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"Our train was about at the place where the Oregon and California emigrants parted company, when I recovered my reason and strength enough to have any concern about where I was going. Some of those who had started for Oregon had determined to go to California; and the most particular friend Mr. Greyfield had in the train had decided to go to Oregon instead of to California, as he first intended.
Greyfield proceeded: "It would take too long to go over the feelings of those times, and assign their causes. You are a woman that can put yourself in my place, to a great extent, though not wholly; for there are some things that cannot be imagined, and only come by experience." "Benton was two years and a half old; a very delicate child, suffering nearly all the time with chills and fever.
Greyfield said, with much feeling. "He may not be put to the test of a choice. You have a proposition to consider," I replied. "Let me read it." "No, no! Yet, read it; what do I care? Go on." "My daughter, Nellie, is the very picture of her mother, and as sweet and good as one could desire. Benton seems to be delighted with her for a sister.
Greyfield, with that bitterness in her tone that always came into it when she spoke of Seabrook. "You ask 'how was it that I at last consented to take a husband? Do you not know that such influences as constantly surrounded me, are demoralizing as I said? You hear a thing talked of until you become accustomed to it.
Greyfield was my first, last, and only husband," she replied, with a touch of asperity, yet not as if she meant it for me. "I beg your pardon," I hastened to explain: "but I had been told " "Yes, I can guess what you have been told.
Then rallying, with much of her usual brightness: "Undoubtedly I have had my times of doubt, when I found it hard to understand myself; and still, here I am! Nobody would have me; or I would not have anybody; or both." "One more question, then, if it is a fair one: Could you love again the husband of your youth; or has your ideal changed?" Mrs. Greyfield was evidently disturbed by the inquiry.
"Are you not going to tell me," I asked, "how you finally settled matters between Mr. Greyfield and yourself." "He is a very persistent suitor," she replied, smiling, "I can hardly tell what to do with him." "You do not want to break bark over his head?" I said, laughing. "No; but I do almost wish that since he had stayed away so long he had never come back.
Greyfield to give up anything he had strongly desired; and seeing how much he brooded over it, I finally told him to be comforted; that I would go with him to California if he would wait until the baby was a year old before starting; and to this he agreed." "How old were you at that time?" "Only about nineteen.
Benton came home as requested, and the subject was canvassed in all its bearings. The decision arrived at was, that an invitation should be sent to Mr. Greyfield and daughter to visit Mrs. Greyfield for a fortnight. Everything beyond that was left entirely to the future. When all was arranged, I took my leave, promising and being promised frequent letters. The last time I was at Mrs.
"But I trust we can meet as friends, dear friends, and that possibly in time we may be re-united, as much for our own sakes, as the children's." "Oh, how can I ever forgive him? Does it not seem to you that if Mr. Greyfield had done his duty, all this terrible trouble and illegal marrying would have been avoided?
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