Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-04-07

agreed, in spite Of poverty or anything
else. So you see, have great coni-
dence in you"
"H'm! muttered the young man,
and with q repetition Of his awkward
obeisance. he left the room.
Ralph de Lisle, through his wife,
supplied Ellen's purse handsomely for
the purchase of her wedding trousseau.
but as she was to marry poor man
she preferred not to spend money 40
foolishly, she said. So her bridal dress
was simply a white null, and very
sweet and pretty she looked, as with
her eyes cast down and her cheeks red
der than the reddest rose, she stood in
the great drawing room OF De Isle
Hall in the presence Of very few
friends of her own and the family's,
who were met to witness the marriage.
The bridegroom gave her loving
glances from under the inevitable
broad-brimmed hat, which he shocked
Ralph de Lisle by actually getting mar
ried in.
ITS the most outlandish thing I
ever heard of, and some one ought to
tell him" muttered old Ralph, as the
ceremony was about to be performed:
but if Mrs. De Isle and Ellen can
stand it, I'm sure can. But he don't
go to the table with that thing on his
head, II have to knock it OFF with my
cane. LII teach the ignoramus little
decorumsi
The words were pronounced which
made Ellen Mrs. Somebody Ralph
neither knew nor cared what her new
lame might be as long as she was well
out Of the way Of his son.
AS the little company were about
being. led to the dining room to par
take of the wedding dinner, Ralph
stepped up to the groom and said, as
politely as his rising choIer would let
him,
You will oblige me, sir, and bestow
a triffe more respect on your bride and
the company present. If you remove
your hati'
Certainly, sir. What forgetful
fellow I am, and what boor they
must all think me, returned the new.
made husband, In a tone which startled
Ralph strangely.
In trice the great, unsightly hat
was of, and the beard which had com
pletely concealed the lower part Of the
quOndam sailors face was gone, aud
Ralph de Lisle looked into the provoke
ingly calm face Of his son. Before the
old man, In his amazement and cha
grin, could utter a word, Herbert had
taken him by the arm and drawn him
aside. 7u M s.
Now, father" said he, with comicaI
gravity, ';don't say word that will
make 1t unpleasant for my wife in herr
new capacity as my wife. You know
Icmarried her with your consent, and
besides You know, that riches should
never be weighed against the heart and
Its affections" eB
Ralph de Lisle came near ehokingl
at first with rage and disappointment
and we are very sure that the quantityI
Of good things provided for the wed-
ding feast was not much diminished
or, their quality appreciated by the
gloomy visaged mead Of the house. u
buts he followed his sons advice, and
said nothing. and soon learned to listen
to his wife's oft-repeated rehearsal Of
the old adage, what can't be cured
must be endured, " with something like
acauiescence in the DEGREES of Hymen.
In short time he became more than
TeconciIed to his sons choice, and when
he heard of the marriage Of isabel
Denver, he went so far as to say that
he actually felt sorry for her husband,5
as Isabel was such a Tartar, and In
norway comparable to Ellen, his sons
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