Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-12
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But when they were insular off,
| Gals, who walked on the stars" and
sometimes snubbed him in public
the rapier of ridicule was too light fol-
his heavy hand, and he took up the
sledge hammer, telling them he was
the same man to-day as yesterday
and only his circumstances were diff
| ferent-his daughter being about to
become the la ly of the first house in
| the island, and none of them being
big enough to be left out of it,
| After such scenes Aunt Bridget, for
! all her despotism within her own
| doors used to tremble with dread Of
our neighbors taking lastinng offense,
but my father would say
"Chut, woman, they'll come again,
and make no more faces about it,"
They did, and If they were shy
of my father they were gracious
enough to me, saying it was such a
good thing for society in the island
that Castle Raa was to have lady,
real lady, at the head of it at last.
Then came their wedding presents
pictures, books, silver ornaments,
gold ornaments, clocks, watches,
chains, jewelry, until my bedroom
was blocked up with them. AS each
fresh parcel arrived there would be
rush of all the female members OF
our household to open it, after which
Betsy Beauty would say;
What a lucky girl you are!
| began to think | was. | found it
impossible to remain unaffected by
the whirlwind of joyous turmoil In
which | lived. The refulgence of the
which seemed to fade away alto
gether. After the first few days
was flying about from place to place
and wherever | went | was a subject
| for congratulation and envy.
If there were moments of misgiv-
| ing, when. like the cold wind out OF
a tunnel, there came the memory of
| the Reverend Mother and the story
she had told me at Nemi, there were
other moments when ] felt quite
sure that, in marrying Lord Raa.
| should be doing a self sacrificing
thing and kind Of solemn duty.
| One such moment was when Mr.
! Curphy, my fathers advocate, who
with his clammy hands always made
me think of an over fatted fish, came
| to tell him that, after serious legal
difficulties, the civil documents had
been agreed to, for, after he had fin
ished with my father, he drew me
aside and said, as he smoothed his
| long brown beard:
You ought to be a happy girl
| Mary. / suppose you know what you
are doing for your father? You are
wiping out the greatest disappoint-
ment of his life, and rectifying the
| cruelty--the inevitable cruelty - OF
the law: when you were born a daugh-
ter after he had expected a SON"
Settlement Signed.
Another such moment was when
the Bishop came, in his grand car
rlage, to say that after much dis
cussion he had persuaded his lord
ship to sign the necessary declara-
ton that all the children Of our union
| irrespective of sex, should be brought
up as Catholics, for taking me aside
as the advocate had done the day
before, he said, in his suave voice
| lingering his jewelled cross:
Il congratulate you, my child. Yours
is a great and precious privilege
the privilege OF bringing back to the
Church a family which has been es-
tranged from 1t for nineteen years. u
At the end OF a fortnight we
signed the marriage settlement. The
little ceremony took place in the
drawing room of my fathers house
Ny intended husband, who had not
been to see me in the meantime
brought with him las well as his
trustee and lawyer lady and a gen
| tleman.
r. M HanAinnad t.