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LEONA’S PRIDE.

‘Marry a common carpenter!’ said Leona Bracebridge. ‘No indeed !’

She was tall and pretty, with dark brown hair, lovely blue gray eyes, with long curled lashes,and a fresh red-and- white color in her faee; and old Mrs. Lynton was short and stout, with a double row of suspiciously bright brown curls, and a cap that was nof trimmed with the brightest of ribbons. Mrs. Lynton was reddened at the girl’s remark.

‘He’s a carpeater, I know, Leona,’ said she, ‘but as for being common—'

‘Oh, you know what I mean,’ said Leona, ‘We have been expensively educated, Zoe and I, papa was a lawyer, and mamma was distantly related to the Severns of Severn Manor.’

‘Yes,’ said Mrs. Lynton, ‘but that don’t help you to a penny now, And as you have been my guest for three months, perhaps it isn’t so very un- natural that Felix should think '

‘Oh, if we have worn out our wel- come,’ said Leona, haughtily.

‘It isn’t that, my dear. Goodness knows you are welcome to stay here as long as you can put up with our old- fashioned ways. isn’t it, that you cannot make up your mind to a comfortable here, with a man that loves the very ground you walk on.’

‘Lam very sorry, Mrs. Lynton,’ said Leona. ‘Because Felix is very nice, and I love you dearly, but I never could entertain the idea of becoming a me- chanic’s wife.’

‘Just as you please,’ said Mrs. Lyn- ton, knitting away until her needles seemed to flash magnetic fire.

And Leona went up stairsto tho little apartment where her sister Zoe was cutting out gingham aprons, Maurice Bracebridge had been a gen tleman—one of the seedy, impoverished kind that was always writing begging letters and borrowing five dollar bills— and he had brought up his daughters at Madame Luarelli’s seminary until that lady declined to receive the two girls any longer without the accom- panying ceremony of a small payment on account.

And then he had hired lodgings at Mrs. Lynton’s, and died there, leaving Zoe and Leona penniless. Mrs. Lynton was a kind soul and had never told the

r young orphans that their father fad not paid her a solitary cent.

‘What would be the use’? said she. Poor lambs, they've got nothing to pay with !’

Leona was a beauty, with a soft con- tralto voice, and a willow, graceful

figure, and a face that every one turned | Mrs. Battersby,’ said she, ‘and settle

instinctively to look at the second time ; but Zoe, the younger sister had not been so favored by nature.

She was slight, and below the medi-

um stature; her face, although pale|Leona’s frame in a quiver.

and sweet, was not one to attract ad- miration, and she was shy and retiring. But somehow Zoe made friends every- where.

‘Zoe ,’ said Leona impetuonsly, as|then she put on her bonnet and went

she flung herself into a chair by the win- dow, ‘we must go away from here.’ ‘Go away ? On, Leo!’cried Zoe. ‘I don’t like the idea any better than you do,’ said the beauty ;‘but Felix ynton ,has been goose enough to fall in love with me !’ ‘Has he ?’ and Zoe’s face brightened. ‘Oh, Leo, how nice—’ ‘How awkward, you mean!’ inter- rupted Leona, impatiently. ‘ Have you ot common sense, Zoe Bracebridge, or ave you not?’ ‘ Leo, did you refuse him ?’

‘Do you think 1 would marry a car-|P

penter? I, papa’s daughter. I, with my heritage of good looks and genius ? Yes, I may as well speak it out.’

‘ But he is very handsome, Leo, and very intelligent ; and he owns the house, dear, and he’s such a good son to his mother Leo, darling, wont you re- consider your decision ?’

‘IT certainly shall not,’ said Leona. We must look out for a home some- where else immediately.’

‘ But I’m afraid I can’t do that, Leo, said Zoe, apolegetically ; for I have

romised Mrs. Lynton to help her with

er plain sewing this winter, and she has to or three little music pupils for me, and—’

‘Well, let that be as you choose,’ said Leo, yawning. ‘I dont mind be- ing by myself just at—it will perhaps give me more leisure for practice.

‘ For practice, Leo ?

‘ Yes,’ said Miss Bracebridge, with an imperial nod. ‘ Mrs. Buckingham thinks I shall succeed upon the operatic stage—and ia the meantime I shall be writing outafew poems. Mr. Scribble- ten, the English literature master of old Laureli’s always said my composition would look well in print. Don’t you see, Zoe, 1 have a career bofore me? It would be madeness to blight it all by becoming a carpenter’s wife.’

‘ Do you think so?’ said Zoe pensive- ly, well I am not a genius, dear, and I can’t tell how geniuses fecl. But Felix is very nice; and he is so good to his

mother, And good sons always make

But it’s most a pity, | ¥

‘row on the stage.

one who means business; ‘but I have

you gospel truth—since I’ve seen the

‘So Leona Bracebridge went away, | bidding her dear friends a very cavelier sort of good-bye.’

‘Felix,’ said Zoe, looking timidly up in her young host s sad and abstracted face, after her last trunk had departed, ‘you are not vexed with Leo ?’

‘Vexed, Zo? Noe.’

‘Because I’m sure she never meant to hurt our feelings,’ coaxed Zoe. ‘ But she is a genius, you know, and geniuses are not like other people.

‘She is a genius, little Zoe,’ said Felix, with a faint smile, ‘and [ama fool. Isthat what you meant to say?’

‘Oh Felix, how can you be so cruel,’ said Zoe; and she retreated into her little dark bed-room to cry, and wonder why it was that she was always saying awkward things.

Leena Bracebridge threw herself heart and soul into her new life. She practiced trials, and ripples, and high G's, with unremitting perseverance ;

spent the evening in studying up the plot of a novellete, which was to take the unconscious world by storm. And so the year passed by. ‘Sing,’ said M. Peroux, the leader of the orchestra of the Opera House— ou sing, mademoiselle? A very nice little parlor voice, I dare say, but you'd be of no more use than a chipping spar- I should think your own common sense might have taught you that.’ ‘M. Peroux was rough, but he was honest ; and Leona went back in tears to her boarding house, where a fat bun- dle of M. S. awaited her, neatly wrap- ped in brown paper, and labled : “ For Miss Trasshiides. Positively declined.” ‘Is it possible Lam a failure?’ said poor Leona to herself. And with all these bills to pay, and the piano hire due for a year, and—’ But Mrs. Bracebridge’s unpleasant reverie was cut short by the tapping of her landlady’s knuckles on the door.’ ‘I don’t want to intrude, miss,’ said that lady, with the belligerent air of

several heavy payments to meet next week, and 1 would be greatly obliged if you could just make it convenient to let me havea small payment. For its nearly six months, miss—I’m tellin’

color of your money; and its just such folks as you, miss, as drives honest folks as us into the bankrupt court.’ Her nose reddened spitefully, and her voice grew louder as she uttered these words, and poor Leona shrank away in spite of herself.

I well communicate with my friends,

with you very soon.’

‘I hope you will, I’m sure miss,’ said the landlady; closing the door behind her with a jar that set every bone in

She sat there, in the shabby room all the afternoon, crying quietly to herself, with her aching head resting upon her hands, of the past and the present. And

to the little red brick house where her father had died two years ago. Mrs. Lynton was sitting in the red glow of the firelight, knitting away as if she had never left off all those months of Leona’s absence. ‘Child !’ cried she, as the tall figure glided across the floor and stood in front of her, ‘is it you ?’ ‘Yes, Mrs. Lynton, it is J,’ said Leona. ‘I’ve come back to tell you I am sorry that I ever acted so foolishly. I’ve come back to say that I will be Felix’s wife, if he will overlook the ast.’ ‘Old Mrs. Lynton began to wring

her hands in dire dismay. |

‘Oh, Leona,’ said she you are too late; Felix married last week. We tried our best to get your address, but you had moved away from the last place and left no clue behind. Zoe was heart-broken about it, but there was no help. Yes, he was married last week and they have gone to Philadelphia for their wedding trip. And I do believe my poor boy is happy at last.

Leona stood pale and silent like a statue of marble.

‘But whom did he marry ?

‘Didn't I tell you, child? Why Zoe, of course! ’

Felix Lynton and his young wife are as happy as if there was no such thing as trouble in the world. Sois old Mrs.

Executors’ Notice.

r i THE undersigned Executors of the Estate of Ralph dae dim Peake, late of Char

lottetown, in the Province of Prince Edward Island, merchant, deceased, hereby notify all persons indebted to the said Estate to make

; all persons mmediate payment to them ; and all 4 having oom nie against the said Estate are hereby required to render the same to the undersigned, duly attested, within one year from date. Dated this twenty-first day of January,

A. D., 1879.

EDWARD J. HODGSON, GEORGE W. DeBLOISs, THOS. HANDRAHAN,

Executors. Jan. 21, 1879. rg 3m

Comfort to Travellers.

HE undersigned will drive parties en route for CAPE TRAVERSE, on suitable terms,

regularly, from this Station.

JOHN HUGHES. Younty Line Station, Feb. 14, 1879—2m

A GREAT RUN

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GCOD SUGAR

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CHOICH FLOUR

From $5.50 to $6.00 per bbl., and

OTHER GROCERIES

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she sat all day at her hired piano, ve J..W. HUGHES.

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Prines Edward Island Branch

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NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE FIRE AND LIFE.

INSURANCE G0.

Subscribed Capital, $9.723.332.@0 Paid up Capital, - 1,216,666.00

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Dec. 14.

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HAVE YOU SSEN IT9

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OPPOSITE THE MARKET HGUSE.

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Lynton. And Leona is supporting

work she can obtain.

‘Pride must have a fall,’ says the proverb, and Leona Bracebridge is one of its living illustrations.

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E ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

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herself by giving lessons in music, and; — doing whatever jobs of plain needle!

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MORTGAGE SALE.

To.be sold, by Public Auction, at the Court * House in Summerside, in Prince County, on Tuesday, the Highteenth day

of February next, at the hour of one o'clock, in the afiernoon, under a Power

of Salo in an indenture of Mortgage, dated the fifth day of October, 1878, made between William Thomas Mill, of the one part, aud Jobn Crecken, Frederick De St.

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Hodgson, trustees, of the other part, —

All that tract, piece or parcel of oat situ. r ate on Lot Highteen, and bounded and described as ivllows: Commencing at a stake

tixed on the shore of Indian Niver; thence by a line running south twenty degrees west until it meets the boundary line dividing Lots or Townships Numbers eighteen and nineteen; thence running due east on said division line for the distance of thirty-two chains; thence’ by a line running north twenty degrees east until it reaches Indian River, aforesaid; thence following the course of the River to the place of commencement, making and including fifty- six (56) acres of land be the same, a little more er less, in Prince County, aforesaid.

2. Also, all that other tract, piece op parcel of Land, situate on Lot or Township Twenty- five, in Prince County, aforesaid, and bounded and described as follows, that is to say : Com- mencing at a stake fixed on William Me- Murdy’s eastern boundary line at the south: east corner of Joshua Harding’s Lot; from thence running south jor the distance of forty- four chains; thence cast eleven chains and fifty links; thence north forty-four chains; thence west eleven chains and fifty links, to the afore- said stake or place cof commencement, makin and including iifty (50) acres of land, a little more or less, being the southern moiety of one hundred acres of land; and being bounded on the north by the northern moiety thereof, known as Joshua Harding’s lot; on the east by ——Gay’s land, on the south by Keefe’s land, and on the west by the said William MacMurdy’s land.

3. Also, all that other tract, piece or parcel of land, situate on Lot or Township Number Nineteen, bounded aud described as follows, that is to say : Commencing at a square stake fixed in the south-west angle of land in the oe- cupation of Peter Gillis; thence running north six degrees and forty-tive minutes, east four- teen chains and two links to division line be- tween Lots Nineteen and Eighteen; thence along said line westwardly twenty-six chains and sixty-nine links to the entrance of Barbara. Weit River; thence along the course of the said river to the place of beginning, containing twenty-nine acres and forty perches, be the same, a little more or less.

4. All that tract, piece or parcel of land situate on Lot or ‘lownship Number Eighteen, and bounded and described as follows, that is to say : Commencing at a stake set on the shore of Richmond Bay in the centre of a road on the line of Lots Kightcen or Nineteen; thence northwardly along said shore sucha distance as shall make fifteen chains and sixt five links (15 chains and 65 links) at a right anglefrom said division line; thence north

eighty-nine degrees east oor parallel with the said division line forty-eight

chains and fifteen links (48 chains, 15 links) or to lands the property of the said William Thomas Mill, thence south twenty degrees west to said division line to the stake at the place of commencement, containing seventy- eight acres of land, a little more or less.

5. Also all that other tract, piece or parcel of land situate on Lot or Township Number Twenty-five (25), im Prince county, and bounded and described as follows, that is to say, commencing at astake set in the north boundary line of land in possession of the widow Keiff or Lawrence Malone, being the southeast angle of fifty acres of land the prop- erty of William T. Mill, from thence by a line running north twelve chains and fifty links, thence east nine chains and fifty-five links or to the east boundary line of land in possession of William Gay, thence south to the first mentioned land, thence westwardly along said land to the stake at the place of commence- ment, containing eleven and nine-tenths acres, a little more or tess. .

6. Also all that other tract, piece or parcel of land situate on Lot or Township Number Nineteen, in Prince County, bounded as fol- lows, that is to say, commencing at the southeast angle of land in the possession of Neil MeDonald, from thence running west along said land twelve chains and twenty links (12 chains, 20 links) or to the southwest angle of said land, and from thence two points running two parallel lines south thirty-one (31) chains or to the south boundary line of plot G containing thirty-seven and one-half (37%, acres of land, be the same a little more or less, together with all buildings and improve ments thereon and appurtenances to the same belonging. For further particulars apply at theoffice of Messrs. Hodgson & McLeod, Solicitors, Char- lottetown. Dated the 13th day of January, A. D 18 9, JOHN BRECKEN, FREDERICK De Sr. C. BRECKEN. R, R. HODGSON, By E. J. HODGSON, their attorney. Jan. 13—law ts prog

The above Sale is hereby postponed till WEDNESDAY, the 2nd day of April next, 1879, then to take place at the hour and place above mentioned.

Dated the 17th day of February, A. D., 1879.

JOHN BRECKEN, FRED’K De 8&7. C. BRECKEN, R. R. HODGSON,

By E. J. HODGSON, their Attoruey.

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