The Wrong Man — page 36: what you’re looking at

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ear — , _ y ce 4 x 7 - a ae _ 83 , . | TRE WRONG MAN. peortily fatigued with the frivolities, and sicke1cd at the arti- Cialness and sophistications of fashionable socicty. She, on “her part, found much in him to admire: his manly beauty, his easy and courteous bearing, his knowledge of the world—that world, a fairy-land to her, to which her imagination often wan- dered, and where all appeared grand, gorgeous and confused, like a child’s vision of the future. Thus mutually pleased with each other, acquaintance soon ripened into mtimacy, and an attachment insensibly crew up in their hearts, though Vhe un- conscious girl was hardly aware of the nature of her own senti- menis, till they were made known to her by an avowal of icve and offer of marriage from Dudley. Not to dweil on this part vf our story, let it suffice to say that his suit was accepted, and that the day had now arrived on the evening of which they were to be united. For reasons which the young man had ex- plained to the satisfaction of the parties, it had been arranged that the nuptials should be private, with no witness beyond the clergyman who was to unite them—a young missionary, who chanced fo be staying a few weeks at Adrianopolis. é Thus engaged, at times “prattling out of tune,” and silent at times from the very overfullness of their hearts, the hours of the morning slipped pleasantly away, and the lessened shadows of the tall trees before the cabin showed that it was nearly noon, ere Dudley mustered resolution to tear himself from his affianced bride, and leave her to complete her preparations for their and again he turned to say something he had = we ~*. nuptials. oo O Sa) not thought before, or to repeat something he had already said — -# dozen times; till, at last, every excuse for delay exhausted, he de in earnest. Hurrying along the path as if he fi to trust his resolution at a more leisurely pace, he soon disa from the following gaze of Lucy, as he descended the bluff toward Adrianopolis. An hour or two after the departure of young Dudley from the house of Sedley, the inmates of the cabin, who had just completed their frugal dinner, heard the tramp of a horse, directly after, Hugh Overton rode up to the door. A piece cleared land, which Mr. Sedley owned on the bank of the river gome few miles above, and which he had been desirous of sell ing, bad before been the subject of a conversation between him snd Hugh; and it was in relation to this that the latter had os- tensibly come. “ Helio, there!” called the horseman. “Is the old man in?” “If by the old man you medn me, here I am,” said Mr. Sed ley, making his appearance at the door. Overton laughed at his joke, and added : “ve come to see you, Square, about that piece of land slong F the river that want to sell. You know we've had some talk about it. Mind to go up and have a talk over it?” 3D - - * —_ a* ae sg: je