The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-03-17
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that Oconee region. Her slight figure,
her long yellow curly hair, her smooth
neck and fair dimpled cheeks, her low
ing eyes and mouth-no, am too fa1
gone to describe ftly such things. PEG.
pie who read this story, if they care,
must try to imagine what sort of q girl
Hannah Enlow was.
Some years back, Pea &c Anderson, il
only it bad property to back it, would
not have complained at such match
for either of his sons. He knew that
the Elbows were every inch as good as
his people, Then he had been heard to
say that Hannah was as nice a girl as
could be started on all sides both OF
the Oconee river and of Commissioner s
creek. His wife even to her dying day
said that Cullen had married we'll: and,
except for Wiley, everything might
have gone on satisfactorily. He let
the affair go on without single word
from his mouth until the marriage
took place. Then he said to his father
that if he did not wish to witness any
unpleasant family scenes he would
keep Cullen. with what he called that
piece he had taken up with, outside
the pale of Milledgeville society; for
as for himself he could not. and his
wife should not, give countenance to
any such connection.
'Why, Wiley appealed his father,
''you didn't pear like to be opposed to
Cullen a-marryin' of Hannah. allays
thought mighty we'll of her, except
that the family is poor"
even that, father, ought to have
been taken into some consideration by
Cullen, who, it seems to me, might do
his part, as I've been doing, to lift up
our family, instead of putting it down
lower. But that isn't all, and not nigh
all. Hannah Enlow is not the sort of
girl for him to marry, in no way.
know Hannah Enlow, and he ought to
too. never said anything against it.,
because | saw it would do no good
Cullen never would take my advice.
What I've got to say about it is to you,
and you only. The only thing to do is
for the family to make the best Of it
they can; but as for intercourse with
me and my wife, there's got to be
mighty little of it,"
The old man, rude as he was, had a
good deal Of simple honesty and af-
fectionateness, but these in his ex-
IRENE age had seemed to dwindle UNI
der the influence of his elder son. Dur
ing the seven years that Wiley had
been living in town, to the small CAPT
tai advanced by his father had accrued
several thousands. Such rapid success
led the old man to regard him with
the greatest respect and pride, and,
acting upon his counsel, he settled
Cullen upon a small portion of a large
tract which he owned ten miles from
Milledgeville, on the road leading TO
Macon.
CHAPTER IL
Cullen and his wife had too much
love for each other to be made very
unhappy by such discrimination. He,
tall, ruddy, robust, open-faced, was
much handsomer than his brother,
who, though of good size and figure,
was OF palish complexion and habitual-
ly wore cheerless, suspecting face.
The winsome girlishness of Hannah
continued after her marriage. She
had taken Cullen mainly because he
had won her affections. Yet she was
very sensible of the advantage of con-
nection with moneyed family, and
her heart, though not too eagerly, had
been set upon living in town. 1t cut
her painfully when she was made
aware Of Wiley's hostility and the in
fuence exerted by it upon his father,
and. without confiding it entirely to
Cullen, she resolved to conciliate them,
if such thing could be done. Not
artful by nature, she had will and per-
and moderate degree Of
reticence Cullen's feeling was to act
defantly; but she persuaded him to
accept without complaint the proffered
farm. The mansion, rather pretty
newly painted, even
to the chimneys, in white, was stu
ated on an eminence in a grove OF red
oaks. The land, though containing
the most rolling portions of the big
tract from which it had been set off,
was productive, and, with the work of
half dozen not very likely negroes
thrown in with it, Cullen, now indus
trious and reasonably thrifty, made
good crops, while Hannah, brought up
in economical habits. contributed her
full share to their decent, comfortable
living.
Wiley, in this as in others of his
plans, moved with the discretion that
he had been studying all his life. He
commenced visiting on scale not too
limited to cause very much talk among
the neighbors. He seldom came out
to the plantation beyond, which had
been turned over to him by his father.
without calling on the return and hav-
ing brief chat with Cullen and Han
nah, or with Hannah alone, when Gull
len might be in one Of his fields; and
the visitor would not hear to the pro-
posal to blow the horn for him. On
such occasions Hannah more than
made up for Cullen's GOODNESS by her
own cordiality. Whenever the father
came there, she set nice dinner, had
his chair put exactly where and how
he wanted It, and, when the meal was
over, got ont again her sewing. piled