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Xra. 'Walbridge nor her *later, 'when
they met the stranger...whom they et
encs termed disrepatablo-looking—ere
tithei than. coldly polite, and that the
moat, callous could scarcely fail to
004 the haughty scorn that Juke in
•their gaze and speaks in their frigid
utteranees,
• However, Mr. Walbridge is his herself well, and fearleasly,
tamed genial self, aud the straoger •" The next half hour sees her busy in
"auks 'Vaal tbat Tollr Alintnes ts evidently not sensitive, and the eon- her rooto,paeking lier few belonginge,
Apprattehlitge-that is, if yna get your- eersation, at the table, although on land the next,the iron gate clielte after
tle4f the proper way to work to fieettre that arid eucceediug days is mainly her departing form/
Vita vas her Handsome head from
her crewels end regards, tier sister in-
euiringly.
What do you mean, Iodise?
This—Mr. Thorne's will wits read
•yesterday and I have heard what was
in it. Ile leaves all his lamellae
wealth—Ingleside included —to a
nephew of his wife. Now the heir
eertaitVy cannot be old, nor more
imperviens than other men to the
fascinations of a woman's beauty, and
there lies your opportunity.
Suppoeing he should be a married
_ mart 1' Rita suggests
Re is not, or if he 10, bis enele did
eat know it, Sire Walbridge replies.
B,Ita saunters over to the
eirindow.
The velvety lawn of Bose Terraee.
her sister's pretty place, stores some
distance before her eyes., then comes
the broad road -way, and beyond, as
for as visiou can reach, stretch the
fertile acres that belong to Ingleside,
the late 'Sr. Thornet's estate.
It is a tine plave—even finer than
eesers, Lottie ; and it would be nice
if we could be neighbors, wouldn't it?
she flays, as she returns to her tient,
canting a compleceut glance, on the
way, into mirrors". It reflects those
dark, glowing eh hat are expect-
ed to win OA, fiiv* an advartage-
ous settlement et to distant day.
While the above conversation is
• taking plaee, under the great elm tree
by the gate, Mee. Welbridge's two
ehildren are listening with rapt at•.
,t tuition to is fairy.tale that is beiug
to thern by the governess, it to
• play -time, but toys and games ore
nowhere beside one of Cousin Hope's
,stories.
Suddenly the iron wile swinge open
end a stranger appears abruptly before
- paten.
It's a tramp, Hope i'm afraid I
little Floss whispers, as she climbs
• ploser to her governess's side:
•
• That is not tramp, Hope decides
• rt once, although she notices how
ellailley and travel -stained his
Itttire is.
beg your pardon, he aitys in e
;deep voitie that Betide back to its
• hiding place Floss' head that has been
• aised furtively, does Mr. Hugli Wal"
,bridge here?
tee. Hope replies, courteously. and
Sip is at home if you woeld like to gee
is away from home, and therefore Yes; but lila name was K1n flrovvn
Hope hat! no friend to whom to turn, 4 sorry king be, weal Be had the
Ilex color ebbed from white to red,and most aSSUlatate of any one I ever met.
back to white again, ea she listened to The idea o his Oiling on as he did in
the cruel wordel el accusation and T0,4 the very feet) of our uneencealed acorn
preach that were )*ped upon her. and dislike.
But not for ions is alp gowt.4. Pride • Rita smiles langrticry,
springs tri her aid, end shim defend, Yes, I. hardly think be could have
been mistaken upon that score. 'How-
ever, I must any he didn't Poem to
mind it Tamil.
Oh, he had that sly little Rope to
console him,Mrs. Walbridge concludes
satirically.
It is an agreeable tank to a women
of Mrs, Watbridge's calibre to have the
ordering and arranging, rarte•btanche,
for 0 grand social event,anel she enters
into the' preparations With zest,
The evening arrives, and at the ap.
pointed hour the guests begin to as
sernble from far and near:
A pleasant surprise awaits them; for,
as tbey enter the spacious drawing -
room, they land that they have
bee.) called tagether, not alone to
welcome the new. owner of Ingleside,
OX (Leah naterairrr,
carried on hy tiro masculine portion.
does not flag, A month elapses, and
still the shabbily dressed guest re-
maine at the Terrace.
And shell stay just ail len as he
pleases, M. Walbridge says te his
wife, for once unmoved by lier petne
lent remonstrances. If you are in-
seneible to the obligations of grati-
tude, 1 am not, poor Xing has had
hard Intik, and if I can add a pleasure
to his life it will be paying a trifle on
that old score.
Brit, altheugh itrs. Walbridge And
her intughty sister do not exert them-
selves to entertain the stranger With..
in ther gates, the little •governess,
Flope, is doing it gloat effectively in
their stead, pqr the first Moment of
their meeting the two have been
mutually drawn to each other, pro-
bably by the °pennon feet of their
poverty and leeeliness.
Who is that sweet little girl who sat
beside me et the table? Xing Brown
had asked of hie host, the first night
of his arrival. :
She is a relative of my wife, was the cause og his love's sudden and un -
the reply; the child of a cousin who explained disappearances
died end left her without a cent. 1 Why, it wait your own hand that lit
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imrnedietely sent for her to come to the torch, Hugh, he exclaims. You
us, bot the prowl girl latterly refused • told me what a perfect wife alio would
to come, unless it might be in some make, and It agreeing with you, had
position where she would be earning determined to stake. my all, 'for the
the bread she ate. So she is here as first time in • my existence, upon a
the children's governess. 'Bel adore matrimonial venture. Just this after.
her, and I agree heartily with their noon I vowed my regard and received
Instinctive estimation of her Olsen- the assurance of hers in retgrn. Of
ter. 1 tat you, King, if you -could course, I kissed her. • This action—
find a wife like that, your future • certainly not reprehensible, under the
future would not be so ionety as your oircumstences—must have been seen
past has been. by Mies Rita, and reported. By the
gat King smileti. way, I have something to tell you,
What girl nowadays would look at Hugh, diet has been on my lips before
a poor man like me? to.day. Ian% glad now that 1, wait -
The days glide by, and at length it ed.
coulee to be quite a frequeint occurrence What he coutludes with brine an
when Hope seats herself between her expression of surprise and interest to his
pharges beneath the old elm tree for companion's fee°.
the story -treat, for the small group to As the two men clasp hands before
be reinforced by a fourth, who some, parting for the night, King says:
times takes 14/0/1 'himself the part of • I have two thing to thank you for
narrator. If he is shabby,and has not old friend. First, for the restoration
succeeded in life,King Brown can talk of that faith in man's disinterested..
well, and his geephie tales of life and nese which a life of poverty and ais-
• adventure in faraway countries would appointment had almost canoed to
bring to bhp both credit and mousy cease ; and, secondly, for that gift
into his purse, were he to write thern more prescious Olen rubies, the gentle
down where all might read: heart, that for yeu, 1 inightalever have
Little by little a deeper feeling than won,
that of interest begins to dawn in It is morning, some three months
gape's gentle breast, anti 'when, one later.
efternoon, when the children were in • In Mrs. Welliridge's pretty pony-
pnrsuit of a fluttering butterfly, phaeton, herself and Bate are seated,
Xing Woe; her bind in his, after tells • and being whirled rapidly eking by
hag her the sad story of his lonely life, the spirited mar of white ponies.
She does not withdraw it. • The 111=xt I have a piece of news for you Rita,
ten !oblates pass so ecstatically that
neither notice the glimpser of white
drapery that pasSee them swiftly by a
ehort distance away through the treein
It is Rita, on the way to the gates
But instead of continuing on her in.
tended course, she hastens bua to the
house. She has always disliked the
gentle, fair haired girt, who, if her
opposite, is her equal in all points of
beauty.
Now a wpnpom has been placed in
her hand, and she roses no thee in
in tellihe hoe sister of it. Mrs. Wal.
bridge exclaims:
At the Terrape Mr. Brown is read'
lug in the library, entirely unconscious
of what has bneu passing,or the trouble
his attentions have brought upon the
leertly girl, whosci noble character has
lip within breest, for the first time,
the unqueneitelilp fire of Jove. Hope
does not seek him before she goes
She cannot, much as she lenge to, in
thelace of what has been said to her.
When they learn of their governess'
departure, Flossy and Mgr) are in.
consolate ; and as she listens to their
anguished weeping Mrs. Walbridge's
own heart quakes a little es elle won• -
ders whether lier husband will be very
angry, or whether,with inlaid good-
natured indiffe 'mice, he will let it
paw, But though in truth Mr. Wal-
bridge is as indignant as it is possible
for his easy-going oature to be, he
cannot alter thirgs, retract the sting
of his wife's unjust words, or bring
Hope back. With his customary
frankness he speaks at onoo upon the
subject te his guest, who then learned
for the first time, what had passed,and
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• Stretched out on the floor in fre#t
of the fire was a very small bey,
whose clothes were very much to
large for fashion and ornfori, look-
ing at the dull, balf.dyipg enthet'et
while he thew his old wet More clpse-
ly around him, It wanted only two
days mita Thanksgiving, and Bennie
dray bad walked hems with some
the other boys from sehoolt while they
bad told in joyous tones of the good
times coming; of the pie, and Pude
dingo, and ealies,to say nothing (Atha
huge turkey, aud chicken pies. IMI
Bennie had kept silent amid all this,
till Ralph Harlow, who was a new
arrival in town, turned to bin hte
•
cried merrily
Your turn now, Bennie. Ina, what
are you going to have? unmindful of
but to be made nequaiuted with his the big eyes made him by the ether
young bride,
The Walbriiges came late. Rita's
dark beauty shwa to its best advan-
tage in her rich toilet of cardinal velvet;
but it dwindles to insignifieenceets lie
stands—for once in her life, So coin.
pletely loarprised, thet her nsual self
possession entirely deserts laer--betore
the exquisite purity and graee of the
fairy-like form,that arrived bride%
snowy satin and orange blossoms,
stands by her husbandle eide to receive
the advancing gue,ate. In the bride,
Rita recogeizes the girl she has scorn.
ed and in the husbarul—Ingleside's
heir—the stranger towards whom her
contempt and hauteur have been so
recently and palpably evinced.
If MIA from dark eyes
could wound,Bope would need to frier.
A. struggle, and Rita is herself ogee
more, and bowing, she murmurs the
formula etiquette requires, and moves
on and so, out forever, of a charmed
circle in whichgentle. heroine's
hone for Buena was a favorite, and
they would riot one of them hurt tiut
little, fellow but the question was out,
and Bauxite's voice lytta very 10Witie lm•
replied slowly, yet with a quiet dig.,
nity :
I doul know, Itainh, just the same
as Eley day ; we can't afford to keep
Thamitegiving your way, but maintrie,
says she keeps it in her heart, because
she has me, end when I am a man
mamma and 1 will keep it your way.
And with that be tuned and went into
the house. •
After the door bad' cloned behind
him, the boys explained that Stephen
Gray was a victim -the wine -cup,
and how he had been discharged only
a rnonth ago from the great foundry
where he had been employed. •
Why my father owns that, Ralph kif
Harlow exclaimed, but he stopped and
the boys went on with their story.
Out we never nay anything to hurt,
him, Bennie is such a good little fel-
life will henceforth be passed. e, • arryBrown, who had acted ite
° Thank yole
The dark eyes dwell for brief in-
jitant twin the Ittitely) gentle tepee and
•he youthful for n in its dress of
jaoistbre black, thetnlifting his hat, the
sattrenger proceeds to the house.
An boor later Mr. Walbridge enters
is wife'e boudoir, wilere Rita is stilt,
with the intelligence of the unexpect-
ed errivid an old friend, ling
Brown, whom lie has invited to re -
mein fpr vita.
And would wish yon to be Very
land aria polite to biro, Lottie, Ite
steel. More especially beeause he
le peter tied has been unfortunateitt
It in he who was the hero of
• tilts story I once told yon of the time
who** 1 weetin Mich peril during a
teittilly Italie, and would have been
hiired had be not Orinie to tay retort°.
Bet Mrs. Walbridge's brow is
plornled with VettatiOn, and it ts tip.
parent that within her mind sud.1
rartalitite tis itortyistri arid gratitude are
story.teller, concluded, and then the
Seldom it is that upon the board of
boys separated on the corner.
life sehleimess and niereenariness are
Bennie still lay on the floor when.
checkmated so promptly. • .
Mr. and Mrs.Hamilton King Brown his mother came in with her thiege
on and a bundle in her arms.
Where are you going mother
Can't I go for you ? Bennie sprang je
to his feet, but she put him gently
sway.
• No, dear, must go ; I want to get
the pay for this if I can, and then t
will get something for our Thanksgiv-
ing.
Never mind, materaa; you lute° me,
you know,and every year will make
me older so I oan work for you.
It is scandalous 1 A flirtation bpi
farmer eau effora to miss ottevallig, grpat mountain of trouble for teach. a '
right before my inaocent children 1 I shall he inVited.
don'etere if she is my eousingelie obeli What a blot) idea, Rite exclaims 'revery datryinen's meeting that comes little fellow, but the tears were sou*
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not stay here any repeatl die diall earn and it allows extremely social mates. 'anywhere near him. In fact, he eark. dried, for Montt% Will be home amen,the tweed of independenee, she talks By the lly, Whitt in his Datne, Lot Om 1 nokufferd to mins them, even if he hoe
Ilmellton Brown. to go (+ant Ns way to attend them.
Why, that wits thri erdinery eoce.
live long to bless ihe day that made
them known to each other, and the
impulse that, upon finding that his
old friend remembered and welcomed
kine only as suolewithout the slightest
suspicion of the true clause Of his no
expected appearance, had prompted
Xing to remain for a period incognito.
The ?late Glass trade bas became aO
important feature in Canada. No business
house would now dream of having the old
;sheet glass.winclows. Not only the design
of the building is vastly improved, but the
goods displayed in the windows are invit him,
ing when plate glass is used. McCausland one Russets and drawing her
Son, 01 Toronto,. supply by far the larg- thin shawl closer together went OW
r
est -quantity in Canada.
About the pain.
A comfortable cow fitahle need not
be costly, but a stable will be costly if
not eomfortehle.
A. stack of straw will make more
warmth for more core if used as bed
ding in a warm barn instead of out of
her sister says, as with a deft turn t doors,
her wrist sbe brings the ponies into When you go to buy a cow note how
Pee° inore spited to conversation. -You the owner goes up to her and how she
may prepere for the contest. In
one week's time the heir of Ingleside
is to tern) possession. Iiugh received
a letter from him this morning. It
seems 1)0 once Met him a long time
ago, altliongit be couldn't hive re.
membered him, its he never spoke _of
• him to Me. lu rho letter he asks him,
as his nearest neighbor, to mob fee
hi in some neceteary arrangements. Ile
wants to have Ingleside placed in
readiness for ra grand welconsitig re.
ception, to which all the neighbors end
friends tlf trigleside's forteer owner
and then Bennie sat down, and pick.
lug up Tabby in his arms, smoothed
her soft fur, as he talked to her, es if
she could understatid ; and perhaps
she did, for she purred softly, and
rubbed bur face against Bennie's*
You know, pusay, Bennie said, I
hate awfully to have things go so, hot
I can't do much. I wish I was big
so could, and then we would have
things like other folks. We could
accepts the approach. If site reotevee stow if pope would only he goads as he
a pat or stroke an though the were need to be. I should tad)* he would
Accustomed to it web and good, lett if eeee for mamma, if lis didn't for his
she looks afraid or surprised, look oat little boy, but I tell you, Tabby, if 1
for her to be eome time in gettitig ac- were Man, I would be ashen)ed to
(painted. let ray boy see me drink for fear lie
A good creamery man remarked the would want to, bat I shan't. Bah i
otherrlay that be would give ft'600 to the nasty stuff ; and now day after
have hie p;; weans together for two hours to.rnorrov is Thadkegiviug, and ob,
eo be could talk to them. lie knew it
woulatte money in his pockets to do so
deer, I do *iota we had a turkey', end
then the breve little voice ended in
mit would be motley in their poekets*, childish sobs. lletv don't laugh or
and whatpute 'looney in their pockets call toy hero a cry-baby, for he wee.,
is money in fat), liaareamory laaa,tie only nine years old, and thet was a
neath my very roof, and tarried on
.
lites itpAttrtiflottrit. whert compared to about, sninewilgre elem.
Iaelertfaiirs of wealth and pod- Mrs.Wslbridgs is in it passic,si. tuna,
firglbe boll, she tfen its a servant} for
therefore, that rrettirot acr, kirsorv.00:itpir. Waltridge,
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and she), must not ace me try, salstihie'
little major ; but 1 guess there ut Seto
thing we Oen do, Tab, aen 1414
ThrnTrAtrOt vrt11 be kelt to- new anb. for paps, and so the little dB
prunart thet rnry ordinkry individual vo,lbtootom ut,!,r ooa•/, for lova ti tretuoptic
VI recur lete taelt, Berta remade. 1111.ett, -V , 1 t
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otos /news* 1
is great eliarter tlia Marta
of Liberties to the Blight& People,
ea it was oalled—wite, la Not, a
eeretai revision and reproduction ot"
the old Anglo-Saxon principlee and
$euents ef goverainent, winch Lea
been suppressed by the Norman tent-
tetterore and their immediate tato.
cossor, But never miud that, Stithett
1$ to liay—It was a grant forever) foul
the koag to the people, of the rights of
ellobtraere‘Yltiowddu tief 4lt t8ritiiittg—a
hadoh1141—"
Would at leuate sign it, the obarter
was drawn up, 011 parolnneut, with
great oare---the meet expert suriveners
having been engaged to perfurin the
ewuacsrot Late to;atnhdwhen ovreospinuepol,ewteiitle : to
'the siguing was done. One of the
lergeat sheets of skins, of vellum to be
produced, had been put to use ; ane
there web room on the allergia for the
Signatures of the kiug, Helct all the
great herons, besides the atfixIng
of their seals. A grand celebratiou
followed the consummation, of the
work; after which knowledge of the
great charter uud its provisions was
given to the people at large; to which
end a copy was made, duly attested,
fa ()soli and every oouutry in the
kingdotn. And mind you, thia duou.
went was volunaineus. Nothing which
those old liberty demanding bermes
.oeuld think of had been forgotteu.
There were more than fifty sepetrate
sections ; and many of those sections
contained each avolume in itse1.
.
Well, copies were made from the
original; and then copies were made
from copiea ; and not only were copies"
bf rtetlheghcelluatrttehre r
seteift
t to proper oleers
t
atm, bat [natty of
the barons had copies for themselves.
The original drat—the raid docu-
ment of all—the one parent of all
0 that none could find it. However,
'' vopies—waa laid away so carefully
that generation did. not care much
About it. The attested copiea were
• good eaongh. Bat succeeding gener-
etious wine anxious to see the original
lingua 9itarta—the document where.
ituto wee fixed the eignature and seal
bf John Lactklood ; and on which, too,
he stoat old barons had put their
bands, eitherto write their moues, of
•io melte their marks! But it was not to
be found. TM eager ones searched
*-.high and low,—far and near but with -
belt tteail. It was believed at length
that the great original had been tin.
fortunately. destroyed. Ad so the
matter rested for a long, long time as
we shall see.
The great charter was made in the
begiuning of the thirteenth century.
•Early in the seventeenth oentury,four
, hundred years later, Sir Robert Oot.
ton, thecelebrated antiquary chanced
one day to have his attentiou attract.=
ed to a curious looking piece of parch.
• blent, its margin thickly aimed with
• broad seals, which a tailor had laid out
s
Upon his board, just read' to cut it up
Info measures, He spfang forward,
and held the workmareis band; when,
lo and behold 1 there ley the true
Rona, Charta !---the great original I
,* with its •signitares, and its seers, all
intact. The tailor said he had obtain -
'ed it with a lot of old papers that he
had purchased of a wan NItlio had re-
cently rented a suit of apartments
which baa, in eld0n times, been °cm.
pied by a firm of sorivefiers.
Robert bought the precious
document for a trillinglorn ; and, thus
was recovered the treasure which had
been so long given over as loot, and
which had grown more and more val-
ttelle as the passing of the years had
added to its ade.
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