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Your old acquaintance, and my young relative, Mr Brotherton, was married this morning, at St George's, Hanover Square, to your late friend's sister, Miss Mary Osborne. They have just left for Dover on their way to Switzerland. Your sincere well-wisher, 'JANE PEASE.
A vague doubt began to creep into his mind that turned him sick at heart. He knew how they had treated Davis, of Louisiana. He had heard how they had once kept Brotherton, of Texas a man who had spent all his life in the service of his party waiting clear through a whole administration, at the end of which the opposite party had come into power.
Sundry scenes counter to this were enacted at the deanery. Mary was in the habit of getting herself taken over to Brotherton more frequently than the ladies liked; but it was impossible that they should openly oppose her visits to her father. On one occasion, early in January, she had got her husband to ride over with her, and was closeted with the Dean while he was away in the city.
That she had never seen life as a whole; that her religious theories had ever been eating away and absorbing her life, so preventing her religion from interpenetrating and glorifying it; that in regard to certain facts and consequences she had been left to an ignorance which her innocence rendered profound; that, attracted by the worldly splendour of the offer, her father and mother had urged her compliance, and broken in spirit by the fate of Charley, and having always been taught that self-denial was in itself a virtue, she had taken the worldly desires of her parents for the will of God, and blindly yielded; that Brotherton was capable, for his ends, of representing himself as possessed of religion enough to satisfy the scruples of her parents, and, such being satisfied, she had resisted her own as evil things.
For a whole week she and the carpenter were the only persons I admitted, and while she gave to her darning every moment she could redeem from her attendance on Lady Brotherton, the carpenter and I were busy he cleaning and polishing, and I ranging the more deserted parts of the house to find furniture suitable for our purpose.
His wife had died very shortly after his promotion, and he had been left with one only daughter on whom to lavish his cares and his affection. Now we must turn for a few lines to the family of Lord George Germain. Lord George was the brother of the Marquis of Brotherton, whose family residence was at Manor Cross, about nine miles from the city.
Mary had persuaded her why, I don't know to return a day or two sooner than they had intended. 'I hope Brotherton will not succeed in prejudicing them against me. 'I wish that were possible, he answered. 'But the time for prejudice is long gone by. I could not believe this to be the case in respect of Mary; for I could not but think her favourably inclined to me.
But if this be true, of course, it will make me unhappy. I do not believe it. It is some gossip." "I could not but tell you." "It is some jealousy. There was a time when they said that Brotherton meant to marry her." "What difference could it make to her? Of course we all know that he is married. I hope it won't make you unhappy, George."
Dona Eustaquia sat easily against the straight back of her chair, looking very handsome and placid as Brotherton read and expounded "As You Like It" to her.
Suppose you had married me?" "You never asked me, my lord." "You were only eight or nine years old when I saw you last." "Isn't it a pity you didn't get yourself engaged to me then? Such things have been done." "If the coast were clear I wonder whether you'd take me now." "The coast isn't clear, Lord Brotherton." "No, by George. I wish it were, and so do you too, if you'd dare to say so."
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