The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-07-07

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all sorts of excuses. finally without any
excuse at oil.
II required, indeed, small persuasion
to obtain the deans full permission to
WOO his daughter. Then stormy scenes
ensued; uncle and ncphow came to Bit
tcrest strife, while Mary's defense of
Bernard only brought on her such au-
ger from her father as filled her with
grief and fear.
Poor Bernardo The end his heart
had prophesiod came soon enough In
the presence Of the dean there WINS q
cruel, formal parting; under the silent
stars, amid the thick shubbery OF the
garden, there was another parting.
Mary would hive promised constan-
cy, but Bernard would not let her do It.
"You shall never have to reproach
yourself with broken promises for my
sake, darling" he SAID. what could
you, you poor tinid little dove, do be-
tween your father and that lordly earl?
But whatever thoy make you do, re-
member, Mary. shall never blame you,
and will love you until my last oon-
scious breath"
Then he kissed her pole face over
and over, tenderly, olingingly, as VIC
almost hcart-broken with grief. and
faint with terror lest shc should be
discovered, could only wave her hnnds
in mute farewell. for she knew now
that love and she must walk apart for
ever.
Bernard went to Oxford and Mary
became Countess Grey, and went with
ersoever it pleased her husband to
take her. She was naturally affection
atc, and would doubtless have become
loving nnd gentle wife ii she had re-
ccived any encourag ement. But she
soon outlived the earl's short liking,
and then he only seemed TO find pleas
ure in those petty cruelties which un-
loving husbands above all others under.
stand
One of these was to affect the most
unbounded chagrin ut the sex of her
first child, to snecr at all daughters, and
to send it from its mothers breast to
the care of a strange nurse. Another
was to pretend she needed exercise
and change of air, and remove her
from London to the continent before
she was able to bear the fatigue. He
gave her no rest until she reached
Rome, and h ere she became so seriously
Ill that even her servants demonstrated
against the cruelty of moving her
further.
In Rome she remained six months,
nearly alone. The earl travelled hither
and thithcras his fancy led him, max
ing his wife only occasional short visits
of q cruelty ccremonious character. His
life of cxtravagant dissipation was q
shameful contrast to the loneliness and
absolute scclusion which her Italian
physician ordered, while her separa-
ton from all who loved or cared for
her and her longing for her native land
and home told fearfully upon her fail
ing health.
But one day far more cruel sorrow
faced her. A letter without signature
was placed in her hands, not only accus-
ing her husband Of the most fragrant
disregard for her, but also intimating
that her physician was in the employ
of her enemies, and not O safe person
to be intrusted with her life.
She had long felt sure that she was
dying, but the dread Of dying away
overcanc all other fears This terror
made her prudent She arranged for
an immediate return homo. and took
advantage Of her husbands frstobsence
to commence it.
For him she left most noble and
pathetic letter, cntreating him not to
followher, forgiving all his positive and
negative crucltics, and asking only 70
be permitted to die beside her father
and their child
Her requests 30 completely agreed
with the earl's desires that for once he
did not thwart her; and so, two years
after this ill-starred marriage, Earl
Grcy's travelling carriage again broke
the silence Of the peaceful cathedral
court The dcnn's daughter had come
back to h,m wearing something higher
than countess coronet; she had re-
ccivcd the signet Of immortality, and
been anointed for o heavenly corona
ton.
After Mary's marriage, tho dean had
gone to see his nephew, and easily in
duced him TO come back with him; so
it was Bernard that lifted Mary from
her carriage and carried her in his
strong arms to the room she mover left
again; and it was bernard that rode
day and night so that he might bring a
few hours earlier tho child which was
to comfort Mary's dying hours. g..i
In order to excuse the step she had
taken, and procure her fathers promise
to keep her little daughter, she had
been compelled to divulgc all the cruel
martyrdom Of her married life. After
this revelation It was not hard 10 un-
derstand the deans wrctched look, and
his passionate, pleading prayers, and
the music which was an articulate
agony. could understand, too, now
tho angry, longing look on Bcrnard's
face, and his miserable restlessness;
but neither of the men showed, in
Mary's presence, any feeling which
could mar the peace Of her descent into