New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-10

n. hctty.
Yes" flashed Hetty, with kindling cheeks
only you have been such a blind
Mole or bat. both? And all the while ! have
been writing verses addressed 20 imaginary ladies'
I might have been writing 'em 10 YOU. But they
shall all be for my Hetty henceforth. every single
line Of EN-. And here are in leicester
And here's something you shall keep and use
cor my sake An old silk purse shyly drawn
out OF 4 very sweet hiding place and squeezed
into Georges hand. There's no more than a rose
noble o: King Charlej, and five gulneas OF King
Georges but your not refuse. and break my
heart dear George? And youu put up your horse
the Crown. where leave Hector. and dine
with my father and me. and tell him you- story.
and his advice. It's your poor Hetty beEs you.
that will be the happest woman Ia the world 10
1--we her NE by your dear side he you rich or
NV fathers advice was that Il needed hear,
should 20 look for q on the highway though:
George. they dismounted At the crown. Did
he but know II. have found the dearest mat ever
beat in womans breast" And he gave back look
for look and led Mistress Iieity into ne common
room with strong inclination 10 KNOT Gown SNe t
travelling gentleman or haBmdn who turned ms
iun-yard. a quarter OF an hour later ara having
dismissed his beasts 70 the stable with a Latin
his daughter. And then the hungry trio dined upon
cold beef and ale and then did George. spur-ed by
uew-found sweetheart; make clean breast Of his
affairs TO the kind old parson.
Hester hath been. l viii not call her Indscreet,
for youth il youth. and the sorrow 81 one We love
that virtue may borrow froward fts Of Nat
ure on occasion and-in short, may Heaven bring
this wooing TO fair ending. my dear children both
/ agree with Hester that YOU would be prema ture
10 quit the country. Remain here; can undertake
10 say that my friend. Doctor GraybIooke, VIII
ofer you. at my instance, an asylum, temporary.
George. you not proposing To take from me
something more valuable TO me than al! the gold
with me. both OF you, for are keeping my worthy
disappointment Tor / promised 10 furnish him with
a. honest sober industrious young laborer. 10
conduct the excavations he IS making in his potato
field. At half crown a day, and though have
searched the byways and hedges. the prodigy
Try me sir!'' said George. ITO paraphrase
scripture can eng 10 neg am ashaiitu, I'LL
crown a day-"hy that's a fortune 10 dlslnht rlttd
SON \ bed in attic. bread and cheese. whole
snail need no 'D more ' Go on 10 the Doctors
pray Of YOU; sir. Tell him no more than that you
aeedful changes In my dress and follow you ana
And pretty Hetty knew not whether TO laugh or
cry when the Doctors white-cappcd maid brought
dig In taty-hed was waiting at the back-door." In
the speetacied eyes o. me ieaanS% Doctor ne APP
tai cleaner than the usual OF 1aborers and more
daughter II was as though Apollo were ihfsqueIdu
ing a hind. She rode Hector pack 10 the parson-
snare Hecior's stable for the present. and If her
little head and heart we're in turmoil OF Joy ana
the parson looking very grave. rode over to Nokes
i've dsowned him" said the Squire. From
yesterday noon he's no son O. mine Como this
The library eommented the good pa ao.cti in,
trCduced To Georges sanctnfn. "A noble colecuon
Of volumes, though less carefully preserved than
scholar could wish
wish they were burned. but for them the boy
would never have gone running after pagan hussleS
with names Christian tongue can twist round.
POUNDS though neither Of your girls has crown
buy her "A wedding smock could Wish the IC
had set his heart of en- But no! nouGht so
sensible TO be expected of him And this C allX -.
For all / know. she's n tattoed woman travelling
in caravan But I'm cut free OF him an S, any
held up folio sheet OF fooiscap scrawed over with
large. inky writing and signed with the Squire
usual flourish. Read tnat,' said he.
The parsOn anXiously mounted his large round
spectaces and read. . . -,
whereas my son George Anthony Bucktrout has
dn5ed the Authority Of Me his Father. ana otter
mined to Cast In his Lot with NimpS ana oi II
Pagan Wenches. /, the Undersigned. Hereby DIS
own the Before named George Anthony BTe luck
from this day the 2Sth May in the Year 40, unto
H m95id without End NTH 1q BtGjcKTRoTT
II wrote it with the whel:'s own ink-his own
ink adolf said the Squire. with hoarse laugh.
nand. lie was always dabbling N lcheinleals ana
some o. that's your fault. Parson You've the
same tastes you Sant deny; r,,e, had given ~.
a son as handsome intelligent and as good as
yours i would have thanked heaven for him: in
stead OF casting him back in the face OF the Giver
cud OF my bitterness. Is there no reeptinS IN you?
MOT while ink is ink and paper paper! said
without end World without emo. ma n" SON
Parson. Amen And this paper goes up on your
church door tomorrow that all who run may
THE Lord forgive you. SQUIRE! cried the gentle
old clergyman. Il meant to clear the matter up in
a week or so but you leave me no choice but TO
speak now. Your son entertains no relations with
any Young woman of whom you would not approve
He was wrong in mystifying you with his airs OF
scholarship. but in all else he is blameiess Nay
Parson fairly his rheumatic back against the
library door. and dsiied the running squire 10 pass
before he had heard all.
We'll! The puppy is none so bad as he chose 10
make out or as thought him." the Squire COM
mented after n purple faced silence. And as I've