Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-07-05

ward-do Wilmay a lot of harm while
it can do you no good. Where is the
sense of it? Wilmay is fond of you
very much as child is fond
of her father. don't pretend to know.
But if you carry on anything approach
ing a Irritation with her, you behave
very meanly and badly, and of course
you cannot possibly marry her."
you put ideas into ones head. Let
me think it over By what law of this
land or any other land am l forbidden
TO marry Wilmay, if we both decide on
that?"
You are forbidden by your own
feelings"
II have none"
Please be serious. You are twenty
two years older than Wilmay-much
too old. You are also much TO poor
you have about the quarter of the mon
ey that Wilmay has. With her wonder
full beauty she ought to make a bril-
liant marriage Youth, health, high
rank-she ought to have all of them,
and you know it, and you have none of
them. Besides, what would the world
say? That you had taken advantage
Of your position as her guardian to
serve your own interests rather than
hers. And the world would be right"
"And yet you have told me to marry
money"
"No-I did mention a lady-two la
dies-who might have made you hap
Ply, would certainly have accepted you,
and happened 10 have money. That is
a very different thing. All! If you'd
only taken my advice them"
Il couldn't have married both, unless
I'd arranged for the sentences to run
consecudvely-that the right phrase,
I believe-and l didn't care to make in
vidious distinctions. And now, my
dear Bertha, you can curb your feverish
Imagination. l am not going to marry
Wilmay. l am going to Paris tonight,
which-as you will see in your calmer
moments-is not the same thing"
Can you take nothing seriously?
OF course l did not suppose that you
wanted to marry Wilmay, but her fu-
lures a very grave question and ] don't
see why l should be laughed at because
l am so anxious to do the best l pos
sibly can for her"
well, then, | will speak seriously.
You have your own idea Of brilliant
marriage, and do not think your idea
is Wilmay's, and I'm absolutely certain
that it is not mine. Remind yourself
that there are such things as unhappy
duchesses."
My dear Edward, I'm not a snob.
l only say that one can't give up COM
mon sense altogether"
AT any rate I'm not going to have
Wilmay forced into any marriage. She
must be left free. For goodness sake,
don't make plots and schemes for her"
You're really rather crude, Edward.
One does not force people nowadays.
l might, perhaps. advise, if I felt quite
sure that l was right. There could be
no harm in that"
True you've advised me to marry
your own selections and there's been
no harm in it. Because, you see, I have
not married them. But with Wilmay it
is Different. She knows nothing of men
or OF marriages; she is an innocent as
a baby, and she is devoted to you. She
might let herself be persuaded-in fact,
l should think your advice would be
much more dangerous than if you point
blank demanded her to marry the near
est Duke. However, when the time
comes l shall have something to say,
you will remember. And in the mean
time I'm not here to quarrel with you,
but to say goodbye"
Il never quarrel" said Bertha, with
her most charming smile. Goodbye,
Edward. Come to London occasionly,
you know. You ought to do that, just
to see that I'm not standing over Will
may with a horswhip and making her
marry the wrong people. l will say
goodbye to her for you, and explain,
when she comes back"