Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-01-08
9 select TaICS.
From the True Wesleyan,
The Village Dress.Maker
OR CHRISTIAN FIDELITY REWARDED

OR CHRISTIAN FIDELITY REWARDED
by AN EPISCOPAL METHODIST CLERGYMAN.
Jane Arlington and Robert Ellison we're born
and educated in the same neighborhood, and in
age, at least, were equals, They attended the
same village school, and in the innocent Joyous.
ness of childhood bounded along the street to-
gether, or rambled among the hills and through
the pastures 1t was during these early and I'm
calculating perQmbulations that the young hearts
of Jane and Robert first felt the influence Of a
principle of regard-yes, more, of lone for each
other, which grew with their growth and strength
ened with their strength.
Jane was the only daughter of an humble,
yet honest mechanic, in the village of NJ, in the
"Old Bay State y but a mysterious Providence
summoned him to the &" spirit land' while his
child was yet an infant aud incapable of feeling
the pang of separation. Mr.. Arlington died
poor, but not friendless, All he could bequeath
to his devoted wife was small plot of ground,
sufficient for garden, and the neat yet humble
cottage which his own hands had erected upon
it. This small estate Comprised the whole of his
earthly possessions; but these were sanctiied by
the good mans prayers, as he sunk in the arms
of death.
Mrs. Arlington, though a poor mans wife, was
intelligent and accomplished; possessed of an
amisble disposition, and on the whole, quite rec
onciled to her allotment in life. She loved her
husband, and well nigh idolized her infant daugh-
ter. To all the graces of her excellent charac-
ter, she added this also-fortitude and hence
when her dying husband impressed upon her
ruby lips the last seal of their pure affection, and
offered up the fervent prayer of his departing
spirit that Heaven would vouchsafe its blessings
on the widow and orphan, she was enabled to
abide the force of those thrilling circumstances
and bow i'll submission to the will OF God.
Years rolled away, and through them all Mrs.
A., the lonely widow, by diligence and frugality
and irreproachabIe department, found the means
to support herself and daughter comfortably be-
sides a%ffordiug some means for James education.
Jane grew up a lovely girl, full of health and
vigor, and gay and gleeful as a bird in a sum-
mer's morning. She was %virtuous IN the strict.
est sense an excellent scholar, a charming sing.
er, a devoted daughter, and a confding friend
Jane was respected by all who knew her, adj
mired by many, and lOved by one whose name
has already been mentioned-Robert Ellison.
Robert was the son of a rich and somewhat
aristocratic landholder, the bleating of whose
hocks and herds might be heard in all the har-
mony of jargon in every direction, especially at
nightfall. Mr.. Ellison had money, too, and ex.
tensive inhuence-and was in fact, one o. oul
republican dons, who, had he lived in England.
or on the continent of Europe, would have glo-
ried to have been addressed by the title" My
noble lord" All this aside, he was very 8 fine
man. as the saying is, and sometimes appeared
condescending, and gave ample proof that he
possessed a benevolent and obligiDg disposition.
Robert was his oldest son and child, and in the
mind Of his father was designated as the future
supervisor of the fiscal interests of his splendid
'~a'e,--of course no pains were spared on Rob-
> education. In childhood he attended the