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They contain a marriage settlement and other things of that sort, which show I am mistress of more money than I should know what to do with, if it were not for dear little Evert but, with such a precious being to love, one never can have too much of anything. With the papers were many trinkets, which I suppose father never looked at.
As for Beulah, gentle, peaceful, and forgiving as she was by nature, the care of little Evert aroused all the mother within her, and something like a frown that betokened resolution was, for a novelty, seen on her usually placid face. A moment sufficed to let Joyce and his companions into the state of affairs.
"Lord bless you, sir, Madam Willoughby had his honour carried into her own room, and there she and Miss Beulah" so all of the Hut still called the wife of Evert Beekman "she and Miss Beulah, kneel, and pray, and weep, as you know, sir, ladies will, whenever anything severe comes over their feelings God bless them both, we all say, and think, ay, and pray, too, in our turns, sir."
Beulah received Evert Beekman naturally, and without the least exaggeration of manner, though a quiet happiness beamed in her handsome face, that said as much as lover could reasonably desire. Her parents welcomed him cordially, and the suitor must have been dull indeed, not to anticipate all he hoped. Nor was it long before every doubt was removed.
The captain and his wife were her parents; Beulah her dearly, dearly beloved sister; little Evert her nephew; and even the collaterals, in and about Albany, came in for a due share of her regard; while Bob, though called Bob as before; though treated with a large portion of the confidence that was natural to the intimacy of her childhood; though loved with a tenderness he would have given even his high-prized commission to know, was no longer thought of as a brother.
"That is what Beulah has called me, these six months," she said "or ever since Evert was born. I became an aunt the day he became a nephew; and dear, good Beulah has not once called me sister since, I think." "These little creatures introduce new ties into families," answered the major, thoughtfully.
"And this is then your errand here, Bob?" asked his fair companion, gazing earnestly at the major. "It is, Maud and I hope you, whose feelings I know to be right, can encourage me to hope." "I fear not. It is now too late. Beulah's marriage with Evert has strengthened his opinions and then" "What, dearest Maud? You pause as if that 'then' had a meaning you hesitated to express."
"Has anything out of the way happened, Hugh?" she asked, "to give you uneasiness?" Captain Willoughby drew a chair to the side of that of his wife, seated himself, and took her hand before he answered. Little Evert, who sat on her knee, was played with, for a moment, as if to defer a disagreeable duty; not till then did he even speak.
Maud's imagination portrayed scenes of happiness, in which domestic duties, Bob beloved, almost worshipped, and her father and mother happy in the felicity of their children, were the prominent features; while Beulah and little Evert filled the back-ground of the picture in colours of pleasing softness.
Beulah and Evert would not be separated; but both could remain with their child and my dear, dear father and mother would be so happy to have us all around them, in security and, then, Bob, too perhaps Bob might bring a wife from the town, with him, that I could love as I do Beulah" It was one of Maud's day-dreams to love the wife of Bob, and make him happy by contributing to the happiness of those he most prized "No; I could never love her as I do Beulah; but I should make her very dear to me, as I ought to, since she would be Bob's wife."
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