Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-02-23

mere is no one TO leach me, sir, and
how can ! learn?'
| do you wish to learn 2"
20 yes have long wished to learn"
Are you willing to try2
eyes"
"Then, if you will accept my services, l
will be your teacher"
! Fanny looked at him with bewiIdered
air, not experimenting, on the instant, his
whole meaning
"Will you not let me teach you TO write,
Fanny!" he said, after the pause of few
moments.
81 wish to learn very much. But can
not come here often, and besides, it would
be giving you too much trouble"
80, the trouble will be nothing. To me
IT will be only pleasant recreation and be-
sides, shall have the delight springng from
the performance of a good action"
at would take me long time to learn"
urged the maiden, "and before my task was
half accomplished my brother would proba-
bly, be here, and then he would be sadly dis
appointed in me, and, fear, cease to love
me as much as he would were he to find me
innocent IN all my ignorance and deficiency"
when the affection is in anything, we
soon come TO perform it we'll Your
eager desire to learn TO write, will do more
for you than you dream Of Come let me
give you your first lesson now"
Fanny hesitated moment and then. as
directed, seated herself in Franks chair at
the table, while he stood, writing-rnaster
like, and commenced instructing his fair
pupil. He found that she already knew
how to make all the letters, rudely enough
1t II is true. And as she could read well,
manuscript as well as letter-press, there was
nothing to do but to teach her to form the
letters after correct models, and then to mite
them skilfully. The first lesson occupied
an hour, at the end of which time, even
Fanny was surprised and delighted at her
own improvement. Her heart was in it,
and where that is the case there is little diff
hculty IN learning TO do anything
"Well, what do you think of that p asked
her teacher, as he held up her last trial at
writing whole sentence
81 can hardly believe it," she replied.
"You will learn fast enough, and in six
weeks will be able TO write your brother
anything you please"
''Do you think so :" Fanny ssd, looking
the young man earnestly in the face.
do think so, Fanny? Yes, | knor
so |" $50
81 am afraid that it will be asking too
much, and yet my brothers. letter is not
answered" the maiden said, in hesita;ing
tone.
True, true, Fanny Come here to-
morrow at this time, and the letter will be
ready for you, and then you can take an
other lesson in writing"
With graceful inclination of the body,
Fanny Lincoln withdraw, and left Frank
Beverly in somewhat mysti6ed state of
perception as TO his own true internal
thoughts and feelings.
"She is sweet girl" he said musingly
"and would grace, with little education
a far higher circle III society than that in
which she now moves. Indeed, as she now
is, would not give her for dozen of the
gilded, artificial women whom it has been
my lot to meet in society,""
"Who is Fanny Lincoln, sister % he
asked that evening, lifting his eyes from
book that he had in vain been endeavoring to
understand, the sweet face Of Fanny ever
forming in his Imagination. and interrupting
all concentration Of thought
"How do you think | should know,
Frank p Isabella said with some surprise
in her tone. "Al know about her is that
she is servant to Mrs. Grand the dairyman's
wife"
Don't say servant, in that peculiar tone
of contempt If it is the lot of Fanny to
serve others-eyen a dairyman's wife-she
is none the less beautiful, innocent, and ex-
cellent in character. Isabella. if you really
want TO do something good and noble, go to
Mrs Grand's and interest yourself for that
sweet flower, springng in the wilderness
Take Fanny under your care, and teach her
all she wishes to learn. You will find her
an apt scholar, and she will fully repay, in
gratitude and affection, all your kind care
and generous solictude."
"Realy, Frank, you are getting into
strange wayp Isabella said. "You GER
tainly don't think, for moment, that / am
going to initiate your erratic folly 1t is !
enough for one of us, surely to consort with
the vulgar, unreined and uneducated. As
for me, let me tell You, Frank, am not GO
ing to join you in any Of your mad schemes
for breaking through the just distinctions of
society,""
"You misunderstood me, Isabella, entire
ly," Frank urged. ~ have no desire to
break through any Just distinctions, only
wish to give to those below us in the social
rank, all the aid | can to enable them to rise.
even above me, if by native excellence of
character, justly developed, they are able to
do sou
: "You work alone in this, let me tell you,p
Isabella replied, with marked emphasis.
81 am sorry for that, sister. / was in
hopes that you would take Fanny under
your kind care,but, as you will not, the du-
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