Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-05-02

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sternIy, No. Do you think we are simple
tons here to throw away money in this way.
Ifyou have nothing more to say, please to
stand aside for customers. Well, Col, what
do you think Of those watches! Latest
importaton-fuI ieweld and warranted in
all points. will sell you the one you just
laid down, for one hundred and ninety-fve
dollars
The gentleman, however, was not heed
ing him, but watching the young girl whom
he saw leave the counter, and with heavy, |
dropping step approached the door. Her
face had struck him for its sweet intelligent
oveliness, and her modesty had for HIM an
irresistible charm but her plea of poverty,
and her eloquent appeal to the tradesman,
deeply interested his feelings and enlisted
his sympathes in her behalf He had silent
/ ly observed the progress Of her interview
with him, with emotions of contempt for the
one, and pity for the other.
Her hand was on the mob of the door,
when, advancing towards her
You asked, believe, for seven dollars 2
he said, with gentle interest in his tone
that at once awakened hope in her heart, and
brought the light to her eyes and the hue to
her cheeks, as she difidently answered.
yes sir. | would not have been so bold
and urgent but
None too much so. There is ten dol
lar note-I have no smaller bills And he
placed il in her hand.
Sir, you are too kind-'
f Not word. | am happy TO do you a
service
; Take the clasp, sir though am asham-
ed to offer it to you, since the gentleman
says it is so valueless. But to me it is val
liable as life, and ioolishly thought it must
! be so to Others
5 4 do not want it, child, answered Col.
4 Nc Henry, feeingly putting the hand aside
5 which urged it upon him.
Indeed, sir, you must take it, for | shall
feel in some degree less under obligation to
stranger. Besides, | wish to call and re.
deem il. Will you give me your address,
sir 2 and as she spoke he still declining the
Jewel, she laid il on the showcase
Oh, no matter-but if you insist-the
United States Hotel
Thank you, sir, you can never know the
9 blessings TO others that will follow your kind
: ness TO me to-day Thus speaking and
9 looking upon him with an expression of graf.
= itude in her fearful eyes, she left the shop
e forgetting the golden clasp, which she had
e left upon the showcase. viii you look al
! one of these watches now, Col. McIIenry :
n superciously asked the goldsmith, withou
o lifting his condemned eyes.
e No, sir, answered the gentleman sternly
d And taking his gloves and cane from the
e shop of the avaricious goldsmith, who, Toe
d close to risk trhe to relieve the wants of I
l.. ts,l.l b,
the purchases his wealthy customer nigh
r have made, as well as his own seli-respect
IS such as it was for avarice always shrink'
g into its shell before the broad sun of benevo
g lence.
l. Now there goes man who throws away
money upon Migrants, because keep mint
e to support my family said the goldsmith
a looking after him. He thinks me a mlser
e and think him fool. Oh, here is tina
o clasp after all She left it for him on tn,
showcase, and he was too proud to take i
lie away, if he saw it. Seven dollars 1t is no
II worth mure than five y
a He opened it as he spoke, and taking NJ
a sharp instrument, tried the tneness of tn
10 gold
N 1t is good old Mexican gold 1t nigh
have cost once twenty dollars All what
IS a star Of diamonds within it ! he exclaimed
n as in working about with APPOINT ofthe stee
10 he discovered cavity. Twelve large da
lie monds Of the purest water This is indee
ID valuable Let me see-they are worth a
'p least FIVE hundred dollars What value t
N ask so much No, no, she could not either
for she would not have let it 60 for so sma
I'd a sum, or else asked for nearer its value.
H. snsuecf she was iUnorant Of this cavity
which detected only by accident, she ha
n probably stolen it, and will never come 70
] it. All, ah, Abraham Broochard thou has
er made good mornings work ofit He sad
Of cxutingy, to himself.
Then looking round among his shop-boy:
IT, to see if he were unobserved, he carefully
at vet with cherries air, locked the clasp i
b. his private drawer, and taking out the key
~ placed it in his pocket. He had hardly don
so, when Col McHenry re-entered, and with
of out speaking or even looking at him, cas-
RS his eyes upon the showcase for the CLASP
lg which he recollected, after going, out, tn
ht young glrl had laid down but did not take u
r. again, and so he turned back for it. Abra
ham Broochsrd was very busiy engaged i
H. replacing the watches in, their doe-skin COY
10 erings, and preserved silence and ignorance
AT length Col McHenry spoke.
II, That young person laid her clasp on tn
case, sir, which neglected TO take up.
were pity, it should be lost, she valued
n, so highly
u ''rhe clasp Oh, oh have not seen i
lg sir. She took il up again
nd Did you see her I?
yes, oh yes had my eyes on her, an