Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-03-29
VOL. X.-NO. 81.


EXACTLY; and in this case il is not worth
much. However, as l was going to say,
called in yesterday morning, and found
her"
"Asleep on the sofa"
"Nonsense p
cor deeply busted in the Loves Oft
don't know who p
"Guess again"
"Or-or-humming her piano!"
"Still wide of the mark"
"Or-but she is not worth guessing a.
bout. So you may tell me out plainly, or let
it alone, just as you choose.
Come, come, now, Charles That is a
little too bad"
"Well, what was she doing, then Let me
hear!"
"She was sweeping out the parlors."
"Never 1t would require an affidavit Ia
ken before the Alderman to make me be-
lieve that"
"And yet, it is as true as preaching"
"Whatl Sweeping out the parlors y
Eyes And with her head tied up in a
handkerchief into the bargain"
"And you caught her in that trim :"
81 did, all that"
"Of course, she tainted away, instantly,
bored with her for as many hours p
"Not word of it"
"What Didn't faint 2"
"No."
Impossible cannot credit it p
'She not only did not faint, but, after
little apology, very gracefully said, and inter-
esting from the slight embarrassment with
which it was given, she sat down, her head
still enyeloped in kind of white turban, and
kept me interested for nearly an hour"
"Incredible But say, Henry what kind
of an apology did she make? | am curious
to kow."
'She said that their chambermaid had left
them, under some feeling of dissatisfaction,
and that, until they could get another, she
had volunteered to take charge of the par
ors so as to relieve her mother"
'That will do, very well, if the true rea-
son."
GLOW can you insinuate, Charles, that so
natural a reason cannot be the true one r.
Henry Allen asked, with slight shade of
displeasure passing over his countenance.
''Simply, because cannot feel any con-
6dence in girl like Anne Litteton. As
have told you before, | think her mere
hutering butterfly, living in the sunshine of
fashionable life. My opinion, from some
thing | have seen aud heard, is, that she
would esteem it disgrace to be engaged in
any useful employment, and so far from vol-
unteering to sweep out parlors, could only
be made TO do SO by some species of COM
pusion, such as parental authority"
: you certainly do her injustice, Charles"
81 think not And, moreover, would
have you look carefully into her true charac-
ter, before you go any farther than you have
now gone My own impression is, that she
!, is not merely the silly, innocent girl at first
thought her. am afraid that she has faults
; OF character, which her love of fashionable
inanites has warmed into active life"
"And pray, what are they, Charles p
Gone is fear, tendency TO prevarication,
;. if not to downright lying-to call thing by
its right name"
Really, Charles, l am afraid that your sim
q gular prejudice against Anne leads you to
do her gross injustice" Allen said in Sc
r rious voice.
81 think not" was the young mans reply.
: II have met her regularly in company for
e the last two or three years, and have come
to know her thoroughly-you have been at
i home only few months, and from having
: been at first dazzled by her external attrac-
j. tons cannot be supposed to be yet capable
IS of looking much below the surface. In re-
gard TO her pecullarties, which | allege to
d exist-they grow out of her silly desire to
shine in the light that surrounds others,
v knowing as she does that she has no brill
t, iancy of her own,-no independent posi-
n ton of her own in society-no intrinsic
d worth of character to give her the elevation
n she so much desires. The consequence is,
IS that great portion of her tittle-tattle--I
i, cannot dignity what ! have heard of her
l. conversation by any other name--made up
D of what she said TO this distinguished per-
e son, or what that distinguished person said
l. to her,--of the evenings she spent at Mr.
|. So-and-So's with Mr.. -, the celebrated
ii author, or the Hon. MIR. -, member from
/, such and such State. Too often, / fear,
d her Imagination has supplied her facts, when
4 relating these adventures"
Sc "Surely not, Charles !"
IL believe | am right, Henry And,
/, moreover, | am shrewdly of opinion, that, in
il her statement, 70 you about her little offices
IS in her fathers parlors, was either more or
n less than the truth stated"
er "But surely, the reason given, was very
n natural one"
err $50 it would seem at first thought But
l am persuaded that she did not tell you the
m whole truth"
Il "That is unfair, Charles Give her, at
it. least the benefit of supposed innocence" ,
p "That is as little as | could do, perhaps,
es and, Tor your sake, will give her that ben.
eft - Eharlaa Wantuorth ea,d feaiinn 4,