The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-12-17
LUCY AND HER LOVERS.
~ CAMILLA TouLNIN.

! "What is The matter, Lucy!'
Nothing, dear aunt" replied i.uc,
Freezing. who from long habit thus adj
dressed Mrs. lawson. although they were
but disIanlly related. why DO you
ask 20
IL thought you had been crying" re.
turned the Other 'your eyes look very
red."
ally eyes ache rather, as they often do
now that is why have put away my
work so early"
The scene l would paint was a neatly
furnished comlorlable.looking room. in one
ofthose Thousand streets of London, which,
without having any pre,ensions TO conse.
qnence or consideration, are, nevertheless.
thought very eligible BY large class OF
nennln. aiii,..s CO.. r"...~ :",I;' idaal or gcn-
eral advantages, la one corner. "A Il IN
be out or the way Of the other occupants
Of the room, sat young man Of about
four and twenty, working diligently at his
ordinary employment, that Of walchma-
ker. Various implements and PARTICLES
Of minute mechanism, whose uses are in
comprehensive TO the ignorant, were be-
fore him, and the strong light Of partial
~ shaded lamp fell precisely on his work.
Jasper Lawson was not common charac-
ter; aud perhaps his employment, which,
while il required patience and certain
degree Of attention, like women's needle
work, afforded much opportunity for the
self.instructiOn OF though, and reflection,
might have had something to do in mould.
ing his disposition. He was "the only
son Of a widow" to whose comfort, even
in the matter oI.lact respect Of pounds,
shillings, and pence, he largely con,ribu-
ted his mother having no other depend
ence except small annuity, secured to
her from some benefit society to which
her husband had belonged.
Lucy freezing was she daughter Of a
distant relation, aud had been left an or.
phan in early childhood but the widow
had so tcnderly fulfilled the offices of a
parent that Lucy had scarcely known heI
loss. The interest of a few hundred
pounds, which should have been hers
when she become Of age, might have suf-
feed 10 bring her up in the station 10 which
she belonged. Blu, for a few years Mrs.
Lawson had exceeded these limits for the
purpose of giving her increased facilities
and advantages for education and when
she arrived at the age of seventeen had
paid a sum Of money to place her for two
years with a mllincr and drcssmaker.-
Although she was not old enough to make
a legal contract, it was perfectly undet-
stood and relied on that this advance, so
judiciously made, would be refunded when
Lucy attained her majority. Alas before
that time had arrived, the trustee in whose
hands her little fortune was placed became
bankrupt and that from such unexpect-
ed causes, that the circumstance Of l.ucy's
money being engulphed in the general ruin
arose less from fraud than from imprudence.
But the eighty pounds debt, which had
been incurred, was now a dreadful burden
to those who had such slender means of
repayingi it. Nevertheless, the right-mind-
ed girl set bravely to work, determining,
by the exercise of an art in which she had
so prudentIy been instructed, to make up
the sum by small degrees. The widow
had also put by from her little income, and
Jasper had worked hard to help out the
repaymen and now the struggle was
nearly over. few more pounds were all
they required.
Lucy not unlrequently worked at home,
instead of at the large establishment where
she was employed; for her home, as we
have before limited, was centrically situa-
ted. and she lost very little time in go
ing backwards and forwards; this had she
done on the evening on which We have in