The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1843-08-15

'Ous Nuoul !oIluue mas exalted above them,
either TO love or ADMIRE
You never saw anything so elegsnt as
collar aunt is working for Mrs. Sinclair
said Florence.
Then she employs you, if the Evenings
90 not said Mrs. Harden.
Yes, | have done q great deal, frs, aud
last, for her"
Docs she move 10 the same circle as
The Evenings 7 said Melissa.
believe she d0es--or rather am Ger
tain she Does
How sorry am that We did not send |
for aunt Sinclair, Us we talked Of said DE,
LISA.
We mus, expect our plans to yield 10
those Of your father and Florence, said her !
mother.
am sure father said that you nigh,
send for her, If you thought best, SAID
Florence.
Bu, il SO happened tina, did no, think
best. | thank my Stars ! have llt,le
sense Of propriety, and am not like him SO
immersed III business, as not to consider
that a seamstress or washer. woman would
feel III q, ease in the company Of tho veal
thy and the refined
Tears started TO the eyes Of Florence,
and the color in her cheeks decpencd TO
crimson. Even Mrs. Harden thought she
might have gone too far, aud stole glance
al her guest that she nigh, observe the ef
feet OF her speech, ~ho. far from appearing
10 resent II, was, al the moment, slipping
her coffee with al OR Of perfect composure.
Il have no cause for alarm, thought she
- arrows cannot penetrate marble : and
from that momen, ceased 10 have any mia
ENings respecting The arrangement they
+ had made Tor tie Sabbath
4 Il vas Saturday evening, and Mrs. Sin
clair had been in her cbalmbar about fifteen
minules, when Florence having raped Cur
admission. entered auh O flushed aud ex.
cited couulenapce.
Aunt Mansfield said she, { ! wish
had never sen, for you, and had known
father was going 20 he absent, | nevcr
should. lour feelings mus, have been daily
almost hourly wounded and now my moth
or and sister have plan IN agi,atioh which
- worse than anytht:s they have said OF
DONE
/ For certain reasons, my feelings may
have been less injured Than you imagine
70 nv dear Florence, give yourself no un
casness. Bu. what ~ the plan you aliud'
10 r.
Florence. IN reply. informed hor tina
Mr. Fvefing and hts wife, and their sot
aud daughter, were oil the hotel, and tina
Der mother had Just told her that she hao
sent 40 invitation to them 10 take soh, i
their pow, should they wish to attend
ehafch, which they had accepted, and tina
IN consequence ol ahich, her aunt and sht
you'd be- Obliged 10 remain al home, or 81
si,h the help
DON'T let ,ha, disturb YOU, sud Mrs
Sinclair, with q smlfo--' mean on m'
account. can receive gust as much benz
fiji from the religious services, 10 O PLAIN
humble pew, az IN one ever SO splendid
But l consider i, on insult to you, on
would not bear H.
Il am 90 fond Of reading the character
af people, that | ha.e received more pleas
utc than pam from those little occurrence
Shtch have occaHooed so much annoyance
L ron tho whole, said she, as she sclccte
from Mrs. Manefci's wardrobe her hes
dress. which was black silk, a ht,le rusty
as my garments ore rather homely,
should. as the saying is, appear like
specklcd bird beside year mother and SIS
ter, and the Evenings. think thereforI
that the plan Of assigning me the seat VT
8 the servants, rather lud,clous ono.
Mrs. Sinclair. as has already been o'
served, vas handsome woman, and III
ncu morning when all we're ready ic
church, /, il probable that stranger wou
have dlscerned glimpses Of the lady thr
d her humble apparel, as readily as thronc
d tho sumptuous garments Of Mrs Harder
: Az for Melissa, she had decorated her pc
I son AZ olaborntely as If she had been goir
. to appear in ball room. Florence, par
!. " from the influence Of just taste, wht
q made ornaments appear TO her out OF plat
8 in temple dedicated 10 the Most HIg
!, and partly en- accoun, of the humble ga
IS of her co,npaulon, appeared IN plaio'
dress. She aud her aunt had been quiet
: seated IN the pew assigned them, about
teen minutes, when her mother and Nell
at ga. accompanied by the Evenings, swept !
n. tho broad aisle. She had predeierm'n
not to like them, no, excepting even F."
ID lard, though his good qualities, IN par''
n. ular manner, had been the almost cons'a
theme of Mellssa's conversation whenev
10 they had been alone being influenced,
doubt, by the humiliation and grief ain
they had lnnocen,iy caused her 10 suite
r. The beuev oIent and d!gulfied countenan
r.. of Mr.. Everlng, however, and the still TN
one of the son, at once gave wing to tho
4. preludces which she had been nursing WI
I'd all diligence. She did not obtain sig
of Mrs. Evenings face, but tho daughter
.. she thought ono of the sweetest she h
10 ever seen. When tho services were ovt
no Mrs Everlng, just as che was ieav''
=, church, happened to notice Mrs s'ncla
-..,ol 10. onf n her husband. n