CONCLUSION.
Great was the excitement in Rice Corner when it was known that on the
evening of the tenth of September a grand wedding would take place, at
the house of Mrs. Mason. Mary was to be married to the "richest man in
Boston," so the story ran, and what was better yet, many of the
neighbors were to be invited. Almost every day, whether pleasant or
not, Jenny Lincoln came over to discuss the matter, and to ask if it
were not time to send for William, who was to be one of the groomsmen,
while she, together with Ida, were to officiate as bridesmaids. In
this last capacity Ella had been requested to act, but the tears came
quickly to her large mournful eyes, and turning away she wondered how
Mary could thus mock her grief!
From one fashionable watering place to another Mrs. Campbell had taken
her, and finding that nothing there had power to rouse her drooping
energies, she had, towards the close of the summer, brought her back
to Chicopee, hoping that old scenes and familiar faces would effect
what novelty and excitement had failed to do. All unworthy as Henry
Lincoln had been, his sad death had cast a dark shadow across Ella's
pathway. Hour after hour would she sit, gazing upon the locks of
shining hair, which over land and sea had come to her in a letter from
the father, who told her of the closing scene, when Henry called for
her, to cool the heat of his fevered brow. Every word and look of
tenderness was treasured up, and the belief fondly cherished that he
had always loved her thus, else why in the last fearful struggle was
she alone remembered of all the dear ones in his distant home?
Not even the excitement of her sister's approaching marriage could
awaken in her the least interest, and if it were mentioned in her
presence she would weep, wondering what she had done that Mary should
be so much happier than herself, and Mrs. Campbell remembering the
past, could but answer in her heart that it was just. Sometimes Ella
accused her sister of neglect, saying she had no thought for any one,
except George Moreland, and his elegant house in Boston. It was in
vain that Mary strove to convince her of her mistake. She only shook
her head, hoping her sister would never know what it was to be
wretched and desolate as she was. Mary could have told her of many
weary days and sleepless nights, when there shone no star of hope in
her dark sky, and when even her only sister turned from her in scorn;
but she would not, and wiping away the tears which Ella's unkindness
had called forth, she went back to her home, where busy preparations
were making for her bridal.
Never before had Mrs. Perkins, or the neighborhood generally, had so
much upon their hands at one time. Two dressmakers were sewing for
Mary. A colored cook, with a flaming red turban, came up from
Worcester to superintend the culinary department, and a week before
the wedding Aunt Martha also arrived, bringing with her a quantity of
cut glass of all sizes and dimensions, the uses of which could not
even be guessed, though the widow declared upon her honor, a virtue by
which she always swore, that two of them were called "cellar dishes,"
adding that the "Lord only knew what that was!"
With all her quizzing, prying, and peeking, Mrs. Perkins was unable to
learn any thing definite with regard to the wedding dress, and as a
last resort, she appealed to Jenny, "who of course ought to know,
seein' she was goin' to stand up with 'em."
"O, yes, I know," said Jenny, mischievously, and pulling from her
pocket a bit of brown and white plaid silk,--Mary's travelling
dress,--she passed it to the widow, who straightway wondered at Mary's
taste in selecting "that gingham-looking thing!"
Occasionally the widow felt some doubt as she heard rumors of pink
brocades, India muslins, heavy silks, and embroidered merino
morning-gowns; "but law," thought she "them are for the city. Anything
'll do for the country, though I should s'pose she'd want to look
decent before all the Boston top-knots that are comin'."
Three days before the wedding, the widow's heart was made glad with a
card of invitation, though she wondered why Mrs. Mason should say she
would be "at home." "Of course she'd be to hum,--where else should she
be!"
It was amusing to see the airs which Mrs. Perkins took upon herself,
when conversing with some of her neighbors, who were not fortunate
enough to be invited. "They couldn't ask every body, and 'twas natural
for them to select from the best families."
Her pride, however, received a fall when she learned that Sally
Furbush had not only been invited, and presented with a black silk
dress for the occasion, but that George Moreland, who arrived the day
preceding the wedding, had gone for her himself, treating her with all
the deference that he would the most distinguished lady. And truly for
once Sally acquitted herself with a great deal of credit, and
remembering Miss Grundy's parting advice, to "keep her tongue between
her teeth," she so far restrained her loquacity, that a stranger would
never have thought of her being crazy.
The bridal day was bright, beautiful, and balmy, as the first days of
September often are, and when the sun went down, the full silvery moon
came softly up, as if to shower her blessings upon the nuptials about
to be celebrated. Many and brilliant lights were flashing from the
windows of Mrs. Mason's cottage, which seemed to enlarge its
dimensions as one after another the guests came in. First and foremost
was the widow with her rustling silk of silver gray, and the red
ribbons which she had sported at Sally Ann's wedding. After a series
of manoeuvres she had succeeded in gaining a view of the supper table,
and now in a corner of the room she was detailing the particulars to
an attentive group of listeners.
"The queerest things I ever see," said she, "and the queerest names,
too. Why, at one end of the table is a _muslin de laine puddin'_--"
"A what?" asked three or four ladies in the same breath, and the widow
replied,--"May-be I didn't get the name right,--let me see:--No, come
to think, it's a _Charlotte_ somebody puddin' instead of a muslin de
laine. And then at t'other end of the table is what I should call a
dish of _hash_, but Judith says it's 'chicken Sally,' and it took the
white meat of six or seven chickens to make it. Now what in the world
they'll ever do with all them legs and backs and things, is more'n I
can tell, but, land sake there come some of the _puckers_. Is my cap
on straight?" she continued, as Mrs. Campbell entered the room,
together with Ella, and a number of Boston ladies.
Being assured that her cap was all right, she resumed the
conversation by directing the attention of those nearest her to Ella,
and saying in a whisper, "If she hain't faded in a year, then I don't
know; but, poor thing, she's been disappointed, so it's no wonder!"
and thinking of her own experience with Mr. Parker, the widow's heart
warmed toward the young girl, who, pale and languid, dropped into the
nearest seat, while her eyes moved listlessly about the room. The
rich, showy dresses of the city people also, came in for observation,
and while the widow marvelled at their taste in wearing "collars as
big as capes," she guessed that Mary'd feel flat in her checkered
silk, when she came to see every body so dressed up.
And now guest after guest flitted down the narrow staircase and
entered the parlor, which with the bedroom adjoining was soon filled.
Erelong Mr. Selden, who seemed to be master of ceremonies appeared,
and whispered something to those nearest the door. Immediately the
crowd fell back, leaving a vacant space in front of the mirror. The
busy hum of voices died away, and only a few suppressed whispers of,
"There!--Look!--See!--Oh, my!" were heard, as the bridal party took
their places.
The widow, being in the rear, and rather short, slipped off her shoes,
and mounted into a chair, for a better view, and when Mary appeared,
she was very nearly guilty of an exclamation of surprise, for in place
of the "checkered silk" was an elegant _moire antique_, and an
expensive bertha of point lace, while the costly bridal veil, which
swept the floor, and fell in soft folds on either side of her head,
was confined to the heavy braids of her hair by diamond fastenings. A
diamond necklace encircled her slender throat, and bracelets of the
same shone upon her round white arms. The whole was the gift of George
Moreland, who had claimed the privilege of selecting and presenting
the bridal dress, and who felt a pardonable pride when he saw how well
it became Mary's graceful and rather queenly form.
At her left stood her bridesmaids, Ida and Jenny, while at George's
right, were Mr. Elwood and William Bender the latter of whom looked on
calmly while the solemn words were spoken which gave the idol of his
boyhood to another and if he felt a momentary pang when he saw how
fondly the newly made husband bent over his young bride, it passed
away as his eye fell upon Jenny, who was now dearer to him, if
possible, than Mary had ever been.
Among the first to congratulate "Mrs. Moreland," was Sally Furbush,
followed by Mrs. Perkins, who whispered to George that "she kinder had
a notion how 'twoud end when she first saw him in the school-house;
but I'm glad you've got him," turning to Mary, "for it must be easier
livin' in the city than keepin' school. You'll have a hired girl, I
s'pose?"
When supper was announced, the widow made herself very useful in
waiting upon the table, and asking some of the Boston ladies "if
they'd be helped to any thing in them dishes," pointing to the _finger
glasses_, which now for the first time appeared in Rice Corner! The
half suppressed mirth of the ladies convinced the widow that she'd
made a blunder, and perfectly disgusted with "new-fangled fashions"
she retreated into the kitchen, were she found things more to her
taste, and "thanked her stars, she could, if she liked, eat with her
fingers, and wipe them on her pocket handkerchief!"
Soon after her engagement, Mary had asked that Sally should go with
her to her city home. To this George willingly consented, and it was
decided that she should remain with Mrs. Mason until the bridal party
returned from the western tour they were intending to take. Sally
knew nothing of this arrangement until the morning following the
wedding, when she was told that she was not to return to the
poor-house again.
"And verily, I have this day met with a great deliverance," said she,
and tears, the first shed in many a year mingled with the old
creature's thanks for this unexpected happiness. As Mary was leaving,
she whispered in her ear "If your travels lead you near Willie's
grave, drop a tear on it for my sake. You'll find it under the buckeye
tree, where the tall grass and wild flowers grow."
George had relatives in Chicago, and after spending a short time in
that city, Mary, remembering Sally's request, expressed a desire to
visit the spot renowned as the burial place of "Willie and Willie's
father." Ever ready to gratify her slightest wish, George consented,
and towards the close of a mild autumnal day, they stopped at a small
public house on the border of a vast prairie. The arrival of so
distinguished looking people caused quite a commotion, and after duly
inspecting Mary's handsome travelling dress, and calculating its
probable cost, the hostess departed to prepare the evening meal, which
was soon forthcoming.
When supper was over, and the family had gathered into the pleasant
sitting room, George asked if there was ever a man in those parts by
the name of "Furbush."
"What! Bill Furbush?" asked the landlord.
George did not know, but thought likely that might have seen his name,
as his son was called William.
"Lud, yes," returned the landlord. "I knowed Bill Furbush well,--he
came here about the same time I did, he from Massachusetts, and I from
Varmount; but, poor feller, he was too weakly to bear much, and the
first fever he took finished him up. His old woman was as clever a
creature as ever was, but she had some high notions."
"Did she die too?" asked George.
Filling his mouth with an enormous quid of tobacco, the landlord
continued, "No, but it's a pity she didn't, for when Bill and the boy
died, she went ravin' mad, and I never felt so like cryin' as I did
when I see her a tearin' her hair an goin' on so. We kept her a spell,
and then her old man's brother's girl came for her and took her off;
and the last I heard, the girl was dead, and she was in the poor-house
somewhere east. She was born there, I b'lieve."
"No she warn't, either," said the landlady, who for some minutes had
been aching to speak. "No she warn't, either. I know all about it. She
was born in England, and got to be quite a girl before she came over.
Her name was Sarah Fletcher, and Peter Fletcher, who died with the
cholera, was her own uncle, and all the connection she had in this
country;--but goodness suz, what ails you?" she added, as Mary turned
deathly white, while George passed his arm around her to keep her from
falling. "Here, Sophrony, fetch the camphire; she's goin' to faint."
But Mary did not faint, and after smelling the camphor, she said, "Go
on, madam, and tell me more of Sarah Fletcher."
"She can do it," whispered the landlord with a sly wink. "She knows
every body's history from Dan to Beersheby."
This intimation was wholly lost on the good-humored hostess, who
continued, "Mr. Fletcher died when Sarah was small, and her mother
married a Mr. ----, I don't justly remember his name"
"Temple?" suggested Mary.
"Yes, Temple, that's it. He was rich and cross, and broke her heart by
the time she had her second baby. Sarah was adopted by her Grandmother
Fletcher who died, and she came with her uncle to America."
"Did she ever speak of her sisters?" asked Mary, and the woman
replied, "Before she got crazy, she did. One of 'em, she said, was in
this country somewhere, and t'other the one she remembered the best,
and talked the most about, lived in England. She said she wanted to
write to 'em, but her uncle, he hated the Temples, so he wouldn't let
her, and as time went on she kinder forgot 'em, and didn't know where
to direct, and after she took crazy she never would speak of her
sisters, or own that she had any."
"Is Mr. Furbush buried near here?" asked George; and the landlord
answered, "Little better than a stone's throw. I can see the very tree
from here, and may-be your younger eyes can make out the graves. He
ought to have a grave stun, for he was a good feller."
The new moon was shining, and Mary, who came to her husband's side,
could plainly discern the buckeye tree and the two graves where
"Willie and Willie's father" had long been sleeping. The next morning
before the sun was up, Mary stood by the mounds where often in years
gone by Sally Furbush had seen the moon go down, and the stars grow
pale in the coming day, as she kept her tireless watch over her loved
and lost.
"Willie was my cousin--your cousin," said Mary, resting her foot upon
the bit of board which stood at the head of the little graves. George
understood her wishes, and when they left the place, a handsome marble
slab marked the spot where the father and his infant son were buried.
* * * * *
Bewildered, and unable to comprehend a word, Sally listened while Mary
told her of the relationship between them; but the mists which for
years had shrouded her reason were too dense to be suddenly cleared
away; and when Mary wept, winding her arms around her neck and calling
her "Aunt;" and when the elegant Mrs. Campbell, scarcely less
bewildered than Sally herself, came forward addressing her as
"sister," she turned aside to Mrs. Mason, asking in a whisper "what
had made them crazy."
But when Mary spoke of little Willie's grave, and the tree which
overshadowed it, of the green prairie and cottage by the brook, once
her western home, Sally listened, and at last one day, a week or two
after her arrival in Boston, she suddenly clasped her hands closely
over her temples, exclaiming, "It's come! It's come! I remember
now,--the large garden,--the cross old man,--the dead mother,--the
rosy-cheeked Ella I loved so well--"
"That was my mother,--my mother," interrupted Mary.
For a moment Sally regarded her intently, and then catching her in her
arms, cried over her, calling her, "her precious child," and wondering
she had never noticed how much she was like Ella.
"And don't you remember the baby Jane?" asked Mrs Campbell, who was
present.
"Perfectly,--perfectly," answered Sally. "He died, and you came in a
carriage; but didn't cry,--nobody cried but Mary."
It was in vain that Mary tried to explain to her that Mrs. Campbell
was her sister,--once the baby Jane. Sally was not to be convinced. To
her Jane and the little Alice were the same. There was none of her
blood in Mrs. Campbell's veins, "or why," said she, "did she leave us
so long in obscurity, me and my niece, _Mrs. George Moreland, Esq.!_"
This was the title which she always gave Mary when speaking of her,
while to Ella, who occasionally spent a week in her sister's pleasant
home, she gave the name of "little cipher," as expressing exactly her
opinion of her. Nothing so much excited Sally, or threw her into so
violent a passion, as to have Ella call her aunt.
"If I wasn't her kin when I wore a sixpenny calico," said she, "I
certainly am not now that I dress in purple and fine linen."
When Sally first went to Boston, George procured for her the best
possible medical advice, but her case was of so long standing that but
little hope was entertained of her entire recovery. Still every thing
was done for her that could be done, and after a time she became far
less boisterous than formerly, and sometimes appeared perfectly
rational for days. She still retained her taste for literature, and
nothing but George's firmness and decision prevented her from sending
off the manuscript of her grammar, which was now finished. It was in
vain that he told her she was not now obliged to write for a living,
as he had more than enough for her support.
She replied it was not _money_ she coveted, but _reputation_,--a
name,--to be pointed at as Mrs. Sarah Furbush, authoress of "Furbush's
Grammar," &c.,--_this_ was her aim!
"You may write all you choose for the entertainment of ourselves and
our friends," said George, "but I cannot allow you to send any thing
to a publisher,"
Sally saw he was in earnest, and at last yielded the point, telling
Mary in confidence that "she never saw any one in her life she feared
as she did Esquire Moreland when he set his foot down!"
And George did seem to have a wonderful influence over her, for a
single look from him would quiet her when in her wildest moods. In
spite of the desire she once expressed of finding her sister, Mrs.
Campbell's pride at first shrank from acknowledging a relationship
between herself and Sally Furbush, but the fact that George Moreland
brought her to his home, treating her in every respect as his equal,
and always introducing her to his fashionable friends as his aunt,
gradually reconciled her to the matter, and she herself became at last
very attentive to her, frequently urging her to spend a part of the
time with her. But Sal always refused, saying that "for the sake of
her niece she must be very particular in the choice of her
associates!"
True to her promise, on Mary's twenty-first birth-day, Mrs Campbell
made over to her one fourth of her property, and Mary, remembering her
intentions towards William Bender, immediately offered him one half of
it. But he declined accepting it, saying that his profession was
sufficient to support both himself and Jenny, for in a few weeks
Jenny, whose father had returned from California, was coming, and
already a neat little cottage, a mile from, the city, was being
prepared for her reception. Mary did not urge the matter, but many an
article of furniture more costly than William was able to purchase
found its way into the cottage, which with its overhanging vines,
climbing roses, and profusion of flowers, seemed just the home for
Jenny Lincoln.
And when the flowers were in full bloom, when the birds sung amid the
trees, and the summer sky was bright and blue, Jenny came to the
cottage, a joyous, loving bride, believing her own husband the best in
the world, and wondering if there was ever any one as happy as
herself. And Jenny was very happy. Blithe as a bee she flitted about
the house and garden, and if in the morning a tear glistened in her
laughing eyes as William bade her adieu, it was quickly dried, and all
day long she busied herself in her household matters, studying some
agreeable surprise for her husband, and trying for his sake to be very
neat and orderly. Then when the clock pointed the hour for his return,
she would station herself at the gate, and William, as he kissed the
moisture from her rosy cheek, thought her a perfect enigma to weep
when he went away, and weep when he came home.
There was no place which Ella loved so well to visit, of where she
seemed so happy, as at the "Cottage," and as she was of but little use
at home, she frequently spent whole weeks with Jenny, becoming
gradually more cheerful,--more like herself, but always insisting that
she should never be married.
The spring following Mary's removal to Boston, Mrs. Mason came down to
the city to live with her adopted daughter, greatly to the delight of
Aunt Martha, whose home was lonelier than it was wont to be, for
George was gone, and Ida too had recently been married to Mr. Elwood,
and removed to Lexington, Kentucky.
And now a glance at Chicopee, and our story is done. Mr. Lincoln's
California adventure had been a successful one, and not long after his
return he received from George Moreland a conveyance of the farm,
which, under Mr. Parker's efficient management, was in a high state of
cultivation. Among the inmates of the poor-house but few changes have
taken place. Miss Grundy, who continues at the helm, has grown
somewhat older and crosser; while Uncle Peter labors industriously at
his new fiddle, the gift of Mary, who is still remembered with much
affection.
Lydia Knight, now a young lady of sixteen, is a pupil at Mount
Holyoke, and Mrs. Perkins, after wondering and wondering where the
money came from, has finally concluded that "some of _George's folks_
must have sent it!"
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St. Jude's Assistant.--A new satirical novel of City $1.50
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Progressive Petticoats.--A satrical tale by Robert B. $1.50
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Transformation Scenes in the United States.--By Hiram $1.50
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