The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-11-15
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UNION Q. H, sOl4lE CAKoIINA NOVEMBER Is 1885,

monev, which. as Miss Kendall had plenty.
I'D not 81 >nify well I say, when the old
man cnme down upon us like a thunder
bolt aud d smissed John from the house.
and insisted on carrying Emily away, only
she took TO her bed with nervous foyer
and couldn't be moved. own 1 was sur
prised. My dear, the poet tpys Fathers
have hinty bea.is; but it's MY belief they
have no hearts at all. How that old fellow
could have looked at that poor little Girl Of
his--bis daughter, wasted to skeleton !
lying on her bed with her pretty eyes lthat
We're the imngc OF her mother g when Mr.
Kendall marri0l bcr) fixed on the ceiling
ms,.S %nsn saes hSpslpSss her IA :5eT s6s-S
fwysft b6ck. bat only. viii ,peretl - M s<sna =,
linss.. Plssse dcn'f lsf kifn DO Snkind' 10
John'--bow could hs do IL, and call HIM
sell Christian, and 60 to church every
Sunday, don't understand! You must
recollect continued Mra. Kpowle. shat
John Stcnhouse was not bad fellow,
neither lowborn nor ill -cdu .atcd- that not
living soul had o%cr breathcd q syllable
against his character. Thore was no earth
ly reason for refusing Lin except that he
was clerk in m. rchant Office and she
was barrisicrs daughter; he had nothing,
and she had fifty thousand pounds. That
was tho bottom of it, / know tue cursed,
cursed money, ms My husband said. Mr..
Kendall wanted hsT 20 make what he called
suitable marriage -tba. ia, where every
thing wns right aud prop1r-money equal,
position equal - all done according 10
iuie g. ntlsman coming courting for a
month or two, Indy smilingly receiving
public attentions, then gentleman going
hrst to ask papa 8 consent, aud, that given,
making formal offer, and being accepted
and married Immediately in grand style,
,s;, Win s;H bridesmaids, and twenty ca'riaacs
With white horses, just ns We had to- day.
oh, how could she do it? But perhaps
she couldnt help it. saw from the fret
she was a weak, Gentlo creature. Why,
she used TO go into Ii, ,sterics ard faintiu1
fits when 1 would have faced that cd ty-
rant with hear; us hard as his own. Bios
my lie! would. h;ve fought through q
regiment of soldiers for the sake OF my
Edward; but she, Tic frail, trembling lamb
poor thing -poor tning!"
AMI the large, loud Lancasbire woman,
" tn the wOnuEly heart, dropped a tear or
two which she smcthcred IN her laced
po ket- hnnhcrcbef, aud turned out OF tho
quiet street in Mayfair, whore the two ladies
were talking and walking, into ono thCt led
toward C;eeu Anne street.
For, said Sac, ii must got peep at
her when sic COOS away. 1 was very fond
Of poor Emily Kendall"
hut tell me the rest Of her story"
pleaded Mrs. miles. Indeed, 1 II
never repeat il. And whom should 1 re-
=
circle, and she is now removing quite out
OF II. i suppose she WILL settle perma-
ncntly in Liv.rpooii"
Yes; 10 N Bowerbank hns one OF the
handsomest houses in all Birkcnhead. His
long widowhood alone hindered his taking
MS plae- - tho very top Of our Liverpool
80, iety. Now he will DO it, for no is n So
cial man, md likes show. quito n different
person from poor John Stcnhouse; w&o
would have spent evening after evening Ry
. bis his own tiresid, with his books or his Is
Il ever .now, and l,uil. q ,~slan.be asgazt,
with his own very hun,ls. 1 have it sGll <
for he left il TO me when he went abroad.
why did ho 20 aEroadp' T
I'll tell you, at lsast 80 far rs / know,
for he was very communicative up 10 a
tertanr It, and then he ceased, and held
his toI. cut,rcly, and couldn't pump
him, you know Besides, If l came within
n mile of the suh;o~t the look o; his fac
frightened me. lilo was terribly i'll love
with Emily kcnGal."
"l,'s bad thing TO he terribly in love.
and not at oil conducive to to comfort OF
society,"" observed Mrs. Smiles, sententi-
ously; but Mrs. knOwie was too fui! of her
own remembranccs 10 re! ly.
"Oh, what day that wus, when, after
John Stenhuuses letter, down Came MIR.
Kendall to Liverpool after hi, daush-
ter. Oh, tie daily storms We lived III
morning, noon and night the intrrv.
in our diuins- room anu IN the poor little
things bedroom, for she TOOK TO her bed
IN. vcIy first d.y. uSw We argued and
reasoned, and comfortcd, AMI alv.s:d, 1
and my good man, for We fit to th ,se two
young people just as 4 they were our own
children; and We wondered, with an amaze
ment that child SIS people often feel when
they see how other people throw away theis
bless ngs, " hat could have possessed tho
old father to see his only daughter almost
dying before him, and so on killing her,
fer her own good, TO said; but, rs every
body else sad, Just for his own pride and
yeAution at thwartcd authority. Money,
too. money was at the root of it al. If
John Stenhonse had been in tho position of
john Bowerbank, Mr.. Kendall would have
gone down on his knees and " orshipcd him;
know he won d. As it was, he Just kicked
Linn out OF DOORS"
"That was rather uugontlemanly."
IL don't mean literally. Mr.. Ken
dai is never that. Besides, he lad
his own credit TO keep up; he had
always horne the character Of be-
| ing the best OF fathers, rs perhaps he had
! been till this harp ned. We are all Of US
very perfect creatures 70 long us we nrc
not tried. Gracious me! when I looked
to-day ut that stately. handsome old gen
tleman, who, when he wns asked, who
| giveth this woman to bo married 10 this
mani looked so smilingly and benignant,
and remember what I've seen him look
like! It's q queer world, very queer
world, my dear"
Mrs. Smiles agreed; she generally
agreed in everything with everybody ut the
| time.
We'll, the roor young fellow was dis
missed. OF course there was no help for
IL; the girl being under age, the father Lad
the law i'm Lis own haads. Nothing short
OF an elopcmeDt, winch no honorable man
like John Stenhouse would ever have
dreamed of, could have saved poor Emily.
And then her money her deiestable
money rs her lover called it moro than
once. Every bit of honest pride in Linn
was galfed and stung 10 The quick. Her
father thinks, all tho wo:ld will think, that
waited her for her money he used 10
say: and sometimes this feeling was so
strong in him that l fancied he was half