing quite out
of it. I suppose she will settle perma-
nently in Liverpool?"
Eyes; John Bowerbank hos one of the
handsomest houses in all Birkenhead. His
long widowhood alone hindered his taking
his place at tho very top of our Liverpool
society. Now he will do it, FOR he Is q So
cial man, and likes show, quite different
person from poor John Stenhouse; who
would have spent evening after evening by
his own fireside with his books or his pi-.
-playing-he was the finest musician
l ever knew, and built q chamber organ
with his own very hands. 1 have it still,
for he left il TO me when he went abroad"
why did ho go abroadl"
"l'll tell you, at least SO far as I know,
for he was very communicative up to O
certain point, and then he ceased, and held
his tongue entirely, and couldn't pump
him, you know. Besides, If l came within
q mile OF the subject, the look OF his face
frightened me-. He was terribly in love
with Emily Kendall"
"Its bad thing to be terribly in love,
and not at all conducive to the comfort Of
society,"" observed Mrs. Smiles, sententi-
ously; but Mrs. Knowle was too full of her
own remembrances to reply.
"Oh, what day that was, when, after
John Stenhouse's letter, down came MIR.
Kendall to Liverpool after his daugh-
tor. Oh, tie daily storms lived in
morning, noon and night-the interviews
in our dining room and in the poor little
things bedroom, for she took to her bed
the very first day. How we argued and
reasoned, and comforted, and advised, l
and my good man, for we felt to those two
young people just as if they were our own
children; and we wondered, with an amaze
ment that childless people often feel when
they see how other people throw away their
old father to see his only daughter almost
dying before him, and go on killing her,
for her own good, he said; but, as every
body else SAID, Just for his own pride and
vexation at thwarted authority. Money,
too, money was at the root of it all. If
John. Stenhouse had been in the position Of
John Bowerbank, Mr.. Kendall would have
gone down on his knees and " orshiped aim;
l know he would. AS it was, he just kicked
him out of DOORS"
THAT was rather ungentlemanly."
IL don't mean literally. Mr.. Ken.
dial is never that. Besides, he had
his own credit to keep up; he had
always borne the character Of be-
ing the best of fathers, as perhaps he had
boon till this happened. We are nll Of us
Iery perfect creatures so long as we are
10 day at that stately, handsome old gen.
tleman, who, when he was asked, who
giveth this woman to be married to this
man?' looked SO smilingly and benignant,
and remember what I've seen him look
like! It's queer world, q very queer
world, my dear"
Mrs. Smiles agreed; she generally
agreed in everything with everybody at the
time.
We'll, tho poor young fellow was dis
missed. OF course there was no help for
it; the girl being under age, the father had
the law in his own hands. Nothing short
of an elopement, which no honorable man
like John Stenhouse would ever have
dreamed of, could have saved poor Emily.
And then her money her detestable
money as her lover called it more than
once. Every bit Of honest pride in him
was CALLED and stung TO the quick. 'Her
father thinks, all the world will think, that
/ wanted her for her money he used TO
say; and sometimes this feeling was so
st II, him that T fancial ho Voc hole