The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1890-06-27 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

HOWELL. "P:o.—l suppose I ought to thank you for returning the books, bat I should have beau much inure gra tef ul use, as I hoped you would."  " Satut day. " Will I come to your cousin's ball? Won't I? It was" Mrs. Chappell win) told me that you thought you hstl otteuded me. Am 1 - that this invitation -us a sort of peace-offering from your family? What I can hare done, though, to provoke hostilities, and make one -I have no more ides than the man in the moon. Shall you go eat ly ; Will you keep a &ince or two - me? Signify your royal Osmium in this ... . •  behalf by comior; Witgout a Louq-uet. You will for you in the Lidy's room. Who is this Mr. Brandron ?—Yours, G. H."  "Wednesday night. "Mx OIVX BELOVED, "I eaunot sleep, I cannot rest with those ecstatic worda ringing in my ear. You -- me I You have said liars% with yonr owo sweet dream? 0, let me hear them again! Now that I know that you are mine —, Mary, for ever, in spite of all the world; I live a day you, I think, darnig. How impossible it wee for one tithe of my love—to thank you, my glorious, bravo, beautiful one, for the inestimable gift of your own, in all that crowd! Be in the Square garden to-day at twelve, or any time. wait all day to see you. I great friends will Sarah, and -- you this. We must be very ealoful *law, till something can be settled.— Your own ever-loving Gummy."  "Totuorrow, dearest, um time and place. I met your father jut now in Regent Street, and got nothing but black  "Mr OWN DARLING MARY, "I regret as much MI you do the which compels us to deceive sour family, and, eousequeutly, my own. But —ldo e Were I to call on your father and ask bins to sauction our engagement, he would set himself up in his foolish pride, give me a long lecture about uuequal marriages, show me the door, mote or less politely, and —to see or communicate with mo again. As it is, he does not forbid you to do so, and I do not see that at all bound to tell him that we meet daily—alas, naughty girl, not dully ! Why did yesterday I wandered up and down the banks of the 6erpentine, wiiitiug for you, till really the policeman looked as though ho thought I was going to run away with the bridge or suicide. No such nonsense. I have something to live for now. And so you still pteserve that faded Don't keep hided flowers, bright one; come for fresh ones every day. 1 jealous of old Braudron ! Nonsense !—Your own " GEoacart."  "0 YOU DEAR LITTLE 00091 i "The idea of your fretting about such a proposition. Accept at woe, but not too eagerly, for may suspect. Say that you are tired of the gateties of the season, and want country air. I have a friend among the Derbyshire wilds, not more than a few miles from Macclesfield, and consequently well within lover's distance of your aunt's home. Mary, darling, he is a clergyman, the beet fella w in the world, and the of his little out-of-theway not count a dozen. He has often asked me to go and stay with Lim, and—but I must what I have in my mind. I cannot write it, it would frighten you—and yet it it not frightful, darling. Accept at auee. God bless you, my love! —my life—my.wile that shall be :"  " Craigaleigh. "Everything is arranged. Richard will perform the ceremony. Be at the brook at which we patted last at 10 on Monday. Briug Susan,—, whichever her name is—l mean Alston—that is, if you think that you can really trust her."  " Jerney.  "Mt OWN BELOVED WIFE, "I tind to my sorrow that- be deteiued here - than I supposed. You ask me it I did not feel guilty during 4h060 two days-between your departure from Craigleigh and - at home. Guilty of what? Of spending the happiest hours of my life in the - of the best, the most beautiful, stud the dearest of little wives ? 'Not guilty, my lady, upon my honour,' as my Lord liessthorne -I wish you were bete. You have no idea what a beautiful island this is, or how much more lovely it would be in my eyes if your dear presence were here to ---- of the scene!  "Have you heard of Richard's good luck The - is worth £l,OOO a year, and I hear that the climate is not at all unwholesome.  "I cannot help thinking that you are wrong, 0 sapient wifey ! in not letting me have it out with your father before I left ; but no more of this till we meet agaiu, whiolt very shortly. Be very careful, dear, with that le!low, Brundron. I cannot make hint out. Is he a spy 1' I hate his quiet stealthy nitumer,aud have often caught him watohiug you in a way that used to make we savage. I-jealoue of hiw, Mary, a+ I was of -was ;permitted to come near you, wheu I, who loved you, who had won your love, was an exile-home., Of course 1 aux notof him-, only be careful. We must not be found out. We must take the initiative and dis.cloae all ; and the sooner this the better pleased will be your ever loviug husband. " J sisey.  "MY ISELOVLD WIFE,  "I seize an Opportunity of repl) jug to within an hour alter its receipt. The news you send beyond expression. We jiunt niece our marriage public now. But 0, you wicked wife! Why did you not tell me before? 'file slightest shade of blame must your honour, or on our little child's good name. I have been bandied about here from pillar to post, and all my applications for release have been disregarded. Them) must be some influence at r 6 k, littudwhere, against me. I shall leave directly, at any risk, and almost as soon as my letter. Still, should anything happen, on no your father's auger alone. Let me bear the brunt of it, and if by any chatue your—discovered before I cannot arrive, fly at ouce to Abingertou Chase. No one lives there now, and the house is—. Wait there— take Susan—Sarah, I mean, with you, till I come. I have no time --more. That God may guide and watch , beloved wife, in the illuminant prayer of y our p oud, happy, and ever-loriug "