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August 30th, ——.
In a roundabout way we have heard that Mr. McDonald is going away with
his wife and daughter. When the facts of the divorce were known, they
brought him into such disgrace with the citizens of Indianapolis, who
were perfectly indignant, and showed that they were in every possible
way, that he thought best to leave for a time till the storm was over,
and so they will go to South America, where there is a cousin Tom, who
is growing rich very fast. I cannot help certain thoughts coming into my
mind, any more than I can help being glad that Daisy is going out of the
country. Guy never mentions her now, and is getting to look and act
quite like himself. If only he _could_ forget her, we might be very
happy again, as Heaven grant we may.
CHAPTER VII.—FIVE YEARS LATER.
"Married, this morning, at St. Paul’s church, by the Rev. Dr. ——,
assisted by the Rector, Guy Thornton, Esq., of Cuylerville, to Miss
Julia Hamilton, of this city."
Such was the notice which appeared in a daily Boston paper one lovely
morning in September five years after the last entry in Miss Thornton’s
journal. Guy had reached the point at last, when he could put Daisy from
his heart and take another in her place. He had never seen her, or heard
directly from her since the night she brought him the marriage
settlement and tore it in pieces, thinking thus to give him the money
beyond a doubt. That this did not change the matter one whit he knew,
for she could not give him the ten thousand settled upon her until she
was of age. She _was_ of age now, and had been for a year or more, and
to say the truth he had expected to hear from her when she was
twenty-one. To himself he had reasoned on this wise: "Her father told
her that the tearing up that paper made no difference, that she was
powerless of herself to act until she was of age, so she will wait
quietly till then before making another effort." And Guy thought how he
would not take a penny from her, but would insist upon her keeping it.
Still he should respect her all the more for her sense of justice and
generosity, he thought, and when her twenty-first birthday came and
passed, and week after week went by, and brought no sign from Daisy,
there was a pang in his heart and a look of disappointment on his face
which did not pass away until October hung her gorgeous colors upon the
hills of Cuylerville, and Julia Hamilton came to the Brown Cottage to
spend a few weeks with his sister.
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