Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-03-31

OF tie between them, and with that
fact fully established Pocahontas must
hear him.
In Difference to Cumberland prejudice
Mrs. Thorne's marriage had been de-
ferred until September-to that lady's
great annoyance. She saw no reason
for delay, nor any necessity for humor-
ing the Cumberland old fogyism, and in
delicate, ambiguous terms she conveyed
this opinion to her lover, and discovered,
to her surprise and Indignation, that he
disagreed with her. Some concession
was due to the feelings Of his family,
and he did not wish to be hurried; on
this ground he intrenched himself and
deied the world to move him. When
Cecil made point he held to it with the
obstinacy characteristic of mediocrity,
and Ethel, not being exactly in posi-
ton to dictate, and requiring moreover
some portion Of the Cumberland coun-
tenance, was forced to acquiesce.
Some weeks before the day appointed
for her marriage Ethel removed herself
and her belongings to the house of q
poor and plastic aunt, who was in the
habit of allowing herself to be run into
any mold her niece should require. Ac-
| cording to their agreement Ethel gave
her whilom husband due notice of her
plans, and Thorne at once removed the
child to Brooklyn and placed him under
| the care of a sister of his fathers, gen.
tie elderly widow who had known sor-
row. His house he put in the hands of
| an agent to rent or sell, furnished, only
removing such articles as had belonged
to his parents. The house was hateful
to him, and he felt that should the beau
tiful new life of which he dreamed ever
dawn for him, it must be set amid diff
ferent surroundings frOm those which
had framed his matrimonial failure.
Still in Difference to the Cumberland
prejudice, the remarriage of Ethel
Thorne took place very quietly. 1t was
morning wedding, graced only by the
presence of a few Indifferent relatives
and a small crowd of curious friends.
The two Misses Cumberland, handsome,
heavy browed women, after much dis
cussion in the family bosom and some
fraternal persuasion, had allowed them
selves to be seduced into attending the
obnoxious nuptials and shedding the
light of the family countenance upon
the i'll doing pair. Very austere and for
bidding they looked as they seated them
selves, reprobatively, in pew far re-
moved from the chancel, and their light
was no better than the veriest darkness.
Twelve hours after the marriage had
been published to the world another
marked paper was speeding southwark,
addressed this time to Pocahontas and
accompanied by thick, closely written
letter. Thorne had decided that it would
be better to send n messenger before
this time to prepare the way for him.
In his letter Thorne touched but lightly
on the point at issue between them,
thinking it better to take it for granted
that her view had modified, if not
changed. The strength of his cause lay
in his love, his loneliness, his yearning
need of her. On these themes he dwelt
with all the eloQuence of which he was
master, and the letter closed with a pas
sionate appeal, in which he poured out
the long repressed fire of his love: My
darling, tell me l may come to you-o"
rather tell me nothing; | will under
stand and interpret your silence rightly.
You are proud, my beautiful love, and
in all things 1 will spare youth all
things be gentle to you; i'll all things
save this-I cannot give You up; [ will
not give you up. l will wait here fol
another week, and if l do not hear from
you will start for Virginia at once
with joy and pride and enduring thank
fulness."
Pocahontas took the paper to hel
mothers room, the letter she put quietly
away. She would answer it, but no
yet; at night-when the house should b,
quiet she would answer it.
| Ia 1,riof ~
nouncement were at the head Of the list
MARRIED.
COMMUNICATIONS the Church o
the Holy Trinity, Sept. 81, lS-, by the Rev
John Sylvestus, Cecil Cumberland to Ethe
/ Ross Thorne, both of this CITY,.
| Mrs. Mason laid the paper on the littl
} stand beside her chair. MY daughter,
, she said, looking up at the girl seriously
) "this can make no difference"
mo, mother, very quietly, "'no differ
ence, but thought you ought to know.
l In her own room, at night, when tn
8 house was still, the girl sat with tn
letter in her lap thinking. The moon
r light poured in through the open windoy
= and made a map on the floor, whereof
r slender shadows traced rivers, mountain
l and boundaries. In the trees outsid
Q the night insects chirped, and bats dart
t ed and circled in the warm air.
= If only she could think that this mad
l difference. She was so weary of tn
d struggle. The arguments which former
r ly sustained her had, with careless tiers
g ton, lost their force; her battlewor
: mind longed to throw down its arms i
) unconditional surrender. Her upbrins
ing had been SO different; this thing Wa
: not regarded by the world in the sam
t light as it appeared to her; was she ovel
/, strained, opinionated, censorious? Me-
10 bit had called her so-was he RICH
1t Who was she, to set up her feeble judt
l. ment against the worlds verdict