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 for
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 We're diff
ferent-his daughter being about to
become the laly OF the first house in
the island, and none of them being
big enough to be left out of 1t.
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 1t was such
good thing for society in the island
that Castle Raa was to have a 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
fresh parcel arrived there would be
a rush of all the female members Of
our household to open 1t, 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
present hour wiped out the past
! a E. talf
| gether. After the first few days |
was flying about from place to place,
and wherever | went | was a subject
| for congratulatiOn and envy
| II 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 al Nemi, there were
| other moments when ] felt quite
sure that. in marrying Lord Raa, l
/ should be doing a 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 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 ours
is great and precious privilege
the privilege Of bringing back to the
/ tranged from II for nineteen years. "
At the end Of fortnight we
| signed the marriage settlement The
| little ceremony took place in the
drawing room of my fathers house.
My intended husband. who had not
been to see me in the meantime.
brought with him tas well as his
trustee and lawyer lady and gem
tleman.
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