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Announccriients of "candidates fort office' witf be charged Three Dollars. v issf- .? ; t i Letters to the Ea'iror rnuat b post-paid. The Editor will take the risk of payment for the paper remitted v uj man, u tree oi postage, I : - V '. " " UY AN OLD BACHELOR. Just,aftpr breakfas one fine spring mor ning in lo7, an advertisement in the Times, lora Luratp, caught, and fixed my atentiori. A. The i-salar was sufficiently remunerated 'fir a bachelor and the prishai $ personally ' ' bnsxr, onej of the most pleasanty situated in all.So'mersetsliire.' Having said that, the , reader will' readily understand that it could not have bqerf a hundred miles from Taunton: I; instantly wrote, -enclosing testimonials,' with which the Rev. (Mr. Townly, the rec tor, was so1 entirely satisfied, that the return post brought me a positive engagement, un elogged wiih . the slightest objection to one or two .subsidiary ? items I had 'stipulated for, aud ac.eompaniet( by rnn invitation to make the rectory my .home till I could con veniently suit myself jelsewhere: This was loth kind jajid liandsomc, aud the next day but one I took coach with i;.rl. f. jj . , UV'Ul IT lUi It thus happened. ed, and, in some de my new destination.! that I became acquaint ...j, iium.oi. events it is ray rrcrntfpmTrjscnKJteiate. time settled that 'Agnes; shall on that xiay be united 'in - holy wedlock to Mr. Arbuth not." i:, -.. i Afr ibiniiot,!of Elm Park J ,i KA great match, is it 1 no' ini a -worldly & pleasant -smile at the tone of my exekma-tion.: , -And much Jetter J than that, Kobert Ai- jjumnoi is a young man ot nigh and noble nature as ; well ; adevptedly attached to "Ag. nes.. lie will, I doubt not, prove' in every respect; 'a ji lsband deserring and worthy of her 5 and that from the lips of a doating old grand-pj pa mnst be esteemed high praise, luou will ai'Hin-yrentIy-: ' I l U often, and 'quite a-eed in the rectoi 's estimate of his future grand-Bon-in-law ?I have not 'frequently seen a nner looting young man his age was tweii- ty-six, and certainly .ope of more honorable and kindly, fepiritj', 'Qf H more genial temper tnan He, Jiasv never come within my observa tipn. He lmd drawn! a great prize in tne matrimonial lottery,fand I felt deserved his fortune. . ::'f j ''' ; .. " -: : '. - ? They were married at the time agreed upon, and ;he day was kept not only at Elm Park and in its neighborhood, but through our "parish" as a general holi day. And strangely: enough, at least, I have never met with! another instance of the kind i was held by our entire female community high as well as '- low, that the matches, a perfectly equal one, notwith standing that wealth and high worldly po sition were entirely onjthe bridegrom's side. In fact, that, nobody less in the social scale. the representative of an old territorial fami ly ought in the nature of; things, to have aspired to the hand ot) Agnes Townley, ap: peared to" have been a foregone conclusion Thisj will give the reader vivid impression of the words or colors I might with everybody a truer and more bride than fanv -4- ; " use. The days, out a cloud iave a few ones which weeks, months of wedded life flew over Mr. and - Mrs: Arbuthnot with- j dark,' but transitory and then flit across A saw now The rector I found to be a stbutnrr gcndeinjanl.whosejsjei between sixty and seventy. So many win ters, .although they had plentifully be- , sprinkled his hair with grey, shone out with - rudy brightness in his ; still liandsome face and kcenj kindly, bright hazel eye, and'his voice, hearty and ringing,1: had. not as yet one quaver xf age in! it.' I met bim at breakfast on the morning, after my arrival, and his reception of, me was most friendly, -We had spoken together but for a few min utes, when, one of thef iFfejich windows that led-from the breakfast room into a shrub- hery and flower garden gently i opened and admitted a lady, just then, as I afterwards learned, in1 her- nineteenth spring. I use this term almost unconsciously, for I can not, eVen now, in the glowing summer of of her life J dissociate! her image from that Feason bf i youth and i joyousness, Sbe was introduced to me. with old-fashioned sim plicity, as "My grand daughter, Agnes Townly." It is difficult to look at beauty through other men'sj eyes, and in the pres ent instance, I feel hat I should fail mis- crably in the endeavor to stamp upon this blank, dead paper any adequate idea of the fresh loveliness, the rose-bud beauty of that young girl. I will; merely 'say, that her ; perfectly Grecian head wreathed with wavy tondcaiuclof bright S hair undulating with -golden light, vividly brought to my mind Haphael'si halo-tinted portraitures of the Virmn. with this dmerence, tnat in place of the holy calm and resignation of the pain ting,; there was in Agnes Townly a spark ling youth and. life that even amid the' heat and glare of a crowded ballroom, or of a theatre, irresistable inggested' iand recalled the freshness an,d perfume of the morning of a cloudless, ' rosyj morning . of May. - - And for higher charms than feature beauty, howeverfexquisite, a sweetness of disposition, a kind gentleness of mind, and temper, was i evinced in every line! of her face, in every : accent of the low piiched silver voice that breathed through lips jmade only to smile. - Let me own that I was greatly struck by so remarkable a combination of ,'rareendow- ments; anil that, I think, the eharpyed rector must have perceive'd, or he might not perhaps have been so immediately cominu- nicative wth respect to ' the near : prospects of his idolized grand-child ;, as he was, the moment the young lady, after; presiding at the breaktast- tablehad .withdrawn;.-.--' -..We shall have gay doings, Mr, Tyrell, at the "rectory, shortlyhe said. . "Next Monday ,three weeks will,- with, the blessing of (jod,ibe; AgnesTownly's wed6Ung-da (l Yes," rejoined the rectorr turning to- ' 37ardsand examining soma flowers which Miss Townly had brought in and'plaeed en the table -t Xes it has . been for some -came to be more and more spoken of. 1 1 should, not survive her' gaid JVlr. Ar buthnot one day, in reply a chance observa-r tion of the rector's, nor indeed desire to do; s6.",x;' j: 11- -V..-:-' .The grey headed man seized and warmly pressed the husband's! hand, -and tears of sympathy filled his eye's, yet did he never theless, as in duty bound utter. gravewords on the sinfulness of despair under any cir cumstances and the denying in all trials J however heavyj of patient suhmission to rA-sad accident - occurred about a month subsequent to., the foregoing conversation. The recior was ttt riding j upania f usually quiet horse which all at once took it unto his head to shy at a scare-crow lt must have seen a score of times, and thereby, threw its rider. Help was fortunately: at hand, and the reverend -gentleman :asr instantly Coriveyed home, when it ! was! found ! that his left thigh j was broken. Thanks, how- ever, to his temperate habits it was before long authoritatively' pronounced that al though it would be a - considerable r time be fore, he was released from i confinement, it 'was not probable that, the lugty ' winter of ms lite would . be shortened by twhati had happened..' Unfortunately the accident threatened to have evil consequences in an other quarter J Immediately i after it oc curred,: one Matthews, a busy thick head- tA Inn' vf V..i.l. . 1 P li' f !i ' v . f MLcucr, roue iuriousiy on to Elm Park with the newsl Mrs. Arbuth not, who daily looked jto be confined, was walking; with' her husband upon; the lawn in front of the house, i wh6n the great ' bur ly blockhead rode up, and' blurted' out that the rector , had been thrown from' his horse and it was feared killed j !' Ill , 1 The shock of such :atf announcement was of coursey overwhelming I A few-hours af terwards,1 Mrs. Arbuthnot. gave 'birth to a healthy male child j . bijt the young moth er s lite, assailed by, fever, wasifor many days utterly despaired Qf for week held to tremble so evidently inUhe balance that the slightest adverse circttmsUncej .might in a moment turn the scale deathwardj At length the black horizon that seemed to encompass us so hopeleksly tightened; and atorded the lover husband a glimsend hpe of his vanished j arid weirnitldairea lof Eden, The promise was ful I wfiln theJiJ awkitinff the! physician's' morning repwt ver Inxiouslyithe 4 that entered the apartment in a evidently cleer-1 fulmood.;;-V; ;:; ! .rj . ' You, have been causlesly.aame4 he said. There isj no fea;tejr "'of kre- lapse. ; Weakness only ; remains, j and 'that softie of-"! coming. Not a word remember -iofc V word V: .At' the same time' the wbelea; his chair half round, so that; his batk smld be towards the servant we heard apWung. j-. . " Isu sent, sir,' said Mrs. Arbuthnot's majd, fa ask if the post has arrived V 'I - Ye replied Mr. Arbuthnot, with won derful nastry of his voice, j ' Tell your mis tre jMall be w;th her almost immediate ly aat her her son is quite well ' , cs'7jtTey he continued, as soon as the sertant . was out of hearing, -( there is, I thirik, liquor-stand on the side board in the -Ura diningroom. ' Would you have thekMness it to me unobserved mind thalHfnobserved by any one ?' , ;4I s he requested ;yand the instant I placed '-he liquor-frame before him, he seiz ed ti tfandy carafe, and drank with fierce eagems. Por , goodness sake exclaim ed, fcVisider what you are : about, Mr. Ar buthn ; you will make yourself ill I . r&o, no,' he answered, after finishinghis draugkt It seems scarcely stronger, than. wate.l But I am better now. ! The let ter he added after a long and painful pause, during which he eyed me, I thought witli an eye ofsaspicion ( the letteryou saw me ofen just noy comes from a relative, an aunt, yho is veryill, and wishss to see me instahlly. You Understand V - : -: -" .- - A ' I ' dif understand, or at least I feared that I die too well, i I however, bowed acJui escer ce,' and he presently rose from jhis chair , and strode about the apartment in great agitation, until his wife's bed-room bell aag. He then stopped suddenly shprt,, shook iimself, and looked anxiously at Ithe. reflecjtion of his flushed and varying counte-r nanc4 in the magnificent chimney glass.) ; MJdo not look, I think or, at least shall not; h. a darkened room odd, more out of -than bne ind sudden, but 'scarcely -unexpected. ? What i! what does he mean? exclaimed, Things had gone well,' too, with the nurse, Mrs. Arbuthnot, bewilderingly, and at the Mrs.sDanby and her husband j. well, at least, same.timej clasping her son who gazed on fter a fashion. The, speculative' miller Danby with kindled eyes, and angry boyish; jnust have made good use of the gift to his defiance Rightly to her side. Did 'the wife for her care of little Arbuthnot, for he man's strange words give form and signifi- had built a genteel house near the mill, al- cance to jsome ways rode a . valuable horse, kept, it was doubt thai had said, a capital stable j and all this, as it times? .. I jud t a - j t ;i ; . " '- i - 1 ::t i I a .'-.i -J ' , uy U1S Clever speculations in COm -a"" jumuijeu. auu uau cuaa. ucuucd - ar, foxjthe ordinary business of the upon a sofa. 1 ' ' - ' '. ; -:: A is,, more agitated- mighl than one must appear, after healing of thi dangerous illness of--bf -an aun yes : much better, much better am gteL tof hear you say so. ' ,That waslmy wife's fcelL She is anxious, no doubt to see i ; But4the venerable gen- the will of G od tlenian spoke in a hoarse and broken voice A gleam of lightning eeined to.flash over Mr. Arbuthnot's expressive5 countenance. 'Blessed be God!- he f exclaimed. 4 And how bemadded, shall j we manage tespecting the" child? ' She asks for it.incesfintly i '- Mr. Arbuthnot's infant son, Ishbuld states had been consigned immediatel3 after its; birth to the care of Mrs: Danby,: who ! had herself been confined,' also with a boy about a fornight 1 previously, i Scarlatma bein prevalent in the neighborhood, Mrs. Danby was hurried away ; withlthes two: a place near Bath, almosti before ble to bear the tourney. - Mr. me " difof a few 4 it was easy to see he tetwith Mr. Arbuth- paa not lett ms wue tots one nourj ana icon nbt, that the realrty of an event, the bare sequently had only seenhis chi ossiDiiity oi wmcn, suook inem so xerriDiy, minutes just aiter was Dorn. r were a crosstoo heavy! for human strength ' With respect to the child,'! to bear and live.- ! j I V LindleyiXl am of bpinion'that 3V It was of course decided that the expec- not may see it in a day for two ted heir or heiress should, be entrusted to a third ,day from, this, if- 'all goes well wet nurse, and a Mrs. children to she was a Arbuthnot replied: Dr, r. Arbuth Say the ask ;hat was thought less nervous than beforei I rose to go. Give my respects he saidp'to the' good rector : and as an especial fator,j he added, with strong emphasis, let me of you riot to mention to a living soul you saw me so "unmanned as I was just riowj that I swallowed brandy. It would apjpear so strange," so weak, so ridiculous I promised- not to do so, and almostj im mediately ; left the house, very painfully af fected. " His ; son was, I; concluded, ejther dead or dying, and he was tlrn bewilcred by casting about' for' means, . of keeping be terrible, perhaps fatal tidings from his wife. I afterwards hearOHnat he left Kim Park in t-i , . ; " j' 'f" : a post-chaise, about two hours after I -came away unattended by a single servant. I ' ' "i- ' ' . . ' ' ' i " i ' 1 1 3 dark shadowy, indistinct previously haunted her at 2cd so. The rector appeared seeped and flour mill- was almost ' entirely nedected. He ' Ym guess dimly, I see, what I have to had no children of his own but he had an- say resumed Danby with a malignant sneer. ip-son, a fine lad, ' Telb, hear it, , then; once for aU, arid then, parently taken to his step-: now about eighteen greatly grieved the boy ed above all things that her son should con ract the evil, dissolute habits of his -father- in-law. - Latterly, she had become extreme- i years of age. This ifjou wilj, give me up; to thej officers iy's mother, who dread- Some years ago,' lie continued, and steadily V.n It,v.:.ij Ronift wars ntrn: n. wrtmnn -n. Tiiirsni xen some tears ago, ajroman, a nurse, was .placed in t harge of two infant children, both Boys ; one of these was her ownj the other jy solicitous to procure the lad a 'permanent Was the spn of rich, j?roud parents; The ; situation" abroad, and this Mr. Arbuthnot man's hustand was a gay, jolly fellow, who ' jiad. proinised should be effected at the ear- preferred spending money to earning it, and V " iiest opportunity. : ; - 4 just then it happened 'that he was more. than. stood affairs on the lGth of Octo- nsually haj-d up. One afternoon, on .visits ber, 1849. ' Mr. Arbuthnot was temporari- Wg bis wifc, who had 'removed to a distance, ; ly absent, in Ireland, where he possessed he found that the rich man's child had sick- : Jar;propcrty,' making personal in- ned of the small pox, and that there was no -jt quiries; as to the extent of the potatoe rot, hance of jts recovery. A'letter containing i not long before announced. The morning's the .sad news was on the table, which he, the . bogt had brought -a' -letter to his wife, with .brisband, teok the liberty to open and read, the intelligen3e that he should reach home After, some reflectibri,- 'suggested by what that very eve ning ; and as the rectory was be had hetfrd of the lady-mother's state of , pn the direct road' to Elm ' Park, and her mind, he copied the letter for, the sake of jjhusbarid worild bei srire to pull up there, Mrs Embodying in i a certain suggestion. That 1 j Arbuthnot came with her son to pass theaf-1 tetter was jdulv posted, and -the; next day fternoon therei and in some slight desrree to Brought the rich man; almost in1 a state of anticipate her. husband s arrival. lestractiori y but his chief and mastering ter- About three o'clo.cky a chief clerk of one ror was lest the mother .of the already dead pf the Taunton banks rode up in a gig to infant should' hear, -in her then precarious ' jthe rectory, and asked to see the Rev. Mr. state of what had happened. The tidings, . . j - ' J . . V; 4 EHMU had been to Elm Park, but not finding eith- ;er Mr. 1 Arbuthnot or his lady there, he had Townley, on pressing and important busi- be was sure, would kill her. Seeing this; mess, lie was usnered into the library. I tne cunnmff husband ot the nurse suggested where the rector and I were at the moment (hat for the present, his, the cunning one's. ; irather busily ! engaged. The. clerk said he Jlhild might be taken to the lad j as her own nd that the truth could be revealed rbcn phe'was skrong epough to bear it. - The thought thaf perhaps the llev. Mr. Townley ! rrich man fell into the artful trap, and that might be able to pronounce upon the -genu-1 Irhich thelhusband of the nurse had specu- fineness 'of a check for .300, purporting to i tated upon came, to pass, even' beyond his: tto be drawn on the Taunton Bank bV Mr. i liope's. i The lady grew to idolize her fanel- iMfeaiiiSkfif m enild-he lias, fortunatelyvihadno' oth- , ded, thatrhe bank had fi,;f1 nJl ill lien 1 1 1 1 fj 'ucu auu j in? v-' 2 , " . , t ocnevetngit tn o -fW g ery year, it oecame more aimcufi, -mui; l. . t A forgery !' exclaimed the rector after Impossible to do so ; iind very generously, I merely glanc tion .that This was, ' - - ; . ' (' with many apologi drew and hastened back to Taunton were still talking over this sad affair, al though some, hours had tt ni i 1 ut i will be anting at the document, 'Ko qries nusi say , has he paid in purse for the tovj ; it iland a very clumsily executed earance of the nurse's husband; Well now,. " one, too, besides, Mr. Atbuthnot is riot yet fhen, to sum up : the.nurse wasj jMrs. Dan- : ' I returned from Ireland f ' ; ' bylj the rich, weak ' husbandj Mr. Arbuth-, sufficient and the messenger, riotj the substituted child, tha handsome )ologies for his intrusion with- bo my slon ! j ; V ; ' .;.''!;: ' ; : I A'', wild j scream from Mrs, Arbuthnot : oko the dread silence which siecompanied - elapsed since the fis frightful revelation, echoed jby an ago- clerk's departure in fact, candles had been nized cry, half tenderness, half j rage, irom , brought in,' and we were every riioment e- er. husbarid, who had entered jthe roord un peetirig'kr.iArbuthno at a hastv tallon was heard anproachirig, in his arms. ; The carriage wlieels we had He was gone three clear days only, aHthe V , dCf which he returned with Mrs.; Ikyl1 shntjby the Panby, the wife of a think we riiay venture so far, !) miller, living not very far from the rectory, present for, an untoward'agitatidn "might be, ' i -i n ' .1 . ! "i ' -r i ' l ! I ' 1 . :. . it n r V . ml 4 ' '' was engagea ior- mat purpose. . 1 naa ire- pernaps, instantly iatai.,!: j.nis point pro- quently seen the woman j and her name, as visionally settled,1 we alt three weip.t our sev the rector and I were ; one evening gossip-, eral ways : I to. cheer the still suffering rec- ur tea, on some subject or other tor with good news. 1 . ! r. 1 , J j that'l forgot, came up. ; ; . The next- day but one, Mr, Arbuthnot "A likily person I remarked; "heal- was in exuberant spirits. ; indley's re- thy, very good looking, and qne might port is even more favorable han wq had make oath, a true-hearted creature. But anticipated he said'; land I start to-imor- there is withal a tiniidity; frightedness, in row morning, to bring: Mrs. Di nby and the her manner, at times ; which, if I may haz- child' . The postman's subdued but ard a perhaps -uncharitable coniecture, unmistakable knock, interrupted him.: ' The 11 for that smart husband of hers' nurse he . added, is fery, attentive and weeks only I had ever seen. ished the . air-drawn ' Doubting end and his son m' nored health,; too, any one of the finest' babies of its agoutf nine! l 1 - : ; i Xhuffan Castlland ! r . In. t 1 T 1 3 11 Uiant despair wnicn i naa so jured up. The cause assigned by M buthnot for the agitation I had witnessed, ... i : - v ...... ; . , i - - m. i was doubtless.. the true one ; and yet! (and the thought haunted me for months, iyeara hail hisj 1 speaks ill "You dear sir. hastily cori-j 1 t). to and nresentlv the nale and haggard face of I heard werd his. It was long before 1 could window at whicli the! Recall withl calmness the tumult the terror. rpctnr nnd nivself were standing. The gate 1 wnd confusion of that scene. , Mr. Arbuth bell was runj almost immediately afterwards, pot strove to bear his wife . from the. apart- v and but a brief interval passed before Mr. mcnt, but shq would not be forced awayand i "' ' ''- r'1 '.i . : ii?i: nro.;':- 'X-1 N .LV;L."":a1 lt.A.,'- ianny was announcea to oe m waumg. iue Kept imploring, wuu lreuzieu puuiriuyuvc, iave hit the mark precisely my punctual. She writes alm6st every day Danby is a very bad fellow,. and A servant entered with ai salver heaped with a domestic tyrant to boot. His wife, who letters, i Mr; - A.rbuthnott tossed them over is really a good, but meek hearted person, eagerly and seizing one jafter glancing at uvea witn us ; once. : jiow oia ao you sup- me post-marK, tore it eagerir .! open, mutter- pose her to be?" - . - r ;; v ' ing, as, he did so ; 'Ptis'npt the usual hand " Five and twenty,! perhaps? ;. writing, but from her noidoubtii fMerci- " Six years more than that. She has a ful God j T impulsively J exclaimed,1 as I son of the name of Harper' by a former suddenly , lifted my eyes to his.r j : 1 1 i marriage, who is in his tenth year. Anne i' Wbat is the ; matter V A mortal palor wasn't a widow long'. . Danby . was caught had spread over Mr. Arouthnot's before: an- by her good looks, and she by the bait of a imated features,! and he; was glaring at 1 the well provided honie. Unless, howeverher letters in his hand as if a basalisl had sud- husband gives up his j corn speculations denly confronted him.! ibAnother moment, she will not Ilhink have that much Ion- arid the muscles of his frame appeared to A J t " 1 '.. - i". ' ' 1 ... .. ,. 1 - J J . 'i l 1 J y-v Vi rn 1 TT gyr. " Corn speculations 1 give way suddenly andhe drappod hcayily Surely, Danby has into the easy arm-chair from whk-h he had no means adequate tolndulge in such a game risen to take the letters, M was .terribly a as that' '3 ''' '.;"' ;' ; ; f ' " larmed. and first loosening his neckerchief, 5 u Not he- " But about two years ago he for he seemed' choking, I said Let me afterwards), he Opened only one lettej morning, and had ' sent a message wife that the" child was well." ; . ; - Mrs Danby reriiained atj the, Park till the little Robert was weaned, and was then! disi - i - f '''' "'.i i i i I tr ':? missed, very munincentiy Tewaraea. s x ear after year rolled away, without bringing Mr. and Mrs. Arbuthnot ariy additional litf tie ones, and no one, therefore could feel Eur prised at the enthusiastic Jove the 'do lighted mother for 1 her handsome, nobly-. proniing boy. '"But; that; which jadastorii- ish me,;though no one else, tor it seemed ..'04- ; ' - 5 . 1 . that I alone noticed it, was a strange defecjt of character which began to develop itself iri Mr: Arbuthnot. He was positively jea- ous of his i wife's affection for their.; ow ti child Many- and many a time have I re- - 1 . -1.1 Ti h ' marfiea. wnen ne thought nimseii unoDsery ed, an expression - pf intence flash from his nne, expressive eyes, at any more tnanjusu ally fervent n manifestation -of the lyoung mother's gushing love for her first arid only born. I as much as possible forforc to dwell servant had hardly gained the passage witli that Robert that her boy ehou leave to show him in, when the impatient ken away from her. visitor rushed rudely into tne room in a state' of great and it seemed angry excitement.- ; ; - ' V ' : .' ' '; : ' What, sir, is the meaning of all this ill marincred intrusion ?' demanded the rector sternly. . ; ' You biaye pronounced the check I paid h a forgery ; and the officers are. bought on credit, I believe, a considerable call some one ;' and' I turned ;! to reach , the quantify jof wheat, and prices happening to bell, when he instantly , seized my 'arm. , and fly suddeniy up ; just then he made a large held me .with a grip of Iron.;, f So pno v. -., .i fih nnite turned his head, no 1 ' he hoarsely grasped,, waterf water I . : 't ii- '.. .' nnAiiig rn rT-n a I Tfioro wna fnTtniin fpl-r snmo vr n. i-iflp tr.-T.cr fWr.or thp Tfotor mfirht' have to say, thrust the crumpled' letter vote his pocket and 1 soon afterwards went bacJ nome.; . ana saw m a .'iU1: f - - d not be ta- 'T have rio wish to do- so far from it , said Danbj ', with" gleeful exultation,- only, folks must be reasonable, and j not threaten their frienfis with the hulks' ".' 3 Give hain anything ' " V.rl!-ii in th il.TTi away at Ba I am told, already at my heels. . 3Ir. Ar- happy lady. 4 O Robert; Robert she added, with a renewed burst of hysterical grief, how could you jdeceive me so?' ;i ;r ! ; I have been punished. Agnes, he an- buthnot, unfortunately, is not at hoirie, and j swered in a husky, broken voice, for my I am come, therefore, to seek shelter with J Well intended but crhrinal weakricss ; cruelly you. f Shelter dignant rec the belb' this instant ?' punished by the everpresent consciousness with me sir V exclaimed the" in- this discovery must one day le surely . or. moving as. ne spose, towarus ma(jei What do you want r ne aiier a. r Out of my house you shall go wftile added with recovering firmness, ad' -1 Yes, yes; exclaimed Mrs. Arbuthnot, still Udly solibing,' and holding; 'the terrified A rpi n or jT-arib v. . v.. w..... i . . - - The fellow 'placed his hand upon the " re- L ; U q-ne clknowledgemcrit of that little bit verand gentleman's arm and looked with his ;,f paper 'A dispute, ;of course J and say a 4 JUon t r said JJanpy, aon t ior tne sa.e of yourself land yours ! Don't I warn you ; . iiaV sobbin or if you like the phrase better, don t, tor hoy strained in her embrace, a3-if she teared the sake of me and mine : he might be Iwrcnched iroiri Iter by forces1 "four's fellow I Your wife, whom you 1 Anything fc pay him any tiling J". :s J ; ;' nave; so long held iri! cruel bondage through; i! At this indment, chancing tolook to-v ; herffeari f(jr her"sonrhas at length shaken ards the door of the'apartriient;I saw that ; on mat cuatu. .ui- uaijjti pau. iiry was paniaiiy opeucu,-uuu iuat jwuiy a days ago, from Portsmouth to Bombry; I ifowas Hsteriing tUerc.; ; But what'inlgl ; I sent her tne news two hours since. : , - V that mead t ! But wliat of hopieful. mcauirig i Mr?. Arbutbnot and ber son. All's right; ; : ; begone 'ai'lpceH': upon the i subject. . 4 ' ; ,;Nine years palsed away without bringing any material change. to the parties involved in this narrative, except those which time brings ordinarily - in; his train j - -Yoiing R bert Arbuthnot was a healthy tall and fine looking of his age;" and his great grand-papa, the rector,v though not : suffering undr any actual physical or-mental infirmity; had reached a time of life when the announce . . .. . - . t . . . 4. I 1 ment that the golderi-bbwl is broken, or the forcibly, from the apartment; when the silver -cord is loosed, may indeed be quick ' sound of wheels was heara oumae. , V " . : . "' " . ' j.?'' '' 1' : ' ' f: : f -. i .v- ' : ; . . ; - -.- KHe ! Id that indeed so?' cned byO have?'. 17 H - :':Vt 1 with an irrepressible start oia-arim ;jvnyw Be it ib, love. - id -Mn' Arbuthnot then But no'matteiu here luckily "comes- j inntl,inil J'! f f Danbv. -call tomorirow at the She will, I know, stand bail for me, and I was thinking rt-suined the i rascal, witn if need be; acknowledge the genuineness of :ST7cUing abdaeityj Mbatwo heribatids ; -; ; como ts(A ;'lthe fellowVinsolencV was J-ecomingvun 'Vjack.' andj white.- Butr never inind I csir bearable; arid I was" about to seize and thruSi z mdeed, Voa i aiwavs nut iu. 9VIV. v , ' get tired brthe voung gentleman, rand; m;-;; ; - ; . - t . . -: i . . a. - , - . - y j "- ; - i. f V - " , . i. ''t r' . ' -i: : ii -; .a u '- :s. r' 7 1: -4. r -1 ' h 4. 'H- 'A f 1 W - r i
The Weekly Jubilee (Salisbury, N.C.)
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Sept. 4, 1852, edition 1
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