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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1880-1-8, Page 241r'i P 3 FORT.. snit do,' ea head furio these P:tr MArt'y, Panay.' le its aff nee 1Oried old Tibbets. 'You a 14lyding•school girl. You ages 1 know; but 1 give you g, If you persist, I'll take that le Johnson into partnership sof you, and you may beg or , as you please, for the sake of a tared' girl Ike Fanny Partridge,' ,er;otted old Tibbets as he uttered eSe lest words. "Give up Fanuy Partridge ? Nev. er 1' said Horatio. Illeanvsl',lile Mrs, Partridge and Fan- ny were hard. at it—Fanny in tears ; Mrs, Partidge in a fury. 'I'd rather sop you in your grave, Fanny,' cried Mrs. Partridge. Old Tile. bets son ! V idn't ou choose a 0 ,nay` sweep It was itrbete'iqua cheated your pa's brother out of that pieoe of property. A bigger rascal never walked. No Fanny ; you walk over my dead body before you go to church with him.' Fanny was seventeen and very sub missive, Horatio, though five -and - twenty, submissive likewise. Parental authority prevailed. One meeting was allowed, in which the two might bid good bye to each other, Fanny wept. Horatio held her hands iu both his, and kissed them fondly. 'They may yield iu time,' said Horn tio, 'or something may happen to alter thiugs. Be true to rue for a little while. I shall never love'any one but you,' 'My heart is broken,'says Fanny, be- lieving it sincerely. 'But I shall be true to you all my life.' Then he kissed her. He never for. got how hard it was to take his lips from hers ; and their arms encircled 'each other, and it was really a wonder that the two youig lovers did not die then and there. Old Tibbets rewarded his son by . Making him partner in the prosperous firm of Tibbet & Co. forthwith, while Mamma Pa "dge hurried Fanny away `or rano. Horatio did not forg 'Idly. It bad been a cherished plan of ba to marr ' army. Re had a mind that as pr e • well upon detail. All his rfrncies t the future had been.. perfectly ad pictures. es hard to believe that they little d tea table would never be sett with lnted china ; that Fanny, a Mrs. sbbets, world not sit beside ) im in he third stew from the front on '. Sun- ' day mornings; that he would not go "with her to choose thecolor for the draw- \ ing.room furniture that they would ' not have their portraits to hang one f ,, n each side of the maatlepieces. e Fanny was hie practical or general i .e ; that they mighthave fvalked to. ge. er•rforever in the moonlight was, per ape, strongest with her. But bad he b ea the most perfect hero of re - menet) ae could nob have placed him on a hig,eres ectal. The m telt wduld eertaingly have been, a ha' one had fate willed it to be a match at all. They loved each other too w ` 1 to seek comfort in now lovers. Horatio b ane very steady and shunned ladies ociety, and Fanny, af. ter refusing an +'nglish baronet and German baron, declined goinginto sdclety any mor: r; settled down with her mother in a lit , town nnna the Continent, where .fo or ,five English fatuities dwelling the exohanged whist r'tieSr and there wit no young Eng- Kh people whatever. There, at thirty,. :.e was still living, d then it was. et e t,thero came to the plos an'.Enelish , who Balled it of �; lil;e�r,w t her, He was a!, rn len lig Mr, Horatio ibbets and earl`tot tinlssiufhed t 1;>)” u� �, n' �liitnd her a U iQ, , ; el, and he wa 0 ` tell Mr. (�:',:.flow she looked al was, and at he was very well, qui b #ld for,' g years art'I 1111r-narrieoi, dela the c Erwtiveller wont n;way. Th t'itvtte i1 ert$lrty workbox, worth a g 'deal in money, and ill the littlobo* w re the thimble ley wits also a ring I slot to, wits 'llinna forget.' �` t;.: 'Aetna forget." ; 1,.t, hay never showed then :g , to er teciftrattrls'ut she wore the :isle ags st bet' We( ander hes' dress. I New hope ample into her so. ; inti tl Tibbets, disk' 'I alwaya.11ave ges, and yon shan't ions"—began Horatio. f'! when, a year after, a good-looking, wealthy widower offered his baud, with a genuine live into the bargain, Forget re- fneed it without hesitation. ? Netter 1 He head not forgotten. But more years passod,►:en of them at least, and that memory of the old family feud dwelt in thebosoms of the two old people. At last at the nge of eighty, Mrs. I'aetridge died ; and Fanny, all alone in what had always remeiued a, strange land, felt miserabdy desolate. Youth had departed—Mends were few. It had been her mother's wish to remain in France ; now her heart dictates a return home. The first morning pa- per that she opened there told her of the death of Mr. Tibbets, aged ninety. The paper dropped from Fanny's hand sod she sat (pita motionless for more than twenty miuutes. Then elle began to cry very softly, and took the King from leer pocket and looked at it. Winne forget,' she sobbed. '.I am sure he has not forgotten,' And she began to wonder what,he lookedlike now. He mast have alter- ed. Perhaps the W118 so portly, like his father. Well, she was rather stout her- self, One could not be a slender youth ,forever ; and he sold probably a streak of grey in his dark hair. Nothing could alter his eyes, however. Or, if he were altogether altered, she, would love him still. .Why not, sinoe it was the heart that loved, and not the flesh and blood. And she so managed. that the news should reach him in a few days' time that she was there. He lied heard it, as she had meant he should. He was all alone, and very lonely. He had been an obedient son, and an affection. ate one, and had lo'ved the testy old man dearly. Balt now he thought it would harm no one if he should try to realize hie youthful dreams. He sighed and looked out of the win- dow; walked to the fire•plaoe and stood there unreleuting; brightened up and began to melte ono of his old fancy. pictures of Fanny at the other side of the fire. ' She'll be' older, of course.' he said ' Thin—perhaps fragile and w )ru ; pale too, but no matter; it's Fa ins, and she'll be beautiful to me.' And he wrote her a letter on the spot, in which, however, he only told her that he wa3 coining .to see her. An elderly lady was walking in a green lane near Honsey with two chis. dren, and a poodle which was her own,• the children her landlady's. She, was a very stout lady with' four chins and a red faoe, and no. waist whatever. As she walked, there name up the lane a weazon old . gentleman, with a Merge, grewmbrella under his. arm. aereipie !e. ee�;�sr s smooth as an ea, (zee t list t.the nape of the neck, where six hairs still clung, His ears stood on each side of his faoe, large, yellow, and with frosty pinolies on them. IIs had watery•blue oyes, and a wart on his forehead. Just the kind of old man the stout lady hated. For his part he disliked fat women. ' A. frowzy old creature,' he thought, and dust then poodle and ohildrer , all tied together with blue ribbon, tangled themselves about his legs and nearly upset him. Come here, my dears ; don't run agniust the gentleman in that way,' said the fat lady, in a faint voice. People should teach their grand- children and their dogs better man.. oers,' said the old gentleman, testily. 11Iy grandchildren! panted the old lady ; 'what impertinence!' t beg you'll not kick thet dog, sir. Cruelty to ani- mals is forbidden by law, thank heav- en!' If this dog is mad' as be seems to be, I'll have hien shot,' said the old gen elman. Come here, Fidn, darling,' cried the elderly lady; 'My Cars, run home to your Ina.' And just then out stopred the land- lady. To her the .old gentleman ad. dressed himself. I beg pardon, ma'am.' Can you tell me in whish of these !lenses 1 can find a lady of the name of Partridge— Miss Fanny Partridge?' Why, this is the bonier, sir,' said the landlady ; 'and here's Mise Part- ridge herself.' 'Will yon hand her this ?' said the old genrtemau looking eagerly arn•1nd in search of Miss Partridge, and never thinking of the stout Indy. 'Here, inid'em,' said the landlady, preeenting the card to tit individual. ''lots, sir, is Mise I'art.ridg.e.' The name upon the card was 'Hora- tio 'Tibbets.' That hitleons little old man, like a weasel, with n green cotton umbrella, and no hair, Horatio ? That overgrown woman, like a lob- ster, Fanny,? ` ,� e Neither would tlelsere it ; kilt lt, was rue—as true fie age is, and time, rend chnnc:e. and all the rest of it, .„' •, sat on the horsehair wife in the and tried to talk ; and as 1 they discovered that Val rtk, who loved each oOr delta–as though the sods Cllr irsioor hearts ! Had 'they married yeah ably they would have beeu still dear to each other, still pleasant to look upon. in the blindness of affection ; but meet- ings eA strangers they repulsed each. other. 'If she should expect me to remem- ber the past, this dreadful monlitain of flesh 1' thought Horatio ; and then he told her lie was glad to see her so well, and 'hoped they would be neigh- bored . She 'thought that maintain' the place did not agree with her. Each dodged the past, not .guessing how very glad the other was to dodge it also, and they parted forever, polite- ly hoping to meet very soon. That night two pillows were wet with tears, Fanny wept for the youtllfal lover of whose death she seemed to:have !,card that day. aott Horatio for a lost Eauny now only a memory. But there was no thought of any present liking, of any new flashing up of the dead flame. They did not even wish to meet ever again. There was a pertain horror in that first meeting to be forgotten. They never met any more but when Fanny died, years after, the ring with its motto of 'pinna forget'—the ring which no power could have placed ap• on her fat fiogar—hung by a robbon over hor heart, and Horatio had buri- ed with hila a luck of hair severed from Fanny's head in that long ago, and when it was golden. . Each heart was young and 'true hut forty years of comfortable, well -to- do life had been very cruel to their bodies-to.their.voices—to their man- ners. 1)o you . suppose that somewhere be- yond the stars they have met and are lovers again ?' 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