Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-08-23

''Ned Anthony is good enough fellow, but he isn't the sort of man to captivate a woman like Mary Beverley if she is left to herself. If that is ever a match and I, for one, would be sorry to see it in spite of his money-it will be of Cornelia's making"
 ''How so, my dear?"
 "Anna, how can you ask so stupid question, and you 8 womanP reproved her husband. "Why, by attacking him unjustly for things he can't alter and is not accountable for, in season and out, and forcing her to espouse his cause and make herself his champion. There's a lot of impulsive, generous South Caro- lima blood in Mary, and if she thinks a thing unjustly oppressed she'll rally to it without a single glance at the uli- mate cost. If she ends in Anthony's arms it will be Cornelia's doing"
 "I wish the man had been born gen. tleman," remarked the old lady regret fully.
 Her husband laughed. "A gentleman makes himself," quoth he sententiously "he isn't made by his forbears. Many an arrant snob and rascal has pedigree as long as my arm. Race is 8 mighty good thing, my dear, in men as we'll as in horses; it helps powerfully in the start, but there are other things that tell at the finish. Old Anthony had some traits which, if he transmitted them to his son, won't disgrace any stock that they are grafted on. He was poor and ignorant, to be sure, but Ned has mend ed that. Some of our best and noblest have risen from the ranks, you know Henry was as poor as a broom sedge field, and Clay rode to mill in the Hano- yer slashes in 8 costume which was, to say the least, unfinished"
 ''But they had genius, my dear," re- torted his wife impatiently. "We for give anything to that sort. This man has no genius."
 He's made a lot of money" the judge observed tentatively, land that's the end that Nineteenth century genius has in view. Judged by the commercial standard, which is getting to be the uni versal one, Ned Anthony is about the biggest genius Virginia has ever pro duced. He's got millions in his pocket" :"
 ''I don't care if he has the United States treasury in his pocket" asserted Mrs. Wilmer positively. "I don't want Mary Beverley to marry him."
 ''Nor do I. But it isn't because his father was good overseer instead of a sorry gentleman. My objection is to the man himself. Anthony's fiber is coarse-good of it's kind, you know, but not like Mary's. She belongs to high CT development; and if she makes this unnatural selection in fit of generous enthusiasm, she will regret 1.-the more because she is too fine in the grain and too stanch ever to admit, even to her self, that she had made mistake. I'd hate to see woman like Mary smiling over heart full of broken idols. She'd better go down to the grave as Electors widow than spoil her life as another mans wife. Hector never disappointed her."
 Mrs. Wilmer nodded her handsome gray head over her knitting. Mary will never go down to her grave as Hector Beverley's widow" she declared "her heart is too big and her nature too sympathetic. She was strongly attached to Hector, and no mother could be more her capacity for love is not exhausted yet, and she is young and attractive. Her marrying again will be no disloy- atty to Hector; she will not love his chil- dren less nor push his memory out of her heart. l consider it quite certain that she will marry again"
 "Then hope she'll get another sort of husband than Ned Anthony" said the judge. with whom Mary was favorite.