Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-11-12
CHAPTER Ill.
"Dazzled and blinded
BY what men call honor.

Horace Temple Esq, of Woodeaves,
had gone through many surprises
clients had failed, bad married, had
run away, had done the very things he
least eXpected-but he never had a
greater shock than on this June
evening.
His daughtor-his little Violante-
to be married! His little girl who
had made his tea, mended his socks,
and attended his comforts, to become
Lady Selwyn, of Selwyn Castle, one
of the grandest ladies in the land
She half ridiculed the potion her
self she spoke of it with smiles, and
even while she smiled, her dark
eyes we're full Of tears,
There must shave been a fairy at
my baptism, papa" she cried there
can be nothing but magic in such a
thing Violante Temple Of Oakside,
to be Lady Selwyn; above all, to
marry the man whom she would have
chosen from the whole wide world,
had the choice been hers.
you have no objection?' said Lord
Vivian to Mr. Temple; you are viii.
ing to give Niolante to me?"
Il am simply bewildered was the
truthful reply. 4 do not know
whether to be angry and refuse YOU
to tell you such nonsense must be
forgotten-or whether | ought to give
you both my blessing. | am bewild-
cred, as | have never been in life be-
fore"
Take some time to consider, sir"
replied the young lover; Il shall be
at Woodeaves ten days longer"
That night, while his daughters
golden head lay at rest and her fair
face smiled peacefully, Horace
Temple sat up to think, and consider
what it would be best to do
He himself had married young; he
did not remember whether he had
been very pal .onately in love with
his own wife or not II seemed part
of the business of life to get mar
Tied; every respectable man did So
and he had no reason for being behind
the rest He had not spent much
time in woOing, his office hours were
too long for that but he had seen n
rice pretty modest graceful girl. the
only daughter of an old half-pay cap
tain who lived at Woodeaves, and 1t
struck him that she would make
most excellent wife There was lit
tie of passion In the lawyers court
ship, but he had made his wife very
happy, he had provided for all her
wants; she had lived a commonplace
happy life in the pretty home at
Oakside Two children were born
to them there BERTHE, the soA AMI
four years afterward Violante.
lovely, dark.eyed, fairhaired daugh
ter
Then, quietly and gently as she had
lived Mrs Temple faded away and
died, not Of any acute or painful dis,
ease, but Of slow, lingering decline
She faded out of life as the colors die
out Of the western sky; dying so gent.
ly that those who watched her did not
know when sleep ended and death
came
Her death certainly reused
Horace Temple; 1t reused him into
greater tenderness for his children. Be
fore that he had beIl contented 10
see them morning and night. then
leave them to their mothers care.
now he tried his best to be father and
mother both
Violante was easily managed; she
had lessons at home. superintendent
by him, and the result was the strang
est education young lady ever n.
ceived She learned Latin: she was
We'll yersei In the English classics;
the history. the literature Of her own
country, were all familiar to her; she
could draw with exquisite skill: she
sung nothing but old English ballads.
but those she sung witE the parest.
sweetest voice. With wondrous
power Of expression that completely