Hurston Hall [pp. 449-456]

456 Hurston Hall.
il~en, raising his own glass to his lips, still on his face, the light scarce fadhe bowed to his uncle's bride. "Aunt ed from his eye.
Caddy, we drink your health. Long
life and happiness to the future lady Years afterward, when the proud
of Hurston!" spirit of her impetuous boy threaten
voices ed to burst from her gentle restraint,
A year later, and hushed and the fierce blood of his fiery anand noiseless steps alone were heard cestors showed itself in his kindling
around the dying couch of the fair eye and mantling cheek, the gentle
boy-baron. Patient and gentle as Lady Hurston had one spell that
ever, he waited with~his own angelic calmed his angriest moods. She
smile upon his lips the summons that would whisper of that young cousin
was to call him from life. who had breathed his last sigh with
His uncle, pale with anxiety and her Arthur's first breath, with the
sorrow, watched with paternal love baby form clasped to his dying
over the dying boy's pillow, until an breast, of those last words of hope and
attendant whispered something which happiness murmured over the slumArthur's fast failing ear caught. bering babe from the very portals of
"Bring him here, uncle; let me eternity. "He said y9u were to take
see him before I go; let me see Aunt his place, dear Arthur; be worthy of
Caddy's boy. him and of his name." And the
Colonel Thornbury called the at- boy's eye would grow calm and
tendant, and they laid a little slum- peaceful as it rested on the snowy
bering babe in the dying boy's out- column-il~e column of which Arthur
stretched arms. "Call him Arthur had spoken when he foretold his own
for me, dear uncle, and do not grieve. doom:
He has come to take my place; to
perpetuate the glorious old name; to ARTHflR,
be all that I would have been if God SE~ENTEENTH BARON OF HURSTON.
had so willed it. I am happy now; BORN MAY 2, 1830. DiED MAR~H 5, i8~.
so very, very happy!" He died with AGED i4 YEARS.
fl~e words yet on his lips, the smile ~7essedare tizejure in Itearl: forMeysAallsee Go~