Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-05-07

seeing the attentions which Villiers paid to our
Lily that it required all her selfcommand to
conceal her chagfn nor was she wholly sue
cesslul. Her il-humor betrayed itself OH several
occasions; but neither VilIiers nor Lily saw this,
for they ere, for the rest of that day, all in all
to each other.
Goodbye, Miss Crampton,' said Villiers,
his face glowing with happiness, as he passed
her on his way to escolt Lily home What
delightful place Lindengrove is for May
party
Susan Champion drew herself up and return
ed stiff bow; but she took no notice of Lily,
who colored at her insolence.
1t was strange how often Harry Villiers visited
our village after the May party, and il was equal
ly wonderful that he always went straight to the
widows cottage. On Susan Champion he called
occasionally. The heiress no longer mentioned
Lilys name, but did her best to please her vsl-
ter And certainly if the exercise of consider
able powers of fascination could be relied on to
ensure success, she was in fair way even yet
to supplant Lily Lane, and become the enyied
bride of Harry Vers.
That girl shall never be his, with her milk
and water face, she said passlonately to herself
i will drive her from the village first
The threat thus muttered, Susan Champion
soon proceeded to put into execution. All at
once work began to grow scarce with Lily. A
Iprotegee of Susan Champions suddenly become
popular, for this rival Of Lily's having come
from town, her styles were soon exclusively in
repute. Poor Lilly found the best branch Of her
business taken from her, and many we're the
bitter tears shed at the prospect of her coming
want; for the plain-sewing of the widow with
whom she boarded would barely support one Of
them, and all Lilys customers, except one or
two whom the mandate of the heircss could not
affect, had long deserted her.
What rendered the chances of success greater
for Susan Champion was, the absence of Harry
Villiers, who had gone 20 the west on bushes;
which was expected to detain him several months
f He had departed without declaring his love tc
' Lily. This was another sore trouble for oul
heroine. Lily had been ignorant other own feel
e ngs until the absence of Vers revealed then
: to her; and now she often feared, as even Mrs
t Hampton daily asserted, that he had been triAin!
r with her. and would never return. There was
amid all this darkness, one little bit of SUNSHINE
a for Lilly On the last evening he had spen
with her, Viers, at parting had left a locket il
e her hand as he pressed it, and had Whispers
n that she would be the first person he would cal
n to see on his return. Lilly remembered the We
# ny look and tone with which he spoke and when
" ever she recalled them to memory, her hear
A. beat quicker and the blush came to her cheel
even though she buried it on her snowy, ye
h humble pillow She could not believe that Har
: ry Viliers, who seemed all noblencss and trutI
@ could deceive her.
!, One day Lilly received letter from distan
il relative of her mother, to whom that parent ha
h. written few days before her death. Many Gil
TX cumsances, the writer said, had prevented re
in ply sooner. The purpose of the present epistI
was to offer a home in her family to our.,here
of inc. The real nature of this offer w
v disguised, but Lily had already learned Jug
ct of the selfshness of the world to be able to il
er terpret the cold compliments of her aunt as the
h. deserved, and to detect the real character of he
D. expected position in the family, which was tht
It. of governess. A year BEFORE and Lilly woul
is have rejected the offer, but now she felt herse
IN in duty bound to accept it, as it left her doc
of by which to escape being any longer burde
of to kind Mrs Hampton.
ID Susan Champion heard with delight how chanc
so had favored her plans. Her dreaded rival one
er removed, and living in secusion at the extren
,e end of the country-for Lly's aunt reside
al quite in another section of the Union-the
S, would be no obstacle, she thought to the accon
e, pshment OF her own ambitious purpose.
He will never follow the girl she said
H. His fancy is only pleased with her, and whe
Id he comes back he will have quite forgotten he
Then having her no longer as a rival, he wi
he become entangled with me before he knows
tie At any rate i'll do fail, shall have my reveng
he in her not getting him, for feel satisfied II
creature loves him
t. 1t was the evening before Lily's departure
lie Her trunk was packed, she had bid farewell
the few friends left her, and now she had retire
I'd to the little porch behind the house where a
c. alone she might indulge her grief Though 81
ne had endured many Sights while following hi
IS vocation in the village, she had received man
IS kindnesses, and been not wholly friendess; BIT
now she was going among strangers, and migl
ar be called on to bear still greater insults. We
Sc might she weep then, But this was not all
ST. She was about to leave place endeared to he
i'd by associations Of Villiers, whom she sti
e- loved in despite of the secret schooling of he
l, heart; she might not, nay! would never sc
lg him again. No wonder she wept so BITTERLY
IN In that very porch theJ naa often sat togethe
ce Now he was away perhaps regardless of he
m rich, courted and happy while she was goin
of out among cold-hearted strangers, to earn
SO bitter tears, the bread which even then woul
ly be grudged to her as if itwere aims Hot teal
as rained down her cheek and trickled through HI
ne hngers-poor orphan girl.
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