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"Merely as a friend who would be glad to do you a service," he continued, "I will, during the day, try to get you the name of of as reputable a lawyer as possible in that place." And Mr. Wentworth paused, as red as though he had asked her to marry him. "How good of you!" she cried. "I shall be at the Touraine until this evening."
The Curate looked as if he had a little discontent and repugnance to get over before he could address the anonymous individual who whistled so cheerily under the trees. When he did speak it was an embarrassed and not very intelligible call. "I say are you there? I want to speak to you," said Mr Wentworth. "Yes," said the stranger, turning sharply round. "I am here, a dog without a name.
"The thing is, where's Rosa, Mr Wentworth? I can't think as you've got her here." "She's all the same as my own child!" cried Elsworthy, who was greatly excited. "I've had her and loved her since she was a baby.
Wentworth had paid no attention to the visitors when they first entered, but on hearing her husband's name pronounced, rose from her crouching position and confronted the speaker. The name of the one she loved had awoke the slumbering faculties of the woman, and, like a flash of electricity on a rod of steel, her waning reason flared up for a moment.
If we agree to take a partner, we will give that partner our full confidence. 'Well, there is nothing more to say until you have had a consultation with your friend. Good-morning, Mr. Kenyon; and with that Longworth arose and lounged off to the smoking-room. Kenyon waited where he was for some time, hoping Wentworth would come along, but the young man did not appear.
'That's why I think all such schemes better let alone, returned Mrs Wentworth; 'but as your father desires that I will put you in possession of his wishes before you go into the world, I have no choice but to do it. 'It does not appear, however, that this Mr Elliott is very anxious about the matter, since he has never taken the trouble of coming to see me.
Wentworth and Ella, was not forgotten by the soldier, and before he left for the army, she received a substantial reward as a token of his gratitude. She often speaks of Ella as the little angel who "was not feared to die, case she was a angel on earf."
In 1862 he was Assistant Adjutant General of Ohio, and Superintendent of the draft. In 1864 he was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-Ninth Congress and was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress. JOHN WENTWORTH, grandson of a member of the Continental Congress of 1778, was born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, March 5, 1815.
"You will be our representative," she said to him, out of the fulness of her heart. When the door closed, the Perpetual Curate took up his position, facing them all with looks more lofty than belonged even to his Wentworth blood. They had kept him from exercising his office at his friend's grave, but nobody could take from him the still nobler duty of defending the oppressed.
She turned half round, with a tremulous little inclination of her head, which was all the good-night she could venture on. But the young man was too much disturbed to permit this. "You will give me your hand, surely," he said, taking it, and holding it fast a hand so different from that weak woman's hand that clung to Gerald without any force to hold him, in Wentworth Rectory.
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